A failed takeover, slow uptake of the new operating system and stuttering sales of the Z10 culminated in the removal of Thorsten Heins as CEO in November. What came out was well…. A little dull. The 5s was slimmer with a better processor and a few more features, but nothing that would re-shape the market like previous editions.
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The digital currency then festered for a few months until popping up again in November to take over the world… a bit. Bitcoin was politically debated around the world as governments considered financial implications of an unrestricted currency.
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A freedom fighter would also be honoured at the event, he added. Miles to go before DND dam area is developed Peoples suffering will continue until two ministries resolve their differnces. However, the LGD is reluctant to take charge of the area.
An unplanned residential area has mushroomed around the embankment, but the area is prone to water logging and lacks adequate roads and drainage, causing various difficulties for residents. The water resources ministry was responsible for an irrigation project in the area, which is no longer viable with urban development taking over the land.
The ministry is therefore keen for the LGD to take responsibility, but the LGD is reluctant because it is concerned about the cost of developing the area. On September 18, an inter-ministerial meeting attended by ministry and LGD officials, representatives of Dhaka South and Narayanganj city corporations, and Wasa Water Supply and Sewerage Authority failed to reach an amicable solution. A series of inter-ministerial meetings followed but officials failed to come to any understanding by resolving their differences so that residents of the DND dam area can hope for better days.
The LGD continues to be reluctant about taking responsibility for infrastructural development According to sources, Parimal Chandra Saha, joint secretary of the water resources ministry, said because the DND dam area is no longer suitable as an irrigation project and also because the. So, how could we take responsibility? To resolve the difficulties faced by the residents of such an unplanned.
Starting from 10am, for four hours the students burned at least three and vandalised nearly a dozen vehicles. Due to the blockade vehicular movement came to a standstill which triggered 30km long tailbacks on the highway, causing delays and difficulties for vehicles and travelers. When news of the accident reached the university, hundreds of IIUC students rushed to the spot and went on a rampage, vandalising vehicles and setting them alight, said Assistant Superintendent Md Iqbal Ali from Sitakunda circle in Chittagong range.
People in Khulna are not getting proper healthcare services as upazila health complexes are beset with manifold problems. Almost all the health complexes in the district, including those of Rupsha, Dighalia and Terokhada upazilas, are unable to provide basic treatment to the patients due to shortage of medical and other staff, and lack of necessary equipment.
Some health complexes have X-ray machines but no technicians to operate them, while others lack the relevant equipment. Defying government directive, many doctors of the upazila health complexes continue to live in Khulna.
Students of International Islamic University Chittagong set a bus on fire, protesting the death of one of their fellows in a road accident. The LGD continues to be reluctant about taking responsibility for infrastructural development in the unplanned residential areas. As a result, the upazila level public hospitals fail to provide the required health services to the common people. Though the health complex had an ambulance, there was no one to drive it and its pathological laboratory had been closed for a long time since there was no health technician to run it.
The posts of residential medical officer, medical consultant and surgery consultant have also been lying vacant for a long time. In Batiaghata health complex, only two people are employed against the. The Terokhada health complex has neither X-ray machines nor technicians. Although the bed health complex was inaugurated by the local MP, it has yet to get administrative approval. As a result, the health complex is still able to cater to only 31 patients as earlier.
Against 15 posts sanctioned, only five officials are working in the health complex, upazila health official Dr Abdul Naser said. Patients at Dakope health complex are being forced to go to the private clinic of its health officer at Gallamari. At the Koira health complex, an employee is indulging in corrupt practices and there are no efforts made to check him. The Dumuria health complex and Dighalia health complex also suffer from lack of machines and personnel, whereas the lone X-ray machine in Fultala health complex, has remained out of order for the last 12 years.
Paikgachha health complex also faces an acute crisis of manpower. The Khulna University Hospital suffers much of the same fate and its acting chief health officer is reportedly employed at a private office on Ahsan Road in the city.
