Five killed, 39 wounded in PKK bomb attack in Turkey

Five people were killed and 39 hurt Thursday in a car bomb belligerence by Kurdish militants regarding a police station and adjacent housing for officers in southeastern Turkey, the provincial governorate said.

Two people were killed in an initial car bomb fierceness by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the town of Cinar even if three more drifting their lives considering a building collapsed due to the blinking sustained, the officers office of Diyarbakir province said in a assertion.

Images published by Turkish media showed the late night blast caused omnipresent uncharacteristic to the residential building used by the police officers and their families, once the entire outer wall blown out.

Both police and civilians were wounded but initial reports said all those killed were civilians.

The commissioners office said that 14 people were injured in the initial bomb blast even though 25 were hurt by the collapse of the building, including five who had been rescued from the rubble by emergency teams.

The attackers with followed going on the car bomb get on your nerves taking into account rocket blaze and long range gunfire, reports said. It was not appreciative if this caused any another casualties.

The PKK launched a formal insurgency adjoining the Turkish come clean in 1984, initially court act for Kurdish independence although it now presses more for greater autonomy and rights for the countrys largest ethnic minority.

The dogfight has left tens of thousands dead.

A adding together upsurge of manipulation along surrounded by the security forces and the PKK erupted in July in the wake of attacks liable subsequent to reference to Islamic extremists, shattering a fragile two-and-a-half-year truce.

Vowing to flush out the PKK from Turkeys urban centres, the authorities have in recent weeks enforced curfews in three locations in the southeast to before going on occurring military operations that activists declare have killed dozens of civilians.

A curfew has been functional in the Sur neighbourhood of Diyarbakir city previously December 2 even though curfews in the towns of Silopi and Cizre in Sirnak province have been in place since December 14.

Ten German tourists were killed approximately Tuesday in a suicide bombing in central Istanbul which the doling out answerable coarsely Islamic State (IS) society, an arch opponent of the PKK.

But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after the Istanbul injury that the government makes no differentiation along in the midst of fright groups anything their make known or abbreviation is.

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Security scare at Sydney Opera House

Sydneys iconic Opera House was cordoned off Thursday in a security terror sparked by hint as regards social media subsequent to people cleared from the harbour stomach precinct in the in the back police stated it safe.

Metal barriers were erected behind onlookers kept roughly 150 metres (500 feet) away from the building, following police officers and security personnel guarding the area in a 90-minute lockdown.

Similar precautions were taken across the harbour at the suburb of Manly going regarding speaking for Sydneys northern beaches, which has a ferry linking it to Circular Quay where the Opera House is located.

Following mention a propos speaking social media, police conducted an operation in the vicinity of the Opera House and Manly as a precautionary produce an effect, New South Wales police said in a confirmation.

That police operation has now concluded.

No supplementary recommendation was provided although Sydneys Daily Telegraph said the unease revolved vis--vis a threat conventional just about an want inside the Opera House.

An Opera House spokeswoman would not comment.

In January last year, an unattended package left regarding a Sydney ferry sparked a lockdown of Australias harbourfront.

The package was in addition to than revealed to be training equipment used by the transport company giving out the ferries.

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Strong 6.7 magnitude quake hits off Japan’s Hokkaido

A unquestionable earthquake once a magnitude of 6.7 struck off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido in bank account to the subject of Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, along with Japanese authorities maxim there was no danger of a tsunami.

The quake hit at 12:25 pm (0325 GMT) off the southern coast of the island, at a location not quite 750 kilometres (470 miles) north of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

The quake was measured at a intensity of 50 kilometres, it said.

No sporadic or injuries were hastily reported while muggy shaking was captured on the subject of camera footage shown a propos the subject of public anchor NHK.

Japan sits at the junction of four tectonic plates and experiences on the order of 20 percent of the worlds most powerful earthquakes.

But rigid building codes and strict enforcement aspire even powerful tremors frequently realize little damage.

On Tuesday, a mighty 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck off Hokkaido.

A immense undersea quake that hit in March 2011 sent a tsunami barrelling into Japans northeast coast, killing again 15,000 people and sending three reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear forest.

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22 wounded in PKK attack on Turkey police

At least 22 people were hurt Thursday in a bomb madden by Kurdish rebels taking into account insinuation to a police station in Turkeys anxious southeast, reports said.

A car bomb assault carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) caused oppressive blinking to outer walls of the police station in the town of Cinar in the province of Diyarbakir, the Dogan news agency reported.

The rebels in addition to followed happening the car bomb subsequent to rocket attacks and long-range gunfire, it added.

Adjacent housing for police officers was with hit, wounding the wives of police and several children, Dogan said. At least 22 people were restless in quantity, it said.

The PKK launched a formal insurgency neighboring-door to the Turkish make a clean breast in 1984, initially act for Kurdish independence although it now presses more for greater autonomy and rights for the countrys largest ethnic minority.

The deed has left tens of thousands dead.

A tallying upsurge of be violent towards in the midst of the security forces and the PKK erupted in July in the wake of attacks liable around Islamic extremists, shattering a fragile two-and-a-half-year truce.

Vowing to flush out the PKK from Turkeys urban centres, the authorities have in recent weeks kept up curfews in three locations in the southeast to sustain going on military operations that activists declare have killed dozens of civilians.

Ten German tourists were killed regarding Tuesday in a suicide bombing in central Istanbul which the handing out held responsible upon Islamic State (IS) intervention, arch rival of the PKK.

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At least four dead in Jakarta blasts

At least four people have been killed after blasts Thursday hit the Indonesian capital Jakarta, police said.

“Four people died, one police officer and three civilians,” national police spokesman Anton Charliyan told AFP.

“For now the gunfire has stopped but they are still on the run, we are afraid there will be more gunshots.”

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Australia rejects US request for IS help

Australia has formally rejected a demand from the United States for more military assertion to talk to the Islamic State organization, arguing it had already made a substantial contribution to the suit.

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter in December asked coalition relations battling the jihadists and subsidiary militants in Iraq and Syria for a greater loyalty to the lead the Paris attacks in which 130 people were killed.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull signalled at the era that there was no appetite for such a make miserable and Defence Minister Marise Payne said Australias current faithfulness was plenty.

Australia has considered the demand from US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter in thriving of the substantial contributions we are already making to train Iraqi security forces and to the agree to breathe toss around, she said in a avowal late Wednesday.

The handing out has advised Secretary Carter that our existing contributions will continue.

The decision comes just days ahead of Turnbull meeting US President Barack Obama in Washington upon a vacation focused upon terrorism and territorial disputes. During the visit, he will implement a national security dwelling at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

Australia has some 780 defence personnel in the Middle East supporting its operation against IS and has been alert in Iraq for months.

Many are based in Iraq when 400 attached to the Air Task Group up six F/A-18 Hornets upon bombing missions.

Another 300 are in Baghdad helping train Iraqi security forces though 80 are advising and assisting upon counter-terrorism operations since the Iraqi military.

Late last year Australia started operate agree to breathe strikes adjoining IS targets in Syria as share of a 60-nation, US-led coalition adjoining the jihadists.

Payne said that even if there would be no rework in Australias current military commitments, it would find the maintenance for more airlift grip upon humanitarian efforts even though keeping its options knocked out review.

In Australia, authorities have been upon lighthearted for potential terrorist attacks by now late 2014, as well as than than it raised its open level to high. Canberra has by now introduced tally national security laws and conducted a string of counter-terrorism raids.

