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Bank Warns Brexit Could Damage UK Growth
12May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Bank Warns Brexit Could Damage UK Growth

    The Bank of England has issued an unprecedented warning that the UK economy could endure “materially lower growth.. notably higher inflation” and “rises in unemployment” if Britain votes to leave the European Union next month. The report warns of sterling falling, "perhaps sharply" – code for falls of 20% - if there is a Leave vote. It blamed half of the existing 9% fall in the value of the pound since November on a referendum effect. The report also indicated that the referendum itself was already hitting growth – the forecast for the current quarter slashed from 0.5% to 0.3%, the lowest growth since the 2012 Eurozone crisis. The Bank has never before detailed the risks of a political event in this way, and this is its most extraordinary intervention in a political e...
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More debris almost certainly from MH370
12May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Australia, ENGLISH

More debris almost certainly from MH370

    Two pieces of debris found in South Africa and Mauritius "almost certainly" came from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australia said Thursday after an expert examination. The items were brought to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau's laboratories for testing, as authorities seek to work out what happened to the plane, which vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. It follows a wing part recovered last year from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, which neighbours Mauritius, being confirmed as coming from the jet. Since then two more items found about 220 kilometres (140 miles) apart from each other in Mozambique in December 2015 and February 2016 have been examined. The ATSB in March said these were also "almost certainly" from the Boeing 777 ai...
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India concern about Bangladesh terrorism activities
12May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

India concern about Bangladesh terrorism activities

    Bangladesh and India will closely work together to counter violent extremism and terrorism, visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said today. The two countries will further strengthen their existing structure in the future in this regard, the Indian foreign secretary said while talking to the media at State Guest House Padma in Dhaka. Earlier, he held a bilateral meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart Md Shahidul Haque. “I am also here to convey the government of India’s strong support to government of Bangladesh as it is battling terrorism and extremism,” Jaishankar said. This is an issue which is of a direct concern to as never and we are in touch and we will work bilaterally and closely together on the matter, he added. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary...
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Sinkhole swallows car in London street
12May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Sinkhole swallows car in London street

    The Metropolitan Police were called to Woodland Terrace in Greenwich at around 3.23am on Thursday. Officers discovered a blue people carrier, which had been parked outside Benefice of Charlton St Thomas' Church, partially in the hole. A police spokesman said no one had been injured in the incident. He added: "Officers are on the scene and there is a cordon in place. The local authority has been called and there are other agencies on scene." A Royal Borough of Greenwich spokesman said the council was working with emergency services to secure the area. He added: "We are urgently investigating the matter and will update residents the moment we have more information." Cleo O'Kane, 25, who lives opposite where the sinkhole opened up, said police told her some residents might ha...
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Indian woman in her 70s gives birth to healthy baby boy
11May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Indian woman in her 70s gives birth to healthy baby boy

    Daljinder Kaur gave birth last month after two years of treatment using donor eggs at a fertility clinic in the northern state of Haryana. Though certainly one of the oldest mothers to give birth, her exact age was unclear. She has said she is about 70 but does not have a birth certificate, which is not uncommon in India. Anurag Bishnoi, embryologist and owner of the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby centre in Hisar, told the Guardian he believed she could be 72. “She has said she is five to seven years younger than her husband, and his birth certificate shows he was born on 12/04/1937,” he said. Kaur said she and her husband, Mohinder Singh Gill, a farmer, had almost lost hope of having their own child and had faced ridicule in a country where infertility is sometimes...
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Donald Trump closing in on Hillary Clinton in race for White House, new polls show
11May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Donald Trump closing in on Hillary Clinton in race for White House, new polls show

    The two are effectively tied in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to a poll conducted by Quinnipiac University, in figures that will provide a boost to Mr Trump’s maverick campaign. Previous nationwide polls have shown him trailing Mrs Clinton, often by significant margins. "Six months from election day, the presidential races between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the three most crucial states, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, are too close to call," said Peter A. Brown, the Quinnipiac Poll's assistant director. "At this juncture, Trump is doing better in Pennsylvania than the GOP nominees in 2008 and 2012. And the two candidates are about where their party predecessors were at this point in Ohio and Florida." The most encouraging sign for the presumptive Repu...
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SSC and equivalent examinations results: girls ahead than boys
11May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

SSC and equivalent examinations results: girls ahead than boys

    A total of 88.29 percent students have passed this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations, which is 1.25 percentage points higher than that of last year. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid formally handed over a copy of this year’s SSC and equivalent examinations results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Gono Bhaban in presence of chairmen of all the boards. The results will be published officially at 2:00pm. The students can get the results from their respective school or it will also be available on www.educationboardresults.gov.bd As many as 1,09,761 students secured the highest Grade Point Average (GPA-5) this year where as it was 1,11,901 in 2015. In eight education boards, 88.70 percent passed this year’s SSC examinations against 86....
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Queen caught on camera criticising very rude Chinese officials during sensitive state visit
11May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Queen caught on camera criticising very rude Chinese officials during sensitive state visit

    The Queen was caught on camera making unguarded comments about the Chinese government during a garden party at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. The Queen made the comments about the highly sensitive Chinese state visit on the same day that Prime Minister David Cameron was also filmed telling her that Nigeria and Afghanistan were "fantastically corrupt countries." Queen Elizabeth II looks at China's President Xi Jinping as they stand next to China's First Lady Peng Liyuan and Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at the royal pavilion on Horse Guards ParadeCredit: AFP/Getty Images The Queen was introduced to Commander Lucy D'Orsi, who was commander of the policing operation for the Chinese state visit last October, during the monarch's first garden party of the season at...
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Nizami buried in home town Pabna
11May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Nizami buried in home town Pabna

    War criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami, hanged for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, was buried near his ancestral home in Santhia upazila after his execution in the small hours of Wednesday. Nizami was buried at the graveyard, 300 yards away from his residence at Manmathpur in the upazila around 7:00am after a namaj-e-janaza, said his son Barrister Najib Momen. An ambulance carrying the body of the executed war criminal left Dhaka Central Jail premises for Pabna at 1:30am. War crimes convict Matiur Rahman Nizami, ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, was hanged last night for his crimes against humanity during the country’s War of Liberation in 1971. Nizami, also the former head of Al-Badr, a ruthless militia that unleashed terror on pea...
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Facebook denies it’s biased against this type of politics
10May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

Facebook denies it’s biased against this type of politics

    People are seen as silhouettes as they check mobile devices whilst standing against an illuminated wall bearing Facebook Inc.'s logo Ever felt like Facebook is a little bit lefty? Well, now it's defended itself against claims that it does favour one side of the political spectrum over the other by manipulating what appears on the site. Staff at the social network suppressed coverage of conservative politics in the US, according to a report, choosing not to include them in its trending topics section near the top of the site, despite the algorithm showing people were interested in the subject and talking about it. We take these reports extremely seriously, and have found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true, said Facebook's vice president of search Tom Stocky...
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