The newly-elected mayor of Khulna City Corporation, Moniruzaman Moni, is expected to take charge from today. He also pledged to improve playgrounds at schools and colleges to create a sportive environment in the city, which lacks a stadium. Moniruzaman was elected mayor in the June 15 polls, beating his rival, outgoing mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque. Jamaat-Shibir activists yesterday vandalised vehicles and set off crude bombs in Chittagong, in protest against the arrest of 34 Shibir men in the port city.
Also, 25 activists from Shibir, the student wing of Bangladesh Jammat-eIslami, were sued in Sylhet on charge of attacking a policeman on Monday. Chittagong police said one pedestrian named Pulak Das, 25, was injured in the violence.
Earlier, police nabbed 34 Islami. Chhatra Shibir activists, including 10 top leaders of the party, in the early hours of yesterday morning, on the charge of undertaking preparations for subversive activities. Police also seized many books, leaflets, posters, banners and bamboo sticks from their possession.
Protesting the arrest of its members, at least Jamaat-Shibir men brought out a procession from An-. On Monday, a group of JamaatShibir men brought out a procession in Bandarbazar area of the city as part of their scheduled programme, and vandalised cars including a police motorcycle. Later, the police rushed to the spot and dispersed the crowd from the area.
Officer-in-charge of CU police outpost Rafiqul Islam said the police nabbed Yamin from the spot and handed him over to the proctor of the university. When a Gazipur-bound bus of Titas Paribahan stopped in front of the main entrance of the university to drop off passengers, the Chhatra Dal activists started hurling bricks at it breaking its windows. They also sprayed petrol on the bus and set it on fire, said Md Ayub Ali, driver of the bus.
No one, however, was hurt from the incident, he said. A team from Savar fire service station doused the fire around am. Ashulia police reached the spot half an hour later. Prof Dr Md Muzibur Rahman said police did the right thing by taking necessary action against the miscreants. When a Gazipur-bound bus of Titas Paribahan stopped in front of the main entrance of the university to drop off passengers, the Chhatra Dal activists started hurling bricks at it breaking its windows enforcers if they were seen on campus.
So our organisation will not take any responsibility. Shamsul Haque, who was allegedly attacked with iron rods and sticks, was later sent to hospital, said Prof Dr Md Muzibur Rahman. The agitators reportedly exploded handmade bombs from the procession.
Narayanganj police station OC SM Monjur Kader said the attackers could not be identified and none was injured in the incident. Sources said the erosion of the river recently took a turn for the worse in the area, devouring homes of over families.
The victims have moved to elevated grounds along the riverbanks, where they are living without any shelter, with their cattle and belongings. The locals said an application has been sent to the deputy commissioner, seeking permission to use the khas land in the area to construct new homes.
However, the administration is yet to grant permission, they said. Three found dead in three districts n Tribune Report Police recovered the bodies of three people from separate places in Netrakona, Jamalpur and Chapainawabganj.
Our Netrakona correspondent reported that police recovered the body of a housewife from a jungle adjacent to her residence at Fata village under Khaliajuri upazila yesterday morning. Local people found the body of Rokshana Begum, 30, and informed police about the matter. Police sent the body to Netrakona Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy. Officer-in-Charge of Khaliajuri police station Abul Kalam said motive behind the killing could not be known immediately.
In Jamalpur, police recovered the body of Hasan Mia, 35, son of Tara Mia, of Fatehpur village of the upazila, from a roadside ditch at Godashimla Taltola in sadar upazila on Monday morning. Police said Hasan had been living on by driving motorcycle. Police suspected that Hasan might have been killed by muggers for snatching his motorcycle. A case was filed with Jamalpur sadar police station.
In Chapainawabganj, police recovered the body of a housewife from a sugarcane field in Namochokpara area in Shibganj upazila. The deceased was identified as Selina Begum, 30, wife of Shahabul of the area. Selina might have committed suicide by hanging herself from a mango tree beside the sugarcane field, police said. Boduzzaman, Hamela Begum and Surutun Begum, some of the victims, who have lost their homes, said it would be highly beneficial for them if they received khas lands for building either temporary or permanent homes.
The victims have moved to elevated grounds along the riverbanks, where they are living without any shelter, with their cattle and belongings The victims urged the authorities concerned to take necessary steps to mitigate their sufferings by offering them khas land for building new homes. When contacted, the chairman of the union parishad M Monzu Miah admitted that people had been suffering the last few days due to losing their homes to river erosion. Transport workers of Bogra blockaded Dhaka-Bogra Highway yesterday , protesting death of a truck driver during the recent hour hartal.