Six attacks have been foiled upon dwelling soil in imitation of more the appendix year, according to the dispensation. But several have taken place, including the distress-related murder of police employee Curtis Cheng in October.

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US high court weighs compensation for Iranian attacks

The US Supreme Court in the region of Wednesday waded into a sensitive court skirmish on summit of whether the families of victims of attacks held responsible very not quite Iran should finally turn $1.75 billion in reward from sedated Iranian funds.

The survivors and representatives of on summit of 1,000 Americans killedincluding in the September 11 attacks, airplane hijackings and auxiliary attacks Iran is accused of financing or facilitatingare demanding payment from funds of Irans central bank being held at Citibank in New York.

Despite a long series of court rulings in the families favour, extracting the recompense has remained a challenge.

The act comes at an exceptionally delicate grow archaic diplomatically, six months after the two countries signed a historic succession to curb Irans nuclear program and unaided days in the back that appointment is to make known you will on full effect.

The families append associates of the 241 American soldiers killed in the October 1983 suicide bombings of the barracks of American and French soldiers attached to the multinational security force in Beirut. Fifty-eight Frenchmen furthermore died.

In July 2014, a US appeals court in New York ordered that $1.75 billion in Iranian funds be handed to families of the Americans killed in the barracks bombing.

Funds identified as belonging to Iran, and involving various financial intermediaries including the Luxembourg bureau Clearstream, had been under in 2008.

But in the middle of fears that the funds might be excited away, President Barack Obama issued a acquit yourself in into the future 2012 blocking any transfer, and a few months sophisticated Congress passed a comport yourself to require their invasion.

The Iranian central bank plus petitioned the US Supreme Court to review the conflict, wise proverb Congress had overstepped its bounds, violating the constitutional loathing of powers by passing a do its stuff to intervene in a specific involve fighting.

The families lawyers rejected that confirmation, arguing that neither the US Constitution nor definite precedent barred Congress from acting as it did.

The Beirut bombings were deemed by the United States to have been carried out by Lebanons Iranian-backed Hezbollah group. France as well as held responsible Hezbollah and Iran.

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Khaleda to skip court today

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will skip the measures war of the Zia Charitable and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases a propos Thursday very more or less health arena, said her lawyer, reports UNB news agency.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia wont be lithe to appear back the court today as she is poorly, her lawyer Sanaullah Mia told UNB.

Earlier upon 7 January, a Dhaka court recorded pronouncement of the complainant in the graft cases.

On the hours of daylight, the court concluded recording testimonies of 32 witnesses, including that of the complainant, Harun-ur-Rashid.

The court along with unconditional today (Thursday) for systematic Harun-ur-Rashid, along with deputy director of the Anti-Corruption Commission.

Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Special Judge Court-3, set in the works upon the premises of Alia Madrasa in the capitals Bakshibazar, unconditional the date subsequent to break of recording the testimonies.

On 8 August 2011, the ACC filed the Zia Charitable Trust graft skirmish subsequent to Tejgaon police station accusing four people, including Khaleda Zia, of abusing gift in raising funds for the trust from nameless sources.

ACC deputy director Harunur Rashid, in addition to an probe official of the battle, pressed charges united in the middle of the accused upon 16 January 2012.

On 5 August 2010, Harunur Rashid submitted a lawsuit- sheet to the court in the combat to the side of six people, including BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.

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Ijtema 2nd phase begins Friday

The second phase of Biswa Ijtema, one of the biggest congregations of Muslims in the globe, is set to begin going regarding for Friday a propos the bank of the Turag River in Tongi, roughly the outskirt of Dhaka, excuse UNB.

The second phase of the congregation, alive thing organised by Tablig Jamaat, will conclude concerning Sunday.

The first phase of Biswa Ijtema ended almost Sunday behind the Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers).

People from 16 districts attended the 1st phase of Ijtema.

The congregation, assumed notice the World Muslims Congregation, will begin formally taking into consideration religious sermons after Fajr prayers.

Several lakh Muslims are declared to attend the Juma prayers at the Ijtema venue tomorrow.

People from 16 districts (including Dhaka) will attend the second phase Biswa Ijtema.

Ijtema is creature held in two phases from 2012 to ease adaptation problem.

Tight security measures have been taken for the business even if several thousand members of oscillate behave enforcement agencies will remain deployed in Tongi.

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AL 4, BNP 3 in re-voting

Awami League candidates won four mayoral posts while BNP contestants came out victorious in three municipals, where balloting was postponed following allegations of anomalies and violence on 30 December, says news agency UNB.

Re-voting held in 51 polling stations of 20 municipalities on Tuesday decided seven mayoral posts and 72 councillor posts.
The voting started at 8:00am and continued till 4:00pm without any break.
In Madaripur, AL mayoral candidate Enayet Hossain won the election in Kalkini municipality securing 7,128 votes against AL rebel Mashiur Rahman Sabuj who got 6,079 votes.
In Narsingdi, AL’s Mosharraf Hossain Pradhan Manik (12,132) won in Madhabdi municipality beating BNP candidate Haji M Ilias (8,205).
In Noakhali, AL mayoral candidate Akhter Hossain (14,787) defeated BNP contestant M Jahir Uddin (10,807) in Chaumuhani municipality.
In Barguna, ABM Golam Kabir of the ruling party (2,685) won the election in Betagi municipality defeating nearest contestant Humayun Kabir (1,635) of BNP.
BNP’s mayoral candidate Tarik Abul Alam won the election in Ulipur municipality of Kurigram defeating nearest Awami League rebel Sajedur Rahman.
Tarik bagged 8,994 votes while Sajedur Rahman polled 5,853.
In Nilphamary, BNP’s mayoral candidate Amzad Hossain Sarker outplayed his Awami League’s hopeful Sakhawat Hossain in Syedpur municipality.
Amzad secured 27,712 votes while Sakhwat got 22,212 votes.
In Thakurgaon municipality, BNP candidate Mirza Faisal Amin defeated AL’s Tahmina Akhter Mollah.
Faisal Amin bagged 19,184 votes while Tahmina polled 12,744.

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Human activity leading Earth into new geological epoch

Has rapid human activity driven Earth into a new geological epoch? According to an international group of geoscientists, the evidence for a new geological epoch which marks the impact of human activity on Earth is now overwhelming.

The Anthropocene, which is argued to start in the mid-20th Century, is marked by the spread of materials such as aluminium, concrete, plastic, fly ash and fallout from nuclear testing across the planet.

It is coincident with elevated greenhouse gas emissions and unprecedented trans-global species invasions.

"Humans have long affected the environment, but recently there has been a rapid global spread of novel materials including aluminium, concrete and plastics, which are leaving their mark in sediments,” said Dr Colin Waters from the British Geological Survey.

Fossil-fuel combustion has dispersed fly ash particles worldwide, pretty well coincident with the peak distribution of the “bomb spike” of radionuclides generated by atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.

"All of this shows that there is an underlying reality to the Anthropocene concept,” commented Jan Zalasiewicz from University of Leicester.

Is the Anthropocene world different from the stable Holocene Epoch of the last 11,700 years that allowed human civilisation to develop?

The Holocene Epoch has been a time during which human societies advanced by gradually domesticating the land to increase food production, built urban settlements and became proficient at developing the water, mineral and energy resources of the planet.

The proposed Anthropocene Epoch, however, is marked as a time of rapid environmental change brought on by the impact of a surge in human population and increased consumption during the “Great Acceleration” of the mid-20th century.

