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1 London: the most wanted addresses of the capital’s super-rich
14May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

1 London: the most wanted addresses of the capital’s super-rich

    The most wanted addresses of the capital's super-rich At 3am, One Hyde Park’s luxury apartments are wide awake. The revolving doors swish with bleary-eyed international traders returning home to do laps in the luxurious 22-metre basement pool before bed. High-rollers bundle in from an evening at one of Knightsbridge’s casinos, before sinking into plush seats at the downstairs cinema, while a concierge scuttles through the tunnel connecting the building with the five-star neighbouring Mandarin Oriental, fetching a burger for one of the apartments above. This is what it’s like to live at the top. But it’s not simply the 24-hour, no-expense-spared treatment at One Hyde Park for which the building’s residents are forking out upwards of £14,500 a week. Living at number ‘one’ ha...
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Divine intervention? Indian Hindus ask gods to help Trump
14May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Divine intervention? Indian Hindus ask gods to help Trump

    Donald Trump may find it tough to get Republican leaders behind his campaign, but he's got some faraway fans trying to get the gods on his side. Around a dozen members of a right-wing Indian Hindu group lit a ritual fire and chanted mantras Wednesday asking the Hindu gods to help Trump win the US presidential election. While Trump has dominated the Republican primary race to decide the party's candidate for the November election, his calls for temporarily banning Muslims from America and cracking down on extremist groups abroad have earned him some fans in India. "The whole world is screaming against Islamic terrorism, and even India is not safe from it," said Vishnu Gupta, founder of the Hindu Sena nationalist group. "Only Donald Trump can save humanity." Members of the g...
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Brexit Last Thing Economy Needs: Warns PM
14May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Brexit Last Thing Economy Needs: Warns PM

    David Cameron has warned voters that leaving the EU was the "last thing the economy needs" and would be a vote for recession. Speaking at an event in his own Witney constituency in Oxfordshire, the Prime Minister said that "economic security" was the single most important thing for people to consider. He said none of the arguments for Brexit were "able to counter the immediate and sustained hit that we would suffer to our economy" if the UK left the EU. Addressing voters on the biggest day of campaigning yet, dubbed Super Saturday, Mr Cameron said: "If we vote to leave on 23 June we will be voting for higher prices, we will be voting for fewer jobs, we will be voting for lower growth, we will be voting potentially for a recession. That is the last thing our economy needs."...
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Hackers leak data of 3 private Bangladesh banks
14May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Hackers leak data of 3 private Bangladesh banks

    A Turkish hacking group has stolen data of five South Asian banks, including three in Bangladesh. The other two banks are located in Nepal. US-based cyber security website databreachtoday.com, in a report yesterday, said the stolen data was ‘apparently posted online’ on May 10 by Turkish group Bozkurtlar. Meanwhile, saying that the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank was "part of a wider and highly adaptive campaign targeting banks," SWIFT, which oversees the financial messaging network that underpins global money transfers, yesterday warned its customers that “at least one Vietnamese bank was also breached by the same attackers”. The Bangladeshi banks whose data have been posted online are Dutch-Bangla Bank, The City Bank, and Trust Bank run by Army Welfare Trust. S...
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Twice as many private renters being evicted as when David Cameron first came to power
13May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Twice as many private renters being evicted as when David Cameron first came to power

    Around double the number of private tenants are been being evicted from their homes now compared to when David Cameron first came to power, new figures show. A total of 22,376 private renting households in England were evicted in the last 12 months – twice as many as in the same period five years ago. The numbers, which are drawn from Ministry of Justice statistics on repossessions by county court bailiffs, as well as landlords using the accelerated procedure, come as the House of Lords tries to block the Government’s new Housing Bill, which some peers say will lead to an even bigger shortage of affordable homes in Britain. Campbell Robb, chief executive of the housing charity Shelter, said the Government’s forthcoming Bill – which contains measures to sell off more social...
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Maid in Bangladesh
13May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Maid in Bangladesh

Fayeka Zabeen Siddiqua: This year when we observed yet another May Day in Bangladesh, remembering the contributions of millions of workers who shed their blood and sweat for a meager pay, did we make sure that the maid who works for us gets a day off? May Day, like any other national holiday, probably made no difference in their lives. Because if they go on a holiday, who is going to ensure that we have a hassle-free, relaxed weekend with the family? In a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the cabinet gave its stamp of approval to the Domestic Help Protection and Welfare Policy. This surely bears good news for these workers as well as their employers. This move suggests that domestic work will be recognised as a profession under the Labour Act while women domestic workers wil...
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SWIFT says second bank hit by malware attack
13May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Extras

SWIFT says second bank hit by malware attack

    SWIFT, the global financial messaging network that banks use to move billions of dollars every day, warned on Thursday of a second malware attack similar to the one that led to February's $81 million cyberheist at the Bangladesh central bank. The second case targeted a commercial bank, SWIFT spokeswoman Natasha de Teran said, without naming it. SWIFT said in a statement that the attackers exhibited a "deep and sophisticated knowledge of specific operational controls" at targeted banks and may have been aided by "malicious insiders or cyber attacks, or a combination of both." The organization, a Belgian co-operative owned by member banks, said that forensic experts believe the second case showed that the Bangladesh heist "was not a single occurrence, but part of a wider and...
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Diplomatic row with Pakistan, Turkey
13May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Diplomatic row with Pakistan, Turkey

    Diplomatic tension has flared up between Bangladesh and two other Muslim countries following Wednesday’s execution of war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami. Turkey yesterday recalled its ambassador to Bangladesh Devrim Ozturk for consultations after strongly protesting the execution. However, some international news agencies, quoting the country’s president, reported that the Turkish envoy was withdrawn. Meanwhile, Pakistan authorities summoned acting Bangladesh High Commissioner in Islamabad Md Najmul Huda yesterday. In response to Pakistan’s action, Dhaka also summoned Pak High Commissioner Shuja Alam to the Foreign Ministry yesterday and handed a strongly worded protest. Turkish Ambassador Devrim Ozturk left Dhaka yesterday at around 6pm, said...
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World’s oldest person dies at 116
13May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

World’s oldest person dies at 116

    The world's oldest living person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, died last night in New York City, a research group said. Jones' death makes Emma Morano-Martinuzzi, a 116-year-old woman in Italy, the oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group. Jones, who was born in the southern US state of Alabama in 1899, was the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves. After graduating from high school she moved north in 1922 to New Jersey and then New York, where she worked as a housekeeper and childcare provider, according to Guinness World Records and the Vandalia Senior Center in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, where she lived. Jones, who retired in 1965, had said that lots of sleep is the secret to her longevity and that she had nev...
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Statins glitch means thousands may have been incorrectly prescribed
12May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

Statins glitch means thousands may have been incorrectly prescribed

    Thousands of patients may have been wrongly put on statins, while others at high risk of heart attacks have been advised against the drugs in error, following a major NHS blunder. Medicines regulators have issued an alert to 2,500 GP practices, warning them that computer tools which assess patients’ risk of heart disease have been hit by glitches. The errors, in the system used by one in three practices, mean that patients with little risk of heart disease may have been needlessly prescribed the cholesterol-lowering drugs, while those in grave danger of heart attacks were not offered the medication. The Medicines and Healthcare Regulator Agency (MHRA) has launched an investigation into the failings affecting software which has been in use since 2009. Urging GPs not to use ...
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