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Fabulous things about Buckingham Palace you didn’t know
16Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Fabulous things about Buckingham Palace you didn’t know

    You’ve seen it in movies, in The Crown and on countless postcards, but how much do you really know about the most famous palace in the world? Buckingham Palace. Say it out loud. It sounds very commanding, doesn't it? And so it should. It is the working headquarters of Her Majesty The Queen. Grand and magisterial, the palace's origins can be traced all the way back to the reign of James I, who established a mulberry plantation in the palace grounds for the rearing of silkworms. Since then George III, George IV, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, King Edward and Queen Alexandra, King George V and Queen Mary, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and our current Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have all left their marks on the regal house. Fall back in love with the tourist hotspo...
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Brexit Secretary faces investigation over £50,000 travelling cost in a year
16Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Brexit Secretary faces investigation over £50,000 travelling cost in a year

    David Davis is reportedly facing an investigation by the Cabinet Office after spending thousands of pounds travelling back and forth to Europe. Newly released data shows the Brexit Secretary's department spent almost £50,000 in less than a year shuttling him to EU meetings. The Independent claims to have seen a letter from the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, asking whether Mr Davis's trips break the ministerial code's rules on cost-effectiveness. Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union David Davis (L) and European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier talk to the media in Brussels The letter is said to read: After seven years of austerity, the British people rightly expect those who govern our country to do everything they can t...
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Saudi women allowed to drive trucks, ride motorbikes
16Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, ENGLISH

Saudi women allowed to drive trucks, ride motorbikes

    The Saudi General Department of Traffic (GDT) announced, on Friday that women will be allowed to drive trucks once the required conditions and guidelines have been met; now in force for males only. Saudi women will also be allowed to drive motorcycles as per the royal decree announced in September, which comes into effect in June 2018, reports alarabiya.net. There would be no discrimination against women’s cars with plates and special numbers, the vehicles will be subjected to the same rules currently stated in the seventh article of the traffic law system. On September 26, 2017, Saudi King Salman ordered the issuance of driver’s licenses for women in Saudi Arabia. A royal decree was issued to apply the traffic regulations including the issuance of driving licenses for bot...
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Nation pays homage to Liberation War 1971 martyrs
16Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Nation pays homage to Liberation War 1971 martyrs

    The nation is paying deep homage to the Liberation War martyrs Saturday marking the country’s 47th Victory Day. On this day in 1971, Pakistani occupation forces surrendered after a nine-month war resulting in free, independent and sovereign Bangladesh. This year, the Victory Day celebrations reached a new height as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) on October 30 last recognised Bangabandhu’s historic 7th March Speech as a world documentary heritage. On March 7 in 1971, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in his fiery speech called on the freedom-loving Bangalis to wage a decisive struggle against the Pakistani rulers. Ebarer sangram amader muktir sangram, ebarer sangram swadhinatar sangram [The struggl...
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Four arrested in police raid including four bags of money in Tower Hamlets
16Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Four arrested in police raid including four bags of money in Tower Hamlets

    Buckling helmets and bracing themselves for trouble, this is the police unit who smashed a network of Class A drug dealers in east London. Six people were held as part of a blitz on drug dealing in Shadwell following 10 weeks of surveillance by police and council officials. Crack cocaine and more than £10,000 in cash was seized in the raids on seven addresses early yesterday. In one raid officers seized cash and Class A drugs after breaking down the door of a flat which had children’s bikes and laundry outside it. A Range Rover was also taken. Officers carry out a drugs raid in Tower Hamlets The operation, code-named Continuum, was launched after residents complained about drug dealing and anti-social behaviour. Detective Chief Inspector Mike Hamer said: “This i...
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NASA, Google find solar system with eight planets like ours
15Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

NASA, Google find solar system with eight planets like ours

    A record-tying eighth planet has been found in a faraway solar system, matching our own in number. Even more amazing, machines and not humans made the discovery. NASA joined with Google on Thursday to announce the finding, reports the Associated Press. This eighth planet orbits the star known as Kepler-90. Like Earth, this new planet, Kepler-90i, is the third rock from its sun. But it’s much closer to its sun — orbiting in just 14 days — and therefore a scorching 800 degrees Fahrenheit (427 Celsius) at the surface. In fact, all eight planets are scrunched up around this star, orbiting closer than Earth does to our sun. This is the only eight-planet solar system found like ours — so far — tying for the most planets observed around a single star. Our solar system h...
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EU will not renegotiate Brexit deal, MPs warned
15Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

EU will not renegotiate Brexit deal, MPs warned

    MPs have been warned Brussels will not re-negotiate a Brexit deal if Parliament rejects it, as EU leaders reacted to Theresa May's defeat on key legislation. A group of Tory rebels forced an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill on Wednesday night, as they secured their demand for a meaningful vote on any Brexit deal. But, despite MPs celebrating their victory over the Government, EU leaders gathering in Brussels warned the vote will complicate the Brexit process. Luxembourg's president Xavier Bettel suggested the UK will not be able to return to Brussels asking for a different exit deal, if it is voted down by the House of Commons. Speaking at a European Council summit on Thursday, he said: I really believe that to think that Theresa May will negotiate something, we will ne...
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1971 war was never a war between India-Pakistan
15Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, ENGLISH

1971 war was never a war between India-Pakistan

    Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque on Friday said the war in 1971 was never a war between India and Pakistan rather it was a War of Liberation for Bangladesh. It was never a War between India and Pakistan. We never say it. It’s no way a Pak-India war. It was our War of Liberation, he said while addressing a function as the chief guest at the National Museum in the city, reports the UNB. The Minister expressed gratitude to India for its tremendous support extended by its people and government in 1971. ‘India provided shelter, training and arms. We got all logistic support from India,’ he said. He said Bangladesh and its people are extremely grateful to Indian government and its people for the wholehearted support they extended during the War of 1971. ‘We, th...
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Tory rebels threaten beleaguered PM with SECOND Brexit defeat before Christmas
15Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Tory rebels threaten beleaguered PM with SECOND Brexit defeat before Christmas

    Theresa May has been warned by Tory rebels she faces a second embarrassing Commons defeat over Brexit before Christmas . The threat was delivered to the Prime Minister as she jetted to Brussels for a critical EU summit on Thursday night which could derail her plans to exit the EU by the deadline of March 2019. She was still reeling from the humiliation of losing her first Brexit vote after MPs won the power to amend the final divorce deal by four votes after members of her own party rebelled. With Tory infighting threatening to engulf her, the PM desperately tried to launch a fight back on Thursday night. She insisted she was on course to deliver on Brexit and told EU leaders at a private dinner she was personally committed to working with them to ensure a smooth and order...
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Americans Don’t Really Understand Gun Violence
15Dec By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

Americans Don’t Really Understand Gun Violence

    The massacre in Las Vegas this October earned a macabre superlative: the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, with 58 innocents killed and more than 500 injured. The outpouring of attention and support was swift and far-reaching. CNN published portraits of all 58 victims. A man from Chicago made 58 crosses to honor the fallen. Zappos offered to help pay for the 58 funerals. An anonymous man even paid for 58 strangers’ dinners in memory of those who died. But what about the hundreds who were shot but didn’t die? A 28-year-old woman who was shot in the head at the concert is undergoing aggressive rehab after spending nearly two months in the hospital. A 41-year-old man is learning how to drive with his hands after he was paralyzed from the waist down. And many victims ha...
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