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Man shot dead by police in London
5Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Man shot dead by police in London

Man Shot Dead By Police In Knife Incident Police have shot dead a man who was threatening a woman with a knife at a house in London, Scotland Yard said.The incident happened at a property in Islington and it is understood the man and the woman knew each other.A statement from the Metropolitan Police said the woman was unharmed and is being treated for shock. The man was treated at the scene in Shepperton Road but died on the way to hospital. Police had sent a negotiator to the scene at 11.19pm on Thursday following reports the man had broken into a house. Rosa Whiteread, 28, a primary school teacher who lives in the street, said: "I was asleep and I heard shouting - it woke me up. It must have been around 12.30 at night. "I looked out of the window and I saw lots of ...
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London’s narrowest home on market for £235k
4Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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London’s narrowest home on market for £235k

The narrowest home in London has a £235,000 price-tag It's a bit of a squeeze! By Lana Clements ( McHugh and Co/PA Wire ) - ( McHugh and Co/PA Wire ) As the shortage of homes in London continues to bite, places to live are being jammed into nooks and crannies across the capital.A property now thought to be the narrowest home in London has gone on the market for more than £200,000.Built on a driveway between two other homes, and measuring just 83 inches wide, the house squeezes in two bedrooms, a reception room, kitchen and bathroom.Located in Harringay, north London, the two-metre-wide terrace house is to be sold at auction on 1 October. It has been given a guide price of at least £235,000 by marketing agents McHugh & Co. "It's a very unique house, to say the least, in...
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Padma corruption probe laid to rest
4Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Padma corruption probe laid to rest

Padma corruption probe laid to rest Anti-graft body finds no graft conspiracy M Rahman: In a controversial move, the Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday cleared all accused of corruption conspiracy allegations in the Padma bridge project though the World Bank gave the ACC primary evidence and a trial is on at a Canadian court in this connection. "None was found guilty. The commission will submit its final report to the court," ACC Chairman Mohammad Badiuzzaman said at a press briefing at the ACC headquarters in the capital. The accused in the Padma bridge graft case included former communications minister Syed Abul Hossain and ex-state minister for foreign affairs Abul Hasan Chowdhury. The ACC concludes its probe in the case at a time when two officials of Canadian firm SNC Lavalin...
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Fakhrul sued for calling Hasina killer
1Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH

Fakhrul sued for calling Hasina killer

Fakhrul sued for calling Hasina killer BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. Shirshobindu News: A defamation case was filed against BNP's Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today for terming Awami League a “killer party” and its chief Sheikh Hasina a “killer”. Nur e-Alam Siddique, vice president of Awami Matsyajibi League, filed the case against Fakhrul with the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate in Dhaka. After hearing the charges, Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Rani Chakrabarti asked the officer-in-charge of Paltan Police Station to submit a report on investigation before the court on September 15. Fakhrul, acting secretary general of BNP, said at a press conference at the party's headquarters at Nayapaltan on August 24: "Awami League is a killer party and its presiden...
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Judges impeachment move not in people’s interest
1Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Judges impeachment move not in people’s interest

Judges' impeachment move ‘not in people’s interest’: Dr Kamal Dr Kamal Hossain. Shirshobindu News Desk: The way government is going to amend charter to empower the parliament to impeach Supreme Court judges is "not right at all" and "not in the interest of the country and its people", eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain said today. Public opinion should be solicited in this regard, he opined, stressing that any amendment to the constitution should be brought on the basis of consensus. Hossain, one of the framers of constitution, made the remarks while addressing a discussion on 'Amendment to the constitution: Impeachment of the judges and its significance' organised by Sujon (Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik) at Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka. Ignoring the opinions of many eminent jurists, the cabi...
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Floods rage thru’ north
31Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Floods rage thru’ north

Floods rage thru' north 100 more villages inundated as Bogra embankment washed away; erosion takes alarming turn Inundated houses in Rohodoha of Shariakandi upazila of Bogra after the Jamuna washed away 300 metres of a dyke. Shirshobindu Nesw Desk: With the flood situation in the north showing no sign of improvement, more than one lakh people of 100 villages were freshly affected after a portion of the flood control embankment by the Jamuna river collapsed in Bogra yesterday. Including them, about nine lakh people have now been hit by the monsoonal flood in 19 districts, according to government figures. Marooned for over two weeks, many of these people have little or no food, drinking water and sanitation facilities. Authorities are distributing relief materials in the affected distr...
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Sugar mills stuck in huge losses
30Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Sugar mills stuck in huge losses

Sugar mills stuck in huge losses Raw sugar imports rise 31pc year-on-year Sohel Parvez:   Falling sugar prices on the global market and increased imports have lowered the prices of the sweetener in the domestic market, putting state-owned and private mills in a tight spot. Raw sugar imports surged 31 percent year-on-year to 19.83 lakh tonnes last fiscal year amid the refiners' rush to capitalise on the lower international prices to build up stocks for export and the domestic market. But the International Sugar Organisation on Tuesday said the global sugar consumption needs to outstrip supply by at least three million tonnes before prices recover significantly. In other words, the organisation forecasts extended weakness in prices. Raw sugar price, which traded at $467.9 a tonne at the...
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Bangladesh’s apex group emerges as shoemaker to world
29Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Bangladesh’s apex group emerges as shoemaker to world

Bangladesh's apex group emerges as shoemaker to world This story appears in the September 8, 2014 issue of Forbes Asia Apex’s Nasim with his father Manzur Elahi. Photo taken from forbes.com News Desk: To see a different face of Bangladesh manufacturing, a country that has earned notoriety with its ready-made garment plants, one drives 25 miles north of Dhaka city to Gazipur district. Amid a predominantly industrial enclave of garment makers is a 24-acre site where 5,500 workers, mostly women, are busy stitching not clothes but a range of stylish leather shoes, reports forbes.com. This is the factory of Dhaka Stock Exchange-listed Apex Footwear, Bangladesh’s leading footwear exporter. It started manufacturing leather shoes more than two decades ago. Today it is among the largest shoemak...
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More join queue for Malaysian ‘second home’ scheme
28Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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More join queue for Malaysian ‘second home’ scheme

More join queue for Malaysian 'second home' scheme Capital flight may amount to Tk 3,506cr as of April this year Sajjadur Rahman: The number of Bangladeshis enrolling on the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme has been on the rise since 2011 after a decline during 2007-10, meaning more money is flying off the country. The Bangladeshis started to take up the offer in 2003 when 32 citizens chose to settle in Malaysia under the programme. The number jumped to 204 in the following year, 852 in 2005 and 341 in 2006, according to the Malaysian government. But the number started to decline and stood at 149 in 2007 apparently due to a political changeover in Bangladesh. In the following three years, from 2008 to 2010, a total of 228 Bangladeshi citizens took the offer. The number has star...
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No place like home: world’s weirdest houses
24Aug By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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No place like home: world’s weirdest houses

Unusual homes Lone House A lone house is seen at the construction site of an urban transformation project in Fikirtepe, an Istanbul neighbourhood in the Asian part of the city. The house, known as "lone house", belongs to a family who had refused to allow its demolition, bringing the project to a standstill for months. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Lone House The owner of the house has finally reached an agreement with the construction firm behind the project, paving the way for the building's demolition, local media reported. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Lone House A lone house is seen at a construction site of an urban transformation project in Fikirtepe, Istanbul. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Lone House An excavator demolishes the lone house at the construction site of an urban ...
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