They said the teachers would shut. According to the prosecution, being tipped off, a team of Rapid Action Battalion Rab - 8 conducted a drive in Mostafapur area of sadar upazila on April 25, and arrested Jahangir Hawladar,34, son of Sohrab Hawladar of Ghatakchar village of Sadar upazila, along with one LG light gun. Examining witnesses and evidence, Judge of the Special Tribunal-3 Aminul Islam handed down the verdict.
On the other hand, police arrested Helal Uddin Sarkar of Naria upazila of Shariatpur district and Aminul Islam of Khowajpur-Tekerhat village of the district Sadar upazila along with bottles of phensidyl syrup from in front of Shibchar Upazila Health Complex on April 1, Judge of the Special Tribunal-2 Nurul Islam handed down the verdict after examining witnesses and documents. The court also fined the two convicts Tk20, each.
The pirate leader Emran and his cohort Jasim were fugitives who escaped from police custody earlier on Monday morning. Meanwhile, agitated locals caught Jasim and lynched him to death. Police recovered five rounds of bullet, a rifle and five explosives from the area. Earlier on Sunday night, Emran and. Police in Khagrachari sadar upazila yesterday rescued a businessman, who was abducted by a group of six criminals and detained three of the abductors from Adalot Sarak area.
Officer-in-Charge at the Sadar police station, Mohammad Mustafizur Rahman said a group of six abductors, blocked the road of a businessman, Jahangir Alam, 32 at the Hospital Gate area, and kidnapped him through a CNG-run auto-rickshaw. Police was preparing to file a case against the three detained and the three unidentified, OC confirmed.
Road accidents kill five, including woman and her child Correspondents, Barisal, n Our Tangail and Narsingdi At least five people were killed and several others were injured, in separate road accidents in Barisal, Tangail and Narsingdi. The victims were Beauty Bepari, 30, wife of Kamal Sardar from Mahilara union of the upazila, and their twoyear old son Ferdous. Witnesses said Beauty was visiting her parents in the area and was waiting at the local bus stand with her son, when a speeding truck ran over them, killing the two on the spot.
Agitated locals blocked the highway for half an hour, before calling off the protests following assurance from the police of arresting the driver. Police managed to seize the truck. Police also lodged a case of unnatural death, and sent the bodies to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy. The deceased was Forhad Hossen, Gorai highway police Officer-inCharge Jobaidul Alam, who is also the younger brother of the deceased, said the accident took the place when a Dhaka-bound microbus collided headon with a bus of Shamim Enterprise.
Forhad was killed on the spot, while three others were admitted to the Tangail General Hospital with critical injuries. Witnesses and police sources said the victims died on the spot, while three others were rescued by the locals and admitted to the Narsingdi Zila Hospital.
A case was also filed with the Belabo police station, while the truck driver and his helper managed to flee. Jasim were arrested from Bayezid Bostami in Chittagong, from where they were later sent to the Sudharam police station in Maijdee. The police said both men complained of stomach aches at night, so station officer-in-charge Jahidul Islam Roni sent them to Noakhali General Hospital on Monday morning with two constables on a CNG-run auto rickshaw.
On the way to the hospital, they pushed the two constables out of the vehicle and fled. The SP said Emran was a notorious pirate leader who had 14 cases filed against him with the Hatiya police station. The bodies of the deceased have been sent to the Noakhali General Hospital for autopsy.
All of the three severely burned drivers have died of their injuries reported on Monday. Among the three Truck drivers, Samsu, 55, was going to Panchagarh from Shirajganj with a truck loaded with fertiliser. When he stopped for a break near the Bogra-Shahjahanpur road on Wednesday night, a group of hartal activists attacked the truck and set it ablaze. The Truck Shramik Union of Bogra organised the two-hour long blockade and demanded punishment of those involved in the attack.
