Tuesday, June 9

ENGLISH

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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Calais Chaos: Migrants Enter Channel Tunnel
4Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Calais Chaos: Migrants Enter Channel Tunnel

    Traffic along the Channel Tunnel has been disrupted overnight after migrants tried to enter restricted areas in Calais, according to reports. "From 10.30pm (local time), around 150 migrants attempted to enter the platforms," an official for the Pas-de-Calais prefecture told the AFP news agency. The spokesman said traffic was interrupted with long queues of lorries and cars forming, but an AFP journalist said the incident was resumed a few hours later. However, the disruption has had a knock-on effect on traffic. Police in Kent say they have put into action what is known as phase two of Operation Stack - where freight traffic is queued on sections of the M20 - closing parts of the road to other traffic. Last week, lorry drivers faced days of misery as they were held ...
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Found The Bethnal Green school girls who ran away to Syria
4Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Found The Bethnal Green school girls who ran away to Syria

    Runaway ISIS school girls 'under close watch in a compound for widows  The three British schoolgirls who ran away from home to join the Islamic State group in Syria were kept under close watch in a compound for widows and would-be jihadi brides while their loyalty to the movement was tested, The Telegraph has learned. Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, who ran away from home in February, spent their first months in Isil’s caliphate under lock and key in an apartment in the jihadists’ stronghold city of Raqqa. The schoolgirls, from Bethnal Green, east London, were put in the care of a woman handler known as Um Laith – “Mother of the Lion” – tasked with “purifying their Western minds” by instilling the practices of Isil’s hardline version of sha...
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Has Two Jobs John written off £1m that Mayor Lutfur Rahman tried to retrieve
4Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Has Two Jobs John written off £1m that Mayor Lutfur Rahman tried to retrieve

    John Biggs is reported to have written off a £850,000 loan made to the Rich Mix (an organisation which styles itself East London’s independent arts venue). Independent councillors have implemented the call in” process which means that the decision will now be reviewed by a representative mix of councillors before it is implemented. The decision is fraught with controversy, as it centres around: •whether a semi-commercial arts venue will be given up to £850,000 of Council Tax-payers’ money without the usual processes being followed; •whether court proceedings to protect the Council’s right to secure repayment of a loan will be ditched; •the Labour Party’s involvement in what is supposed to be the decision of a public repre-sentative. Background The loan was made to ...
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Hundreds of immigrants to be freed from detention centres BEFORE being granted asylum
4Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Hundreds of immigrants to be freed from detention centres BEFORE being granted asylum

    Immigration campaigners are furious amid fears that hundreds of asylum seekers will be freed because of human rights. Immigration minister James Brokenshire suspended the system over human rights fears The Government has suspended the asylum fast track system over fears it could be slammed by judges, meaning that a group of over 100 immigrants will be immediately freed from detention centres. The "detained fast track" policy was drawn up by Labour over a decade ago to deter bogus migrants from trying to claim asylum in Britain. It is applied in cases where economic migrants who sneak into the UK and attempt to claim asylum after they are caught. Many immigrants in this category will now be put into the main asylum system, where it can take years to resolve cases and ...
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10 tourist traps you should avoid in Italy and where to go instead
3Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

10 tourist traps you should avoid in Italy and where to go instead

    San Gimignano Ask almost anyone and they'll tell you that Italy is on their bucket list: the art, the culture, and the food is world famous for a reason. But Italy is big, and it can be overwhelming for first timers, who inevitably, bowled over by choice, fall into overpriced tourist traps. Here are the places you should avoid, and the often cheaper, always more authentic alternatives you should hit instead.  1. Instead of getting disappointed by the Leaning Tower of Pisa, check out the medieval towers in the town of San Gimignano. If we told you to go see a tilting old tower that wasn't Pisa would you? Probably not, and you should avoid the surprisingly small and devastatingly disappointing Leaning Tower of Pisa too. Want to see old towers? Visit San Gimignano, a mo...
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We are no longer poor
3Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

We are no longer poor

    Prime minister’s son and her ICT Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has thanked the Awami League government for its hard work to turn Bangladesh into a lower-middle-income country. Reiterating her mother’s new target, he hoped Bangladesh would become a higher-middle-income economy by the end of the government’s current tenure. In a Facebook post, he wrote, “Bangladesh is no longer a poor country. It is now officially a middle-income country. “Per capita income has more than doubled during the past six years of our government, poverty level almost halved, tremendous development has taken place in all socio-economic sectors.” Attributing the progress to the efforts of the government, he said, “All thanks to the hard work of our Awami League government.” World Bank on Wedne...
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Osborne’s first budget without Lib Dems likely to hit welfare state hard
3Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Osborne’s first budget without Lib Dems likely to hit welfare state hard

    Cuts to housing benefit, a further lowering of the overall welfare cap and reductions to in-work tax credits are all being considered by George Osborne in next week’s budget, as he seeks to roll back what he regards as a bloated welfare state expanded by Gordon Brown during his tenure of the Treasury. Osborne is preparing to say that Brown’s policy decision to increase tax credits distorted welfare and made workers became dependent on the state, rather than an employer, for a decent income. The chancellor – in the first budget he has been able to deliver without the Liberal Democrats – will temper the £12bn of welfare cuts with a rise in the personal tax allowance and a commitment to do more to persuade employers to boost pay to compensate for the loss of income, possib...
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Will George Osborne kill pension and childcare schemes?
30Jun By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Will George Osborne kill pension and childcare schemes?

    There's growing concern that George Osborne's Emergency Budget will take a sledgehammer to what's known as 'salary sacrifice' schemes. These have been the backbone of thousands of employer childcare and pension schemes, and any changes could leave people hundreds of pounds worse off every year. The problem Osborne faces is that he wants to claw back some of the higher rate tax relief on pensions. There are growing rumours that this is likely to be cut from 45% to 30%. There's not much opposition to this idea, because an estimated 70% of the £34.8 billion claimed in tax relief on pensions is taken by higher or top rate taxpayers. There's a growing sense that the rules unfairly favour the very rich, who could stand to pay a little more tax. Once he reduces the tax relief...
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