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Secret code words that will be used when the Queen dies
18Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Secret code words that will be used when the Queen dies

    When the Queen dies a highly detailed plan of how the nation will be told and what happens in the next days and hours will swing into action. It includes a special codeword for the Queen and a detailed plan with everything from her undertakers name to the number of pall bearers and the length of gunfire salute in her honour. Her last hours are likely to be overseen by her senior doctor, gastroenterologist Professor Huw Thomas, who will control access to her room and help decide what information should be made public. According to a report, when she dies it will be Sir Christopher Geidt, the Queen’s private secretary, who will spread the news, first contacting the prime minister. The Queen will be known by the codeword London Bridge and civil servants will say London Bridge...
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Gordon Brown intervenes with third option for Scots
18Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Gordon Brown intervenes with third option for Scots

    Gordon Brown will propose a third option of giving Scotland vast new powers in exchange for remaining in the UK. During a speech in Fife the former PM will suggest giving Holyrood the authority to sign treaties with other European countries and set VAT. He will also call for EU powers to be repatriated to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and the regions not Westminster. Gordon Brown That would give Scots control after Brexit of the £800m they currently contribute to the EU. As Nicola Sturgeon prepares to ramp up her rhetoric at the SNP spring conference, Mr Brown will outline a compromise he believes suits everyone. He will say: With these proposed new powers let us send a message today and I will fight for this in the weeks and months ahead that from now on the deb...
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Trump appears to ignore Merkel request for handshake
18Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Trump appears to ignore Merkel request for handshake

    President Trump on Friday appeared to ignore German Chancellor Angela Merkel's proposal that they shake hands for photographers while meeting in the Oval Office. As members of the press gathered to take photos and video of the two world leaders, Merkel could be heard leaning toward Trump and asking, Do you want to have a handshake? Trump did not shake Merkel's hand, in what some on social media characterized as a rejection of Merkel's request. Trump continued to look straight at the cameras. The Hill Trump appears to ignore Merkel request for handshake But the room was loud, and the president may not have heard Merkel. Trump did shake hands with her when they first entered the White House. Trump has become known for his aggressive handshake style, and a video of him yankin...
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Dhaka-Moscow approve spent nuclear fuel draft deal
18Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Dhaka-Moscow approve spent nuclear fuel draft deal

    Bangladesh and Russia have approved a draft of agreement on spent fuel management for Rooppur nuclear power plant recently. Both the countries have agreed to prepare the final documents for formal signing of the much-talked deal soon, according to a release issued by ROSATOM on Saturday, reports BSS. A Russian delegation comprising Nikolay Spassky, Deputy CEO of State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM and Alexey Ferapontov, Deputy Head of the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia (Rostekhnadzor) visited in the capital. The delegate discussed various issues related to Rooppur NPP construction with Bangladesh including preparation of the intergovernmental agreement on spent fuel management for the Rooppur nuclear power plant. After detai...
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Paris Orly airport shooting: Attacker was radicalised Muslim man known to French intelligence services
18Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Paris Orly airport shooting: Attacker was radicalised Muslim man known to French intelligence services

    A police source says the man shot dead after stealing a soldier's gun at Paris Orly Airport was a radicalised Muslim known to security services. The suspect is believed to have shot a police officer earlier in the day at a checkpoint in northern Paris. The first shooting came at around 7am local time (6am GMT) in Stains, when a man was stopped by police at a security checkpoint. It turned bad and the individual shot at the officers before fleeing, a police source told Reuters This same man a radicalised Muslim known to intelligence services and the justice system then took a Famas (assault weapon) from a soldier at Orly's southern terminal ..before being shot dead by a soldier. The car stopped in Stainswas a Renault Clio, which was later abandoned for a Citroen Picasso fou...
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Theresa May rejects Nicola Sturgeon’s referendum demand
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Theresa May rejects Nicola Sturgeon’s referendum demand

    Theresa May has said now is not the time, for a second Scottish independence referendum, while the government puts all its energies in to negotiating Brexit. Nicola Sturgeon stunned Downing Street on Monday by announcing she would seek to call a vote before Britain leaves the European Union, and suggested it should be held between autumn 2018 and spring 2019. May gave her formal response in a television interview, in which she did completely not rule out a referendum in the future; but rejected Sturgeon’s timing, and suggested if a vote was held it would it would have to take place after Brexit. Theresa May said the UK should be working together, not puling apart. With article 50, which starts the two-year process for leaving the EU, due to be triggered by the end of this ...
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China, Saudi Arabia eye $65 bln in deals as king visits
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

China, Saudi Arabia eye $65 bln in deals as king visits

    Saudi Arabia's King Salman oversaw the signing of deals worth as much as $65 billion on the first day of a visit to Beijing on Thursday, as the world's largest oil exporter looks to cement ties with the world's second-largest economy. The deals included a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between giant state oil firm SaudiAramco and China North Industries Group Corp (Norinco), to look into building refining and chemical plants in China. Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) and Sinopec, which already jointly run a chemical complex in Tinajin, also agreed to develop petrochemical projects in both China and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's octogenarian monarch, who has overseen the launch of an ambitious economic reform plan since his accession two years ago, is on a month-long As...
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News Brief From Bangladesh High Commission London
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

News Brief From Bangladesh High Commission London

President Md. Abdul Hamid has urged authorities to take extra care in planning development initiatives in environmentally delicate low lying haor region, as he wrapped up a three-day visit at Astagram, Kishoreganj on Tuesday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government is making all out efforts to develop the country in a faster pace. She said this to the Brazilian Ambassador Wanja Campos Da Nobrega who paid a farewell call on her at her office. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday donated Tk 1 crore for the treatment of Dr Sabrina Nusrat, wife of Bangladesh Air Force Squadron Leader Md Mahmudul Hasan, from her Relief and Welfare Fund. An Indian official said the Indian Union Cabinet yesterday approved revised MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Bangladesh and India ...
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UK Government running scared of second independence vote: SNP
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

UK Government running scared of second independence vote: SNP

    SNP deputy leader Angus Robertson is to accuse the UK Government of running scared of a second independence referendum. The party's leader in Westminster will also accuse the Conservatives of having a desperate desire to prevent anyone rejecting hard Brexit. It comes as Prime Minister Theresa May said it would it be fundamentally unfair to hold a second Scottish independence referendum in the next two years, as she prepares to outline plans for a more united UK. Mr Robertson is expected to tell the SNP spring conference in Aberdeen that it is for the people of Scotland to decide the country's future. He will say: It is clear from the PM's panicked response to the Scottish Government's decision to, rightly, give people in Scotland a choice over Scotland's future, that the T...
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