April 19, 2023 – Bangladesh News Gazette

China Claims Strong Economic Growth to Start 2023

·April 19, 2023

China’s economy responded to the end of widespread COVID-19 lockdowns with a spurt of growth in the first quarter of 2023, surprising analysts with a GDP increase of 4.5% over the same time period in 2022 and raising questions about its direction for ...

General

US Reviews Afghan Policy, Scolds ‘Draconian’ Taliban Edicts

·April 19, 2023

After nearly two years of standoff diplomacy with de facto Taliban authorities, Washington is reviewing its Afghan policy in response to what U.S. officials call “draconian” Taliban governance.The review comes as the United Nations is reportedly mull...

Government Policy

Why China Is Building Africa’s New Parliaments

·April 19, 2023

Zimbabwe’s new parliament gives an architectural nod to the country’s famous ancient ruins; Lesotho’s has a design resembling a “mokorotlo,” the conical straw hat that’s part of national dress; and Malawi’s has a dome that looks like a calabash.These ...

General

The US seeks to enlist an old communist foe against China

·April 19, 2023

Shunned and shut out from China, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Hanoi, Vietnam. Here, the US is courting a country which it once bombed with millions of tons of napalm, leading to a wholesale loss of innocent lives. Now, of cours...

General

India population to surpass China by mid-2023 – UN

·April 19, 2023

India is set to overtake China to become the most populous country in the world by the middle of this year, data released by the United Nations shows.India's population is expected to reach 1.4286 billion - 2.9 million more than its neighbour on 1.4257...

General

India: The plight of young girls forced to ‘marry gods’

·April 19, 2023

Born into conditions of extreme poverty in India's southern state of Karnataka, Ningavva Kanal took a huge decision that completely changed the course of her life.Kanal — the youngest in a family of 10 — had watched how her eldest sister was pushed in...

General

India: Migration from climate change getting worse

·April 19, 2023

Protima Rai still remembers the aftermath of tropical Cyclone Bulbul that struck the Sundarbans in 2019 leaving behind a trail of destruction and lost lives.The cyclone that had formed in the Bay of Bengal forced Rai, 27, and hundreds of other familie...

General

Chinese actress Jiang Mengjie praised for revealing upskirting blackmail

·April 19, 2023

Chinese actress Jiang Mengjie has been praised for sharing she was the victim of upskirting and was blackmailed over footage that circulated of her.Upskirting - involving a device such as a camera phone to take explicit images underneath a victim's cl...

General

Mother, daughter among 4 crushed under train in Tangail

·April 19, 2023

Four women including a mother and her daughter were killed after being crushed under the wheels of Ekota Express train in Kalihati upazila of the district early today.The deceased were identified as Aroti Rani Das, 55, Shanti Rani, 45, her daughter Sh...

General

5 Eid Jamaats to be held at Baitul Mukarram

·April 19, 2023

Five Eid jamaats (congregations) will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque here on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr.The first Eid jamaat will be held at 7am while the next four Jamaats will be held at 8am, 9am, 10am and 10.45am respectively, an offici...

General

Two MFS agents over hundi business arrested

·April 19, 2023

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police in the early hours of today arrested two Mobile Financial Service (BFS) agents from Chatkhil upazila in Noakhali in charge of laundering money through hundi.They were Shahadat Hossain (23), son of ...

General

Two members of mobile phone theft syndicate arrested

·April 19, 2023

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two members of a mobile phone smuggling ring along with 52 stolen mobile phones from city's Shahbagh area last night.They were Md Anwar Hossain, 40 and Md Jihad Hossain, 22.RAB-10 Senior ASP (Media) Enayet Kabir S...

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