Photo : A man walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Singapore, Jun 18 : Asian stocks were mixed on Tuesday as caution set in ahead of interest rate decisions by the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 eased 0.7% to 20,972.71 while South Korea’s Kospi ...

Photo: Made almost from scratch, the car runs on five batteries. Narayanganj, June 17 : At first sight, it looks like a gorgeous imported sports car. At most, some may think it was assembled in the country after importing foreign materials. But a youth named Akash, a resident of Narayanganj, actually built the car from scratch at a workshop here ...

US President Donald Trump has once again criticised London Mayor Sadiq Khan, calling him a “national disgrace” who is destroying the UK’s capital. His comments came after five attacks in London in less than 24 hours left three men dead and three others injured. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was “absolutely awful” Mr Trump was using the “tragedy of ...

Photo: Customers wait on a long check out line at a Target store in San Francisco on Saturday, June 15, 2019. San Francisco, Jun 16 : A glitch stalled checkout lines at Target stores worldwide Saturday, exasperating shoppers and potentially eating into sales at a prime time for retailers, the day before Father’s Day. The roughly two-hour outage periodically prevented ...

Exam board Edexcel has launched an investigation into how part of an A-level maths paper was leaked online. Blacked out images of two questions were shared on social media on Thursday afternoon. Pearson, which runs Edexcel, said the images were circulated “in a very limited way” shortly before Friday’s Maths Paper 3 exam. It reassured students no-one would be advantaged ...

Photo: Yutaka Katada, president of Kokuka Sangyo Co., the Japanese company operating one of two oil tankers attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, shows a photo of the attacked oil tanker during a news conference Friday, June 14, 2019, in Tokyo. Seoul, Jun 15 : The blasts detonated far from the bustling megacities of Asia, but the attack this week ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   The Bangladeshi-born 38-year-old, Lecturer from University of Wales Trinity Saint David Afzal Sayed Munna has been appointed as the Vice-Chairman for Dagenham & Redbridge Sports Club. Afzal is also the Executive Member, Newham Barking & Dagenham Liberal Democrats and Liberal Democrats Campaign for Race Equality and the Independent School Representative for National Education Union (NEU), Barking ...

  Tower Hamlets wins three of the 21 awarded across London John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets has congratulated three local community organisations on achieving the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. The recipients of the award were officially announced on Sunday 2 June, which is the anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation. The award is the highest given to volunteer groups ...

  Fatema Miah:   In reply to comments about Islam and how Muslim seem to behave very odd and annoying, the topic raised by western people. I replied;  There are full of rigid mentally sick minded beings in Asian communities are claiming Muslims, those  forced into Islam unconsciously by their fellow families or community or even forced  themselves, it seems ...

Fatema Miah:   I have come to Recognise what was the  concern that the  relationship between climate change and health, as well as the associated themes and trends are linking climate change to public health and suffering, that’s is prominent and constantly in rise, therefore action must be taken to educate public about public health.  There are  key cobtributors to ...