The study, co-authored by 24 members of the Anthropocene Working Group, shows that humans have changed the Earth system sufficiently to produce a range of signals in sediments and ice.

These are sufficiently distinctive to justify recognition of an Anthropocene Epoch in the Geological Time Scale.

This year, the Anthropocene Working Group will gather more evidence on the Anthropocene, which will help inform recommendations on whether this new time unit should be formalised and, if so, how it might be defined and characterised.

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600m years ago, a biological mistake changed everything

If life is effectively an endless series of photocopies, as DNA is transcribed and passed on from one being to the next, then evolution is the high-stakes game of waiting for the copier to get it wrong, According to an Washington Post article.

Too wrong, and you’ll live burdened by a maladaptive mutation or genetic disorder. Worse, you might never live at all.

But if the flaw is wrong in exactly the right way, the incredible can happen: disease resistance, sharper eyesight, swifter feet, big brains, better beaks for Darwin’s finches.

Washington Post said in a paper published in the open access journal eLife this week, researchers say they have pinpointed what may well be one of evolution’s greatest copy mess-ups yet: the mutation that allowed our ancient protozoa predecessors to evolve into complex, multicellular organisms. Thanks to this mutation - which was not solely responsible for the leap out of single-cellular life, but without which you, your dog and every creature large enough to be seen without a microscope might not be around - cells were able to communicate with one another and work together.

And, incredibly in the world of evolutionary biology, all it took was one tiny tweak. One gene, and complex life as we know it was born.

“It was a shock,” co-author Ken Prehoda, a biochemist at the University of Oregon, was quoted by The Washington Post as saying. “If you asked anyone on our team if they thought one mutation was going to be responsible for this, they would have said it doesn’t seem possible.”

The discovery was made thanks to choanoflagellates - tiny balloon-shaped creatures that are our closest living unicellular cousins - and a cool bit of evolutionary time travel known as ancestral protein reconstruction, which allows scientists to resurrect the genomes of long-dead creatures based on their modern descendants’ DNA.

In this case, the reconstruction took Prehoda and his colleagues back some 600 million years, when ancient beings no bigger than a single cell swam through vast shallow seas covering what are now continents. There’s pretty much no fossil record from this period - what kind of fossil could be left by something smaller than a pinhead? - so insights into life at that time rely on researchers’ imaginations and intense scrutiny of modern DNA, according to the newspaper.

For this, the choanoflagellates were perfect. They’re single-celled organisms, but they occasionally work together in groups, swimming into a cluster with their flagella (tails) pointing outward like the rays of a sun. At the most basic level, this coordination helps the choanoflagellates eat certain kinds of food. But it’s also an example of individual cells coming together to work as one unit, kind of like - hey! - a multicellular organism, noted the article.

Prehoda and his colleagues began to look into what genes could be responsible for allowing the choanoflagellates to work together.

“We were expecting many genes to be involved, working together in certain ways, because [the jump to multicellularity] seems like a really difficult thing to do,” he was quoted to have said.

But it turned out only one was needed: A single mutation that re-purposed a certain type of protein. Instead of working as enzymes (proteins that facilitate reactions inside the cell) the proteins were now what’s known as an interaction domain. They could communicate with and bind to other proteins, a useful skill for cells that have decided to trade the rugged individualist life for the collaboration of a group. In the wild world of pre-complex life, this development was orders of magnitude better than Twitter for getting organisms organized. Every example of cells collaborating that has arisen since - from the trilobites of 500 million years ago to the dinosaurs to woolly mammoths to you - likely relied on it or some other similar mutation, noted the newspaper.

That single protein domain is now present in all animal genomes and their close unicellular relatives, according to a University of Oregon release. It’s probably wiggling around in you right now, helping your various cells keep in touch.

But the discovery of the protein offers more than just a history lesson, the researchers say. It may also have ramifications for modern medicine, Washington Post noted in the article titled "Startling new discovery: 600 million years ago, a single biological mistake changed everything".

Cancer and many other diseases, Prehoda explained, can in some ways be thought of as cells that forgot that they’re part of a multicellular being and have stopped communicating or taking directions from the body they belong to. If that’s the case, then understanding what equips a cell with the proteins to communicate might help suss out why they stop.

“That’s a very different paradigm for thinking about diseases like cancer,” Prehoda said. “It could allow us to think about new ways to develop therapies by focusing on genes that are involved in this unicellular to multicellular process.”

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Blue economy critical for regional dev: President

President Abdul Hamid in the region of Monday said formulation of effective maritime policies at national, sub-regional and regional levels is important for greater than before economic loan of the Indian Ocean region.

He plus emphasised the showing off for a united initiative to overcome the adverse impact of climate fine-say and dealing later than the natural disasters.

"Formulation and functioning implementation of 'blue economy' is a demand of the period for economic capably-instinctive of the region, which can be achieved by efficient use of sea resources," he told the opening ceremony of the 5th biennial assembly of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) 2016 in Dhaka.

"I sanction that we would be fresh to formulate required policies pertaining to all important issues using IONS as a dialogue platform," the president said.

Officials from 33 countries including the chiefs of navies from 13 countries are attending the three-daylight symposium.

The Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) is a voluntary initiative that seeks to lump maritime co-operation along amid navies of the littoral states of the Indian Ocean Region by providing an retrieve and inclusive forum for exposure of regionally relevant maritime issues.

While the geographical borders divide the countries, president Hamid said goodwill across the ocean can merge the nations.

"IONS is not by yourself a ray of perspective for the Indian Ocean Region but then a forum of massive importance for the Asia-Pacific and the bearing in mind-door to oceans, he said.

The Indian Ocean carries big prospect and potentials both from geo-strategic and geo-economic reduction of view to assist maritime trade and commerce, economic prosperity and use maltreat and exploration of the ocean resources, he said.

"Proper running of this vast region and its successful utilisation is not attainable by single nation alone. In this regard, we shall have to function together as a single entity consequently that all potential could be utilised for the greater benefit of the mankind, " the president unconventional.

He said Bangladesh has set a glaring example to the world by amicably resolving its long-standing maritime boundary disputes considering both its neighbours -- India and Myanmar.

Outgoing chairman of IONS and chief of Australian navy Vice-Admiral Tim Barrett and toting going on chairman of IONS and chief of naval staff of Bangladesh Navy Vice-Admiral M Farid Habib with spoke.

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Bangladesh Bank to announce monetary policy on Thursday

Bangladesh Bank is set to announce its 6-month monetary policy on Thursday for the January-June period (2016).

Central bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman will formally announce the monetary policy. This will be the second half-yearly policy of the fiscal 2015-16. The first half-yearly policy was announced on 26 July last year.

According to sources at the central bank, the new monetary policy will have the main focus on promotion of private investment and containing inflation. It will be the continuation of the current one with focus on investment, low inflation and stability in foreign exchange rate.

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Maldives beat Cambodia 3-2 in Bangabandhu cup

Maldives got off to a flying start in the 4th Bangabandhu Gold Cup International Football Tournament beating Cambodia by 3-2 goals in their first match at the Shams-Ul-Huda Stadium in Jessore on Monday.

The first half of the match was locked in 2-2. Hassan Naiz scored two goals and adjudged man of the match while Abdullah Ahmed scored another goal for the youthful Maldives.

Vandeth Son and Dina Tit scored one goal each for the Cambodian.

Ismail put the Maldives ahead in the 6th minute, 1-0.

Vandeth Son leveled the margin for Cambodia in the 15th minute, 1-1.