They gave an ultimatum demanding the arrest of the killers by September A local activist of Juba Dal, youth front of the main opposition BNP, was murdered by miscreants at Raghunathpur village in Chowgacha upazila of the district on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Atiar, 35, an activist of Singhajhuli Union Juba Dal unit in the upazila.
At one stage, he ran away from the spot in panic. Later, the attackers, after a short chase, could get hold of him and hacked him indiscriminately and fled leaving him seriously injured in a nearby ditch.
He was rushed to Jessore Medical College Hospital where on-duty doctors declared him dead. Police said they conducted a drive in the bus stand area of the district town at 12 at noon and arrested them along with hemp. Later, they were produced before a mobile court led by Executive Magistrate Asif Iqbal who handed down the verdict. One killed in Jessore road accident A man was killed and 12 others injured when a bus fell into a pond at DeoaraNarangali area on the Jessore-Chutipur road under Sadar upazila of the district on Monday.
The deceased was identified as Dinobhondhu, 80, hailed from Telkupa village in Bagherpara upazila of the district. Police and eyewitnesses said, the accident occurred when a Jessore bound bus from Chutipur fell into a road side pond in the area as its driver lost control over the steering, leaving Dinobhondhu dead on the spot and wounding 12 other passengers. The injured were sent to Jessore bed Hospital.
A case was filed with concerned thana in this connection. A man was chopped to death by some miscreants at Jagonnathpur village under Chowgacha upazila of the district last night. The deceased was identified as Atier Rahman, 35, son of Bador Uddin of the same area. Police and locals sources said, some unidentified miscreants chopped Atier with sharp weapons and leaving him critically injured while he was sitting at a tea stall of the village around 8pm. He was taken to Jessore bed Hospital where on duty doctors declared him dead.
Two drown in separate incidents in Lakshmipur Two people, including a newly married woman, drowned in separate incidents in Sadar and Ramganj upazilas on Monday. A newly married woman drowned in a pond at Pashchim Lakshmipur village in sadar upazila of Lakshmipur on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Baby Akhter, wife of Mohon Mia of the village. Sub-inspector Jasim Uddin of Lakshmipur Sadar Police Station said they learnt about the drowning news of the woman but no one informed them about this.
Schoolboy beaten to death in Jhenaidah A schoolboy of Phulhari village, Sailkupa upazila, Jhenaidah was beaten to death at a local graveyard on Monday night. The deceased was Al Mamun, 15, a student of class nine at Phulahari High School of the village under the same upazila. Sailkupa police station Officer-in-Charge Anwar Hossain said on receiving information from the local people, police recovered the body from Biswaspara graveyard. The police found injury marks on the body, but they could not discover the motive behind the killing.
The body was sent to Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital morgue for post mortem examination, Anwar said. Mamun had been missing since Monday noon. A case was filed with Sailkupa police station in this connection. The main opposition Tamil party won a landslide victory in weekend elections for a regional council in the battle-scarred north, a poll hailed internationally as a step towards ethnic reconciliation after decades of ethnic war.
Some of her supporters were hospitalised after being beaten up during the incident in Jaffna, km north of Colombo, in the heart of the former war zone, according to party officials. Gopalaswami also said the military was directly involved in campaigning for candidates of the national ruling party, including distributing leaflets and discouraging Tamil voters in key areas from heading to polling booths.
The Tamil National Alliance won 30 out of the 38 seats to the council, raising hopes of some degree of self-rule for the ethnic minority after decades of war in the Sinhalese-majority country. A separate four-member monitoring. Not all families can afford the colorful gowns and other niceties for such parties, though. Each padrino also paid for medicine for three or four of the girls.
The statement comes as dozens. Mortar shells fired from Afghanistan hit a border village in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing two civilians, security officials said. Firing incidents across the border are not uncommon and have added to long-running tensions between Kabul and Pakistan, which last week released a senior Taliban commander as part of attempts to restart Afghan peace efforts.
An intelligence official in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan confirmed that mortars were fired from Afghan province of Khost. Both Taliban and NATO forces use mortars as part of combat operations and the intelligence official in Miranshah said mortars were fired from the Tarkhobi check post in Khost. Pakistan and Afghanistan share a disputed, porous and unmarked 2,km border, and have tricky diplomatic relations, accusing each other previously of cross-border violations and sending gunmen to create unrest.
