Monday, May 4

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Don’t hamper to students academic activities: PM warns to university teachers
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Don’t hamper to students academic activities: PM warns to university teachers

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the public university teachers not to hamper the aca-demic activities of students by enforcing any strike in their universities. Prime Minister warned today to the agitating public university teachers against causing any damage to the education life of thousands of students.Students will not accept it if you continue protests against the new pay scale boycotting classes, Hasina said while addressing a rally marking Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day in Dhaka. There’s no reason to be unhappy after a salary hike by 123 percent … teachers shouldn’t continue movement hampering the students’ academic life, she said while addressing a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan marking the Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day. Over the recent protests by students an...
Cabinet okays draft of Hajj Package 2016
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Cabinet okays draft of Hajj Package 2016

    The cabinet today approved the drafts of the 'National Hajj and Omrah Policy-2016' and Hajj Package-2016. The approval was given in the weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters after the meeting Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the cabinet also approved a proposal of the Minister of Public Administration to fill up some 2,475 tech-nical/professional posts of the government from 34th and 35th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) exami-nation. Under the Hajj Package-2016, a total of 1,13,868 pilgrims including 5,000 ballotee hajjis could perform holy hajj this year under two packages. In the first package a pilgrim would cost Taka 3,60,028 including Kurbani and in the second package ...
King of Spain’s sister arrives at court to face tax evasion charges
ENGLISH, Europe

King of Spain’s sister arrives at court to face tax evasion charges

    Members from the Civic Unity for the Republic protest outside court. The Infanta Cristina, the sister of the king of Spain, has arrived at a court in Mallorca where she is appearing on charges of tax evasion, the first time a member of the royal family has been arraigned in court. Cristina Federica Victoria Antonia de la Santísima Trinidad de Borbón y de Grecia – her full title – and 17 co-defendants face 89 charges ranging from fraud and money laundering to trafficking of influences. It is alleged that the sixth in line to the Spanish throne was complicit in the illegal business affairs of her husband Iñaki Urdangarin, a former Olympic handball champion. The trial will be presided over by three female judges. Cristina and Urdangarin said nothing as they entered a makeshif...
Albanian man jailed for sex attacks on buses
ENGLISH, London

Albanian man jailed for sex attacks on buses

    An Albanian man has been jailed after admitting a series of sexual attacks against women and at least one teenager on buses in east London. Giorge Zhukas, 47, sexually assaulted nine females on buses in Walthamstow and Ilford between August 11 and October 16 last year, Scotland Yard said. One of his victims was a 13-year-old girl, while the oldest was 43. He was arrested on October 20 after police identified him from CCTV footage on one of the buses. In four of the offences the quality of the CCTV was so high that the Crown Prosecution Service authorised charging, even though victims had not been identified. Zhukas, of no fixed abode, was jailed for 18 months at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to nine counts of sexual assault on buses in Waltham Fore...
Tube drivers set to strike in long-running row over all night service
ENGLISH, London

Tube drivers set to strike in long-running row over all night service

    Train drivers on London Underground look set to take three days of strike action over a long-running dispute about pay and plans for an all night Tube service. Leaders of the drivers' union Aslef will meet on Monday to decide whether to press ahead with stoppages which would cripple Tube services in the capital. If the executive agrees, there will be a 24-hour strike from 21.14 on Wednesday January 27 followed by two further 24 hour strikes from the same time on February 15 and February 17. LU has offered a four-year pay deal and said it will hire part-time drivers to staff an all-night service at weekends. But unions have been seeking assurances for months about terms and conditions for their members. Finn Brennan of Aslef said: "We genuinely regret the inconvenience that...
Biman CEO Kyle Haywood quits
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Biman CEO Kyle Haywood quits

    Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Kyle Haywood refused to contin-ue his job from today. Kyle who is now on a leave, sent an email expressing his inability to continue as the MD and CEO of Biman on health grounds, Biman’s acting MD Wing Commander (retd) MM Asaduzzaman told The Bangla Media. Recently the Board of Directors extended his service for another year and on return he was supposed to sign a new contract, Biman sources said. The South African-born British citizen took over the responsibility on January 6 last year. He was appointed on a one-year contract which had provision of extension of his service.
Relocate Hazaribagh tanneries within 72 hours: Industries Minister of Bangladesh
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Relocate Hazaribagh tanneries within 72 hours: Industries Minister of Bangladesh

    Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu has directed to relocate tanneries from Hazaribagh within next 72 hours. He said the tanneries would be shut down unless the factories are shifted within the stipulated time. The minister also asked BSCIC to send legal notice to the tannery owners by Sunday. If the tanneries fail to shift their factories after 72 hours of the legal notice, the allocation of the plots they have been given in the leather industrial park in Savar will be cancelled, according to the instruction of the minister.
Schoolgirl is Japan train’s only passenger
Asia, ENGLISH

Schoolgirl is Japan train’s only passenger

    The beauty of transit has never been this dramatic. Amidst its final moments, a girl in Japan gave a train station its last reason to run: to help her finish her studies. Located in the island of Hokkaido, the Kami-Shirataki train station has been in operation for more than three years. But as time passed by, the number of its passengers drastically went down because of the station’s remote location. According to CCTV News, the management of Japan Railways had thought of shutting down the station – but suddenly had a change of heart upon knowing the story of their only passenger. A report said that the girl's only means of transportation to and from the school is the Kami-Shirataki train station. Inspired with the girl's situation, the management even made some adjustments...
Parents Lived Normal Life Around Dead Boy
America, ENGLISH

Parents Lived Normal Life Around Dead Boy

    An American couple whose seven year old son was discovered decomposed in their Spanish apartment had lost their sense of reality, the case prosecutor has said. Bruce and Schrell Hopkins, aged 39 and 38, claimed the child did not wake up one morning but they would not accept he was dead. They have been charged with negligent homicide. The couple, originally from the Detroit area, have been provisionally released after questioning from a judge but their passports have been confiscated. Case prosecutor Enrique Barata said the exact cause and time death of their asthmatic son Caleb had yet to be established - though he was known to be alive when the family celebrated a birthday at a restaurant on 15 November. He was found beneath several blankets in the rented apartment in Gir...
Mao statue demolished in China
Asia, ENGLISH

Mao statue demolished in China

    A gargantuan gold-painted statue of Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong has suddenly been demol-ished, apparently for lacking government approval, state media said yesterday, days after images of it went viral. Images of the statue of a seated Mao towering some 37 metres (121 feet) over empty fields in the central province of Henan made worldwide headlines this week. But the 3 million yuan ($460,000) structure has been destroyed, the People's Net news portal cited local officials as saying, adding the reason was "unclear". The website is linked to the People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party. It cited reports from unspecified media as saying the likeness of the man who ruled China with an iron grip for nearly three decades until his death in ...