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Keep your skin, hair safe from summer wrath

Cleansing is of great importance for the working woman who leaves home to get to work, battling traffic and exposing herself to the grime and pollutants in the air. Always cleanse the skin at night, before going to bed, so that you can remove make-up, stale sweat and oil deposits, as well as dirt and pollutants. A tulsi neem face ...

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Women living around natural vegetation live longer

Women who live close to natural vegetation live longer, compared to women with the lowest levels of greenery near their houses, a study has found. According to researchers, women with the highest levels of vegetation around their houses had a 12 percent lower death rate. The findings showed 41 percent lower death rate for kidney disease, 34 percent lower death ...

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Ecuador earthquake: Desperate search for survivors as deaths rise

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has warned that the death toll from a powerful earthquake which has killed 272 people is likely to rise. There were desperate scenes as rescuers and family members searched for survivors, often with bare hands. Mr Correa said there was evidence that people were still alive under the rubble of collapsed buildings. More than 2,000 were ...

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George Osborne: UK would be ‘permanently poorer’ outside EU

The UK would be “permanently poorer” outside the European Union, Chancellor George Osborne has warned ahead of the in-out vote on membership on 23 June. A Treasury analysis suggests an EU exit could see the UK economy 6% smaller than it would otherwise be by 2030. Mr Osborne said the smaller size of the economy projected in the report was ...

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Theresa May to get enhanced role in EU referendum to win over wavering Tories

17 APRIL 2016 Theresa May is the In campaign’s secret weapon to win over eurosceptics and will be given an enhanced role in the final two months of the referendum, leading pro-EU strategists have said. Senior figures in the Remain campaign believe the Home Secretary’s record in tackling crime and terrorism gives her an unparalleled position to deliver warnings over Britain’s ...

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Bengali surgeon performs world’s first live-streamed surgery

Ansar Ahmed Ullah : On Thursday 14 April the world witnessed the first medical operation streamed live in 360-degree video, allowing medical students and trainee surgeons across the world, including Bangladesh, to view the procedure in real time via website. A surgeon at the Royal London Hospital Whitechapel, Dr Shafi Ahmed said before the operation that he believed the approach, ...

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Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain to make Queen’s birthday cake

The Great British Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain has revealed that she is to bake the Queen’s 90th birthday cake. The winner of the popular BBC show said she would be serving an orange drizzle cake with orange curd and orange buttercream. Revealing the news on ITV’s Loose Women, Hussain said the cake would be “very citrusy”. She had considered ...

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Five held by anti-terror police in Birmingham and Gatwick

Five people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences as part of an investigation launched after the recent attacks in Paris and Brussels, West Midlands Police say. Three men, aged 26, 40 and 59, and a 29-year-old woman, were arrested in Birmingham on Thursday night. A fourth man, 26, was arrested at Gatwick Airport in the early hours of ...

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UK prime minister appoints Rushanara Ali MP as trade envoy for Bangladesh

British Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed Bangladesh-born British MP Rushanara Ali as ‘trade envoy’ for Bangladesh. The appointment underlines the importance the UK attaches to its trade and investment partnership with Bangladesh, the British High Commission in Dhaka says. Ali is the Labour Party MP for the constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow. She was the first person of ...

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Council is recognised for service excellence

Tower Hamlets Council has been shortlisted for four prestigious, national awards from the MJ, a leading UK trade publication. The clean and green team is shortlisted for ‘best council services’ and was commended in the ‘reinventing public services’ category; the adopt a garden team is shortlisted for ‘excellence in community engagement’, the legal services team is shortlisted for their expertise ...

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