By A. Rahman Two dates – August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945 – will remain firmly etched in the minds of humanity as the example of the world’s worst man-made disaster and cruelty. People will recoil, as long as human civilisation lasts, at how the evil nature of human beings can cause such enormous death, destruction, and sufferings — ...

By Fatema Miah On the 28th of July 2015, Saudi beheading news published on the front page with a full picture. In the picture it shows a scene of the beheading individual is blind folded forced down on his knees among few other people, including uniformed police officers, another official and the be-header dressed up in traditional white Arab long ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: The launch of online ordering service provider, Chef Online Smart Restaurant Solutions, was announced on Monday 10th August at Crowne Plaza London Docklands to a guest list of media, restaurateurs and key figures from the UK hospitality industry.  Hosted by LBC presenter, Lisa Aziz, the evening marked the first formal event to unveil online ordering plaftorm, Chef Online ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah A new business association by the name of ‘Syedpur Business Forum’ was announced at a  press conference on Monday, 10 August, held at Sonargaon restaurant, Banglatown, East London. The newly formed Business Forum’s convenor Syed Khaled Miah informed the press &  media of the association’s aims and objectives. He said the purpose of the Forum is to ...

Turkey launched a series of overnight air strikes against Kurdish militants, aimed at 17 targets in the south-east, the army says. The targets were in Hakkari province on the border with Iran and Iraq. Turkey has seen increasing violence in recent weeks between the military and Kurdish separatists. The strikes come a day after nine people were killed in a ...

Japan has restarted its first nuclear reactor under new safety rules following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. All Japan’s nuclear plants were gradually shut down after a series of meltdowns at the Fukushima plant sparked by the tsunami and earthquake. But after passing stringent new safety tests, Kyushu Electric Power restarted the number one reactor at its Sendai plant on Tuesday ...

China’s central bank has devalued the national currency, the yuan, to its lowest rate against the US dollar in almost three years. The lender said the move was a “one-off depreciation” of 1.9% in a move to make the exchange rate more market-oriented. It comes in the wake of a string of weak economic data from the world’s second largest ...

Greece has agreed a bailout deal “in principle” with its creditors, the European Commission has said. The Commission said a technical agreement had been reached with Greece, which now requires political approval. Earlier, Greece’s Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos had said “two or three small issues,” were yet to be resolved with lenders, following overnight talks in Athens. A deal is ...

The Iraqi parliament has unanimously approved reforms aimed at stamping out corruption, reducing government waste and easing sectarian tensions. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s programme was pushed through without debate, according to parliamentary speaker Salim al-Juburi. Under the plan, Mr Abadi will cut spending and eliminate senior posts. It follows recent anti-government protests over an unreliable electricity supply amid a major ...

Ukraine has banned 38 books published in Russia, alleging that they spread “hate ideology” and “separatism”. The ban includes works by Russian nationalists Alexander Dugin, Eduard Limonov and Sergei Glazyev. The blacklist was published by the Ukrainian State Television and Radio Committee. It accused Russia of waging “information warfare” against Ukraine. Ukraine and Western leaders say Russia is fomenting separatism ...