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One person taken to hospital after Manchester City fire fight
31Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

One person taken to hospital after Manchester City fire fight

    One person has been taken to hospital after a fierce fire broke out in an apartment block in the Northern Quarter. Images taken at the scene show balconies and flats on a number of floors clearly alight. Emergency services were scrambled to Joiner Street in Manchester city centre, near Afflecks Palace and The Unicorn Pub off Church Street, at around 4.15pm on Saturday. Greater Manchester Fire Service said 12 engines were sent to the 12 storey building, believed to be the Lighthouse ApartHotel. A spokesman said the fire had spread to ‘multiple floors’ but the situation was brought under control. One person was taken to hospital for treatment after inhaling smoke. No further update on their condition has been provided. Vincent Cole According to reports at the scen...
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In 2017, the most ordered food item Chicken Biryani
30Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

In 2017, the most ordered food item Chicken Biryani

    India has witnessed a growing appetite for both domestic and international cuisine in 2017 but majority of them stayed indigenous as desi dishes topped the list of most ordered food items online and Chicken biryani topped the list. According to the order analysis from food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy for 2017, chicken biryani continues to rule the Indian plate. The order analysis was done for seven cities—Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai and Kolkata. According to Swiggy’s order analysis, Masala Dosa, Butter Naan, Tandoori Roti and Paneer Butter Masala rounded off the top five most ordered items of 2017. While Pizzas did not rank amongst the top five most ordered items, it was the most searched. In fact, Indians have searched for it o...
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New Year’s Eve rail strike to hit UK’s busiest station
30Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

New Year’s Eve rail strike to hit UK’s busiest station

    The UK's busiest train station will be hit by delays and cancellations on New Year's Eve due to another round of strikes. The long-running dispute over the role of guards on trains will impact South Western Railway (SWR) services to and from London Waterloo on Sunday, with members of the Rail, Union and Transport (RMT) union set to walk out for 24 hours. A railway station RMT general secretary Mick Cash said it was impossible to negotiate a resolution because the Government's position has caused chaos and confusion in the rail industry. Mr Cash added: It's the continuing failure of the train companies and their political puppet masters in government to make any attempt whatsoever to resolve the range of separate disputes over rail safety that has led us to call thi...
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Egypt sentences ex President Mursi: 19 others to three years in jail for insulting judiciary
30Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, Featured

Egypt sentences ex President Mursi: 19 others to three years in jail for insulting judiciary

    A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday, and fined him 2 million Egyptian pounds ($112,700) on charges of insulting the judiciary. Others tried by the court in the same case including leading Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and lawmaker and television presenter Tawfik Okasha were instead given fines ranging from 30,000 to 1 million Egyptian pounds. The verdicts can still be appealed. Mursi, democratically elected after Egypt’s 2011 revolution, was overthrown in mid-2013 by then-general Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, now the president, following mass protests against his rule. He was immediately arrested and is now serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of inciting the killing o...
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In Saudi Crackdown: There’s More Than Alwaleed’s Empire at Stake
30Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, Featured

In Saudi Crackdown: There’s More Than Alwaleed’s Empire at Stake

    The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is about to enter a crucial few months that will show his true motives and the scope of his power. Almost two months into it, Saudi Arabia's crackdown on corruption is yielding at least some of the $100 billion the kingdom is targeting. Dozens of former officials and businessmen have exchanged part of their wealth for freedom. But in the increasingly drawn-out case of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the public face of the Saudi royal family to many foreign executives and investors, there's more at stake than taking over his global business empire and talks on a settlement have hit an impasse. The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is about to enter a crucial few months that will show his true motives and the scope of hi...
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JSC, JDC exams pass rate falls by 9.41pc
30Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, Featured

JSC, JDC exams pass rate falls by 9.41pc

    A total of 83.65 per cent students came out successful in this year’s Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dhakil Certificate (JDC) examinations, which is 9.41 pc lower than that of the previous year. A total 1,91,628 students secured highest GPA-5 this year which was 247,588 in 2016. Some 1,84,397 JSC students obtained GPA 5 while 7,231 JDC students got the highest grade. The pass rate in the JSC exam alone is 83.10 pc while that in the JDC is 86.80pc. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid handed over the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Ganabhaban around 12pm on Saturday, reports the UNB. The JSC and JDC examinations were held between November 1 and 18. A total of 24, 68,820 students from 28,621 educational institutions appeared in this year’...
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Fewer Met Police will be working during London’s New Year’s Eve celebrations
29Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Fewer Met Police will be working during London’s New Year’s Eve celebrations

    Fewer Metropolitan Police officers will be working during London’s New Year’s Eve celebrations, Scotland Yard confirmed, despite four terror attacks in the capital during 2017. Superintendent Nick Aldworth said the police resources would be proportionate and appropriate, and that those flocking to the sold-out fireworks display on the banks of the Thames would be safe. It comes at a time when police officer numbers across the country are at their lowest level for 30 years, according to the latest Home Office figures, with the current UK terror threat level set at severe. Mr Aldworth said: We are providing a proportionate number of officers based on the threat, number of people coming and the secure environment we’ve been able to build. We have fewer officers polic...
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Her Majesty’s fury at Margaret Thatcher for damaging the Commonwealth revealed
29Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Her Majesty’s fury at Margaret Thatcher for damaging the Commonwealth revealed

    Queen Elizabeth II attends the Commissioning Ceremony of HMS Queen Elizabeth at HM Naval Base.  Margaret Thatcher enraged the Queen by defying Commonwealth leaders in a vote over apartheid, newly declassified files reveal. Her Majesty was so furious that she considered scrapping her weekly audience with the prime minister, a Buckingham Palace source told a diplomat. The fallout between the two leaders occurred at a Commonwealth conference in 1987. Files from the National Archives of Ireland show that the former Tory PM sparked international anger after refusing to back tighter sanctions against South Africa. The move had been agreed by 47 leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, but Mrs Thatcher refused, thwarting efforts to end...
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Bitcoin falls $1,000 after South Korea promises crackdown on trading
29Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Extras, Featured

Bitcoin falls $1,000 after South Korea promises crackdown on trading

    Bitcoin plunged by more than $1,000 on Thursday after South Korea said it was planning a crackdown on trading in the digital currency in the latest of a string of warnings for investors. In a further illustration of bitcoin’s volatility, it dropped to around $13,500 after trading at about $15,400 on Wednesday. The cryptocurrency has surged in value this year by more than 900%, becoming one of the biggest stories in finance amid a slew of warnings of a pending market crash, hitting a record high of almost $20,000 earlier this month. South Korea, which is one of the biggest markets in the world for bitcoin, said it was preparing a ban on opening anonymous cryptocurrency accounts and new legislation to enable regulators to close coin exchanges if they felt there was a ...
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Taiwan forced to destroy around 200,000 passports an image of a US airport
29Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, Featured

Taiwan forced to destroy around 200,000 passports an image of a US airport

    Taiwan has been forced to destroy around 200,000 passports after designers accidentally used an image of Washington Dulles International Airport instead of its own Taoyuan International. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mofa) admitted on Tuesday that it would need to recall 285 passports already issued and pulp the remainder. The error came to light after someone on Facebook noticed that the outline of an airport on the document’s pages, intended to be the airport that serves the capital, Taipei, was in fact Dulles International, DC’s bustling hub. The first person to spot the blunder captioned the photo as the “51st state of America”, before the image was widely shared on Weibo, a microblogging site in China. Mofa initially denied the allegation, adding that the ...
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