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Thai former PM Yingluck gets 5 year jail term for negligence
27Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Thai former PM Yingluck gets 5 year jail term for negligence

    Thailand’s ousted former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was handed a five-year prison sentence on Wednesday after the country’s highest court found her guilty of negligence in the management of a rice subsidy scheme. Yingluck was due to hear the verdict on Aug. 25, but failed to show up, surprising hundreds of supporters who had gathered at the court. Aides said she had fled Thailand, fearing a harsh sentence. Last month, Reuters reported that she had escaped to Dubai, where her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, owns a home. Yingluck, who swept to power in a 2011 general election, introduced a rice subsidy scheme that proved wildly popular with farmers but which the military government says caused billions of dollars in losses. Her government was ouste...
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Saudi Arabia agrees to let women drive
27Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, ENGLISH

Saudi Arabia agrees to let women drive

    A woman drove towards the United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia border before her arrest in 2014. Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, overturning a long-standing policy that has become a global symbol of the repression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom. The change, which will not happen immediately, was announced on state television and in a simultaneous media event in Washington. It highlights the damage that the policy has done to the kingdom’s international reputation and its hopes for a public relations benefit from the reform. Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, is a Muslim monarchy ruled according to Shariah law. Saudi officials and clerics have provided numerous explanations for the ban over the years. Some said that it was inap...
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Bangladesh moves up seven places in Global Competitiveness Index
27Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Bangladesh moves up seven places in Global Competitiveness Index

    Bangladesh’s ranking in the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Competitiveness Index has moved up by seven places to 99 out of 137 countries surveyed. The reports says: ‘Competitiveness has improved across most countries in South Asia (as seen in Figure 4a and 4b), in particular in the two Himalayan countries of Bhutan (82nd, up 15) and Nepal (88th, up 10). On a similarly positive trend, Pakistan (115th, up seven) and Bangladesh (99th, up seven) have both improved their scores across all pillars of competitiveness. Upgrading ICT infrastructure and increasing ICT use remain among the biggest challenges for the region: over the past decade, South Asia has been the area where technological readiness stagnated the most, with a performance similar to that of sub-Saharan Afric...
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Why Seeing Prince Harry Hold Hands with Meghan Markle Is Such a Big Deal
26Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Why Seeing Prince Harry Hold Hands with Meghan Markle Is Such a Big Deal

    After over a year of dating, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sent fans speculating that an engagement could be on the horizon when they were spotted holding hands at their first public outing as a couple. So is this a sign that there’s an engagement announcement coming? Myka Meier, the founder and director of Beaumont Etiquette and the expert on all things proper in the royal family, thinks so. I believe an engagement is imminent, she tells PEOPLE. I think to show PDA at such a highly publicized public event would be a very conscious decision by Prince Harry, and shows the seriousness of the relationship. Meghan would very much have taken his lead under the circumstances. And while Meier admits that there is no formal protocol against showing PDA at events, it is rare to se...
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The parent deliberately drive car into a teacher at the school gates
26Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

The parent deliberately drive car into a teacher at the school gates

    Footage has been released of a parent deliberately driving into a teacher at the school gates when he went to pick up his child. The teacher at Winston Churchill School was swept off his feet and carried on the car bonnet before being thrown to the ground by the VW which narrowly avoided hitting two schoolchildren. The driver, Rainer Schoeman, of The Goldings, Woking, Surrey, was jailed for 10 months at Guildford Crown Court on Friday. He had earlier pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm, dangerous driving, driving without insurance and having no MOT. The 22-year-old had continued to travel at speed through the car park, police said. Surrey Police have released dramatic video footage of a parent who drove at a teacher at the school gates. Headteacher Zoe Johnson-Wal...
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6,000 Rohingya orphan children to be rehabilitated
26Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

6,000 Rohingya orphan children to be rehabilitated

    State Minister for Social Welfare Ministry Nuruzzaman Ahmed on Tuesday said that the government will rehabilitate some 6,000 Rohingya orphan children after giving them field card. The junior minister came up with the information at a press briefing at the secretariat. There will be separate arrangements for the Rohingya orphan children aged between 0-18. They will also be divided into two groups, said Nuruzzaman, adding that, By filling up a form, the government is making database on the orphan children. He told media that his ministry had already urged the government to allocate 200 bighas of land for their rehabilitation. Besides, Zillar Rahman, secretary of Social Welfare Ministry, said that the activities of filling up form have already been started. A total of 120 sta...
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UK set to be hit by SUPERSTORM bringing gale force winds
26Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

UK set to be hit by SUPERSTORM bringing gale force winds

    Britain looks set to be battered by the remains of Hurricane Maria and debris from Hurricane Lee as the two storms speed across the North Atlantic, forecasters have warned. Maria is currently moving in a northerly direction off the east coast of the USA, and is likely to pick up turbulent weather from Hurricane Lee. At least 25 people have been killed by the deadly hurricane, and forecasters believe the two will merge to form a superstorm across the Atlantic. This is likely to be picked up by the jet stream and swept towards the British Isles and northern Europe, with the potent cocktail predicted to reach an area close to the UK on Monday. Western areas are likely to be hit by the worst of the storm, with some forecasts indicating winds could be gale force. It means condi...
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Aung San Suu Kyi advised by UN to to meet Rohingyas in Rakhine as well as Cox’s Bazar
26Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Aung San Suu Kyi advised by UN to to meet Rohingyas in Rakhine as well as Cox’s Bazar

    Seven UN experts have joined together to call on the government of Myanmar to stop all violence against the minority Muslim Rohingya community and asked State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi to talk to Rohingya people, reports the UNB. We call on Aung San Suu Kyi to meet the Rohingya personally in Rakhine State as well as in Cox’s Bazar to talk to those who have fled, as well as those who have stayed, as she says the Myanmar Government is interested in doing, the experts were quoted in a statement UNB received from Geneva on Tuesday. They also called on the Myanmar government to halt the ongoing persecution and serious human rights violations which the High Commissioner for Human Rights has described as an apparent textbook example of ethnic cleansing. The call comes a month a...
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Girls must wear hijab as uniform at England’s state funded Islamic schools
25Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Girls must wear hijab as uniform at England’s state funded Islamic schools

    Girls as young as four are being forced to wear the hijab as uniform at state funded Islamic schools, new research has found. More than two in five Islamic schools in England that accept girls require them to wear a hijab as school uniform, according to the research. Some 59 of 142 (42 per cent) of Islamic schools, including 27 primary schools, have a uniform policy which states a head covering is compulsory, the National Secular Society (NSS) said. The body has written to Education Secretary Justine Greening to express its concern over the figures, which also showed eight of the secondary schools and three of the primary schools were state-funded. The research was first reported in the Sunday Times. In the letter, the NSS asks for Muslim girls to be given free choices and...
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Not the sex dolls: Sex robots AI coming to market soon
25Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

Not the sex dolls: Sex robots AI coming to market soon

    There’s a problem with this story: the robot doesn’t exist. Douglas Hines, the man behind Roxxxy TrueCompanion, has been drumming up publicity for his creation ever since he unveiled her to the public at the 2010 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. Even though his website pulsates with throbbing Order Her Now! buttons, no journalist has seen or photographed Roxxxy since 2010, and no one in the surprisingly extensive robot enthusiast community has ever reported owning one. I tried to meet Hines in person many times over the past year while researching a documentary and article on sex robots, and although he was happy to talk over the phone he avoided meeting me when I asked to see Roxxxy in the flesh. Roxxxy, much like the replicants and Stepford Wives of science fic...
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