Pakistan has been a frontline in the US-led war on terror in Afghanistan to eliminate al-Qaeda and Taliban militants from the war-torn country. Islamists say still holding hostages in Kenya mall siege n AFP, Nairobi Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants said Tuesday they were still holding hostages as Kenyan troops battled for a fourth day to end the bloody siege at a Nairobi shopping centre, as of 8pm BDT when this report was filed.
The fate of 63 people listed as missing remains unclear. Meanwhile, explosive experts were defusing devices set up by the militants, police said, adding another dangerous element to the siege, which has now dragged on for over hours. Shabab fighters stormed the crowded mall midday on Saturday, tossing grenades, firing automatic weapons and sending panicked shoppers fleeing.
Many foreign fighters, including Somalis with dual nationalities, are members of the Shabab force. And she has, I think, done this many times before. Lewthwaite is wanted in Kenya, and is accused of links to the Shabab. Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said officials decided at a meeting Tuesday to delay naming a winning bidder for the 8.
The F jet, which has been plagued by schedule delays and cost overruns, is widely regarded as a much more advanced and capable aircraft than its predecessors. Last year it threatened to cancel the multibillion-dollar deal if prices continue to rise or delays threaten the delivery date. South Korea has traditionally favoured importing fighter jets and other weapons from the US, which stations.
This spring, tensions on the Korean peninsula rose sharply, with Pyongyang threatening nuclear wars to protest toughened UN sanctions after its third nuclear test in February. The US took the unusual step of sending its most powerful warplanes — B-2 stealth bombers, F stealth fighters and B bombers — to drills with South Korea in a show of force.
B-2 and B bombers are capable of delivering nuclear weapons. In recent days, South Korean media, retired generals and weapons experts had pressed the government not to pick the F Silent Eagle, arguing better stealth capabilities were needed. Kenyan troops invaded southern Somalia to attack Shabab bases two years ago, joining forces with a Somali militia warlord and wresting the key port of Kismayo from the extremists. The African Union vowed Tuesday to press on with its fight against al-Qaeda-linked Shabab militants in Somalia following a deadly siege in Kenya that.
Mwencha said the bloody siege underscores the difficulty of fighting Shabab rebels, whose threat extends beyond the borders of Somalia. Obama said he had probably not had a cigarette in six years. He is known to chew Nicorette gum to reduce the craving for nicotine. China police probe death of girls in washing machine An investigation into the mysterious death of two young sisters has been launched in eastern China after a family member claimed they died in a washing machine, police said Tuesday.
Police in Jiangxi province said they received a call on Sunday enquiring about possible compensation payments for the family of two sisters aged two and three who died after climbing into a washing machine the day before. Haier had sent staff to help with the probe, the Global Times added. Two policemen detained in Mexico mass grave case Two Mexican police officers were arrested for allegedly participating in the killing of 12 young people found in a mass grave after being kidnapped from a Mexico City bar, prosecutors said Monday.
Prosecutors say the mass kidnapping was ordered as revenge for the murder of a drug dealer in the trendy Condesa district amid a dispute between two city gangs. Anti-social Dallas Zoo gorilla being shown door There will be no rose ceremony for a kg bachelor gorilla that failed to form any meaningful relationships with fellow apes during an year stay at the Dallas Zoo.
Patrick, the year-old Western lowland gorilla known for being gregarious with zoo staff and the public, while being ambivalent toward his female counterparts, has been handed his walking papers. The silverback will be transferred to the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, SC where he will be allowed more solitude, according to a statement issued Monday by the Dallas Zoo. Singh said that he was repeatedly punched and his beard was pulled during the attack just north of Central Park in Harlem.
He spent a day undergoing surgery for displaced teeth and other wounds. Singh, 31, who conducts community health projects in Harlem, said the.
Asked what he would say to his assailants if he encountered them, Singh said he would invite them to a Sikh temple, known as a gurdwara. Sikhism, founded in South Asia five centuries ago, requires men to. It already compiled statistics on antiMuslim attacks. Delhi policemen stand guard as the four men convicted in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus last year, are to be brought to the High court AP.
