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May to resign once Brexit agreed
27Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

May to resign once Brexit agreed

    Theresa May has told Conservative MPs at a closed meeting that she will step aside as prime minister after she has delivered Brexit. She pledged to quit before the next stage of negotiations with the EU, but only if Tories who have so far refused to back her deal finally fall into line. The emotional announcement at the private gathering of Conservative MPs means that if her deal is approved, it would be a new prime minister that would decide how to approach talks on the UK’s future relations with the EU. It comes as Ms May desperately tries to gather enough votes from rebel Tories and the Northern Irish DUP, to try and pass her deal so that the UK can leave the EU on 22 May. However, reports already have already begun to emerge that if Ms May’s deal is passed, th...
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Sick racist targets Indian takeaway in Solihull
26Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Sick racist targets Indian takeaway in Solihull

    Vile racist abuse has been tagged onto a popular Indian takeaway, leaving the owner questioning: Where am I living now? Distraught Muzibur Rahman, who runs Saffron Indian Takeaway in Solihull , says he feels victimised and incredibly hurt. The word "P***" was emblazoned on the shutters of the longstanding curry house in huge black graffiti. Mr Rahman first opened up Saffron Indian Takeaway in Damsen Lane back in 1995, setting up in Solihull 24 years ago. "Well, I'm devastated," he said. "I can't really express my feelings. This is something very unusual that has happened. "In a long time we have been in Solihull, this kind of thing has never happened before. "I've got lots of customers, friendly people living here and they use us regularly. Nobody said nothing ...
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Cabinet prepares for snap election
26Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Cabinet prepares for snap election

    Brexit chaos could plunge Britain into a general election in weeks, ministers said yesterday after rebel MPs voted to seize control of Brexit from the embattled Prime Minister. Three pro-EU ministers quit the Government to back a Commons amendment enabling MPs to take control of Commons business to stage a series of 'indicative votes' on alternatives to the Prime Minister's deal tomorrow. They were among 30 Conservative MPs to defy the whips and support the cross-party amendment which was passed by 392 to 302 - a majority of 27 - in another humiliating reverse for Theresa May. However, Mrs May has warned the government is not bound to honour the result of the indicative votes as they 'could lead to an outcome that is unnegotiable with the EU'. Tuesday had been tou...
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EU Completes no deal preparations
25Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

EU Completes no deal preparations

    Brussels says it has completed its preparations for a no-deal Brexit and warned that it is increasingly likely that the UK will crash out. In a statement released on Monday the European Commission said preparedness and contingency work, which it has been conducting since December 2017, was now finished. The announcement comes days after EU leaders agreed to a request by Theresa May to extend the UK’s Brexit date though not by as long as she had asked for. Article 50 has now been extended until April 12, meaning the UK will crash out without a deal if it does not pass the withdrawal agreement by then, secure a further extension, or unilaterally cancel the Brexit process. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Commission said: “While the European Union continues to ...
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Egg boy speaks out for first time
25Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Australia, Featured

Egg boy speaks out for first time

    The egging, captured on video, raced through social media. In the days since, thousands of people around the world have embraced Mr. Connolly’s actions, and the teenager has been offered concert tickets for life, captured in street art, and honored by basketball players and talk show hosts. Mr. Anning has refused to apologize for his comments and said the teenager deserved what he got. The Australian teenager known as Egg Boy has spoken publicly to the media for the first time since he cracked an egg on a far-right politician’s head, becoming an international symbol against bigotry in the process. I understand what I did was not the right thing to do, Will Connolly, 17, said in an interview with Channel 10, an Australian television channel expected to air on Monday...
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May faces cabinet coup within days
24Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

May faces cabinet coup within days

    Theresa May has days left in Downing Street amid a cabinet coup to oust her, according to several reports. Speculation the prime minister will be ousted is at fever pitch, with The Sunday Times reporting 11 cabinet ministers had told them they want Mrs May to move aside and make way for a replacement. Her de facto deputy David Lidington has been named as her potential caretaker replacement, while several are said to be ready to throw their weight behind Environment Secretary Michael Gove. Her former policy adviser George Freeman tweeted it was all over for the PM, adding: She's done her best. But across the country you can see the anger. Everyone feels betrayed. Government's gridlocked. Trust in democracy collapsing. This can't go on. We need a new PM who can reac...
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The Boeing 737 Max crisis goes way beyond software
23Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

The Boeing 737 Max crisis goes way beyond software

      There is no small complexity in the task of carrying hundreds of people through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. More than 100,000 airliners take off and land each day, but two deadly air crashes in six months have shocked passengers, regulators, and industry alike. Crashes of Boeing’s 737 Max in Indonesia and Ethiopia offer a window into all that complexity. Boeing and its CEO Dennis Muilenburg want the story to be simple: a software problem that can be fixed with a quick patch. But that doesn’t capture the mistakes made by Boeing and American aviation regulators in certifying the plane to carry passengers. By now, you may well have heard of MCAS, software that automatically pitches 737 Maxes downward to avoid stalling in mid-air. It exists only b...
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Brexit petition hits 4 million names
23Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Brexit petition hits 4 million names

    An online petition demanding that Article 50 is revoked and the UK stays in the EU has now hit four million signatures. The petition, which has attracted an influx of signatories in recent days, reached the four million mark shortly after 9am on Saturday. Backed by dozens of high profile celebrities, it gained support in the wake of Theresa May's speech on Wednesday night, even crashing the Parliament website several times, and Revoke Article 50 began trending on Twitter. Should it pass the 4.2 million mark, it will be the most popular petition submitted to the Parliament website. The most popular is currently a 2016 petition calling for a second EU referendum should the winning vote and turnout not reach a certain threshold. By contrast, the most popular pro-Bre...
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EU put MPs in driving seat for Brexit
22Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

EU put MPs in driving seat for Brexit

    Now those same MPs are in the driving seat. There was an embryonic sliver of almost regret from the PM over her frustration with the delay in that extraordinary statement. At times it was difficult to imagine that the prime minister who presented her delay compromise to the media in Brussels was the same one who had a day previously launched an uncompromising attack on the Commons for blocking her deal, and promised no lengthy delay. But here in Brussels after a day of behind-closed-doors drama, the PM had to accept a path to a long delay she had ruled out the day before, and that a short delay would be far shorter than she had hoped. Because this was the EU itself setting the terms and calendar of the Article 50 extension. The image of the day was the representat...
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NHS could be hit with more lawsuits as waiting lists grow
22Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

NHS could be hit with more lawsuits as waiting lists grow

    Around 40% of NHS compensation claims are already due to delays in treatment or diagnosis, but this could increase if people continue to be left on long waiting lists, according to a report published by the National Audit Office (NAO). Long waiting lists for treatment could see the number of angry patients suing the NHS rise significantly, new research suggests. Sir Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said the NHS had made good progress in increasing the number of urgent cancer referrals but that more must be done to tackle the increasing number of patients on non-urgent waiting lists. Between March 2013 and November 2018, the waiting list grew from 2.7 million to 4.2 million. nder current health service targets, 92% of patients with non-urgent conditions such a those n...
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