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Missing young woman, 18, from Tower Hamlets
4Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Missing young woman, 18, from Tower Hamlets

Police in Tower Hamlets are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing 18-year-old woman from Tower Hamlets. Tamanna Uddin was last seen at around 07:50hrs on 2 October in Whitechapel Train Station boarding an overground train to Crystal Palace. She was due to change onto the DLR at Shadwell but didn't. Tamanna is an Asian woman, 5ft 5inches tall of medium build with black hair. At the time of her disappearance she was wearing a pink coloured head scarf, a black jacket with white trim, black trousers and carrying a light coloured handbag. Tammana has Bipolar Disorder and may be very scared being on her own. Officers are increasingly concerned for her wellbeing and would urge anyone with information on her whereabouts to call police on 101 or Missing People on 116000.
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PM Sheikh Hasian reaches in London when she returing from Newyork to Dhaka
2Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

PM Sheikh Hasian reaches in London when she returing from Newyork to Dhaka

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached London yesterday evening from New York en route home after winding up her eight-day official visit to the United States to attend the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A British Airways flight carrying the prime minister and members of her entourage landed at the Heathrow International Airport in the British capital at about 8:10pm (London time), PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS over phone. Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Md Abdul Hannan received the prime minister at the airport. From the airport, Sheikh Hasina was taken to Hotel Claridge's where she will be staying during her brief tour to London. The prime minister will be accorded a community reception at a London hotel this afternoon. She...
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UK made secret pact with Saudi Arabia for human rights council place
30Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

UK made secret pact with Saudi Arabia for human rights council place

    The UK made a clandestine vote-trading deal with Saudi Arabia to enable both countries to secure a place in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), leaked Saudi diplomatic cables have revealed. The classified documents suggest David Cameron's government initiated backroom talks with Riyadh ahead of the November 2013 vote in New York to ask for support. Both countries were eventually elected to the UNHRC, which has 47 member states. A Foreign Office spokesman refused to confirm if the vote-trading deal had taken place, saying it was "standard practice" not to reveal voting records. Saudi Arabia has one of the worst human rights records in the world, and has executed more than 130 people this year. Its recent appointment to the chair of an influential five-member UNHRC panel dr...
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Ensure peace across world: PM Sheikh Hasina
30Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Ensure peace across world: PM Sheikh Hasina

    Asserting that Bangladesh’s commitment to UN peacekeeping is strong and steadfast and it stands ready to go further, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all members of the peacekeeping community to work together to ensure peace and security around the world, reports UNB from New York. “I call upon all members of the peacekeeping community to work together to ensure peace and security around the world,” she said. The Prime Minister said this at a Summit on Peacekeeping Operation at the UN Headquarters here on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Monday. Sheikh Hasina co-chaired the Summit with US President Barack Obama. She said Bangladesh is adopting a national peacekeeping strategy to better respond to the evolving needs of the UN peacekeeping missions on the gr...
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Labour promises to renationalise English Railways
29Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Labour promises to renationalise English Railways

    The Labour conference has formally committed itself to the renationalisation of the English rail network as it pledged to oppose another round of unneeded, unwanted and ill-thought-through privatisation. In a significant boost for the party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who has suffered a series of setbacks over the EU and Trident, Labour’s national executive committee agreed a statement that paves the way for the rolling renationalisation of the rail network. Conference opposes another round of unneeded, unwanted and ill-thought-through privatisation,” it said. “We believe there is a better way. Manuel Cortes, the general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA), welcomed the move. Opening the debate on the NEC statement in a speech from the Labour conferen...
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Stranger than fiction: America’s Muslim obsession
29Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Stranger than fiction: America’s Muslim obsession

Taj Hashmi: Recently, yet another Arab Muslim faced racial and religious discrimination in America. After being tipped off by a school teacher, the police arrested Ahmed Mohamed. A 14-year old school student at Irving, Texas for bringing a device to school, which he claimed was a clock he made to impress his science teacher. Although the device did not look like a bomb, the police arrested and detained the boy for several hours on charges of bringing a hoax-bomb to school. Meanwhile, Ahmed Mohamed has become a celebrity. Millions of Americans condemned the way his teachers and police treated him. President Obama formally invited him to the White House which was an exceptional gesture of goodwill towards Muslims, and a unique way of saying sorry to someone unnecessarily traumatised and hu...
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British IS Fighters Hit With UN Sanctions
29Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

British IS Fighters Hit With UN Sanctions

    Four British jihadis who have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State have been hit with UN sanctions. They are: Omar Hussain from High Wycombe, Nasser Muthana from Cardiff, Aqsa Mahmood from Glasgow and Sally Jones from Chatham, in Kent. Under the UN's al Qaeda sanctions regime, the jihadists will face a global asset freeze and travel ban. It means if they try to cross into another country they are likely to be arrested on the spot. Jones went to Syria in 2013 with husband Junaid Hussain, who was killed in a US airstrike in August. She uses social media as a recruitment tool to get women to join IS. Mahmood also went to Syria two years ago, and is believed to be a key figure in the al Khanssaa brigade, a female brigade in Raqqa which was established by the militants to e...
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Militant attack fear: UK, US, Canada alert citizens in Bangladesh
29Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Militant attack fear: UK, US, Canada alert citizens in Bangladesh

    The United States and Canada have warned their citizens of militant attacks in Bangladesh, asking them to remain alert. The directives came today, a day after the United Kingdom issued travel alert where it claimed militants may be targeting western interests in Bangladesh. Also yesterday, an Italian national, Cesare Tavella was shot dead in Dhaka’s Gulshan diplomatic zone. The 50-year-old Italian was working as the project manager of Profitable Opportunities for Food Security (Proofs), a project of Netherlands-based organisation ICCO Cooperation since May. The fear of militant attack was first expressed by Australia on Thursday when the Australia national cricket team delayed its start for Bangladesh. According to Australian government alert, Australian interests can be t...
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Lots of Screams As Woman Falls Four Floors In Debenhams
29Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Lots of Screams As Woman Falls Four Floors In Debenhams

    The woman, who has been taken to hospital, fell at the store's flagship branch in Oxford Street on Sunday afternoon. Police are said to be treating the incident as non-suspicious. Customers have spoken of their shock at witnessing the woman's fall. One 19-year-old shopper, who asked not to be named, told the Evening Standard: “We were on the ground floor as it happened, and she landed on the basement floor. “There was a very loud bang and lots of screams. It was really awful – no one really knew what to do. It was very, very busy and there were a few kids. I witnessed a lot of people walking from the escalator where they saw the incident running outside crying and covering their eyes. Everyone was just in shock. A police spokesman said officers were called to the store at ...
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Supermoon eclipse in pictures
28Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH

Supermoon eclipse in pictures

    A total lunar eclipse, coinciding with the supermoon, is being observed in the United States, Canada, and Central and South America and Western Europe on the evening of Sept. 27, and a partial eclipse in the rest of Europe, South-East Asia and Africa on Sept. 28. Click through to see the latest images of the supermoon around the world.
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