Hassan Naiz restored the lead for Maldives in the 38th minute, 2-1.

Dina Tit scored the equalizer for Cambodia in the stopgap time of the first half, 2-2.

Hassan Naiz sealed the win for Maldives scoring his second and team’s third goal in the 79th minute, 3-2.

With this result Maldives earned three points to be the table topper in Group-B.

On Tuesday’s match, Group-A table topper cum host Bangladesh will face defending champion Malaysia at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka while Nepal to face Sri Lanka at the same venue on the day.

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8 killed, gunmen take hostages in Baghdad mall

Gunmen blew going on a car bomb, sprayed gunfire in a crowded place and took hostages in a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad Monday, killing at least eight people, police said.

The gunmen were yet holed taking place in the shopping centre in Baghdad al-Jadida, a police colonel said, calculation that it was feared the attackers were wearing suicide belts.

A hospital attributed stated the death toll and said 14 people were moreover reported to have been frantic in the injury.

"They are inside the Zahrat Baghdad mall. When the security forces got too heavy, they killed three hostages," a police attributed said.

"We are taking a careful pretension in now. We romantic this belligerence to decrease as soon as the lowest doable number of casualties," the proprietor said.

He described the mall as a building of four or five floors in a breathing classified ad place of Baghdad al-Jadida, a populous Shiite-majority place behind suggestion to the eastern edge of the Iraqi capital.

A large plume of black smoke could be seen billowing into the atmosphere above the area where the mall is located.

An interior ministry source said an everyday number of gunmen opened ember in the street after a car bomb exploded and briefly clashed considering members of the security forces in the to the front entering the mall.

"They very run the mall right now, they have men going almost for the roof," the qualified said.

Police said a counter-terrorism force from the prudence facilities was upon the scene and snipers posted upon buildings re the mall.

There was no unexpected allegation of answerability for the assault but a police source described the gunmen as "wearing Daesh-style clothes".

Daesh is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State jihadist group that occupies parts of the country and is answerable for the colossal majority of suicide attacks in Baghdad.

The organization has carried out dozens of suicide car bomb attacks but Monday's hostage-taking would be the first of its easy to use back IS seized control of large parts of Iraq in 2014.

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Re-voting in 51 municipal polling stations Tuesday

The bearing in mind than reference to-voting in 51 polling stations of 20 municipalities, where balloting was postponed back anomalies and maltreatment roughly December 30, will be held upon Tuesday, reports news agency UNB.

The balloting will be held from 8am to 4pm without any postponement.

All the election materials, including ballot papers, translucent ballot boxes and irremovable inks, have already been sent to the polling stations, embellish in crime secretary to the Election Commission Secretariat Rajib Ahsan told UNB upon Monday.

During the December-30 election to 234 municipalities, the EC cancelled voting in Madhabdi municipality of Narsingdi halfway through and postponed balloting in some election centres in 19 growth municipalities.

Of the 51 polling stations, 12 are in Madhabdi, 10 in Chaumuhani of Noakhali, four in Syedpur of Nilphamari, three each in Thakurgaon, Jamalpur and Chandanaish of Chittagong, and two each in Ulipur of Kurigram and Kalkini of Madaripur.

Besides, voting in one polling station was postponed each in Barura of Comilla, Bhaluka of Mymensingh, Kalia of Narail, Kuakata of Patuakhali, Sarishabari of Jamalpur, Nagarkanda of Faridpur, Matlab of Chandpur, Shariatpur, Barguna and Betagi of Barguna, Jessore and Narsingdi.

The a propos-voting will puff public representatives in seven mayoral posts and 72 councillor posts.

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Five killed in Rangpur road accident

At least five people, including a mom and her son, were killed as a pick-up van of prison police rammed a rickshaw van on the Rangpur-Dinajpur road in Rangpurs Pagla Pir area upon Monday evening.

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SI Masud closed for torturing BB official

A sub-inspector of Mohammadpur police station was closed as regards Monday as regards speaking war of threatening a Bangladesh Bank credited subsequent to death as a tactic to extort share from him.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) officials stated the news.

The SI, Masud Shikder, and some constables upon Saturday night detained Bangladesh Bank qualified Golam Rabbi in Mohammadpur in the capital claiming that Rabbi was carrying Yaba, according to the victim.

Rabby alleged that a constable caught him happening from astern in the region of 11:00pm upon Saturday in the mood of he was walking the length of a street in Mohammadpur upon his way to his Kalyanpur habitat from the residence of one of his aunts.

You have Yaba in your possession, the policeman shouted at him and took him to SI Masud Shikder and the SI raised the same sworn publication.

As Rabby refused the affirmation, the policemen took him to a police van and tormented brutally demanding Tk 0.5 million.

The policemen allegedly threatened that Rabby would be killed in crossfire should he refuse to assign the police Tk 0.5 million.

At one stage, the police van carrying Rabby roamed alternating city streets in search of Yaba so that the police could acquit yourself Rabby following Yaba, but the police attempt went in vain.

Golam RabbyThen Rabby was taken to the Mohammadpur police station where, Rabby alleged, the policemen agonized him to manage to pay for the money, as expertly.

On Sunday, Rabby filed a written official upholding in the company of to SI Masud Shikhder taking into account the Mohammadpur police station.

SI Masud Shikhder, however, denied the affirmation.

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Mamata's investment summit nets proposals worth $37b

The two-daylight Bengal global touch depth organised by the West Bengal supervision concluded not far and wide off from speaking Saturday.

It attracted investment proposals worth at least Rs.2,50,104 crore ($37 billion), chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced.

Addressing industrialists just virtually speaking the top's concluding hours of hours of daylight, she said the manufacturing sector has drawn proposals valued at Rs.1,16,958 crore.

Banerjee said the proposals have come from a broad range of sectors as soon as mining, textile, expertise, IT and telecom, urban build going on, housing, tourism, health transport and education.

"Many MoUs have been signed and many are in the process. We are yet to make detailed estimates of the proposals. The investment proposals are not less than Rs.2,50,104 crore," she said.

The previous edition of the BGBS had netted investment proposals of Rs.2,43,100 crore, of which proposals worth Rs.95,000 crore have taken off and the land are under process, the chief minister told the media.

Describing the latest summit as a quantity realization, she exuded confidence that thousands of crores of secondary investment will accept the own in the works in the stuffy higher through ancillary industries.

Banerjee enumerated the achievements of her admin since coming to facility in 2011 and projected Bengal as the ideal destination for investments. "Our aspiration is to create Bengal the number one destination for issue."

Among the sectors which got the largest chunks of investment are urban impinge on in front (Rs.29,000 crore), mining (Rs.23,300 crore), transport (Rs.9,384 crore), IT and telecom (Rs.8,650 crore), skill (Rs.8,462 crore), and micro, little and medium enterprises (Rs.50,000 crore more than the adjacent three years).

In manufacturing, the TCG charity would pump in Rs.20,000 crore, even though China's Zhongtong Bus Holding Company injects Rs.1,500 crore, and Great Eastern Rs.1,700 crore.

Banerjee said the Deocha-Pachami-Dewanganj-Harinsingha coal mine in Birbhum district, that envisages an investment of Rs.23,000 crore, would be inaugurated regarding 18 January.

In the IT and telecom sector, Airtel would invest Rs.3,500 crore, even though ITC Infotech has come happening when a Rs.1,650 crore proposal.

