Friday, October 9

Tag: Featured

Hajj pilgrims to be given e-bracelets
1Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, ENGLISH

Hajj pilgrims to be given e-bracelets

    Saudi Arabia is to issue electronic bracelets to pilgrims travelling to Mecca for this year's Hajj, the world's largest Islamic gathering. It follows a stampede last year in which more than 750 people are believed to have died, with 900 injured. The bracelets will contain personal and medical information to help authorities care for and identify people, according to the Saudi Press Agency. Nearly 1,000 new surveillance cameras have also been installed. The ID bracelets will contain crucial information such as passport numbers and addresses but will also offer information to worshippers, such as timings of prayers and a multi-lingual help desk to guide non-Arabic speakers around the event. They will be water-resistant and connected to GPS. The information can be accessed by...
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The Pound is Why Britain Will Survive Brexit
30Jun By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

The Pound is Why Britain Will Survive Brexit

    Comedian/civics instructor John Oliver has devoted a couple of segments to the dire effects to come, while Lindsay Lohan made her “Remain” case on Twitter. More conventional economic thinkers have outlined their disagreement with Brexit results, and economist Tim Hardford sounds downright heartbroken on a recent episode of NPR’s Planet Money podcast. Economist Intelligence Unit’s Alex White predicts a serious economic slowdown in the U.K. next year. The markets, meanwhile, are jumping all over the place. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped about 900 points in the two days following the Brexit vote, only to rebound more than 500 points Tuesday and Wednesday. The Stoxx Europe 600 is up almost 3%, after a few disastrous days, while London’s FTSE gained 4% after dropping ...
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Fears for morbidly obese boy, aged 10
30Jun By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Fears for morbidly obese boy, aged 10

    Arya, from the village of Cipurwasari in the Arawang Regency, weighs 192kg – approximately 30 stone. His ballooning weight has left him unable to walk, forcing him to stop attending school. He has taken to wearing a sarong after his parents were no longer able to find clothes that fit him. According to local reports, people have been travelling from nearby villages to view the boy dubbed “the world’s fattest child”. During Ramadan, Rokayah said, Arya has been fasting for the first half of each day like many children his age. His attempts to fast until sunset were abandoned early in the holy month when he started experiencing stomach pains.
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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un gets new top post
30Jun By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un gets new top post

    North Korea has created a new, supreme governing commission with leader Kim Jong-Un as its chairman, underlining the 33-year-old's absolute control over every aspect of state policy in the isolated, nuclear-armed nation. The country's legislative body, the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), unanimously voted Kim as head of the State Affairs Commission on Wednesday, the North's official KCNA news agency said. The new agency replaces the National Defence Commission as the country's highest branch of government and supreme policymaking organisation. Nominating Kim for the post, SPA president Kim Yong-Nam said it was the "unshakable faith and unswerving will of all service personnel and people of the country to uphold Kim Jong-Un ... at the top post of the DPRK". DPRK is the off...
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Labour MPs go to police over death threats after refusal to back Jeremy Corbyn
30Jun By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Labour MPs go to police over death threats after refusal to back Jeremy Corbyn

    Labour MPs have been forced to call in the police over death threats in the last 48 hours after they refused to back Jeremy Corbyn, The Telegraph has learnt. Vicky Foxcroft, a Labour whip, received a call to her constituency office which said: “If she doesn’t support Corbyn I will come down to the office and kick the f*** out of you.” Police officers had to rush her office, close the shutters and attempt to trace the call after the man said he was on his way and hung up. Another MP who resigned over Mr Corbyn’s leadership has received an email naming their child and threatening to kill them. Police have been passed the message and are now investigating. Lucy Powell, the former shadow education secretary, received a message telling her to kill herself after announcing she w...
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Will UK tourists need a visa to visit the EU after Brexit?
30Jun By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Will UK tourists need a visa to visit the EU after Brexit?

    One of the myriad of troubling questions posed by the prospect of leaving the European Union is how travel will work in a post-Brexit Europe. Will UK tourists need a new passport – and more importantly, if freedom of movement isn't part of a future deal with the EU, will they need a visa to visit popular destinations such as France, Spain and Italy? In the meantime, there will be no changes to the way we travel around the continent. Until the two-year negotiation period is over – and it won't begin until Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty is triggered – free movement will continue as normal. The European Health Insurance cards also remain valid. Even after leaving terms are finalised, there is no guarantee that freedom of movement between the UK and EU member states will come...
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Turkish Opposition attacks Erdoğan for signing deal with Israel
29Jun By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Turkish Opposition attacks Erdoğan for signing deal with Israel

    The leaders of political parties in the Turkish Opposition were quick to criticize President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, after he signed the reconciliation agreement with Israel. “Are you with your country, with justice or with those Israeli soldiers who killed [Turkish citizens]?” asked the senior level Opposition members. The Turkish newspaper Sabah reported today (Wednesday) that the Turkish Opposition attacked President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for signing the reconciliation agreement with Israel. The heads of the political parties in the Opposition asked Erdoğan: “Are you with your country, with justice or with those Israeli soldiers who killed [Turkish citizens]?” Head of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu slammed the President and accused him of favoring t...
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Blind mystic who predicted 9/11, ISIS and Boxing Day tsunami also foretold Britain quitting the EU
29Jun By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Blind mystic who predicted 9/11, ISIS and Boxing Day tsunami also foretold Britain quitting the EU

    Prophetess Baba Vanga - who died in 1996 aged 85 - was known as the 'Nostradamus from the Balkans'. The Bulgarian is revered in Russia for her 85% success rate when it comes to telling the future - with millions convinced that she possessed paranormal abilities. Now it transpires the clairvoyant made a staggering prophecy on Europe which theorists are linking to Brexit . In fact Baba predicted that Europe as we know it will “cease to exist” by the end of 2016. Moreover she claimed the continent will be left “almost empty” - and be turned into a “wasteland almost entirely devoid of any form of life”. Baba's believers also fear her prediction of a “great Muslim war” and an invasion of Europe by Muslim extremists - stemming from the Arab Spring in 2010 - and conflict in Syria...
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Capital of India Dhaka
29Jun By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Capital of India Dhaka

    The name of their country is Bangladesh and its capital Dhaka- this is what a primary school student in India replied when they were asked this very simple question. The student in question is from Kashiara-Raipur high school in Burdwan, a district in West Bengal, according to a report published in Anandabazar Patrika. The shocking answers came when a team visited schools in the district to inspect the standard of education especially general knowledge among the students, reports the Anandabazar Patrika. The team first visited Kuchut primary school in Memari, where students of class-4 were asked to write “I live in West Bengal.” While some managed to write until “I live in,” most failed to write West Bengal-the very district they live in! In another nearby school, a studen...
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36 dead in Istanbul Ataturk airport attack
29Jun By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

36 dead in Istanbul Ataturk airport attack

    A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk international airport has killed 36 people and injured about 90. Three attackers opened fire near an entry point to the terminal and blew themselves up after police fired at them, officials say. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said early signs suggested the so-called Islamic State was behind the attack. Recent bombings in Turkey have been linked to either IS or Kurdish separatists. Tuesday's attack looks like a major co-ordinated assault, says the BBC's Mark Lowen. Ataturk airport was long seen as a vulnerable target, our Turkey correspondent adds, reporting from a plane stuck on the tarmac in Istanbul. There are X-ray scanners at the entrance to the terminal but security checks for cars are limited.Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...
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