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Theresa May rejects Nicola Sturgeon’s referendum demand
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Theresa May rejects Nicola Sturgeon’s referendum demand

    Theresa May has said now is not the time, for a second Scottish independence referendum, while the government puts all its energies in to negotiating Brexit. Nicola Sturgeon stunned Downing Street on Monday by announcing she would seek to call a vote before Britain leaves the European Union, and suggested it should be held between autumn 2018 and spring 2019. May gave her formal response in a television interview, in which she did completely not rule out a referendum in the future; but rejected Sturgeon’s timing, and suggested if a vote was held it would it would have to take place after Brexit. Theresa May said the UK should be working together, not puling apart. With article 50, which starts the two-year process for leaving the EU, due to be triggered by the end of this ...
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China, Saudi Arabia eye $65 bln in deals as king visits
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

China, Saudi Arabia eye $65 bln in deals as king visits

    Saudi Arabia's King Salman oversaw the signing of deals worth as much as $65 billion on the first day of a visit to Beijing on Thursday, as the world's largest oil exporter looks to cement ties with the world's second-largest economy. The deals included a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between giant state oil firm SaudiAramco and China North Industries Group Corp (Norinco), to look into building refining and chemical plants in China. Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) and Sinopec, which already jointly run a chemical complex in Tinajin, also agreed to develop petrochemical projects in both China and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's octogenarian monarch, who has overseen the launch of an ambitious economic reform plan since his accession two years ago, is on a month-long As...
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News Brief From Bangladesh High Commission London
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

News Brief From Bangladesh High Commission London

President Md. Abdul Hamid has urged authorities to take extra care in planning development initiatives in environmentally delicate low lying haor region, as he wrapped up a three-day visit at Astagram, Kishoreganj on Tuesday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government is making all out efforts to develop the country in a faster pace. She said this to the Brazilian Ambassador Wanja Campos Da Nobrega who paid a farewell call on her at her office. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday donated Tk 1 crore for the treatment of Dr Sabrina Nusrat, wife of Bangladesh Air Force Squadron Leader Md Mahmudul Hasan, from her Relief and Welfare Fund. An Indian official said the Indian Union Cabinet yesterday approved revised MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Bangladesh and India ...
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UK Government running scared of second independence vote: SNP
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

UK Government running scared of second independence vote: SNP

    SNP deputy leader Angus Robertson is to accuse the UK Government of running scared of a second independence referendum. The party's leader in Westminster will also accuse the Conservatives of having a desperate desire to prevent anyone rejecting hard Brexit. It comes as Prime Minister Theresa May said it would it be fundamentally unfair to hold a second Scottish independence referendum in the next two years, as she prepares to outline plans for a more united UK. Mr Robertson is expected to tell the SNP spring conference in Aberdeen that it is for the people of Scotland to decide the country's future. He will say: It is clear from the PM's panicked response to the Scottish Government's decision to, rightly, give people in Scotland a choice over Scotland's future, that the T...
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What is an 80/20 relationship and does it work
16Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

What is an 80/20 relationship and does it work

    You might have heard of the 80/20 rule. It can be applied to many different aspects of daily life from the food we eat, the money we spend and our exercise regime. But now people are using it to help strengthen their relationships too. When it comes to your love life, the 80/20 rule centres on the idea that one person cannot meet 100 per cent of your needs all the time. Each of you is permitted to take a fraction of your time 20 per cent away from your partner to take part in more self-fulfilling activities and resume your individuality. In some cases, partners may choose to take up a new hobby or even go travelling without the pressure of having to check-in with the other. For long-term relationships, where compromise can sometimes be difficult, the 80/20 rule aims to eli...
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A Tiny Scottish Village Is Showing Solidarity With EU Nationals Amid Brexit Uncertainty
16Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

A Tiny Scottish Village Is Showing Solidarity With EU Nationals Amid Brexit Uncertainty

    Jim Fraser A tiny Scottish village is showing solidarity with EU nationals, who face an uncertain future thanks to Brexit. Jim Fraser, a 59-year-old market researcher who has lived in Pencaitland, East Lothian for around a decade, was in shock in June at the referendum result. Fraser, who is pro-EU and pro-independence, took his nine-year-old daughter Cissy to a pro-EU demonstration in nearby Edinburgh the day after the vote, where she carried a placard saying This Is Europe. He spoke to his French neighbour, who has lived in Scotland for 20 years, had three children there, and feared what Brexit would mean for her. Feeling the issue was still unresolved and under-discussed eight months later, Fraser set up a Facebook group at the start of March and circulated a statement ...
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Corbyn fails dismally to exploit U-turn on national insurance
16Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Corbyn fails dismally to exploit U-turn on national insurance

    Jeremy Corbyn was presented with an unexpected bonus in the shape of the chancellor’s confirmation, half an hour before PMQs began, of the government’s budget reversal on increased national insurance contributions for the self-employed. He accused Theresa May of leading a “government in chaos” having presented a budget that unravels in seven days. May said she didn’t usually heed lectures from Corbyn, but that when it came to chaos he’d be the first person I’d turn to. Corbyn suggested she should apologise for the stress caused to 4.8 million self-employed people in the UK and asked what measures she would take to fill the budgetary black hole following the NICs U-turn. Jeremy Corbyn stuck to his prepared questions when he should have focused on NICs. May responded with he...
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Federal judge in Hawaii halts Trump’s new travel ban
16Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Federal judge in Hawaii halts Trump’s new travel ban

    Just hours before President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban was set to go into effect, a U.S. federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued an emergency halt to the order’s implementation. The action was the latest legal blow to the administration’s efforts to temporarily ban refugees as well as travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries, which the President has said is needed for national security. Trump lashed out at the judge’s ruling, saying it ‘makes us look weak.’ Trump signed the new ban on March 6 in a bid to overcome legal problems with a January executive order that caused chaos at airports and sparked mass protests before a Washington judge stopped its enforcement in February. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson put an emergency stop to the new order in re...
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Theresa May is said to have told Philip Hammond over National Insurance U-turn
16Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Theresa May is said to have told Philip Hammond over National Insurance U-turn

    Philip Hammond is fighting to save his career after being forced into the most humiliating Budget U-turn in a generation. Theresa May scrapped the Chancellor’s headline policy a hike in National Insurance contributions for the self-employed after a backbench rebellion over what amounted to a broken manifesto pledge. Tory MPs said the fiasco had been hugely damaging to Mr Hammond’s authority, with one saying he was now on probation. With Mr Hammond now looking increasingly isolated from Number 10, a Conservative source said the Prime Minister had “dug her stiletto in and told him, We are reversing this – I don’t care how bad it is for you. Mr Hammond admitted in a letter to Conservative MPs that the NI rise had broken the spirit of the manifesto. He said: In light of what h...
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