The White House has left open the possibility that Obama and Rouhani could meet - at least for a handshake on the U. Even a fleeting encounter would be important given that it would be the first face-to-face contact between U.
It was her first public appearance since the August 20 accident, which happened in Rockefeller Centre. A plumber applied a tourniquet made from a belt. However, Green says her most vivid memory of the day is walking around the city, getting a drink, going to Times Square and having a great time with her best friend, who also appeared on the show.
Lawyers for four men sentenced to death for raping and murdering a young woman on a New Delhi bus challenged the verdicts at a High Court hearing Tuesday. The brutal attack in December sparked public debate and fury over chronic sexual violence faced by women in India. All death penalty cases in India must be confirmed by a higher court.
As part of the proceedings for that, the High Court said Wednesday it would begin hearing prosecution arguments supporting the guilty verdicts and death. Sarah Outen celebrated with a bottle of champagne and greeted community members and supporters, her first human contact in nearly five months, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
She left Japan on April 27 and had been at sea for 6,km. It is part of her plan for a global trek by an ocean rowing shell, kayak and bike. On Monday afternoon, Outen came within m of land before winds and current started pushing her onto the rocks. On the North Pacific row she battled dangerous seas, isolation, cargo ships,. In recent days she was nearly hit by a cargo ship after her radar failed. Outen also tweeted about whiteout fog and exhaustion-induced hallucinations in the final, treacherous miles to Adak.
Johnson wrote that Outen plans to return to the point she was towed in to shore in the spring of to continue her expedition by kayak. She was shaken and boat-less when she returned to England. Before that, Outen became the youngest person and the first woman to row alone across the Indian Ocean in Outen returned to Japan in April after raising money for a new boat and training all winter. After leaving Chosie, Japan, she has been followed by a school of tuna and became engaged by satellite phone to her longtime girlfriend in the United Kingdom.
It could take weeks or months for the court to hear arguments, review evidence and consider the appeals before deciding whether to confirm the execution orders. Three had their faces uncovered in public for the first time since the crime, while one wore a handkerchief tied over his nose and mouth. They each raised a hand when called. The four had been joy-riding through New Delhi on a bus the night of December 16 when they lured the year-old woman and her male friend into boarding.
They then beat the friend, took turns raping the woman and violated her with an iron rod. She died from internal injuries two weeks later. Another defendant hanged himself in prison, though is family insists he was killed.
And an year-old who was a juvenile at the time of the attack was sentenced in August to a maximum of three years in a reform home. The Tuesday security sweep of Nahya, a stronghold for Islamist groups, is the latest move by authorities to assert control over towns and villages seized by supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The police officers were killed in the nearby village of Kerdasa, and their bodies mutilated, in apparent retaliation for an August 14 assault by the security forces on pro-Morsi protest camps that left hundreds dead.
Militants attacked police stations in the towns of Rawa and Aana near the highway to Syria in Anbar province, and also killed the brother of a local official, the sources said. Militants including those linked to al-Qaeda frequently target Iraqi security forces and other government employees.
The violence came after four days of attacks that have raised the spectre of a return to the allout Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict that peaked in and killed tens of thousands of people.
A bombing against Sunni mourners in Baghdad on Monday killed 15 people, while another at a Sunni funeral the day before killed Those attacks were preceded by bombings targeting Shiite mourners in the Iraqi capital on Saturday that killed 73, and two blasts at a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad in which 18 died on Friday. Gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire on Colonel Ali al-Dilmi in front of the military hospital, killing him instantly and fleeing the scene, the ministry said on its website.
The attack is the latest in a series of killings of security and military officers in Yemen. On Monday, gunmen shot dead. Dozens of Yemeni security and military officers have been assassinated in the past two years, many by bombs planted in their cars or in drive-by shootings, often blamed on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or affiliated groups. Last month, at least one air force officer was killed and several others were wounded when a bombed tore through a bus carrying them to their base in Sanaa.
Doctor-administered euthanasia for terminally ill people facing unbearable suffering was legalised in the Netherlands in For several years, the reported number of cases declined, but since In , 4, cases were recorded, or approximately 3 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands — a record, and up from 1, in Most cases are due to cancer. The commission said in its annual report published Tuesday the reasons for the increase cannot be determined with certainty.