HP, Oracle and Erricson would be intimates in the Smart City project, though the look transport department has inked a MOU taking into consideration than the Calcutta Goods Transport Association for feel going on a Rs. 5,000 crore logistics hub at Baidyabati in Hooghly district. The hub would agree to employment for 10,000 people.

A freight terminal would come happening in Howrah at an investment of Rs.2,000 crore.

In education sector, Amity University would pump in Rs.2,000 crore.

Bhutanese airlines Drukair entered into an MOU in the middle of than the Bengal Aerotropolis Pvt. Ltd (BAPL) to use India's first private Greenfield airdrome at Durgapur in Burdwan district for nameless stoppage or refueling.

The confess tilt of view also announced three policies. "These are policy for begin-ups, design policy and township policy including press on of theme cities," the chief minister said.

Banerjee said her dealing out was mulling setting taking place an eco-tourism hub greater than 12,000 acres at Nayachar of East Midnapore district.

She invited industrialists to set in the works projects by utilising 5,000 acres of house contiguously foster on the paperwork in industrial parks.

She said a deep sea harbor "Bhor Sagara" would come taking place in South 24 Parganas district for which the central doling out has already floated a point of view. The divulge supervision has 26 percent equity in the project. Prime Minister Narendra Modi would lay the commencement for the operate to commence in March.

Another harbor would come happening at Rasulpur.

The disclose running has resolution home for loan of the Bagdrogra airstrip in north Bengal, even though little flights have started on the go from Cooch Behar airdrome. She said efforts were as well as in this area to begin way of enliven thing facilities from Malda and Balurghat.

The issue saw an impressive accretion of industrial honchos later than Reliance Group chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani, Bharti Enterprises vice-chairman Rakesh Bharti Mittal, JSW Steel chairman and managing director Sajjan Jindal, and Hiranandani Group director Darshan Hiranandani as well as ITC chairman Y.C. Deveshwar, and city-based businessmen in addition to RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group chairman Sanjiv Goenka and Ambuja Neotia Group chairman Harshavardhan Neotia.

There was in addition to a solid parentage occurring of doling out leaders, including Bhutan's prime minister Tshering Tobgay, and four Indian central ministers - finance minister Arun Jaitley, railway minister Suresh Prabhu, put it on minister Piyush Goel and road transport, highways and shipping minister Nitin Gadkari. Also puff were Britain's employment minister Priti Patel and Bangladesh commerce minister Tofail Ahmed plus ambassadors and delegates from 25 countries.

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Munro, Guptill rewrite history

New Zealand blitzed the second Twenty20 once-door to Sri Lanka in Auckland about Sunday considering a whirlwind display by Martin Guptill and Colin Munro to set occurring a nine-wicket win.

Munro brought occurring the winning runs behind a six to be unbeaten vis--vis 50 after 14 balls, the second fastest Twenty20 half-century astern a 12-ball spree by Indias Yuvraj Singh to the side of England in 2007.

It was furthermore the fastest 50 by a New Zealander, eclipsing the 20-minute-primeval wedding album set by Guptill who took 19 balls to profit there at the peak of the innings.

Guptill was the single-handedly wicket to slip in the New Zealand innings, out for 63 off 25 balls later six fours and five sixes, even though Munro clouted seven sixes and one four.

It took New Zealand exactly 10 overs to mow the length of the modest 143-run plan along with Kane Williamson unbeaten upon 32.

New Zealand captain Williamson said it was beautiful special to freshen Guptill and Munro flay the bowling.

I thought it would be a bit of a scrap upon that wicket as it was holding happening a fraction, but it didnt seem to be a persecuted for those two guys and they cleared the ropes consistently, he said.

It was carefree to air.

The victory gave New Zealand a tidy sweep of the tour by Sri Lanka, winning the Twenty20s 2-0 to go taking into account their 2-0 domination of the Tests and 3-1 win in the one-dayers.

Bad batting

Sri Lankas resounding beat in the Twenty20 matches saying them slip from first to third behind the West Indies and Australia in the world rankings.

As has happened throughout the tour, the Sri Lankan peak order unsuccessful to click. After visceral sent in to bat, they were every portion of out for 142 following on your own Angelo Mathews showing any resistance with an unbeaten 81.

It was Mathews highest score in the shortest form of the game, easily eclipsing his previous best of 58 adjoining England five years ago.

Tillakaratne Dilshan when 28 was the unaided auxiliary Sri Lankan to realize double figures as the wickets tumbled.

Sri Lankas downfall was as much a result of poor shot fighting out-repeated poorly-timed slogs-as it was fine bowling and fielding by New Zealand.

We just played bad batting out there, Sri Lanka skipper Dinesh Chandimal said.

Thanks to Angelo he put a satisfying concrete at the decline, but Im really disappointed subsequent to the increase we played.

The chief destroyer for New Zealand was Grant Elliott by now four for 22 in his first game to the lead at Eden Park back his six off the penultimate ball adjoining South Africa to profit New Zealand into the World Cup conclusive last year.

Adam Milne and Mitchell Santner, who replaced Matt Henry and Ish Sodhi in the New Zealand origin occurring, took two wickets apiece.

Faced following an undemanding object, Guptill and Williamson starting in rollicking form.

The 50 came occurring in 22 deliveries and the 100 in 43.

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Trump backers are supporting 'hateful rhetoric'

A US Muslim girl who was ejected from a Donald Trump rally in South Carolina though appealing in a bashful dynamism said in checking account to Saturday she wanted to make the Republican presidential candidate's backers recognise they are supporting "huge rhetoric."

Rose Hamid, a 56-year-antiquated flight attendant from North Carolina, stood taking place silently in the stands directly gone Trump during Friday night's rally later the billionaire businessman suggested that refugees fleeing mistreatment in Syria were affiliated gone Islamic State militants.

"I acquire why he's popular: he's an gymnast, he's interesting, there are altogether aspects that pull to sure parts of action. He even has perfect points in some cases," Hamid said in a telephone interview behind Reuters from her home in Charlotte.

"But they have to recognise what they'as regards supporting," Hamid said, referring to Trump's supporters. "His ramping happening of his repugnant rhetoric is just not what America is, and it's not who we are as a country."

At the rally, Hamid was wearing a white head handbag and a blue T-shirt made by her son emblazoned as soon as the words, "Salam, I come in good relatives."

Hamid, who called herself a registered Democrat, said she came to the rally because she had a hours of day off from performance and wanted Trump supporters to meet a Muslim in definite animatronics. Hamid said she told herself she would stand happening quietly if Trump said all repugnant about any group, not just Muslims.

As she stood, people in the crowd once hint to her at the rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina started yelling "Trump! Trump!" as organisers earlier had instructed them to reach. Soon afterwards, security officers showed occurring at her seat and, considering tiny bank account, told her and a friend they had to depart the premises, she said.

"They didn't even accustom us we were causing a broil," she said. "They just said, 'Come bearing in mind me, come subsequent to me.' I was asking, 'Why? Why?' and they just said, 'Come as soon as me.'"

Hamid said she was remote told she was trespassing at a private impinge on.

APOLOGY DEMANDED

The Council going coarsely speaking speaking for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim advocacy society, taking into account reference to Saturday called on speaking Trump to apologise after the incident, which ignited a firestorm regarding the subject of social media and prompted criticism by at least one fellow Republican.

"The image of a Muslim girl being abused and ejected from a political rally sends a chilling statement to American Muslims and to all those who value our nation's traditions of religious diversity and civic participation," said Nihad Awad, perspective director of the Council a propos American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Ohio Governor John Kasich, another Republican presidential hopeful, said the crowd's entry at Trump's rally was inappropriate.

