Friday, September 25

Tag: Featured

Richard Branson publishes scathing letter from Donald Trump
3Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Richard Branson publishes scathing letter from Donald Trump

    Richard Branson has revealed details of his long-running feud with Donald Trump, publishing a scathing letter he received from the then New York property mogul in 2004. Mr Trump wrote to the Virgin brand founder after he launched a short-lived programme, The Rebel Billionaire: Branson’s Quest for the Best, with a similar format to The Apprentice. Excerpts from the letter are reproduced in Mr Branson’s new book, Finding My Virginity. At least your dismal ratings can now allow you to concentrate on your airline which, I am sure, needs every ounce of your energy,” Mr Trump wrote. It is obviously a terrible business and I can’t imagine, with fuel prices etc, that you can be doing any better in it than anyone else. Like television, you should try to get out the airline business...
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Harassing employees may cut your well being
1Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

Harassing employees may cut your well being

    Are you a boss who bullies and belittles juniors? Beware, your well-being may be at risk, new research suggests. The researchers have found that supervisors who were abusive felt a sense of recovery because their boorish behaviour helped replenish their mental energy and resources. The moral of the story is that although abuse may be helpful and even mentally restorative for supervisors in the short-term, over the long haul it will come back to haunt them, said Russell Johnson, associate professor at Michigan State University (MSU). According to the study published in the Academy of Management Journal, employees may not immediately confront their bosses following abusive behaviour, over time they may react in negative ways, such as engaging in counterproductive and aggress...
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Austria’s burka ban comes into force: prohibiting face veils in public places
1Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Australia, ENGLISH

Austria’s burka ban comes into force: prohibiting face veils in public places

    Woman wearing burkha A ban on full-face coverings, which includes Muslim veils such as those worn in burkas, comes into force in Austria today as anti-immigration parties look poised to win national elections later this month. The new law states that faces must be visible from hairline to chin in public places and includes off-slope ski masks and surgical masks outside of hospitals. Austrian police are allowed to use force to make people show their face and can impose fines of €150 (£132). Austria’s ban comes after France and Belgium introduced a similar bans in 2011 and the Dutch parliament also debating a similar law. Muslim groups have condemned the law saying only tiny minority of women in the country wear full-face veils. Carla Amina Bhagajati of the Islamic ...
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Theresa May misled Queen over DUP deal
1Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Theresa May misled Queen over DUP deal

    Buckingham Palace was infuriated with Theresa May after she misled the Queen about the progress of negotiations as she sought to form a government, it has been reported. Tensions are said to have arisen between senior courtiers and Downing Street after the Prime Minister said she had secured the support of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), only for it to take another 17 days before a deal was finalised. The palace was further irritated by Ms May breaching protocol as she announced her intention to form a government on the steps of Downing Street, the Sunday Times reported. A Tory peer told the newspaper: She said, I've formed a government, not The Queen has asked me to form a government. The palace was alarmed by her formulation of words. The affair did not prompt a for...
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Prince Harry with Meghan and Barack Obama rekindle bromance at Invictus Games
1Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Canada, ENGLISH

Prince Harry with Meghan and Barack Obama rekindle bromance at Invictus Games

    The Prince and former US president are firm friends, appearing in public together several times over the years. On Friday, they shocked fans at the Invictus Games as they emerged into the wheelchair basketball arena together. In a testament to their friendship, the Prince was allegedly overheard speaking about his girlfriend Ms Markle to Mr Obama, who finally attended an Invictus event after being disappointed to miss out in Orlando last year . Britain's Prince Harry and former U.S. President Obama Hayley Stover, an 18-year-old carpentry student who sat next to the Prince, said afterwards: I did hear Obama ask about Meghan and Harry just let him know she had been to watch the tennis with him. Harry was really smiling when he said it. He looked really happy, it was...
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Theresa May responded to her critics about policies and Brexit
1Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Theresa May responded to her critics about policies and Brexit

    Apologising for a June election when she lost her Conservative Party's majority, Prime Minister Theresa May responded to her critics on Sunday by saying she had the right strategy to lead Britain and win a Brexit deal. May, who has faced calls from within her party to step down, wants to use the Conservatives annual conference in the northern English city of Manchester this week to try to reset her agenda, offering money to students and those people she once described as "just about managing in Britain. In an interview with BBC television, she played down the rifts among top ministers, saying they were united on their programme and more importantly Brexit. That came a day after foreign minister Boris Johnson, perhaps May's biggest rival, set out four personal red lines in ...
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Catalan independence vote begins: Spanish police seize ballot papers
1Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Catalan independence vote begins: Spanish police seize ballot papers

    Catalonia’s disputed independence vote has quickly descended into chaos on Sunday as Spanish national police entered polling stations, seizing ballot boxes and voting papers, the media reported. In the town of Girona, where the regional President Carles Puigdemont was due to vote, the police smashed their way into a polling station by breaking a glass window, reports CNN. ‘Police are confiscating ballot boxes to respect the judicial mandate and the law regarding the illegal referendum,’ Spain’s Interior Ministry tweeted. The Spanish government has pledged to stop the vote that was declared illegal by the country’s constitutional court. The ballot papers contain just one question: ‘Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic?’ There are tw...
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A meat supplier get sentanced who used cement mixer to make doner and selling meat inappropriate way
30Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

A meat supplier get sentanced who used cement mixer to make doner and selling meat inappropriate way

    A kebab shop supplier who used a cement mixer to manufacture chicken doner meat has been jailed and ordered to pay more than £50,000. Sukru Ahmet, 60, who sold meat to takeaways and other food businesses across London and the South-East, was found to be storing six tonnes of frozen poultry which had expired or did not have a use-by date. His company, UK Chicken Doner and Poultry Ltd, also sold German-made doner kebabs falsely labelled as British. When hygiene inspectors raided Ahmet’s processing plant in Swanley, Kent, they found a converted cement mixer being used to process meat. At Maidstone crown court yesterday Ahmet, of Sidcup, was jailed for four months and ordered to pay, with his company, £53,760 in fines and costs. Hygiene inspectors found a converted cement mixe...
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An opportunity to vote on your favourite park
30Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

An opportunity to vote on your favourite park

An opportunity to vote for a favourite green space in the UK is possible by the click of a button. People's Choice, who run the Green Flag Awards, want people to vote to find the UK's top 10 favourite parks. Any green space is eligible to win so long as visitors can enter free of charge. Previously in Tower Hamlets, Victoria Park has won a Green Flag Heritage Award and been voted the People's Park. Green Flag awards are given annually in recognition of exceptional high quality green public spaces. They drive up the standards of parks and green spaces and access to quality green space is something we all desire. You can vote anytime up to 30th September. To vote use the map to find to your favourite park and click the vote button. Once you've voted, don't forget to encourage others to get i...
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Walkabouts to give neighbourhoods a refresh
30Sep By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Walkabouts to give neighbourhoods a refresh

Residents in the Weavers area offered suggestions for making their community more attractive, when they joined Mayor John Biggs and Cllr Amina Ali, Cabinet Member for Environment on a street audit in their neighbourhood. Street audits, where residents walk through their local area, identifying potential improvements, are part of the Mayor's Neighbourhood Refresh programme, a £3 million scheme to invest in local infrastructure and improve neighbourhoods. The programme is being rolled out across the borough over the next three years and residents and community groups in the Weavers area were some of the first to be consulted. During the street audit, residents pointed out where they would like to see more trees, raised kerbs a pedestrian crossing and CCTV. Suggestions included introducing a ...
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