Leading theories include a growing awareness and acceptance of the practice among both Dutch doctors and patients. Syrian insurgents pressed a new assault in the strategic, heavily-defended southwestern suburbs of Damascus on Tuesday, saying they aimed to break an army blockade of rebel-held areas.
Rebels fired mortars at government forces while army shelling hit the suburb of Derayya, the scene of recurrent fighting during the month-old Syrian conflict, activists and rebels said. Fighting in Damascus subsided when the United States threatened punitive military action against Assad, but picked up after a diplomatic bargain for Syria to give up its chemical weapons averted the immediate threat of a strike.
Ahrar al-Sham, another big Islamist faction, also said it was playing a major role, along with the Sahaba Battalions, a powerful Damascus-based rebel unit. No food, no water.
The southern suburbs will be a tough target for the rebels, given that they house several major military sites, including a military airport and a base for elite Republican Guard forces. A Damascus-based activist who calls himself Bassem Mohammed said the rebels were unlikely to gain from the latest assault.
I very sincerely want war criminals to be tried. But before accepting the verdict against Quader Mollah, I need to know the answer to a few questions. If he were such a notorious criminal: 1 How could he become the student of Dhaka university in and a resident student of Shahidullah Hall?
If the allegations against Quader Mollah are false, then after his death, the people of this country will consider our media and the judiciary as collaborators in the killing of some innocent leaders. Nazrul Islam.
Talks on the project have been ongoing for a few years now, and all decisions regarding its funding, land acquisition, the probable consulting firm, etc are being made far too slowly. While it is a relief to see the planning phase nearing its end, we fail to see why While it is a relief projects such as this, which are to see the planning so essential for our city, take phase nearing its so long to complete.
It almost end, we fail to see seems as if the government is why projects such dragging its feet, which would as this, which are be unfortunate if true. The government should bear this in mind and make the metro rail a priority. It should put more of an effort into ensuring this rail system is built properly and safely as this is a very important investment in our city. Take a look at our neighbouring developing nations who have implemented metro rail systems.
Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and even India come to mind. We need to improve the transportation situation in Dhaka, and make it a more livable city for everyone. Keep up the hard work! Godspeed, Tushar! Wali Good luck! Armaan Ahmed Awesome bro! Keep up the good work and all the best for your future endeavours.
F1 dreamer Thank you! Men should be more respectful towards women. How can a world improve, when women are exploited and treated so badly? Are there no other ways to meet our energy demands than this? Violence and vandalism in pursuit of hartals can never be justified.
Everyday life is disrupted and ordinary people are held to ransom through fear, intimidation and violence. This culture of political strikes in which it has become accepted for some This culture of party activists to engage in political strikes in vandalism and violence has to which it has become stop.
All political parties share accepted for some responsibility for bringing this party activists to about. Too often this year, Jamaat-Shibir activists have been notorious for setting fire to vehicles containing people.
Such acts can only be described as deliberate murder. By calling hartals in the full knowledge that its activists are capable of such crimes, Jamaat leaders are culpable for their acts, as they are knowingly inciting violence. The Law Commission should urgently consider whether existing laws on incitement to violence are being adequately applied during violence brought about by hartals and whether the law needs to be strengthened.
If political parties are not able to make it clear that they have zero tolerance for violence including during hartals, their calls for strikes should potentially be seen as incitement. In such instances, their party leaders should be answerable before the law. Did he just leave the doors open to let the crocodile in?
With its lag-free head tracking and HD displays, this Kickstarter-funded, virtual reality headset is the only one that has ever mattered. It was created from stem cells in a London lab and was funded primarily by Google cofounder Sergey Brin.
Alongside the jet pack, the lack of flying cars in modern society has been a constant reminder of how far we have to go for the past 50 years. But saw the first movement on this front in years: the first flying car to actually get tested out in the public. The Transition is a vehicle that can drive down the street and take liftoff with just feet of runway. It might be a strange looking car to park in your driveway, but it just might be the most accessible and serious commercial flying car in existence.
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