August2017

News Hour Country’s most celebrated all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was brave enough to admit that Australian are always a difficult opponent and it would going to be a very challenging series for them. “Whatever team Australia...

News Hour Twenty nine Australian students will come to study in Bangladesh next year under the ‘New Colombo Plan’, an initiative of Australian Foreign Minister Julie Isabel Bishop. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Isabel Bishop informed her...

News Hour Indigenous activists and human rights campaigners around the world yesterday celebrated Brazil’s Supreme Court ruling unanimously in favor of indigenous land rights. In two land rights cases, all eight of the judges present voted...

News Hour IOM, the UN Migration Agency’s emergency teams are responding to thousands of civilians fleeing Talafar since the launch of the military campaign to retake the city from ISIL on 20 August. In cooperation with...

News Hour BRAC in Liberia and the Dutch organisation, Mineke Foundation, joined forces to bring vocational training to girls’ club members. The programme trains them on income generating activities. Young women aged 15-25 participated in a...

News Hour: GCSE passes have dropped slightly across the range of subjects, with some dramatic changes in new, tougher exams sat for the first time in England. Overall in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, passes (grades...

News Hour: The husband of a woman who was knocked down and killed by a cyclist has urged “reckless” riders to learn from his wife’s death. Kim Briggs, 44, was hit while crossing the road in...

News Hour: Net migration has fallen to the lowest level for three years after a surge in the number of EU nationals leaving the UK since last June’s Brexit vote. Net migration – the difference between...

News Hour: India’s universal identification program — Aadhaar — suffered a setback today after the country’s Supreme Court voted unanimously in favor of individual privacy. Given the prevalence of data in today’s digital age, and the trend towards...

News Hour The Bureau of the FIFA Council has today, 23 August 2017, decided to appoint a normalisation committee for the Cameroonian Football Association (FECAFOOT) in accordance with art. 14 par. 1a) and art. 8 par....