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Corbyn misses campaign appearance amid fallout from leak of draft manifesto
11May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Corbyn misses campaign appearance amid fallout from leak of draft manifesto

    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has pulled out of a planned campaign appearance as the party dealt with the fallout from the sensational leak of its draft General Election manifesto. The 43-page document, which sets out plans to nationalise key industries and reverse years of austerity, was denounced by Tories as a recipe for taxes and borrowing which would put the UK on the road to ruin. But Labour’s joint election co-ordinator Andrew Gwynne played down the significance of the leak, which he said had put the party’s transformational policies at the top of the news agenda. Stressing that the document was only a draft which could be amended by a meeting of senior party and trade union figures in London on Thursday, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: It’s not ideal, but on t...
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Is triple talaq fundamental to Islam, India SC asks
11May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Is triple talaq fundamental to Islam, India SC asks

    The Supreme Court on Thursday heard a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of triple talaq and to know whether it was fundamental to Islam. We are going to decide the validity of triple talaq, said Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, heading a Constitution bench. He asked the parties concerned to focus on whether triple talaq was fundamental to Islamic religion. The Chief Justice said that petitioners and respondents would address the court on whether triple talaq was an enforceable fundamental right. The bench sought suggestions on the broad parameters of the directions the court may issue while deciding the validity of triple talaq. Other judges on the Constitution bench are Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, Justice Uday Umesh La...
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News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London
11May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in separate messages greeted the Buddhist community on the occasion. President M Abdul Hamid yesterday urged all irrespective of party affiliation, opinion and religious belief to play a proper role for the national development upholding communal harmony and tradition. He was exchanging greetings with the Buddhist community at Bangabhaban on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. The President hoped that the Buddhist community would continue to put their efforts for country’s overall development upholding the traditional norms and containing the immortal ideology of Lord Buddha. Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, was celebrated amid religious fervour and festivity across the country yesterday. Buddha P...
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The French President is unfit to run a nation. He doesn’t have children
10May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

The French President is unfit to run a nation. He doesn’t have children

    On Sunday, the French public made their call. Emmanuel Macron was to be their President complete with his centrist politics and desire to stay in the EU. The 39-year-old is married to wife Brigitte Trogneux and has been since 2007. He is a former investment banker, has dipped in and out of politics as both a Minister and member of staff and will be the youngest President in French history. But the French people are missing something. Isn’t ANYBODY paying attention? Macron doesn’t have any kids. Sure, he has a couple of step-children running around but he doesn’t have any of his own. I hate to be the bearer of bad news and s--- on the European Union while it’s already in the gutter, but can someone tell me what kind of future France has when their leader doesn’t know what i...
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How President Trump’s Decision to Fire James Comey Could Backfire
10May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

How President Trump’s Decision to Fire James Comey Could Backfire

    President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey rocked Washington on Tuesday, raising questions about the future of the investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia and potentially setting off a chain of events that could envelop his administration. Comey, whose investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server helped lift Trump into the White House, was leading the federal counterintelligence investigation into whether advisers to the President had sought to collude with Russian officials in their efforts to swing the 2016 election. The ouster of the nation's top cop prompted comparisons to Watergate, as Democrats pilloried Trump for sidelining the official overseeing a probe that could threaten his presidency. But the shock move is fraught ...
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I had to get out or die: North Korean defector reveals brutal horrors of Kim Jong Un’s sadistic regime
10May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

I had to get out or die: North Korean defector reveals brutal horrors of Kim Jong Un’s sadistic regime

    Kim Chung-Seong’s life reads like the type of story found in the fiction section of a sadist’s library. By the age of 27 he had been brutally beaten, thrown in prison, left to starve, witnessed cold-blooded killings of children, forced into becoming a spy and left hours away from his own execution. But today, after an incredible escape from the clutches of North Korea ’s brutal regime, Chung-Seong thinks it is he who is the lucky one. For while he is now free from merciless Kim Jong-un , he lives in constant fear for the family and friends still hunted by the evil dictator’s army for his defection 13 years ago. The Kim regime never forgets, he says. The leadership may pass down from one generation to another but so does their evil. I saw first-hand how the most harrowing o...
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Police detain Rohingya attempting boat trip to Malaysia
10May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Police detain Rohingya attempting boat trip to Malaysia

    Bangladesh has arrested more than a dozen people from Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority and two men accused of trying to smuggle them illegally into Malaysia by boat, police said on Wednesday. The two Bangladeshis were charged with people smuggling offences after arranging the trip to Malaysia, the first time in two years would-be migrants have attempted to journey there by boat, said Teknaf police chief Mainuddin Khan. ‘Acting on a tip-off, we arrested 19 Myanmar nationals from a house in Teknaf on Tuesday as they gathered there for a boat trip to Malaysia,’ Khan told AFP. ‘They said they paid Tk 10,000 ($125) each for the trip.’ Tens of thousands of Rohingya from Myanmar and Bangladeshi economic migrants seeking jobs have made the treacherous journey across the Bay of B...
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News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London
10May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that there is freedom of speech in the country as the newspapers here are enjoying full freedom. "But all concerned will have to be responsible to enjoy this freedom. However, freedom doesn't mean to tarnish the rights of anybody," she said while delivering her winding up speech in the 15th session of the 10th Parliament. The Cabinet yesterday approved the amendments to a law allowing four members of the same family to sit on the board of a commercial bank. The amended law will also allow the directors of commercial banks to serve for three consecutive terms of three years each. The seal of approval was given to the Bank Company (Amendment) Act 2017 at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. President Ab...
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Tory policies will deny homes to hundreds of thousands of pensioners and disabled people, warn housing chiefs
9May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Tory policies will deny homes to hundreds of thousands of pensioners and disabled people, warn housing chiefs

    If this is not fixed, it could be really disastrous for large numbers of older and vulnerable people. Hundreds of thousands of pensioners and disabled people will be denied the homes they badly need because of a disastrous Conservative policy, housing chiefs are warning. A shortage of sheltered and supported housing is set to mushroom because of crazy funding rules that are shutting services and crushing investment, ministers have been told. Older and disabled people as well as victims of domestic violence and ex-servicemen and women rely on the homes to live independently and to stay out of residential care, or hospital But the National Housing Federation (NFH) is alarmed that housing associations are now refusing to build them because the Government has thrown their futu...
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Jeremy Corbyn says Brexit issue is settled
9May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Jeremy Corbyn says Brexit issue is settled

    The question now is what sort of country do we want after Brexit says Labour leade Jeremy Corbyn has suggested he will remain as Labour leader even if he fails to gain power in the General Election Reuters Jeremy Corbyn has said the issue of Brexit is settled as he kicked off Labour’s general election campaign On his battlebus tour of the UK, Mr Corbyn promised a Labour government would deliver a jobs-first Brexit. The leader has so far attempted to steer the campaign narrative away from the Brexit debate which has left the Labour party fiercely divided instead focusing on Tory cuts to public services Ken Loach backs Labour leader Corbyn's 'big ideas' But, addressing the subject, Mr Corbyn said: This election isn't about Brexit itself. That issue has been settled. The ques...
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