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Project Shapla returns to Bangladesh

Ansar Ahmed Ullah Conservative Friends of Bangladesh (CFOB) UK will this week lead a delegation of twenty three volunteers on a social action project in Bangladesh. The six-day mission, under the Project Shapla banner, will see the group working at a number of BRAC project sites in Dhaka as well as in Sylhet. Led by Conservative MP for St Albans, ...

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Death toll in Mina Hajj stampede rising

At least 717 pilgrims from around the world were killed on Thursday in a crush outside the Muslim holy city of Makkah, Saudi authorities said, in the worst disaster to strike the annual Hajj pilgrimage for 25 years. At least 863 others were injured at Mina, a few kilometres east of Makkah, when two large groups of pilgrims arrived together ...

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Four out of five people prosecuted for squatting in London are foreign

Four in five squatters prosecuted in London since the introduction of legislation making it a criminal offence were from overseas, figures show. Metropolitan Police statistics reveal that 211 people — including two 65-year-olds and 20 teenagers — have been taken to court for squatting in a residential building since the law came into effect in September 2012. They include 43 ...

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British Foreign Secretary’s Eid-ul-Adha message

On the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Adha, the British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, has issued the following message: Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: “I would like to send my best wishes to Muslims across the world who are celebrating Eid al-Adha, marking the end of Hajj, the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. We remember all   of those killed and injured in the ...

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UK to launch vehicle emissions probe following VW scandal

The UK is to launch its own investigation into vehicle emissions testing, following the VW scandal in the US. The UK regulator, the Vehicle Certification Agency, will work with car makers to re-run lab tests where necessary. It will then compare the results against “real-world” driving emissions. Meanwhile the EU has also said that there should be a Europe-wide investigation ...

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Watching porn does not create negative attitude towards women: Study

This may hurt some souls but the fact is that feminists are most likely to watch porn and other explicit material, an interesting study has revealed. According to the study from the University of Western Ontario and reported by the Telegraph, people who had watched an adult film at least once in the past year had more egalitarian ideas about ...

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Recipe of Sabudana laddoo

Ingredients Sabudana 1 cup Kaju – 10-12 Desiccated coconut 1/2 cup Sugar  1 cup Water 1 cup Oil – as required Method Roast Sabudana in a pan. In another pan roast the kaju. Transfer them to separate plates. Now in one of the pans, add desiccated coconut and some sugar. Add some water. Cook until the coconut turns brown. Take ...

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Know Sonam Kapoor’s advice on break-ups

The fashionista of Bolywood, Sonam Kapoor took to social media to give her advice on break-ups. Asking women not to be scared of break-ups, Sonam took to Twitter to share a one-minute-long video, where she talks candidly about relationships and her personal relationship media coverages. She says: “Break ups are so liberating… The first one was easy. We were young, ...

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Science explains why your partner’s skin feels softer than your own

If you find that whenever you touch your partner’s skin and it feels much softer that yours, then you are probably living in an illusion — apart from a little pleasure, of course. In other words, this “social softness illusion” in the mind of the touch-giver is selective to the body parts and the stroking speeds that are most likely ...

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Are you bitten by the love bug at work?

Romance in the workplace is laced with challenges. Here’s how you can keep calm, find love and still meet the deadline. We spend at least half (if not more) of our waking hours at work. With so much time spent at one place and the heart doing what it wants to do, it’s not surprising that so many of us ...

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