August2017
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Huawei to provide Bangladeshi smartphone customers opportunity to get gifts signed by Shakib Al Hasan
Aug 9, 2017News Hour: On the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, Huawei Consumer Business Group is providing smartphone customers an opportunity to get gifts signed by Shakib Al Hasan, the best cricket All-Rounder in the world. Under the campaign ‘Shakib... -
Young Bangladeshi innovators to fly to Helsinki with business ideas
Aug 9, 2017News Hour: Three startups out of 37 initially selected have won an opportunity today to take their innovative business ideas to Helsinki, Finland and pitch them to global investors. They earned the opportunity at Slush Global... -
Voicing for electrical distribution rearrangement in India
Aug 9, 2017News Hour: Understanding the gravity of the situation where India loses nearly 10000 people to electrocution deaths annually, a civil society group raises voice for total rearrangements of the power supply system in the country. Endorsed by Gandhian Natwar... -
Huawei names James Wu as President of South-East Asia
Aug 9, 2017News Hour: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has named James Wu as the new President of Southern-East Asia Region. Based in Bangkok, Huawei Southern-East Asia includes 11 markets- Bangladesh, India,... -
KKR put on hold a planned acquisition of Hitachi Ltd’s chip making equipment business
Aug 9, 2017News Hour: U.S. buyout firm KKR has put on hold a planned acquisition of Hitachi Ltd’s chip making equipment and video solution business, the companies said, citing issues over the terms of the deal. KKR in... -
Vantiv to buy Britain’s Worldpay for 8 billion pounds
Aug 9, 2017News Hour: U.S. credit card processing company Vantiv moved closer to creating a $29 billion global payments powerhouse on Wednesday with a formal offer to buy Britain’s Worldpay for 8 billion pounds ($10 billion). Vantiv’s move... -
Czechs take legal action over EU rules on gun control
Aug 9, 2017News Hour: The Czech Republic filed a lawsuit on Friday against a new European Union directive tightening gun ownership, aimed at limiting access to semi-automatic and other weapons after deadly Islamist attacks in western Europe. The... -
Car rams into soldiers in Paris suburb
Aug 9, 2017News Hour: A car rammed into a group of soldiers in a Parisian suburb on Wednesday, injuring six before speeding off and sparking a manhunt that a judicial source said ended with the suspect’s arrest on... -
People who smoke marijuana have a three times greater risk of dying from hypertension
Aug 9, 2017News Hour: People who smoke marijuana have three times greater risk of dying from hypertension, or high blood pressure, than those who have never used the drug, scientists said on Wednesday. The risk grows with every... -
Amid standoff with U.S., North Korea releases jailed Canadian pastor
Aug 9, 2017News Hour: North Korea freed a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence there on humanitarian grounds, the official KCNA news agency said on Wednesday, just hours after the United States warned it would counter any threat...
