Monday, October 5

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Prince Harry will be engaged with Meghan by the end of summer
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Prince Harry will be engaged with Meghan by the end of summer

    Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Prince Harry is on the verge of proposing to his girlfriend Meghan Markle, according to a pal of the royal. A source tells Us Weekly that Harry will likely propose near the anniversary of their first date. They will be engaged by the end of summer, the source said. An engagement wouldn't be a complete surprise to the Suits actress. They have spoken candidly about their future. They see a life together, the source told the mag. While she was on a production break from Suits, Harry and Meghan basically lived together at his Kensington Palace apartment. In fact, the mag said that guards at the Palace already just wave her in as if she lives there permanently. Meghan feels a move to London is inevitable, the source said. It's not like Harry can u...
Two Bangladeshis killed in KSA road crash
Arab world, ENGLISH

Two Bangladeshis killed in KSA road crash

    Two Bangladeshis were killed and another injured in a road accident at the Hayil province of Saudi Arabia on local time Wednesday night. The deceased are Abul Khayer, a resident of Raipur upazila in Lakshmipur, and Dulal Hossain, a resident of Sonaimuri upazila in Noakhali. Identity of the injured could not be known yet. It has been known that Dulal Hossain was travelling from Hayil along with two other passengers, while the accident occurred in Dilhan area of Tabuq at about KSA time 10:45pm and left two dead on the spot. However, the reason behind the accident could not be known.
News brief from Bangladesh High Commission London
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

News brief from Bangladesh High Commission London

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said various social safety net programmes were undertaken to lift the poor people from the poverty line. The Prime Minister said this when newly appointed High Commissioner of Brunei Darussalam Hajah Masurai Binti Haji Masri called on the PM at her Jatiya Sangsad office here yesterday evening. The High Commissioner of Brunei said Bangladeshi expatriates are very hard-working. The National Economic Council (NEC) yesterday approved an overall Revised Annual Development Program (RADP) outlay of Tk 1,19,296 crore for the current fiscal year (FY17), down from the original overall ADP size of Tk 1,23,345 crore. The approval came from the NEC meeting held at the NEC conference room in the city with its Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chai...
Cancer surgeon accused of GBH after carrying out completely unnecessary breast operations to earn extra money
ENGLISH, Life Style

Cancer surgeon accused of GBH after carrying out completely unnecessary breast operations to earn extra money

    A leading surgeon accused of causing grievous bodily harm to 10 patients may have carried out a series of completely unnecessary breast operations to earn extra money, a court has heard. Ian Paterson lied to his alleged victims, exaggerating or quite simply inventing risk of cancer, then often claimed payments for more expensive procedures. And he did so for obscure motives which may have included a desire to earn extra money, a jury of seven men and five women at Nottingham Crown Court was told. His alleged victims included a 25-year-old woman who was left devastated when told unnecessary operations had profoundly affected her ability to breastfeed and a 42-year-old man who had a double mastectomy after being told he was "on the road to cancer" despite no evidence of mali...
Child marriage law sparks criticism
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Child marriage law sparks criticism

    Rights groups on Tuesday criticised a controversial new child marriage law in Bangladesh which allows children as young as 14 to be married off by their parents. Parliament passed the Child Marriage Restraint Act on Monday night, replacing a law dating back to the British colonial period. The new law keeps the minimum marriageable age for males at 21 and for females at 18 but relaxes the age bar for ‘special circumstances’ including for girls who elope, are raped or bear children out of wedlock. Rights groups have criticised the law, saying it would jeopardise the gains Bangladesh has made in cutting the levels of child marriage and improving the health of women and children. The biggest concern is the law has not set any minimum marriage age for special circumstances, mea...
Uber boss ashamed after argument with driver
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Uber boss ashamed after argument with driver

    The chief executive of Uber has apologised after video emerged of him getting into an ill-tempered argument with one of the company's drivers about falling pay rates. Travis Kalanick has admitted he needs to grow up and get help after the embarrassing dashcam footage showed him angrily dismissing the driver's concerns. The businessman, who had been travelling with two women, was coming to the end of his Uber journey when driver Fawzi Kamel asked him why the ride-hailing app has slashed the prices customers pay for every mile they travel. People are not trusting you anymore … I lost $97,000 (£78,370) because of you. I'm bankrupt because of you, Mr Kamel had said. Mr Kalanick dismissed the driver's concerns as "bulls***", and told him: Some people don't like to take responsi...
Theresa May set for defeat in House of Lords over rights of EU citizens
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Theresa May set for defeat in House of Lords over rights of EU citizens

    Theresa May's Conservative government faces defeat in the House of Lords after it refused to secure the rights of EU citizens living in the UK. The Lords wanted a clause in the bill to trigger Article 50 to ensure that Europeans already in the UK will have the same rights to live and work here after Brexit. However, after Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the Government would be unable to go further than give the verbal assurances already given, a majority of peers are ready to back a Labour amendment to ensure rights are protected within the first three months of Brexit being triggered. In a last-ditch effort to convince peers not to back the amendment, Rudd has penned a letter to the House of Lords in which she outlined that the Government plans to treat EU citizens with th...
Travel chaos mounts as transport strike in Bangladesh: Minister urges transport owners, workers to operate their vehicles
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Travel chaos mounts as transport strike in Bangladesh: Minister urges transport owners, workers to operate their vehicles

    The countrywide indefinite transport strike, enforced by Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation, protesting the life term imprisonment of a bus driver in a case filed for a road accident that killed five people, including noted filmmaker Tareque Masud and cinematographer Mishuk Munier, entered the second day on Wednesday. In the capital, no inter‐district bus left Gabtoli, Mohakhali or Sayedabad bus terminals in the morning while very few buses were seen plying the road throughout the city. The commuters, especially the SSC examinees, suffered badly in the morning for lack of adequate public transports. They complained that rickshaws and CNG‐run auto‐rickshaw drivers charged them excessive fares, taking advantage of the situation. Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Fe...
Police chief calls for counselling and rehab for lower level paedophiles
ENGLISH, London

Police chief calls for counselling and rehab for lower level paedophiles

    The National Police Chiefs Council lead for child protection A leading child protection officer has suggested paedophiles who view indecent images should not be given criminal sanctions unless they pose a physical threat to children, according to The Times. Lower level offenders should be given counselling and rehabilitation and police should focus on the most dangerous paedophiles with access to children and those looking at the most serious images, Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for child protection, is reported to have said. Offenders who view online images should avoid jail only if they have been risk-assessed and shown to not have the potential to be in contact with children, he is reported to have told the newspaper. The Times quoted Mr Ba...
Heathrow Airport tops country for incredibly dangerous laser attacks on aircraft
ENGLISH, London

Heathrow Airport tops country for incredibly dangerous laser attacks on aircraft

    Aircraft using Heathrow Airport saw almost twice as many incredibly dangerous laser attacks than any other UK airport last year, new figures show. Pilots taking off or landing at the west London hub suffered 151 incidents in 2016. This is up from 121 during the previous year, an increase of a quarter, according to aviation regulator the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The second most targeted airport was Glasgow Airport, which saw laser attacks almost double to 83 in 2016. Former RAF and British Airways pilot Steve Landells warned that shining a laser at an aircraft is "incredibly dangerous". Mr Landells, flight safety specialist at pilots' association Balpa, said: "The power of these devices is increasing and we're concerned that, if left to escalate without significant i...