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11th year celebrating the best of the British Bangladeshi community.

  Bangla Mirror Desk: The British Bangladeshis have made their own place in multicultural Britain with contributions in their respective fields and have been playing a major role in the growth of this country. The British Bangladeshi Who’s Who publication emphasises the success of the Bangladeshi community and showcases it to both the British and Bangladeshi community in the UK. ...

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Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

By Taslim Ahammad: Utmost civil disagreements are resolved without filing a lawsuit, and many civil lawsuits are resolved without going to court. The courts and others propose a variety of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods to facilitate citizen/people to resolve disputes. ADR is usually less formal, less expensive, and less time-consuming than going to court. This writing look at why ...

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13 dead after California bar shooting

Photo: This image made from aerial video show officers around a Police SUV in the vicinity of a shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, early Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Thousand Oaks,Nov 8 : A sheriff says 13 people are dead, including a sheriff’s sergeant and the gunman, after a shooting inside a crowded Southern California bar late Wednesday. Ventura County Sheriff ...

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BANGLADESH: my dream

   FR CHOWDHURY: A few days back I was talking to a friend of mine in Dhaka over phone. As soon as I asked him about the students’ protest against road accidents the line went off. I thought it got disconnected and redialled when my friend told me not to talk anything political. I got the message. Two days later ...

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Is Justice Political or Socialism  – Climate and environment   

  Fatema Miah: Justice is a  wider scope  and core of all subject matter. Question aroused is term Justice political? The above question aroused from some peole in Lebanon said word Justice sounds political in relation to raised concern for environment, said Adrian Martin who intends to educate people about environment to be environmentally caring and environmental justice phrase has ...

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Suspected gunman dies at Calif. bar

Photo: In this image made from aerial video, police vehicles block an intersection in the vicinity of a shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, early Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Thousand Oaks, Nov 8 : Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Eric Buschow says the gunman is dead inside a Southern California bar where 11 people were injured late Wednesday. Authorities say a responding ...

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Toshiba slashes 7,000 jobs, pulls out of British nuke plant

The boss of struggling Toshiba said Thursday he would cut 7,000 jobs over the next five years as the Japanese engineering firm pulled out of foreign investments and downgraded its annual profit forecasts.   Toshiba also expects to scrap or consolidate some factories and reduce its subsidiaries by 25 percent — announcing the withdrawal from a US-based liquid natural gas ...

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Head on collision between 2 buses kills 45 in Zimbabwe

A police spokesman says a bus crash killed 45 people in Zimbabwe, where road accidents are common due to poor roads and bad driving. Police spokesman Paul Nyathi says two long distance buses going opposite directions collided “head on” near Rusape, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) east of the capital Harare on Wednesday.   The State-run Herald newspaper reported that ...

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Prince Charles won’t ‘meddle’ when he becomes king

The Prince of Wales says he will stop speaking out on topics he feels strongly about when he becomes king, as he is “not that stupid”. He has campaigned on issues such as the environment for decades, but says he would not do the same as monarch.   Speaking in a BBC documentary to mark his 70th birthday, Prince Charles ...

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White House suspends credentials for CNN’s Jim Acosta

The White House has suspended the credentials of a CNN’s chief White House correspondent hours after a testy exchange with US President Donald Trump. A White House staffer tried to grab the microphone from CNN’s Jim Acosta at the press conference on Wednesday.   But press secretary Sarah Sanders said access was removed because the reporter put “his hands on ...

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