Wednesday, September 30

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Indonesia Tsunami Warning After Powerful Quake
2Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

Indonesia Tsunami Warning After Powerful Quake

    Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning after an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 hit off the west coast of the island of Sumatra. The quake's epicentre was 502 miles southwest of Padang and was six miles deep, according to the US Geological Society. It struck at around 6.50pm local time (12.50GMT) and had initially been measured at 8.2. There have been no immediate reports of casualties or damage but the National Meteorological Agency said a tsunami warning has been issued for parts of Sumatra, including West Sumatra, North Sumatra and Aceh. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology issued a marine warning for distant Cocos and Christmas islands, saying strong and dangerous currents were possible and people should secure boats and avoid waterfront areas. The warning did not advise peop...
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Storm Jake To Lash Britain With 70mph Winds
2Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Storm Jake To Lash Britain With 70mph Winds

    Storm Jake is to batter the U.K. on Wednesday, with Britain's Met Office warning of up to 70 miles per hour gusts of wind and travel disruption. One particularly strong gust hit 81 miles per hour in Aberdaron in Wales. Gales are expected across the south-west of England, and rain, sleet and snow have brought tricky conditions, Britain's weather forecaster said. An official yellow warning for high winds was in place in the U.K. on Wednesday morning, meaning that several days of severe weather is possible. Temperatures are likely to remain wintry at between 4 and 6 degrees Celsius (39 to 43 degrees Fahrenheit). Met Office forecaster Calum MacColl said: "It's going to be cold, unsettled and windy the further west you go with plenty of showers pushing through from the north an...
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Are you overdosing on salt?
1Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

Are you overdosing on salt?

    Given the hype about the evils of sugar, it's all too easy to overlook the risks of consuming too much salt. It's National Salt Awareness Week (29 Feb - 6 Mar) and while sugar is increasingly demonised, salt has been getting off pretty lightly of late. Recently, an influential French study questioned the role of sodium chloride (the chemical name for salt) in high blood pressure. Adding to the mixed messages, a paper in the British Medical Journal implicates sugar rather than salt in coronary heart disease, and research conducted by a team at the University of Regensburg in Germany suggests that a high salt diet might boost the immune system. But don't be fooled. “Due to the overwhelming clinical studies demonstrating that high dietary salt is detrimental to hypertension a...
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10 new healthy towns to be built in England
1Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

10 new healthy towns to be built in England

    The towns are likely to feature easy access to public transport and safer cycling and pedestrian networks. Fast food-free zones near schools could soon be a reality in 10 NHS England-backed “healthy” new towns designed to encourage people to exercise more, eat better and live independently into old age. The NHS hopes that by helping to shape the way the towns are built it can begin to address major healthcare problems including obesity and dementia and establish a blueprint that will be followed elsewhere. The 10 towns selected, stretching from Darlington to Devon, will comprise more than 76,000 homes and 170,000 residents. They will be announced formally by the NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens, at the King’s Fund in London on Tuesday. He said: “The much-needed p...
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Ten Of UK’s 12 Most Struggling Cities In North
1Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Ten Of UK’s 12 Most Struggling Cities In North

    Ten of the UK's 12 most struggling towns and cities are in the North of England, new research shows. Critics say the findings undermine George Osborne's plan to create a Northern Powerhouse to bridge the North-South divide. Rochdale's economy is declining most steeply, followed by Burnley, Bolton, Blackburn and Hull, according to a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. They are followed by Grimsby, Dundee, Middlesbrough, Bradford, Blackpool, Stoke-on-Trent and Wigan. None of the top 12 struggling areas are in the South, and growth in most was found to be lagging significantly behind national levels. The table was compiled following a study of employment and migration rates in the areas, numbers of highly qualified workers and types of jobs. For the purposes of the rese...
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Foreighn citizen Piotr revealed names of 50 persons, organisations
1Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Foreighn citizen Piotr revealed names of 50 persons, organisations

    German citizen citizen Piotr Szczepan Mazurek, who was arrested in connection with the recent ATM scam, has revealed names of 50 individuals and institutions who have link with the crime, police said today. The list includes names of local hotels and restaurants and goes even to implicate some musicians, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Monirul Islam said. We are now verifying the names he revealed during quizzing, the police official said while briefing reporters on the update of police investigation at DMP media centre. Piotr was among the four persons arrested over the incident. The three others were City Bank officials. The fraudsters swindled out about Tk 20 lakh from ATM booths in Dhaka.
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Secret plan to axe 90 per cent of Tory associations which would smooth George Osborne’s coronation as leader
1Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Secret plan to axe 90 per cent of Tory associations which would smooth George Osborne’s coronation as leader

    David Cameron David Cameron is planning to cull hundreds of Tory associations and strip local chairmen of their powers under controversial plans to rein in the Conservative grassroots. The Daily Telegraph can disclose that up to 90 per cent of the country's 650 Conservative associations could be axed under the biggest reforms to the party's structure in 18 years. Critics believe that it is a bid to reduce the influence of Tory members - which are typically eurosceptic - on the party's next leadership contest. It comes just weeks after Mr Cameron faced a furious response from Conservative members after telling MPs to ignore the views of eurosceptic associations in the build-up to the referendum. Senior Tories are growing increasingly concerned that George Osborne's chances ...
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First sexually transmitted Zika case detected in France
29Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

First sexually transmitted Zika case detected in France

    France has detected its first sexually transmitted case of Zika in a woman whose partner had traveled to Brazil, the epicentre of an outbreak of the virus, a senior health official said on Saturday. US officials said earlier this week they were investigating 14 reports of the mosquito-borne disease that may have been transmitted through sex, including to several pregnant women. Francois Bourdillon, head of France's Institute for Public Health Surveillance (IVS), said the infected woman was the country's "first confirmed indigenous case of transmission". "This was a woman who had never travelled. Her partner had come from Brazil, so she was tested," Bourdillon said in an interview broadcast on BFM TV, adding that both patients were doing well. Marie-Claire Paty, who helps m...
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With mortgage rates plunging, should we fear a bubble?
29Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Extras

With mortgage rates plunging, should we fear a bubble?

    Scott Corfe, director at the Centre for Business and Economic Research, says Yes. Most of the house price growth seen in the UK over the past couple of years has been fundamentals-driven. Supply of new homes simply hasn’t caught up with demand. However, one does wonder if we are now veering into bubble territory particularly in London. The collapse in the amount of property being put on the market, which stands at historically low levels according to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, is leading to distorted prices. Buyers are paying over and above what fundamentals suggest, desperate to buy anything that is put up for sale and that they can (just about) afford. Fears of supply shortages and rising prices are creating a self-fulfilling bubble in some places. Londo...
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Four year old boy spends five hours with arm trapped in vending machine
29Feb By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Australia, ENGLISH

Four year old boy spends five hours with arm trapped in vending machine

    Melbourne Fire Brigade Four-year-old Leo Waterhouse, who spent more than five hours with his hand trapped in a vending machine on Sunday. Emergency services in Melbourne have carried out a delicate operation to free a young boy who spent more than five hours with his hand stuck in a vending machine. Firefighters were called to an apartment block on Lonsdale Street in the city centre at noon on Sunday. Four-year-old Leo Shorthouse had put his hand in the dispensing slot of a vending machine before becoming caught in the anti-theft mechanisms. Aaron Shorthouse, Leo’s father, told 9 News that Leo was an inquisitive child – “I don’t think he’s ever seen a vending machine before.” The Shorthouse family live in Nhulunbuy, a small town in the very remote north-east Arnhem Land, a...
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