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Panta ilish nothing but a concocted culture
13Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Panta ilish nothing but a concocted culture

    Putting delicious hilsa in Pahela Baishakh’s morning menu as an essential item has actually no link to its long tradition and heritage, bemoan experts ahead of the Bangla New Year. They said a group of urban educated people in the mid-80s introduced a concocted celebration event in the morning of the first of Bangla New Year with a recipe of panta-ilish (a combination of rice soaked in water overnight and fried hilsa), which has now turned out to be an integral part of Baishakh for which the young generation goes crazy in the country’s urban areas. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, meanwhile, has taken hilsa off her menu for celebrating Pahela Baishakh this time, aiming to save the national fish during its breeding season. Talking to UNB, prominent academic and writers Profess...
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Culture Secretary under pressure after relationship with dominatrix revealed
13Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Culture Secretary under pressure after relationship with dominatrix revealed

    John Whittingdale John Whittingdale, the Culture Secretary, last night admitted he had been in a relationship with a sex worker. The Cabinet minister released a statement stating that he did not know about the woman's occupation when they were together and that he ended the relationship as soon as he was made aware of her job. It is believed that the woman, who Mr Whittingdale was with between 2013 and 2014, worked as a professional dominatrix. He said that he met the woman through an online dating website and admitted that the "old story" was "embarrassing". Mr Whittingdale, who was promoted to the Cabinet after last year's election, said he was only made aware that the woman was a sex worker when somebody tried to sell a story about the issue to a tabloid newspaper. The ...
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Obama reveals the worst mistake he ever made as us President
12Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Obama reveals the worst mistake he ever made as us President

    US President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Chicago Law School on April 7, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. Barack Obama says the biggest mistake of his presidency was the lack of planning for the aftermath of the fall of late Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, with the country spiraling into chaos and grappling with violent extremists. Reflecting on his legacy in a Fox News interview aired Sunday, Obama said his "worst mistake" was "probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya." Last month, Obama made a searing critique of British Prime Minister David Cameron and former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy for their roles in the bombing campaign they led in Libya. Cameron became "distracted" and Sarkozy wanted to promo...
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90 years old has no plans to leave job she’s had for 70 years
12Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

90 years old has no plans to leave job she’s had for 70 years

    Talk about a loyal employee: Elena Griffing has just celebrated her 70th year working for the same San Francisco Bay Area hospital, and she has no plans to retire anytime soon. Sutter Health Alta Bates Summit Medical Center has marked Griffing's milestone and her recent 90th birthday, spokeswoman Carolyn Kemp said. But for Griffing, who has held several different positions in her decades of employment, every day on the job is a celebration. I can't wait to come to work every day, this is my hospital, she said. I enjoy anything I can do to be of service. Truly, it's the patient that counts. If it's helping someone, it's my bag. She isn't kidding. As if her employment longevity wasn't enough, consider this: She has taken only four days of sick leave in her 70 years of work. ...
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George Osborne’s tax return summary reveals £198,000 income
12Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

George Osborne’s tax return summary reveals £198,000 income

featu     George Osborne has released a summary of his tax return for last year showing he earned almost £200,000 by topping up his chancellor’s salary with rental income and dividends from his family’s wallpaper firm. The chancellor was one of a string of senior politicians, including the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and the London mayor, Boris Johnson, who rushed out information about their finances on Monday afternoon. They had faced pressure to publish summaries of their tax affairs after David Cameron released information about his finances going back six years. Osborne’s summary showed he made £44,647 in dividends from Osborne & Little, the wallpaper firm co-founded by his father, Sir Peter Osborne, both through direct ownership of shares and as a life tenant of a fa...
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Bangladesh Bank Fund Heist: Stop payment orders from Bangladesh Bank vague
12Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Bangladesh Bank Fund Heist: Stop payment orders from Bangladesh Bank vague

    Philippines-based Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) today said the bank could have held the stolen US$81 million if only the Bangladesh Bank sent "high priority messages." Macel Estavillo, the head of legal and regulatory affairs of RCBC, said that although Bangladesh Bank did send three requests for freeze on February 9, the messages were "vague" and "ambiguous", reports ABS-CBN News. Estavillo said RCBC could've reacted promptly if it received an MT192, the code for a request for cancellation or stop payment order. “In the case of the bank of Bangladesh, they did not send us any high priority message, they did not send us any stop payment order. They just sent us an unauthenticated free format message or a 999,” Estavillo told senators at the Senate Blue Ribbon...
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Frustrated refugee in Germany sets fire to his new home police say
12Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Frustrated refugee in Germany sets fire to his new home police say

    When a house used to shelter refugees was burned down in an arson attack last week, there seemed to be no doubt about the motives behind it. Someone had sprayed a swastika on one of the house's walls, which made investigators believe that they were dealing with right wing extremism. Local politicians in the city of Bingen were shocked and immediately set up a pro-refugee march to advocate for tolerance. That was before a Syrian refugee — an inhabitant of the house — reportedly confessed to the crime. According to police, the 26-year-old had lived in the house for more than half a year and wanted to express his dissatisfaction with the accommodations, which he described as cramped. He has since been jailed, as investigators search for explanations and evidence. A similar sc...
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Tata Steel Starts Sales Process For UK Plants
11Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Tata Steel Starts Sales Process For UK Plants

    Tata is beginning the formal process of selling its loss-making UK steel empire today, inviting potential buyers to submit offers. The only company that has so far expressed a public interest in buying the assets, including the country's biggest steel plant at Port Talbot in south Wales, is Liberty owned by Sanjeev Gupta. Mr Gupta has spoken of a desire to save jobs with the potential to remodel Port Talbot as a producer of steel through the use of electric arc furnaces - to take advantage of recycling opportunities. But top of his list of concerns are high energy costs in the UK, which he told Sky News last week would have to be "rectified" by the Government. He also warned there would be no quick-fix, overnight solution. Mr Gupta said: "There are issues to resolve which ...
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Call for safety review of all Edinburgh schools after closures
11Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Call for safety review of all Edinburgh schools after closures

    Scotland’s largest teaching union has called for a review of all public-private partnership contracts in Scotland following the emergency closure of 17 schools in Edinburgh because of safety concerns, leaving 7,000 pupils unable to start the new term. The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) questioned how construction of the schools, which are about 10 years old and were all built under the same PPP1 contract, was approved, resulting in the serious structural problems. Larry Flanagan, the EIS general secretary, told Good Morning Scotland: “We’ve been long-term critics of these initiatives, largely because the main contracts have been a huge drain on school budgets. “We are concerned to find there are major structural difficulties. There is a question mark around buildi...
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David Cameron to face public grilling over £72,000 secret shares stash claims
11Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

David Cameron to face public grilling over £72,000 secret shares stash claims

    Shamefaced David Cameron faces a public grilling over his personal tax affairs amid questions about a second secret stash of shares worth £72,000. The under-fire Prime Minister will make a humiliating statement to Parliament after his tax returns showed he secretly sold off another huge tranche of shares in 2010 alongside the £31,000 stake in his dad’s offshore fund. Downing Street is refusing to say which other investment funds or private firms the PM held a stake in - and if any more of them were based in dodgy tax havens. “There are big questions that have to be put to him by Parliament,” Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said. After a week of pressure Mr Cameron finally published details of his last six annual tax returns on Saturday night, revealing a huge second income as ...
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