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DHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Electricity, the very thing bringing these words to your eyes, is inaccessible to 45 percent of Bangladesh’s population. Fewer than half the people living in the country’s rural areas are on the power grid at all. That’s why the Solar Home System Project, launched in 2007, is particularly good news […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The total number of Bangladesh cell phone users reached 118.932 million at the end of October this year, official data showed Thursday. According to Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the number of subscribers of the country’s six cell phone operators — Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi, Airtel, Citycell, Teletalk — at the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The SAARC Summit commenced on Wednesday. Apart from host Nepal, all seven heads of state and government are in Kathmandu to attend the summit. As chair of SAARC, Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul opened the summit and handed over the responsibility of the chair of the regional bloc to Nepal’s […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The need for systematic and comprehensive follow up of fire and structural inspections of ready-made garment (RMG) factories by the Department of Inspections of Factories and Establishments (DIFE) was stressed at a workshop held in Dhaka yesterday (25 November 2014). The workshop on case management and follow up to the […]
Read MoreDhaka, Nov. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The great taste of Zinger Burger or Hot Wings at KFC just got tastier and your good time with great Pizzas just got better with a Visa card. Well, credit goes to Visa for extending such interesting offers and discounts to card holders. Now you have the privilege of enjoying […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Abdul Latif Siddiquee, who was removed on Oct. 16 from the cabinet for his derogatory comments, has landed in jail in a case for hurting Muslims’ religious sentiments. Former Bangladeshi Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqueed was sent to jail after he surrendered Tuesday. He returned to […]
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Kathmandu, Nov. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The foreign and external affairs ministers of the SAARC nations are attending the 36th meeting of the SAARC Council of Ministers in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Indian External Affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, is also likely to hold discussions with her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz, reports Zeenews. Sushma had arrived in Kathmandu […]
Read MoreNew Delhi, Nov. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to seek the cooperation of India’s neighbours to check extremist violence and adopt an approach of zero tolerance towards terrorism at the two-day SAARC Summit beginning Wednesday in Kathmandu, reports NDTV. Following is the full text of his statement prior to his departure […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) — An overwhelming majority of China’s richest people are planning to send their children abroad for education, the United States and the United Kingdom being their first choices, according to a Hurun Report on education. The report said that some 80 percent of the country’s rich people have plans to send […]
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