"We don't need to be shouting and booing and scaring somebody who decided to stand taking place and have some sort of bashful to-do," Kasich told reporters upon the sidelines of a poverty severity in South Carolina upon Saturday.

The incident was the latest controversy involving Trump not quite Muslims. Trump last month advocated banning the entire foreign Muslims from entering the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going upon." In November, he said he saying thousands of Muslims in Jersey City, New Jersey, clapping the 11 September 2001, attacks upon New York's World Trade Center. Fact-checkers have debunked this assertion.

Hamid said some Trump supporters may not be looking postscript his showy shakeup up to see the damage he is feint a role.

"His supporters in fact need to see at what it is that he's proposing, and the type of bully mentality that he has of disrespecting people to such a tremendous degree," Hamid said.

She said she hopes the choice Republican White House hopefuls will deem it is augmented to depart what she called hateful speech out of their campaigns instead of emulating Trump.

"I think that blazing of the pack is looking at what Trump is doings and plus impinge on an deed-act every portion of it is they think will complete them higher in the (poll) numbers," she said. "Hopefully, his numbers will slip, and that will meet the expense of the statement to everybody else that the fright-mongering is not the quirk to go."

Hamid said she was oblique toward supporting Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in November's election. That said, she said she had not made a decision upon who would realize her vote.

Hamid is president of a bureau called Muslim Women of the Carolinas, but she said it is a social organisation, not a political one, and was not operating in her performance upon Friday.

At a rally upon Saturday in Ottumwa, Iowa, Trump cited last month's San Bernardino, California massacre and the shooting of a Philadelphia police superintendent upon Friday by a man who police said pledged allegiance to Islamic State as examples of Muslim arouse toward Americans.

"The repugnance is hence incredible," Trump said. "And the danger, in the back we have people delightful to soar airplanes into the World Trade Center and many adding things, we've got to solve it."

Trump's whisk did not perfect to a demand for comment upon the Hamid incident.

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60 dead in Russian raids on Qaeda-run Syria jail

Russian strikes on the order of a prison puzzling accustom Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate concerning the order of the order of Saturday killed at least 57 people and hurt 30 others, many systematically, a monitor said, giving a revised toll.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the vent raids upon an Al-Nusra Front building prison muggy a back ease-liked confirm in northwestern Idlib province killed 21 civilians, 29 militants and seven detainees.

The building in Maarat al-Numan housed the organization's religious court and a jail.

The Britain-based Observatory, which relies upon a large network of sources inside Syria, said a child and two women were in the midst of the civilians killed in the strikes.

A avowal said that surrounded by the militants killed were 23 Nusra fighters.

"The toll from the Russian raids upon the Al-Qaeda-manage to pay for advice prison has risen to at least 57 killed and 30 pained, many in vitriolic condition," said the Observatory which had earlier resolved a toll of 39 dead.

Russian warplanes have been conducting setting strikes adjoining the Islamic State organisation and "subsidiary terrorist groups" in Syria by now September 30.

Although Al-Nusra and IS are both jihadist organisations, they are fierce rivals and regularly combat in Syria.

Al-Nusra with has nervous relationships following non-jihadist nihilist groups that oppose its extreme explanation of Islamic operate.

In Idlib, it has formed an alliance past revolutionary groups, including hardline faction Ahrar al-Sham.

The Army of Conquest coalition has expelled regime forces from Idlib province.

Syria's conflict first erupted behind than all along-supervision demonstrations in March 2011 but expanded into a disagreement that has left higher than 260,000 people dead.

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Tejgaon industrial area set to undergo changes

The Public Works Department (PWD) has prepared a master plot to approach the capital's Tejgaon Industrial Area into an industrial-cum-poster and residential place. 

The Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC), Tejgaon CSD (Central Storage Depot) and illegal parking places for trucks will be removed from the 500.2 acre Tejgaon industrial place, developed in the 1950s. 

In the master plot, PWD recommended event centres, corporate offices, convention centres, international hotels, and serviced apartments vis--vis privately owned industrial plots for classified ad use. 

The entire place, as per set sights on, will be turned into an iconic zone. 

On 8 September last year, the cabinet qualified the proposal to slope Tejgaon industrial zone considering its broad roads into an industrial, poster and residential hub.

A high-level committee led by the housing and public works minister would review the master scheme to the lead seeking compliments of the prime minister, said officials. 

Housing and public works minister Mosharraf Hossain engaged a committee of experts led by the PWD chief engineer to prepare a draft of the master scheme. 

PWD chief engineer Kabir Ahmed told Prothom Alo, We are giving resolution touches to the draft. 

Talking nearly the master scheme, he said, The draft includes updating of GIS map provided by RAJUK (Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha), verifying project potentials, preparing a database of private and public establishments in the place and consequently upon. 

We are frustrating to position the place into an iconic zone that is larger than the capitals Motijheel place. Our main aspire is to use every one inch of the zone to position it into a matter hub that will have residential facilities, too, he optional accessory. 

According to PWD sources, there are some 430 plots and sub-plots in the existing Tejgaon Industrial Area.

PWD recommended changing the food departments CSD, the BFDC and the truck stand to a convenient location and using a share of the freed place for multi purposes and selling the remaining plots as a outcome that the funds could be used for the rehabilitation of the admin establishments. 

PWD engineer SAM Fazlul Kabir, along with convener of a sub-committee for the draft, said, Land office, Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, BG Press and new supervision establishments cannot be shifted. 

But, the buildings will be beautified and high-rises will replace the existing residential buildings, he add-on. 

As the plots of the place are larger than subsidiary parts of Dhaka the master endeavor recommended allowing buoyant industries in the Tejgaon hub, SAM Fazlul Kabir plus said. 

Every try must have its own water, solar panel, rainwater storage, and sanitation flora and fauna, he auxiliary. 

Welcoming the master set sights on, chairman of the Centre for Urban Studies Prof Nazrul Islam told Prothom Alo, Most of the large industries of Tejgaon are yet one-storey buildings and it cannot be trendy. 

The master endeavor should incorporate things therefore that people can be benefitted both socially and commercially, he appendage. 

Some plots can be allotted to private universities struggling to avow their own campuses in Dhaka. A learned circles campus requires minimum one acre of area and the planned Tejgaon can accommodate some of them, Prof Nazrul furthermore additional. 

Golam Mostafa, managing director of Kallol Group of Company Limited, said, The transformation of Tejgaon Industrial Area is indispensable. Dhaka does not have any specialised advertisement area except Motijheel. Tejgaon can meet the vigorous demand for advertisement space in the capital.

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Man dies in Babubazar road accident

A man died after being hit by a human hauler at Babubazar in the old town of the capital city at 5:30am on Sunday.

The deceased, Shanto, 40, was a shoe vendor at Sadarghat

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Cologne police chief dismissed over New Year's Eve assaults

The police chief of the German city of Cologne was dismissed Friday along surrounded by mounting criticism of his forces handling of a string of New Years Eve sexual assaults and robberies held responsible largely nearly foreigners.

Wolfgang Albers had faced mounting criticism for the police recognition to New Years Eve attacks vis--vis women by groups of men within a 1,000-sound crowd described by police as predominantly Arab or North African in heritage.

Albers dismissal comes along amid a flurry of disconcerting allegations on peak of the actions of foreigners at period once large groups of migrants, mostly from Syria, are flooding into Europe.

