September2017

News Hour: Volkswagen is a “second mover” in electrified commercial vehicles after lagging companies such as Tesla and Deutsche Post DHL in putting them on the road, the head of VW’s trucks business told a German...

News Hour: In a national effort to combat air pollution, Mongolia is joining forces with UN Environment by joining the BreatheLife campaign. It is the first country that in its entirety joins the campaign, taking a...

News Hour: Oxfam is providing clean water, sanitation, and tarpaulins for shelter to Rohingya people who have fled to Bangladesh. Nearly 370,000 people crossed into Bangladesh in the last four weeks, doubling the number of people...

News Hour: Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited (BPL) started the export of Olopatadine, an ophthalmic product for treating the symptoms of eye allergy, to Canada. The BPL today made the announcement following the approval of Olopatadine (0.1% solution)...

News Hour: The 4th General Members Meeting (GMM) for the year 2017 and 3rd Training of JCI (Junior Chamber International) Dhaka Central took place in a restaurant in Dhaka yesterday. The training was based on ‘Effective...

 News Hour: Police said a security alert on a British Airways plane in Paris on Sunday was a false alarm. Passengers were evacuated from Flight BA303 at Charles de Gaulle airport before it was due to...

 News Hour: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson set out his plans for a “glorious” Brexit on Saturday that angered colleagues and reignited speculation he would challenge Prime Minister Theresa May for the leadership of the Conservative...

News Hour: A second man has been arrested over Friday’s bomb attack on a London underground train that injured 30 people, police said on Sunday, as Britain remained on its highest level of alert with soldiers...

News Hour: Syrian troops seized a suburb of the city of Deir al-Zor in eastern Syria on Sunday, tightening the noose around Islamic State militants, a military source said. Oil-rich Deir al-Zor province, which borders Iraq,...

News Hour: Bangladesh has accused Myanmar of repeatedly violating its air space and warned that any more “provocative acts” could have “unwarranted consequences”, raising the risk of a deterioration in relations already strained by the Rohingya...