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Bangladesh &  India today before West. 

Fatema Miah: Preya Saha has been nurtured by Awame league government in Bangladesh and she deceptively, and sneakily made untrue statement  to Mr Trump in the Whitehouse.  Shamefully scary. I am a British Muslim of Bangladeshi ethnicity. Being a devout Muslim I am scared of Bangladesh, specially from today 20 July 2019, because there people are often seem to be ...

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Moon back in NASA’s court 50 years after 1st lunar landing

Photo: In this, May 9, 2019, file photo, Jeff Bezos speaks in front of a model of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington. Cape Canaveral, Jul 21 : Fifty years after humanity’s first lunar footsteps, the moon is back in NASA’s court. The White House wants U.S. astronauts on the moon pronto — by 2024, a scant five ...

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British Airways, Lufthansa suspend Cairo flights

Photo: British Airways planes parked at Heathrow Airport in London. London, Jul 21 : British Airways and Lufthansa both said Saturday they were suspending flights to Cairo for unspecified reasons related to safety and security. The British carrier said it was canceling flights to the Egyptian capital for a week. The German airline said normal operations would resume Sunday. Both ...

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Tear gas attack on London underground train

Photo: Police have released images of two people they want to speak to in connection with the attack (collected image) A suspected CS gas attack has occurred on a London Underground train. It happened at 09:13 BST on board a Victoria line Tube train at Oxford Circus in central London. British Transport Police said a number of people were treated ...

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No-deal Brexit could cause £30bn economic hit, watchdog says

Public borrowing could double next year if there is a no-deal Brexit, the country’s spending watchdog says. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said borrowing would be almost £60bn if the UK leaves without a deal – up from £29.3bn if it does get a deal. The watchdog said this scenario was based on assumptions that a no-deal Brexit would ...

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Iran’s seizure of UK tanker in Gulf seen as escalation

Photo: In this May 5, 2019 photo issued by Karatzas Images, showing the British oil tanker Stena Impero at unknown location, which is believed to have been captured by Iran. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced on their website Friday July 19, 2019, it has seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the latest provocation in a strategic waterway ...

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Boris throughout his time at the frontline of British politics.

  By Mehfuz Ahmed: I have known Boris throughout his time at the frontline of British politics, right from when he was the London Mayoral Candidate in 2006, to being elected Mayor, to when he was the Foreign Secretary. I recall meeting him just a few days before he visited Bangladesh to visit the Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazaar and ...

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Climate  mitigation, the Building constructions

Fatema Miah: We talked about Climate mitigation and  adaptation to resilient on essential aspects. Building construction is another effective or the most fixed and long time aspect.  There our Architectural scientists have  introduced a range of techniques for making buildings more resilient to the changing climate. Here are some more ways in which the built environment can be adapted. The ...

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Fast-growing web of doorbell cams raises privacy fears

Photo: Ernie Field holds up a live video of himself taken by a Ring doorbell camera at the front door at his home in Wolcott, Conn.  Dhaka, Jul 19 : The woodsy community of Wolcott, Connecticut, doesn’t see a lot of crime. But when the police chief heard about an opportunity to distribute doorbell cameras to some homes, he didn’t hesitate. ...

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Boeing takes $5bn hit over grounding of 737 Max

Boeing is taking a $4.9bn hit to cover costs related to the worldwide grounding of its 737 Max aircraft. The charge is set to wipe out profits when the world’s biggest planemaker posts quarterly results next week.In a statement, Boeing also said its “best estimate at this time” is that the aircraft will return to service in the last three ...

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