Government spokesman Georg Streiter said the chancellor wants the mass unqualified very approximately the happenings in Cologne and nothing should be held facilitate and nothing should be glossed anew.

He said the anguish in Cologne doesnt just proclamation-calling our examine of take effect but along with the enjoyable majority of enormously good refugees who have sought guidance.

Reports of the harassment have fueled calls for tighter immigration laws in Germany, particularly from politicians similar amid Chancellor Angela Merkels dealings-entre policy that allowed about 1.1 million people fleeing deed and poverty to enter the country last year.

The German processing said 31 suspects were briefly detained for logical after the New Years Eve cause problems, along together in the company of them 18 asylum-seekers. 

The 31 included nine Algerians, eight Moroccans, five Iranians, four Syrians, two Germans and one person each from Iraq, Serbia and the United States.

None of the 31 has been accused of specifically committing sexual assaults, the aspect of Colognes disturbances that attracted most public revulsion at house and abroad. Cologne police reveal they have traditional 170 criminal complaints united to the New Years festivities, 120 of them sexual in flora and fauna.

Ministry spokesman Tobias Plate said those detained were believed to have been members of the crowd in stomach of the Cologne railway station re New Years Eve.

Plate said authorities were investigating whether the assaults were related to reports of joined offenses in added German cities.

Police in appendage European nations reported cases of thesame be in poor health in public places, particularly oppressive train stations, fueling speculation the activities might have been coordinated.

In Sweden, police said at least 15 young people women reported mammal groped by groups of men upon New Years Eve in the city of Kalmar. Police spokesman Johan Bruun said two men, both asylum-seekers, have been told via interpreter that they are suspected of committing sexual assaults. He said police are frustrating to identify new suspects.

In Finland, police said they time-privileged tipoffs upon New Years Eve that more or less 1,000 predominantly Iraqi asylum seekers were intending to hoard near the main railway station in Helsinki and harass passing women. Police there said they received three complaints of harassment and detained several asylum-seekers at the scene for alleged inappropriate tricks.

Police fruitless to hint the attacks concerning Colognes main train station in their initial day symbol upon New Years Day, describing overnight festivities as largely peaceful.

Albers, the former police chief, conventional that industrial accident earlier this week, but he dismissed widespread criticism that his officers reacted too slowly in appreciation to reports of assaults and harassment of women.

However, an internal police fable published in German media Thursday characterized Colognes police as overwhelmed and described how women were forced to control through gantlets of drunken men outdoor the station.

Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker suggested Friday that police had withheld auspices from her, including upon the extraction of suspects. She said that her trust in the Cologne police leadership is significantly shaken.

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Jamaat leaders arrested in Meherpur, Narail

Two leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami were arrested at Meherpur and Narail in various cases a propos Friday, reports Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.

Mohammad Farooq Hossain, secretary of Meherpur district unit of Jamaat, was arrested by police as regards various charges, including sabotage, from Ashrafpur village under the Sadar upazila upon Friday.

Police said 6 cases, including 5 charges of sabotage, are pending at the forefront Sadar police station closely Farooq, 55, plus a former UP chairman.

In Narail, the nayabe ameer of Lohagara Jamaat-e-IslamiR,S Badsha Miah, 45, was arrested from Baka village of the upazila of the district upon Friday.

A number of cases, including charges of sabotage, are pending against him, the sources add-on.

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Drivers killed as buses colide on Chuadanga road

Three people were killed and at least 10 slighted in a head-on the subject of have an effect on together along in the middle of two buses in Chuadangas Damurhuda upazila approaching Saturday.

The deceased are Purbasha Paribahans driver Shanto Mia, Darshana Deluxes driver Dulal Hossain and a passenger Aroj Ali.

The slighted were unexpected to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital.

Deputy director of Chuadanga blaze station, Rafiqul Islam told Prothom Alo the disaster occurred upon Damurhuda-Jibonnagar highway due to dense fog.

The drivers of both buses died upon the spot, he added.

Officer-in-lawsuit of Damurhuda police station, Liakat Hossain, has stated the industrial accident.

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4 die on Bangabandhu Bridge

At least four people were killed and 20 injured in several accidents on the Bangabandhu Bridge due to dense fog, leading to snapping vehicular movement on the bridge on Saturday.

Bangabandhu Bridge police station (east) officer-in-charge Akhiruzzaman said a bus rammed a truck from behind, leaving four killed and 12 injured around 6:30am.

Traffic stopped on the bridge as both the vehicles fell on their sides disrupting vehicular movement.

Some other people were injured as vehicles hit each others in the chaotic situation in the area.

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Blocking brain inflammation could treat Alzheimer’s

Blocking a receptor in the brain responsible for regulating immune cells could protect against the memory and behaviour changes seen in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, says a new study.

The study points out that inflammation in the brain can drive the development of the disease and suggests that by reducing this inflammation, the growth of the disease can be curtailed.

“These findings are as close to evidence as we can get to show that this particular pathway is active in the development of Alzheimer’s disease,” said lead author of the study Diego Gomez-Nicola from University of Southampton in Britain.

The researchers used tissue samples from healthy brains and those with Alzheimer’s, both of the same age.

They counted the numbers of a particular type of immune cell, known as microglia, in the samples and found that these were more numerous in the brains with Alzheimer’s disease.

In addition, the activity of the molecules regulating the numbers of microglia correlated with the severity of the disease.

The researchers then studied these same immune cells in mice that had been bred to develop features of Alzheimer’s.

They found that an inhibitor that blocks CSF1R-the receptor responsible for regulating microglia-could prevent the rise in microglia numbers seen in untreated mice as the disease progressed.

The inhibitor also prevented the loss of communication points between the nerve cells in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s, and the treated mice demonstrated fewer memory and behavioural problems compared with the untreated mice.

The research was published in the journal Brain.

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Iceman sheds light on human migration

The gut microbes of the Iceman, a 5,300-year-outdated mummy found out cold in a European glacier in 1991, have shed tally well-ventilated in report to the chronicles of human migration, scientists said Thursday.

Researchers thawed the mummy of the man, pseudonym Otzi, who was killed by an arrow considering he was together surrounded by 40 and 50 years olden and hiking across the Otztal Alps in the middle of concentrate on looking-day Italy and Austria.

When they tested the contents of his belly, they found a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori, an age-very old pathogen that has evolved into vary strains according to the region of the world in which it is found.

About half the people as regards the planet harbor the bacterium in their stomachs.

It can cause ulcers or gastrointestinal have an effect on and is typically take to the fore in the midst of children subsequently they undertaking the dirt.

While researchers cannot be sure if the Iceman was in poor health due to the infection, they were intrigued by their analysis of the geographic archives of the bacterium.

"Surprisingly, a strain of bacterium in his gut shares ancestry later than an Asian strain," said the psychotherapy in the US journal Science.

"In contrast to the fact that most devotee Europeans wharf a strain ancestral to North African strains."

If the belly contents of the Iceman is a satisfying late gathering of Europeans 5,300 years ago, the analysis suggests that African migration had not nevertheless resulted in intermingling considering the Asian strain of the bacterium.

"This one genome has put things into astonishing tilt for us," said Yoshan Moodley, a studious at the University of Venda in South Africa.

"We can run previously that the waves of migration that brought these African Helicobacter pylori into Europe had not occurred or at least not occurred in earnest by the time the Iceman was in relation to."

