In this May 13, 2009 file photo, Tamil Nadu state’s then Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi displays the indelible ink mark on his finger after casting his vote at a polling booth in Chennai, India. New Delhi, Aug 8 : Muthuvel Karunanidhi, a popular scriptwriter-turned-politician in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, has died after a prolonged illness. He was ...

Education secretary wants UK and Silicon Valley firms to help put tech at heart of classrooms Tech companies in the UK and abroad, including Apple and Microsoft, have been urged to help foster an education revolution by putting technology at the heart of the classroom. The education secretary, Damian Hinds, said only a minority of schools and colleges were taking ...

Former minister asked to say sorry for comparing veiled Muslims to bank robbers Boris Johnson has been told by Conservative party chiefs to apologise for his claim that Muslim women in burqas resemble letter boxes and bank robbers. The Tory chairman, Brandon Lewis, said he had asked the former foreign secretary to say sorry for his controversial remarks in an ...

UK Nirapod Shorok Chai NISCHA organised a discussion meeting and Duwa Mahfil on 4th August in Micro Business Centre in East London.  The speakers demanded harsh punishment for the driver who killed the students of Ramij Uddin Cantonment School and College Ramiz and Meem.  The attendees also prayed for peace for the incorporeal souls of the deceased students. President of the organisation Abdul Helal Chowdhury ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader: Student protests spread like wildfire across the capital and elsewhere in the country yesterday, with the demonstrators vowing to remain on the streets until their demands for road safety are met. Angered by police beating on the previous day, thousands of students in uniforms and schoolbags on their back poured onto the streets of Dhaka and blocked ...

Milan, Aug 7 : Italian firefighters say 12 people have been killed and three injured after a van accident in a town in southern Italy. The ANSA news agency reported that the victims were immigrant farm workers returning from work Monday. The van they were driving hit a truck carrying tomatoes head-on, causing the van to overturn near the town ...

Rescue teams search for victims in the rubble caused by an earthquake at a Mosque in North Lombok, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 6, 2018. Lading-Lading, Aug 7 : Indonesian soldiers have pulled a man alive from the rubble of a large mosque flattened by an earthquake, while thousands of homeless locals wait for aid and stranded tourists camp at beaches and ...

Chicago, Aug 7 : At least 11 people were shot to death and about 70 wounded in a weekend burst of violence in Chicago that instantly became a political issue when President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, blamed the carnage on longtime Democratic rule in the city. Police on Monday attributed the dozens of shootings to gangs, the illegal flow ...

Santa Ana, Aug 7 : On a breezy morning, Floria Hakimi smiled as her photo was snapped on the steps leading up to a small plane that was supposed to usher her to a workshop for real estate agents in Southern California. “Flying out to LA,” she posted on her Instagram account with the photo of her donning sunglasses and ...

Exclusive: leaked letter warns home secretary of ‘significant loss of operational capacity’ A no-deal Brexit poses a substantial risk to public safety, with police officers instantly losing vital access to cross-border investigative powers and databases, the home secretary has been told in a damning letter from the national body of police and crime commissioners. In the leaked document – marked ...