March2017

News Hour: Mustafizur told the media in the sidelines of their practice session at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground in Colombo on Friday, “A person called me on the room intercom, and wanted to know about...

News Hour: U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday backed a decision by his former national security adviser to seek immunity in congressional probes of possible ties between his campaign and Russia, but there was no immediate...

News Hour: A crackdown on unlicensed abattoirs across India has raised concerns that it is part of a broader effort to shutter informal businesses, hurting poor and vulnerable communities dependent on them. The northern state of...

News Hour: The U.N. Security Council on Friday cut the troop cap by 18 percent for its peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo after reaching a compromise with the United States, which wanted a bigger...

News Hour: “This is nice, it tickles me,” Kaspar the social robot tells four-year-old Finn as they play together at an autism school north of London. Kaspar, developed by the University of Hertfordshire, also sings song,...

News Hour: From Old Masters’ self-portraits to contemporary selfies taken on phones, a London exhibition explores the creative potential of a mode of expression whose modern form is often derided as inane. The British capital’s Saatchi...

News Hour: Self-taught sculptor Emanuel Santos defended his grinning bust of Cristiano Ronaldo on Thursday, telling his thousands of online detractors he had followed the soccer star’s instructions down to the last wrinkle. Santos, a 40-year-old...

News Hour: The Grameenphone Accelerator has unveiled the new batch of startups beginning their 4-month long acceleration journey today at GP House in Dhaka, Bangladesh. After a rigorous process of reading through over 600 applications, face-to-face...

News Hour: Three North Koreans wanted for questioning over the murder of the estranged half-brother of their country’s leader returned home on Friday along with the body of victim Kim Jong Nam after Malaysia agreed a...

News Hour: With this new text translation language available, locals and travelers can communicate from and to Bangla throughout Bangladesh, the Indian subcontinent and around the globe by using the Microsoft Translator apps on their preferred...