Thursday, October 22

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Uber boss ashamed after argument with driver
1Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Uber boss ashamed after argument with driver

    The chief executive of Uber has apologised after video emerged of him getting into an ill-tempered argument with one of the company's drivers about falling pay rates. Travis Kalanick has admitted he needs to grow up and get help after the embarrassing dashcam footage showed him angrily dismissing the driver's concerns. The businessman, who had been travelling with two women, was coming to the end of his Uber journey when driver Fawzi Kamel asked him why the ride-hailing app has slashed the prices customers pay for every mile they travel. People are not trusting you anymore … I lost $97,000 (£78,370) because of you. I'm bankrupt because of you, Mr Kamel had said. Mr Kalanick dismissed the driver's concerns as "bulls***", and told him: Some people don't like to take responsi...
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Theresa May set for defeat in House of Lords over rights of EU citizens
1Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Theresa May set for defeat in House of Lords over rights of EU citizens

    Theresa May's Conservative government faces defeat in the House of Lords after it refused to secure the rights of EU citizens living in the UK. The Lords wanted a clause in the bill to trigger Article 50 to ensure that Europeans already in the UK will have the same rights to live and work here after Brexit. However, after Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the Government would be unable to go further than give the verbal assurances already given, a majority of peers are ready to back a Labour amendment to ensure rights are protected within the first three months of Brexit being triggered. In a last-ditch effort to convince peers not to back the amendment, Rudd has penned a letter to the House of Lords in which she outlined that the Government plans to treat EU citizens with th...
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Travel chaos mounts as transport strike in Bangladesh: Minister urges transport owners, workers to operate their vehicles
1Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Travel chaos mounts as transport strike in Bangladesh: Minister urges transport owners, workers to operate their vehicles

    The countrywide indefinite transport strike, enforced by Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation, protesting the life term imprisonment of a bus driver in a case filed for a road accident that killed five people, including noted filmmaker Tareque Masud and cinematographer Mishuk Munier, entered the second day on Wednesday. In the capital, no inter‐district bus left Gabtoli, Mohakhali or Sayedabad bus terminals in the morning while very few buses were seen plying the road throughout the city. The commuters, especially the SSC examinees, suffered badly in the morning for lack of adequate public transports. They complained that rickshaws and CNG‐run auto‐rickshaw drivers charged them excessive fares, taking advantage of the situation. Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Fe...
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Police chief calls for counselling and rehab for lower level paedophiles
28Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Police chief calls for counselling and rehab for lower level paedophiles

    The National Police Chiefs Council lead for child protection A leading child protection officer has suggested paedophiles who view indecent images should not be given criminal sanctions unless they pose a physical threat to children, according to The Times. Lower level offenders should be given counselling and rehabilitation and police should focus on the most dangerous paedophiles with access to children and those looking at the most serious images, Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for child protection, is reported to have said. Offenders who view online images should avoid jail only if they have been risk-assessed and shown to not have the potential to be in contact with children, he is reported to have told the newspaper. The Times quoted Mr Ba...
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Heathrow Airport tops country for incredibly dangerous laser attacks on aircraft
28Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Heathrow Airport tops country for incredibly dangerous laser attacks on aircraft

    Aircraft using Heathrow Airport saw almost twice as many incredibly dangerous laser attacks than any other UK airport last year, new figures show. Pilots taking off or landing at the west London hub suffered 151 incidents in 2016. This is up from 121 during the previous year, an increase of a quarter, according to aviation regulator the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The second most targeted airport was Glasgow Airport, which saw laser attacks almost double to 83 in 2016. Former RAF and British Airways pilot Steve Landells warned that shining a laser at an aircraft is "incredibly dangerous". Mr Landells, flight safety specialist at pilots' association Balpa, said: "The power of these devices is increasing and we're concerned that, if left to escalate without significant i...
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Seoul says North Korea executes 5 senior security officials
28Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Seoul says North Korea executes 5 senior security officials

