[Dhaka Tribune] Habib Uddin Ahmed, managing director of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL), has been suspended for his suspected connection with the disappearance of 144,000 tons of coal from the mine.
Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation, commonly known as Petrobangla, issued the suspension order on Thursday, Petrobangla Chairman Abul Mansur Md Faizullah confirmed to UNB.
Habib Uddin had been withdrawn from the coal mine company after the news of the coal disappearance broke out on Sunday.
The massive irregularity came to light when a team from Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) visited the coal mine and found that there was no adequate reserve of coal to run the Barapukuria thermal power plant.
After an official investigation, the stock was found to have a shortage of 144,000 tons of coal.
Petrobangla formed a three-member committee to investigate the disappearance. The Anti-Corruption Commission also formed a three-member probe committee on Monday to look into the matter.
On Tuesday, a case was filed against 19 BCMCL officials, including Habib Uddin.
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[DailyMail] Britain's longest heatwave since 1976 could spark a plague of rats as they gnaw on food rubbish warmed by weeks of sunshine and early-ripened fruit.
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Not only are you getting more rats from the warm food, the rats are also larger because heat makes things expand. Don't look at me like that, it's SCIENCE.
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People get caught up in the bluster and loud-mouthed NY style of Trump. But if you actually look at what he accomplishes, he has been a fairlly effective.
This is yet another success in the face of naysayers in the progressive press. The "reporters" publicize criticism of his tough talk and loose rhetoric, but they never seem to publish the success of his actions as widely.
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I can name a LOT of presidents who never pulled this off.
[AlAhram] North Korea will transfer the remains of an unspecified number of soldiers killed in the Korean War on Friday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, after accepting about 100 wooden caskets sent by the United States.
The repatriation of remains of US soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War was one of the agreements reached during a landmark summit between US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... in Singapore on June 12.
US Forces Korea said later last month they had moved 100 wooden temporary transit cases into the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas to receive and transport the remains.
Yonhap, citing an unidentified diplomatic source, said on Thursday North Korea had accepted the caskets, which were carried in two trucks, and was expected to transfer the remains on Friday.
The planned transfer would coincide with the 65th anniversary of the 1953 armistice agreement that ended fighting.
A US military transport plane was set to fly to an airfield in North Korea's northeastern city of Wonsan to accept the remains, Yonhap reported. They would then be flown to Hawaii after an initial DNA analysis at Osan air base in South Korea.
CNN, citing a US official, reported earlier this week that Washington expects to receive an initial 55 sets of remains and planned to send officials to North Korea to open and photograph each casket as part of a "cursory review" of what the North Koreans turned over.
US forensic specialists in Osan would then conduct a more in-depth assessment of the remains and any military uniforms, identification tags or documentation, a process that could take up to five days, followed by a formal military ceremony at the airfield. The remains would then be flown to a US military laboratory in Hawaii for DNA analysis, CNN reported.
South Korea President Moon Jae-in said during a meeting with new US Ambassador Harry Harris on Wednesday that a transfer of the remains would boost the momentum for nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington.
Kim and Trump agreed to work towards denuclearisation at their Singapore summit but there has been no sign of a concrete agreement on how to achieve that goal.
Harris said the transfer, as well as the North's perceived closing of a missile engine testing site, would be an "important sign" to show Kim's sincerity about denuclearisation, Moon's office said.
Recent reports that North Korea had started dismantling a rocket test site are consistent with a commitment made by Kim at the summit but it must go further and fully denuclearise, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday.
[THEHILL] Starbucks officials said that closing its stores nationwide for an afternoon in May to conduct anti-bias training impacted it sales over the past quarter.
The Associated Press reported Thursday that officials said shutting down the stores for the day lowered comparable-store sales by less than half a percent.
Starbucks held the training after an employee at a Philadelphia store called police on two black men who were at the store but did not order anything.
The incident sparked a national outcry. Starbucks also announced that going forward, stores would allow anyone to use its bathrooms without having to buy a product.
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Perhaps I'm missing something here. In my defense the article wasn't very clear.
One afternoon = 1/2 day. 1 quarter=91 days. One afternoons's lost sales divided by 1 quarter is about half a percent.
So are they talking about total sales across non-coffeeshop establishments, including the closed stores (in which case why are they also talking about 1% growth)?
At any rate, it is impossible for me to boycott Starbucks coffee.
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starbucks closing afternoon was only for company owned stores
the stores that are licensed, e.g., the ones in airports, hotels, did not close that afternoon
also the seattle's best stores (a subsidiary of starbucks) which are franchised, did not close that afternoon
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"Starbucks says anti-bias training hurt sales"
So what are they saying, "We need to continue to be racist because anti-training hurts profits?
[Al Jazeera] Serbia has raised the prospect of a new deal with neighbouring Kosovo, which seceded from Serbia 10 years ago, that could see the two countries draw up new zones and swap chunks of territory.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that if such a "demarcation" agreement was not put in place, Albanians could spread out throughout Serbia in the coming years due to their high birth rates, in comments published in Serbian media on Thursday.
Vucic's suggestions could see North Kosovo, which is mainly populated by Serbians, handed over to Belgrade. In exchange, the region surrounding the southern Serbian town of Presevo, which is mostly populated by Albanians, could be transferred to Kosovo.
The influential Serbian Orthodox Bishop Teodosije, who presides over Kosovo, has warned against such a division, as the small Serb minority living in central Kosovo would then increasingly emigrate.
In an interview for Croatian news magazine Globus published on Wednesday, Vucic said that he will try to retrieve as much territory as possible.
"All Serbs know that they lost Kosovo, but I will try everything in my might to retrieve what I can, so that in the end it's not a total defeat or total loss," Vucic told Globus.
Put more simply, Serbia would recognise Kosovo ("but without explicit international recognition") in exchange for northern Kosovo rejoining Serbia, wrote Globus journalist Darko Hudelist.
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A record 22 percent of Americans said this month that they believe "immigration/illegal aliens" is the most important problem facing the United States, according to Gallup polling numbers released on Wednesday.
"The 22 percent of Americans in July who say immigration is the top problem is up from 14 percent in June and is the highest percentage naming that issue in Gallup's history of asking the ’most important problem’ question," Gallup Editor in Chief Frank Newport said in an analysis of the survey.
h/t Instapundit
A young Oregon man has been awarded a $25,000 settlement and a written apology from his former high school principal after he was suspended for refusing to cover up or change his T-shirt, which read, "Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co."
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It's a well established SCOTUS determination. That the principal ignored it thinking he could get away with it and the non-apology apology validating that should put the school board on notice of a very expensive future if behaviors aren't changed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[Dhaka Tribune] Habib Uddin Ahmed, managing director of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL), has been suspended for his suspected connection with the disappearance of 144,000 tons of coal from the mine.
North Korea
[THEHILL] Starbucks officials said that closing its stores nationwide for an afternoon in May to conduct anti-bias training impacted it sales over the past quarter.