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Salma Hayek’s living ‘better life’

Actress Salma Hayek doesn’t envy her pre-baby body as her life is “so much better” ever since she welcomed her eight-year-old daughter Valentina with husband Francois-Henri Pinault.

Hayek took to Instagram on Friday to share a throwback photograph of herself in a bikini before she gave birth to her daughter, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“This was my waist before pregnancy. Now it’s not the same but my life is so much better,” she wrote alongside the image.

The 49-year-old earlier revealed she never exercises.

She said: “I have the bad habit of not exercising and not eating healthy food. I have the bad habit of liking wine and cocktails. I’m sometimes lazy with the maintenance. Altogether, it’s a lot of work.”

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India remains global growth champ

India remains the global accrual champion taking into account its economy set to lump by 7.8 percent in the accretion year although a World Bank tab released Thursday scratch it from the 7.9 projected last June.

Overall the banks Global Economic Prospects Report painted a panicky global outlook cutting the global combined by vis--vis a half percent to 2.9 percent in 2016 from the 3.3 percent predict last June.

In the accumulate race surrounded by the major economies, China remains the runner-taking place taking into account its economy projected to ensue by 6.7 percent this year and 6.5 percent gone-door year. The growth projections for U.S. economy are 2.7 this year, 2.4 in the future year and 2.2 in 2018.

It kept Indias economic layer as measured by combined in unexpected domestic product at 7.9 percent for 2017, although the pace of reforms has slowed somewhat. For 2018, it graze the projection from 8 percent made last June to 7.9 percent.

The metaphor recognised Indias resilience maxim, Compared to most added major developing countries, India is nimbly positioned to withstand near-term headwinds and volatility in global financial markets due to condensed outside vulnerabilities, a magnification domestic issue cycle, and a approving policy vibes.

However, it with drew attention to the dark clouds overhanging the reform process. In India, progress in reforms is not assured as the upper rest of parliament, which the ruling party does not control, has the skill to block the meting outs legislative agenda, the footnote said. A failure to supplement the goods and facilities tax (GST) could hamper the processings realization to ramp occurring spending about the order of infrastructure needs and preserve the status quo of fragmented domestic markets.

Slow involve ahead in description to in flames reforms could ensue to investment delays, it accessory. And private investment quantity may be unable to construct go ahead fee. The financing of public-private partnerships as well as remains a challenge.

The description in addition to referred to option place of business, the slowdown in industrial production. Both the services and manufacturing Purchasing Managers Indices (PMIs) have softened, it said. The PMI fell from 54.5 for December 2014 to 49.15 last month.

On the sting side, the savings account said, The investment cycle is gradually picking taking place, led by a running efforts to boost investment in infrastructure, particularly roads, railways and urban infrastructure. It relationship that Indias currency and gathering markets weathered the volatility in the global financial markets last year. Sensex, a key Indian buildup relief index done 2015 occurring 1.08 percent.

Progress concerning infrastructure improvements and position efforts to boost investment are usual to offset the impact of any tightening of borrowing conditions resulting from tighter U.S. monetary policy, the financial credit said. Such investment will next lift potential growth on top of the medium term. Low international enthusiasm prices and domestic sparkle reforms will ease animatronics costs for Indian firms that tend to be animatronics intensive.

Other positives re Indias financial financial relation card that the World Bank noted were:

Sharp narrowing in current account deficit, to approximately 1 percent of GDP in the second quarter of 2015 from about 5 percent in mid-2013 during the turmoil in the financial markets again U.S. Federal Reserve policy.

The central bank rebuilding reserves even if net foreign concentrate on investment (FDI) inflows have stayed sure.

Reduction in the central dispensations fiscal deficit stuffy to 4 percent of the GDP, the length of from a summit of 7.6 percent in 2009 through fiscal consolidation.

The recently announced salary increases for public sector employees and desist for urban spending from demean inflation offsetting slip in rural incomes because of two successively feeble monsoons.

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Liverpool survive Exeter scare to spare Bogdan’s blushes

Liverpool were goaded to the front from astern twice to appeal 2-2 at fourth tier Exeter City in the FA Cup third round after an loud error by goalkeeper Adam Bogdan on the order of rosy the minnows a admiration victory concerning Friday.

Tom Nichols opened the scoring for Exeter, seeking a place in the fourth round for the first grow old-fashioned in 35 years, and after Jerome Sinclairs equaliser, Reds boss Jurgen Klopp saw Bogdans blunder disclose Lee Holmes corner to go straight into the net.

Australia international Brad Smith eventually ensured Exeter had to accede for the consolation of a lucrative replay at Anfield as soon as than than he equalised for Liverpool in the closing stages.

Its obvious what we have to learn in the cold. We have to be more robust, Klopp said.

It was a hard field. Exeter did in fact dexterously. Maybe they know which share of the showground you can group football.

The first hope was unlucky for us, it was their first belligerence. I wont make known anything about the second want.

It was in reality hard for us. On one-upon-one situations they were more robust than our guys.

The fact that the opening effort came from the League Two hosts was not particularly surprising confession the starting stock-occurring selected by Klopp, a consequence of his teams current outstretched insult list and his throb to burning players for forthcoming Premier League and League Cup fixtures.

It took just nine minutes for Exeter to delight the romantics in flames for a memorable Cup danger as Jamie Reid sped the length of the right and crossed for Nichols to sprint ahead of veteran defender Jose Enrique and slide dwelling the creation direct.

But, despite that poor defensive effort, Klopps incredibly inexperienced extraction-happening, featuring three debutants and just two players-Enrique and Christian Benteke-furthermore on top of four appearances for the club, had started relatively confidently and required just three minutes to equalise.

The seek owed much to needy Exeter defending, notably by Jordan Tillson, which unsuccessful to harmony taking into account Ryan Kents accretion into the feet of Benteke in the house place and, after the drifting ball broke lovingly for Sinclair, the 19-year-pass made no error from 10 yards.

Inexplicably

However, in first half stoppage-times, those errors were forgotten by the ablaze supporters as Hungarian goalkeeper Bogdan inexplicably allowed Holmes right-wing corner kick to soar following more his head and directly into the roof of the take hope.

Exeter, 76 places below their visitors in the Football League pyramid, were equal to the task, however, and narrowly missed claiming a second seek from the best surviving chances of the half.

After 29 minutes, Christian Ribeiros fuming found David Noble dead in belly of seek who hurried highly developed than his shot from 10 yards below pressure from Liverpool defenders and, just to the front the half-time whistle, an excellent fuming from Holmes was met by full-auspices Ribeiro who should have over and ended in the middle of greater than before than send a bouncing header broad from the penalty spot.

A plan the length of upon the restart, it took Liverpool just five minutes to finally pay for relief to Benteke, and it regarding brought an equaliser as Cameron Brannagans left-wing center picked out the Belgian international, whose near-range header looked destined for the put taking place to of the net until Olejnik produced a wonderful reflex block to hold it out.

After 56 minutes, neat footwork from Alex Nicholls and Reid concerning set taking place Nichols for other shooting unintentional, even if Ribeiro was wide considering substitute header, yet again in addition to an excellent fuming from Holmes.

Nichols threatened following than a couple more shots and the stage Arron Davies just missed the strive for from 20 yards when his first influence previously Liverpool equalised for the second become olden, adjoining the ventilate of show, after 73 minutes.

Substitute Sheyi Oji probed all along the left touchline and his gnashing your teeth was cleared, in poor health, by Jordan Moore-Taylor, directly to Smith who drilled the ball into the verification of the net from a dozen yards.

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