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Day: January 10, 2018

Davis and Hammond make plea to Germany in pursuit of Brexit deal
10Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

Davis and Hammond make plea to Germany in pursuit of Brexit deal

    Philip Hammond and David Davis have made a direct appeal to German business leaders to help them forge a Brexit deal to secure the future of Britain’s financial services. The chancellor and Brexit secretary travel to Germany on Wednesday on a charm offensive they hope will shift the EU’s implacable opposition to services being included in a final deal. They said they were seeking a bespoke deal with the EU described as the most ambitious in the world which should cover the length and breadth of our economies including the service industries and financial services. They warned that a continued integrated approach to banking after the UK left the bloc was vital if Europe was to avoid a repeat of the 2008 financial catastrophe and the eurozone crisis that followed, pr...
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Ibuprofen appears to mess with male hormones
10Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

Ibuprofen appears to mess with male hormones

    In recent decades, prompted by concerns that men's sperm quality is declining, researchers have looked at things they suspect of potentially disrupting the body’s endocrine system from chemicals in water bottles to WiFi laptops to wearing tight underwear instead of boxers. You can add ibuprofen to the list. In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that a concentrated dose of the over-the-counter painkiller taken by young, healthy men appears to be linked to a testicular condition that typically only appears at middle age and has been linked to infertility. The experiment involved 31 men under 35 in Denmark and France who were split into two groups, with the first taking 1,200 milligrams of ibuprofen each ...
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Leopards kill three children in rural India
10Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, Featured

Leopards kill three children in rural India

    Leopards have killed at least three children in a series of attacks in rural India, according to media reports and wildlife experts. Two of the children were killed in a village in central India possibly by the same leopard while a 14-year-old boy died in the country’s north, near the edge of a wildlife conservation area. All three were killed on Sunday, the reports said. With thousands of leopards and more than 1.3 billion people, cat attacks occur dozens of times a year across India. By and large, the story of humans and leopards is a story of coexistence, said Pranav Chanchani, co-ordinator of the Tiger Conservation programme at WWF-India. He said there are many millions of people living close to the leopard population, but only a tiny percentage ever face an at...
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California mudslides kill at least 13 people
10Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

California mudslides kill at least 13 people

    Mudslides, boulders and cascading debris killed at least 13 people on Tuesday in an area of Southern California's Pacific Coast ravaged by a series of intense wildfires that burned off protective vegetation last month. Heavy downpours struck before dawn on Tuesday after thousands of residents in Santa Barbara County along the Pacific coast north of Los Angeles were ordered to evacuate or urged to do so voluntarily, some of them for a second time since December. But only 10 to 15 percent complied with mandatory orders, said Amber Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. Emergency workers, using search dogs and helicopters, have rescued dozens of people stranded in mud-coated rubble in the pristine area, sandwiched between the ocean and t...
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Tabligh Jamaat protesters disrupt traffic in airport area
10Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, Featured

Tabligh Jamaat protesters disrupt traffic in airport area

    A group of Tabligh Jamaat followers are demonstrating in Dhaka airport area in protest against the arrival of a top leader of the organisation from India, creating huge traffic congestions on major roads there. A good number of Tabligh Jamaat men put up a barricade at Airport Road intersection around 12 noon as they got information that Indian Tabligh Jamaat scholar Maulana Saad Kandolvi was arriving here, Rashed, commanding officer of the Airport Armed Police Battalion, told UNB. He said Saad Kandolvi who reached the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a Thai Airways flight around 1:30pm, returned home by another flight following the protest. However, the Tabligh Jamaat activists did not withdraw the barricade till 4:00pm, disrupting traffic on the roads fro...
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