Tuesday, June 2

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MPs To Get 10% Backdated Pay Rise To £74,000
16Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

MPs To Get 10% Backdated Pay Rise To £74,000

    MPs are to get a 10% pay hike to £74,000 despite a 1% cap on the pay of public sector workers. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) announced the move despite fierce opposition from public sector trade unions and some ministers and MPs. David Cameron previously claimed the proposals were "unacceptable," but Downing Street admitted last month the Prime Minister would would not attempt to block the move and would personally accept the money. The increase has been backdated to May 8 and any MP elected before 2015 will also see an increase to their pensions which are linked to their basic salaries. Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of IPSA, explained the increase was due MPs salaries previously having been supplemented by "an opaque an discredited system of...
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Mayor John Biggs and Deputy Mayor Cllr Shiria Khatun praise Ex-Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s work but no name check
13Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Mayor John Biggs and Deputy Mayor Cllr Shiria Khatun praise Ex-Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s work but no name check

    Tower Hamlets Council has scooped a prestigious award for its work in preventing counterfeiting. The Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG) Awards are presented for outstanding achievement by individuals, companies or organisations involved in combating counterfeiting and piracy worldwide. ACG represents the interests of UK and international companies, who manufacture products from toothpaste to mobile phones, chocolate to car parts. Their membership also includes lawyers, trademark agents and brand protection specialists, creating a unique environment for anti-counterfeiting interests to flourish and collaborate. The award winners were announced during the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) Confer-ence held in Bournemouth at the start of the month. The 2015 ACG Departme...
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8 insane ways your phone and computer can be hacked
12Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

8 insane ways your phone and computer can be hacked

    ZhouHacking is the new spying. And, as we've learned time and time again, both government and private organizations are using cyber-spy techniques to gain as much intelligence as they can. But getting this data can be difficult. In fact, some of the most previous of digital information is safeguarded by machines that have no contact with the outside world. So can this internet-less data be hacked? Well, yes. With some help from the research of the security firm Kaspersky Lab, as well as some of our own personal digging, here's a look into some of the insane and creepy technologies used to hack offline devices. Both the US and the USSR have spent decades looking into the electromagnetic radiation that an electronic device emits. Kaspersky Lab writes that once a device...
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How Russia’s labor migration policy is fueling the Islamic State
12Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

How Russia’s labor migration policy is fueling the Islamic State

    When American-trained Tajik special forces commander Col. Gumurod Khalimov defected to the Islamic State a few weeks ago, he issued a clarion call for hundreds of thousands of his countrymen working as migrant laborers in Russia to follow him. “Stop serving the infidels,” he said in a video that appeared online, prompting the Tajik government to block access to Facebook, YouTube and other social networks for several days. But local migrants and religious advocates say that if the Islamic State is recruiting from Tajikistan, it is driven more by economics than ideology. Since the start of the year, a new Russian migration law has required foreign workers from countries outside the Eurasian Economic Union customs bloc to pass Russian language and history tests, acquire ...
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British schoolgirl ‘marries Australian Islamic State fighter in Syria’
12Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, ENGLISH

British schoolgirl ‘marries Australian Islamic State fighter in Syria’

    Amira Abase, who fled Britain in February with two friends, has reportedly married Abdullah Elmir A British schoolgirl who fled to Syria to join Islamic State (Isil) has reportedly married a notorious Australian -born jihadist who threatened to carry out attacks in Britain. Amira Abase, 16, left the UK in February with two friends and was tracked down earlier this month by the Telegraph to Raqqa . There, she has reportedly married Abdullah Elmir, one of the youngest Western fighters to have joined Isil. Dubbed “the Ginger Jihadi” due to his hair colour, he fled Sydney last year for Syria and has since appeared in several Isil propaganda videos. Elmir sent a message to the Mail on Sunday newspaper confirming he had married Abase. He also threatened attacks in the...
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Why men don’t fancy big women … but should
11Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

Why men don’t fancy big women … but should

    When I ran a matchmaking agency, I met a lot of men. When signing up, I'd meet them for a coffee, get a better understanding of their personalities in order to consider who they'd be best matched with. Sounds like fun, right? Well, it was certainly interesting. Interesting in the respect that, it's surprising how, even those who are actively looking for love, are still so non-negotiable about what they require in a partner. The usual lists cropped up time and time again, height and income high on the list of requirements for women - for men, age and, you guessed it, weight. Sad to say that, the vast majority of men who I spoke to who were single and ready to date, refused to date 'fat girls'. Some disguised it as 'preferring girls to be fit' or 'wanting them to be in p...
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Typhoon Chan Hom Hits Southeast China
11Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Typhoon Chan Hom Hits Southeast China

    A typhoon with winds up to 100 mph has hit the Chinese coast south of Shanghai. Typhoon Chan-hom made landfall in Zhoushan, just east of the port of Ningbo in Zhejiang province, China Central Television reported. Almost one million people were evacuated, hundreds of flights cancelled and ships ordered back to port as it approached. China's national weather service says it could be the most powerful storm the country has seen in more than 60 years. Chan-hom was initially deemed a super-typhoon but was downgraded at midday on Saturday to severe. More than 960,000 people were moved to safety from coastal areas, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. A wave, under the influence of Typhoon Chan-hom, hits the shore next to residential buildings in Wenling All flights ...
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Practice makes perfect: but future in doubt
10Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Practice makes perfect: but future in doubt

    GPs from the Limehouse Practice in Gill Street hosted a special meeting with the Rt Hon. Alistair Burt MP, Minister of State for Community and Social Care, on Friday, 3rd July. The Minister was keeping a promise made by the Health Secretary, the Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt MP, to shadow Limehouse GP Naureen Bhatti for a day. When Jeremy Hunt could not find a date before the autumn, Alistair Burt was sent instead – because the Limehouse Practice faces closure by September if NHS England fails to offer a solution. During the visit, Alistair Burt met six practice partners, staff and patients, as well as members of the Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group and supporters of the Save Our Surgeries campaign, which has been campaigning for the survival of local GP practices. T...
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Everyone is sharing this table about the tube strike, but here’s why they’re wrong
10Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Everyone is sharing this table about the tube strike, but here’s why they’re wrong

    If you work in London chances are you're not in a good mood this morning. The biggest London Underground (LU) strike since 2002 has closed the entire tube network since 6.30pm last night and services won't resume until Friday morning. An extra 200 buses, additional hire bikes and river services have all been laid on to help cope with the increased demand, Transport for London said. One image that has been widely shared on Facebook and Twitter is the table below, showing the differences in salary, hours and working conditions for train drivers and doctors: "London Tube drivers do get a raw deal don't they!! Thanks to @citymapper we're free to roam around London ‪#‎beatthestrike‬ ‪#‎driverlesstrains‬ ‪#‎pointlessstrike‬," explained Ed Har-ries when sharing the image on F...
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George Osborne denies targeting young people and says cuts will be good for them
9Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

George Osborne denies targeting young people and says cuts will be good for them

    The Chancellor has denied “targeting” young people with cuts a day after wielding the axe against housing and education assistance for young people on low incomes. George Osborne’s budget, delivered on Wednesday, excluded under-25s from a flagship living wage policy, banned them from claiming housing benefit, and scrapped grants for low-income students. But Mr Osborne said his changes would be “good for them”, referring to young people. “I don’t accept that we’re targeting young people – this is all about investing in apprenticeships and universities,” he told Sky News. “I am saying – look, I’m sorry, you can’t come out of school, go straight onto benefits, claim housing benefits. “That’s not what a working young person is able to do in the sense that they often have...
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