    North Korea executed five senior security officials with anti-aircraft guns because they made false reports that "enraged" leader Kim Jong Un, South Korea's spy agency said Monday. The comments by the National Intelligence Service in a private briefing to lawmakers come as Malaysia investigates the poisoning death of Kim's estranged elder half brother, Kim Jong Nam. That investigation is still going on, but South Korea says it believes Kim Jong Un ordered the assassination, which took place Feb. 13 at Kuala Lumpur's airport. The spy agency told lawmakers that five North Korean officials in the department of recently purged state security chief Kim Won Hong were executed by anti-aircraft guns because of the false reports to Kim, South Korean lawmaker Lee Cheol Woo said. It'...
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News brief from Bangladesh High Commission London
28Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

News brief from Bangladesh High Commission London

The Cabinet yesterday approved a proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to give formal recognition to the Republic of Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state by Bangladesh. The approval came from the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Bangladesh would be the 114th country to have given formal recognition to Kosovo. The Cabinet also approved the draft of the Jubo Niti (Youth Policy), 2017 and drafts of two acts, the Marine Fisheries Act, 2017 and the Sheikh Hasina National Youth Development Institute Act, 2017, and two agreements for avoiding double taxation and tax evasion. Parliament yesterday passed the child marriage prevention law with a provision allowing it in 'special circumstances'...
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Last letters From Mosul schoolboys to Islamic State martyrs: I will marry the 72 virgins in paradise
28Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, ENGLISH

Last letters From Mosul schoolboys to Islamic State martyrs: I will marry the 72 virgins in paradise

    Teenage militant Alaa abd al-Akeedi’s final letter to his family appears on official Islamic State stationery in Erbil, Iraq, February 26, 2017. Picture taken February 26, 2017. Photo: Reuters ‘My dear family, please forgive me,’ reads the handwritten letter discarded in the dusty halls of an Islamic State training compound in eastern Mosul. ‘Don’t be sad and don’t wear the black clothes (of mourning). I asked to get married and you did not marry me off. So, by God, I will marry the 72 virgins in paradise.’ They were schoolboy Alaa Abd al-Akeedi’s parting words before he set off from the compound to end his life in a suicide bomb attack against Iraqi security forces last year. The letter was written on an Islamic State form marked ‘Soldiers’ Department, Martyrs’ Brigade’ a...
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Sterling tumbles on renewed reports of a second Scottish independence vote
27Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Sterling tumbles on renewed reports of a second Scottish independence vote

    The pound fell during early Asian trading after reports that Scotland could be about to call a second independence referendum. Concerns around a renewed push for Scottish independence have increased in strength since the EU referendum, however yesterday the Times reported that Theresa May is preparing for another vote. The pound tumbled to $1.2392 against the dollar in the early hours of this morning, and at pixel time was hovering around $1.24. The Scottish concerns are, in fact, nothing new, said LCG Insight's Ipek Ozkardeskaya. The UK’s decision to quit the European Union had immediately triggered questions regarding Scotland’s future in the United Kingdom. However, the eventuality hasn’t been largely factored in the pound’s value so far. If Scotland decides to proceed ...
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EU expands North Korea sanctions
27Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

EU expands North Korea sanctions

    The European Union imposed additional sanctions on North Korea on Monday over nuclear and ballistic missile tests carried out in defiance of the UN Security Council. The decision, implementing a November UN resolution, comes with North Korea in the international spotlight after the assassination in Kuala Lumpur airport of Kim Jong-Nam, the estranged half-brother of leader Kim Jong-Un. The European Council, comprising the EU’s 28 member states, said the new measures include restrictions on trade in coal, iron and iron ore, plus a ban on imports of copper, nickel, silver and zinc from North Korea. The sale of new helicopters and vessels to North Korea was banned, while tighter controls were introduced on the transport, finance and property sectors. Member states will also cu...
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