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George Michael leaves £10m north London home to his favourite older sister
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

George Michael leaves £10m north London home to his favourite older sister

    George Michael has left his £10 million north London home to his favourite sister, it's been claimed. The pop icon, who passed away on Christmas Day from natural causes, and sister Melanie Panayiotou, 55, are said to have always been very close. And following his death, she has reportedly moved into his Highgate property while she plans his funeral with other family members. The Wham! star's other sister, Yioda, 57, is also believed to be getting a large chunk of his estimated $105 million fortune. A source told The Sun: George was very close to his whole family but he had a particularly special bond with Melanie, who was by his side at the height of his fame. She adores the Highgate house, one of the first he bought. They shared some wonderful times there and it has a spe...
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The world’s heaviest woman loses over 200 pounds with diet changes
12Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

The world’s heaviest woman loses over 200 pounds with diet changes

    A woman weighing almost 1,100 pounds, believed to be the world's largest, was able to lose 210 pounds due to diet changes. Doctors at the Saifee Hospital in Mumbai, India, were surprised by the amount that their patient was able to lose since she arrived in January. Ahmed was dieting in preparation for gastric surgery which took place on Tuesday. According to Times of India, Ahmed lost twice as much as her doctors were expecting ahead of surgery. The life saving procedure of Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy reduced her weight to 900 pounds, and doctor's expect her to lose another 200 within six months. The gastrectemy reduced her stomach size by 15 per cent. Ahmed was born weighing 11 pounds, and was soon diagnosed with elephantiasis, making her bed ridden for much of her l...
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Facebook blocked 87 accounts, pages, links of Bangladesh
12Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Facebook blocked 87 accounts, pages, links of Bangladesh

    State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Division Tarana Halim on Saturday told Parliament that social networking site Facebook authorities have so far blocked 87 Facebook accounts, pages and links of Bangladesh at the request of the government. The government of Bangladesh requested Facebook authorities in the last 18 months to block a total of 196 accounts, pages and links for having contents of violence, religious instigations and other objectionable matters, she said replying to a tabled question from Awami League MP Amina Ahmed (Women Seat-34). Of these, the Facebook authorities blocked 87 accounts, pages and links responding to our requests within 48 hours, Tarana said. In reply to another tabled question from Jatiya Party MP Md Shawkat Chowdhury (Nilphamari-4...
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Imams to be told to preach in English at mosques
12Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Imams to be told to preach in English at mosques

    Imams are to be encouraged to deliver their sermons in English under measures being prepared to rid Britain of hate preaching. The Telegraph has been told that the counter-extremism taskforce is working on the plans amid concern that preaching in foreign languages enforces divisions between Islam and mainstream British society and can foster radicalisation. Ministers have been inspired by some Middle Eastern countries that have begun urging that sermons be published in English online. A senior Government source said: If imams are speaking in another language it makes it far harder to know if radicalisation is taking place. Measures are being prepared for the long-awaited counter-extremism proposals after an initial strategy was published in October 2015. Exact measures are...
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Bangladesh, Pakistan may feel impact of Uttar Pradesh polls results
12Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Bangladesh, Pakistan may feel impact of Uttar Pradesh polls results

    What do the UP election results mean for the Modi government's Pakistan policy? There has been some speculation that the government had been waiting for the UP elections+ to be over to pick up the threads of engagement with Pakistan, which have gone into deep freeze since the Uri attack, reports Times of India. After a massive electoral endorsement in crucial state elections, Modi now appears politically unassailable. This has implications for his foreign policy, because winning elections halfway through a government's term is tricky everywhere, but he seems to have cracked the code. And that will make him a global leader to reckon with, particularly if established democratic leaders are seen to be floundering in elections across the world this year. Within India's immedia...
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Bangladesh’s first two submarines commissioned
12Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Bangladesh’s first two submarines commissioned

    Bangladesh Navy has started its journey as a three-dimensional force as two submarines were commissioned in its fleet for the first time on Sunday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally commissioned the twin submarines named ‘Nabajatra’ and ‘Joyjatra’ in the navy at a colourful ceremony in the Chittagong Naval Berth this noon. She handed over the ‘commissioning formans’ to the commanding officers of the submarines procured from China and formally unveiled their name plaques as per the rules of the navy. ‘With the induction of the submarines, Bangladesh Navy has started its fresh journey with a new shape and strength alongside the progress of the country,’ Sheikh Hasina told the commissioning function of two submarines. The prime minister said a few countries of the world o...
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WikiLeaks revelations put CIA on back foot
11Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

WikiLeaks revelations put CIA on back foot

    Another major leak of top secret materials has again put America’s top spies in hot water while delivering a coup for anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. The group left the Central Intelligence Agency heavily bruised with the publication Tuesday of nearly 9,000 documents it said were only part of a huge trove of records, plans and malware code in its possession purportedly the entire CIA hacking arsenal. Adding insult to injury, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange scolded the agency as extremely careless to have lost control of the materials WikiLeaks said they got access to it via the circle of private contractors to US intelligence. This is a historic act of devastating incompetence, to have created such an arsenal and then stored it all in one place, Assange said. President...
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Trump Demands 46 U.S. Attorneys Quit, Including Bharara
11Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Trump Demands 46 U.S. Attorneys Quit, Including Bharara

    The Trump administration moved on Friday to sweep away most of the remaining vestiges of Obama administration prosecutors at the Justice Department, ordering 46 holdover United States attorneys to tender their resignations immediately including Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan. The firings were a surprise especially for Mr. Bharara, who has a reputation for prosecuting public corruption cases. In November, Mr. Bharara met with then President-elect Donald J. Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan and told reporters afterward that both Mr. Trump and Jeff Sessions, who is now the attorney general, had asked him about staying on, which the prosecutor said he expected to do. But on Friday, Mr. Bharara was among federal prosecutors who received a call from Dana ...
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Bangladesh Commerce Minister attended the Commonwealth Trade Ministers Meeting
11Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Bangladesh Commerce Minister attended the Commonwealth Trade Ministers Meeting

Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council jointly organised a two-day long Commonwealth Trade Ministers’ meeting in London, UK from 9-10 March 2017. The meeting was attended by 37 Commonwealth Trade Ministers, delegates and business organisations of the Commonwealth member countries. A three member Bangladesh delegation headed by HE Mr. Tofail Ahmed, Hon’ble Commerce Minister of Bangladesh attended the meeting. The other two delegations include HE Mr. Nazmul Quaunine, High Commissioner and Mrs Sharifa Khan, Commercial Counsellor of Bangladesh High Commission, London. At the inauguration session of the meeting on 9 March, Lord Marland, Chairman of Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council welcome the delegates and mentioned that free trade is important...
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Fighter jets escort Air India passenger flight into Heathrow Airport
11Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Fighter jets escort Air India passenger flight into Heathrow Airport

    A plane carrying hundreds of passengers was escorted into Heathrow airport by German and Belgian fighter jets after it went off radar over Europe. Fighter jets were scrambled after the Air India plane lost contact with air traffic control as it flew over Hungary at around 8.15am on Friday. The UK-bound flight was on its way back from Gujarat in India and was passing over Eastern Europe when the loss of radio contact sparked fears it could have been hijacked. Hungarian, German and Belgian pilots flew fighter jets alongside the 787 Dreamliner plane, which was carrying 231 passengers, for two hours as it passed over Europe. The fault on the plane was fixed by the time the plane reached Britain, the Mail Online reported. By the time the plane was ready to land in Heathrow it i...
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