Wednesday, September 30

Tag: Featured

SC upholds death for Mir Quasem
8Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

SC upholds death for Mir Quasem

    The Supreme Court today upheld death for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali in the appeal verdict of a war crimes case. He was acquitted in three charges, including one from a death penalty. A five-member full bench of Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the short verdict before a packed courtroom at 9:42am. The apex court upheld Quasem’s death for murder of a freedom fighter Jasim. He was acquitted for murdering Ranjit Das and Tuntu Sen, abduction, two counts of abduction, confinement and torture of Saifuddin Khan and Harunur Rashid Khan. Quasem Ali, 63, a member of Jamaat-e-Islami's central executive council and considered by many as a top financier of the anti-liberation party, handed death by a special tribunal in 2014 for war ...
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US reporter Erin Andrews wins $55m over secret nude video
8Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

US reporter Erin Andrews wins $55m over secret nude video

    US sports broadcaster Erin Andrews has been awarded $55 million (£39m) after she was secretly recorded nude in her hotel room by a stalker. After a day of deliberations, a jury found the stalker 51% to blame, leaving two hotel companies to pay about $27m. Andrews, 37, a Fox Sports reporter, was filmed in 2008 through her hotel door peephole by Michael David Barrett, who released the video online. She wept as the verdict was announced and hugged her attorneys and family. Later, in a statement posted on Twitter, she thanked the court, the jury, and her legal team and family. I've been honoured by all the support from victims around the world, she said. Their outreach has helped me be able to stand up and hold accountable those whose job it is to protect everyone's safely, se...
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Italian pilot threatened to crash passenger jet if his wife left him
7Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Italian pilot threatened to crash passenger jet if his wife left him

    An Italian pilot threatened to crash his passenger jet if his wife left him, but was stopped minutes before taking off by police. When his wife threatened to leave, the unnamed Italian pilot, in his 40s, sent a text saying he would kill himself along with the 200 passengers on his Rome-Japan flight, The Times reported. However, the man's wife alerted officers at Fiumicino airport, who were able to replace the pilot without the passengers' knowledge. The incident occured in January last year - two months before German pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed Germanwings A320 into the Alps - and was kept secret until now. The Italian pilot, who was married with children, was already known to police in Padua, Italy, after his wife reported him for mistreatment. After threate...
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Migration crisis: UK to join Nato refugee patrols in Aegean
7Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Migration crisis: UK to join Nato refugee patrols in Aegean

    The UK military is to join Nato forces intercepting and returning people trying to reach Europe from Turkey, as David Cameron prepares to meet European leaders to discuss the escalating migration crisis. The prime minister announced that the Royal Navy was deploying the amphibious landing ship RFA Mounts Bay as the first UK contribution to the Nato deployment in the Aegean Sea. The vessel, which carries a Wildcat helicopter, will join naval vessels from Germany, Canada, Turkey and Greece as part of Nato’s first intervention in the migration crisis. The announcement came several hours after another boat carrying people sank with the loss of 25 lives including at least three children. Fifteen people were rescued after the boat capsized near the Turkish resort of Didim. It com...
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Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton spar in fierce debate in Flint
7Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton spar in fierce debate in Flint

    Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders held a fierce and substantive debate in Flint, Michigan, on Sunday night, disagreeing over trade, guns and the auto industry bailout while joining forces to call for the resignation of state governor Rick Snyder over the city’s water contamination crisis. Shortly after they took the stage, the Associated Press announced that Sanders had won the Democratic caucuses in Maine, his eighth victory in the 2016 presidential primary race. In a statement, the leftwing Vermont senator thanked Maine’s voters and claimed “momentum” heading into Tuesday’s primaries in Michigan and Mississippi. Onstage he and the former secretary of state had one of their sharpest exchanges yet when they were asked by a member of the audience about trade and job creati...
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Email inventor Tomlinson dies
7Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Email inventor Tomlinson dies

    Ray Tomlinson, the American programmer widely credited with inventing email, has died. He was 74. Before Tomlinson invented direct electronic messages between users on different machines on a certain network in 1971. Before then, users could only write messages to others using the same computer. "A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers," his employer, Raytheon, said in a statement. "His work changed the way the world communicates and yet, for all his accomplishments, he remained humble, kind and generous with his time and talents, He will be missed by one and all." A company spokesman said Tomlinson passed away on Saturday, and the cause of death was not yet confirmed. Tributes poured in from the online world...
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Kohli’s jig and Tamim’s close shave
7Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Kohli’s jig and Tamim’s close shave

    Soumya Sarkar almost took out his opening partner, Tamim Iqbal, with a powerful straight drive on March 6, 2016. Virat Kohli ran in, veered a bit to his left, then planted both feet apart, propped his hands up in a reverse cup and collected the offering. A silly old swipe from Mashrafe Mortaza, who had promoted himself to No. 6 to upset the choke hold India's bowling had over his team, backfired immediately. Kohli shot a glance at the crowd behind him, and indulged in a little strut. Unfavourable crowds can also spur the team on, India's team director Ravi Shastri had said. Might have just did then. Tamim's close shave Non-strikers often say they have the best seat in the house during a game of cricket. Tamim Iqbal may have reason to take offence to that. He had no time to...
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Sadiq Khan Suspends Aide Over Offensive Tweets
6Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Sadiq Khan Suspends Aide Over Offensive Tweets

    An aide to Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has been suspended after writing dozens of offensive messages on Twitter. Shueb Salar, the MP's parliamentary assistant, allegedly posted sexist and homophobic tweets in the years before he was hired in November 2014. In April 2012, he responded to the hashtag #HowToTreatALady with: Buy her a nice iron and extend the kitchen for her. Mr Salah had also tweeted about the "funniest tube journey ever" - when rowdy chavs were cussing these 2 gay guys for kissing. He added: Maybe they deserved it. A spokeswoman for Mr Khan, who is the bookies' favourite to win the mayoralty and succeed Boris Johnson, said "clearly (these tweets) are serious issues" - and confirmed Mr Salar had been suspended pending an investigation. Despit...
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Six reasons to watch Sonam Kapoor’s Neerja
6Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Six reasons to watch Sonam Kapoor’s Neerja

    She’s the new darling of the industry, and why not? Sonam Kapoor’s Neerja, a biopic on the courageous air hostess who sacrificed her life to save 359 passengers on board the hijacked PanAm flight in 1986, opened to a great first day on Friday, and is already being hailed as one of this year’s best, and even the biggest, films. Is Neerja the lifeline Sonam needed so badly to sustain her fledgling career in the industry? Will Neerja help Sonam step out now as a bonafide actor who’s got more to her than a famous father and those designer clothes? Whatever that may be, the fact is that Ram Madhvani film is also about many things most of us hold close to our heart. Here’s a list of life-lessons all of us could learn from Neerja. 1. Love and live life The film opens with Sonam g...
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Benefit cuts will leave mothers £13bn worse off over course of current Parliament
6Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Benefit cuts will leave mothers £13bn worse off over course of current Parliament

    Mothers will be £13bn worse off under the current Government as a result of policies announced over the past year, according to a new analysis. Labour described the figures – produced by the House of Commons Library – as a disgrace”, saying mothers played a key role in society but had been hit with a “stonking great bill. The research looked at the effects on women with dependent children of a number of changes announced by Chancellor George Osborne, since last year’s general election. It found that cuts to universal credit, the four-year freeze on child benefit and other welfare payments, reductions in housing benefit and other policies outweighed increases to the personal income tax allowance and extra money for childcare. The overall impact meant mothers will be £13bn w...
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