[Dhaka Tribune] The defence counsel of the Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case has attempted to claim her murder as a case of suicide.
The claim was made during a cross-examination of defendants Nishat Sultana and Nasrin Sultana Furti, classmates of Rafi, by the defence counsel, in Feni's Woman and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Mamunur Rashid's courtroom on Monday.
Public Prosecutor Hafez Ahammad confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.
The cross-examination was conducted by six defence counselors, advocates Kamrul Hasan, Gias Uddin Nannu, Mahfuzur Rahman, Nurul Islam, Ahsan Kabir Bengal and Farid Khan Nayan.
The court declared Tuesday as the date for examination by the remaining 12 counselors, while the testimony of Nurul Amin, office assistant of Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa and a witness to the case, will also be recorded.
During Monday's examination, counselor Farid Khan Nayan claimed Nusrat had did away with himself and nobody had murdered her.
He added the defendants were giving false testimonies as the main accused principal Sirajuddaula had sternly warned all of them against romancing inside madrasa premises, and that this was all retribution against his rebuking.
The case plaintiff's lawyer Shahjahan Shaju said Nasrin Sultana Furti had testified in court about how Nur Uddin, a close confidant of Sirajuddaula, had intimidated Nusrat's mother about withdrawing her complaint with Sonagazi police on March 28.
Later on April 4, Md Shamim, another accused, had given Nusrat a final warning of withdrawing the case, but to no avail, she further told the court.
On April 6, on the pretext of unknown students beating up fellow student Nishat Sultana, Nusrat was taken to the third floor of the madrasah's administrative building, where she was set on fire with kerosene, Nasrin recalled.
Five individuals, including Shamim, Jabed and three others were all clad in burqa, which also included two girls.
Nishat also confirmed that Sirajuddaula had sexually harassed Nusrat after calling her into his own room on October 3, 2018.
Nusrat had later told this to her parents, who went to the madrasah operating committee to seek justice, but returned empty handed.
Sirajuddaula had also sexually harassed Nusrat on March 27 earlier this year. She had tried to go inside his room with Nishat and Nasrin, but they were not allowed to enter with her.
Nusrat died on 10 April while under treatment in Dhaka Medical College's Burn and Plastic Surgery Department.
Nusrat's brother Mahmudul Hasan Noman filed a case against eight accused in the Sonagazi Police Station. Later, the case was transferred to PBI. The police, and the PBI has arrested 21 in this case. Among them, 12 had given depositions under section 164.
Evidence has been found of negligence by three coppers in this incident. Also, ex-OC Moazzem has been arrested in this case of sexual harassment, and for spreading the video of Nusrat's deposition on the internet.
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[BBC] A suspected stowaway who is believed to have fallen from the landing gear of a flight into Heathrow Airport has been found dead in a London garden.
The body - believed to be that of a man - was found in Clapham just before 15:40 BST on Sunday.
The individual is believed to have fallen from a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi, police said.
A neighbour said the man fell a metre away from a resident who had been sunbathing in the garden.
The man, who did not want to be named, said he heard a "whomp" so he looked out of an upstairs window and saw the body and "blood all over the walls of the garden".
"So I went outside, and it was just then the neighbour came out and he was very shaken," he said.
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Angus dear, would you please go investigate that noise in the garden? It could have been another one of those airplane wheelwell people dropping in.
[USNI News] A fire that broke out on a secret Russian submarine has killed 14 sailors, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense in Moscow.
"On July 1, 14 submariners – sailors died in Russian territorial waters as a result of inhaling combustion products aboard a research submersible vehicle designated for studying the seafloor and the bottom of the World Ocean in the interests of the Russian Navy after a fire broke out during bathymetric measurements," read a translation of the statement from the state-controlled Tass news service.
The remaining crew was able to extinguish the fire, the ministry said. The incident is believed to have occurred off Russia's northern shore in the Barents Sea on Monday, but the MoD has not specified.
The submarine was towed to the Russian North Fleet headquarters in Severomork and an investigation is underway, according to the news agency.
Messages left with U.S. 6th Fleet and U.S. European Command if American assistance was requested were not immediately returned.
The boat was identified by Russian-language news service RBC as Losharik (AS-12), a nuclear-powered submarine that is widely believed to be a key asset for the Russian Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research, also known as GUGI.
GUGI develops and operates a fleet of specialized submarines that Russia uses for deep sea and Moscow’s most covert operations.
Losharik is among the most mysterious of the closely guarded fleet. Fielded in the late 1990s, specifics for the nuclear-powered boat are few. It’s estimated to carry a crew of about 25 and can dive to thousands of feet below the surface, according to the Military Russia blog.
The about 2000-ton boat can travel slung under the belly of a specially modified Delta III nuclear ballistic missile submarine, according to open source intelligence analysts. The purpose and capabilities of Losharik are shrouded in mystery.
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They seem to have a lot of problems with their subs for some reason.
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Every developed nation should have their own nuclear power plants and their own nuclear weapons, and every nation of a certain size should have nuclear powered aircraft carriers. It is just a part of the global tech base maturing.
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Europe profits to the tune of $170 billion a year from unfair trade policies. They erect tariffs and non-tariff barriers to our products, and the US government has been happy to let them.
It was a gigantic bribe to stay on our side in the Cold War, but that ended 30 years ago. For some reason the subsidies didn't. More on the topic.
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Fair or unfair — in both directions — it is clearly time to scrape down to bedrock and rebuild from scratch to better suit current conditions.
After all, Germany is off aking its own trade agreements elsewhere, according to Deutsche Welle:
The EU and four South American countries have signed a milestone trade agreement. It's a clear signal to the US president about the importance of free trade.
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The old Bretton Woods agreement has come to an end. America will no longer subsidize your defense and your access to free trade for your cooperation against the Soviets/Russians.
PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. online retail giant Amazon (AMZN.O) said on Tuesday it will create 1,800 permanent contract positions this year in France, its largest European market after Britain and Germany, although furniture retailer Conforama went the other way in cutting jobs.
The increase will bring Amazon’s total number of permanent staff to 9,300 by end 2019 and reflects the group’s commitment to the French market where it has invested over 2 billion euros ($2.26 billion) since 2010, the statement said.
Amazon’s plan comes as Conforama, the French unit of South African retailer Steinhoff (SNHJ.J) which is in the midst of a financial restructuring, plans to cut 1,900 jobs in France.
[DAWN] PML-N Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... President Rana Sanaullah Khan was arrested on Monday by the Anti Narcotics Force's (ANF) Lahore team while he was traveling from Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... to Lahore, sources in the ANF confirmed to DawnNewsTV.
The senior PML-N politician was arrested from the Islamabad-Lahore motorway near the Sukheki area, the sources said.
The ANF has not officially specified the charges on which Sanaullah has been picked up, but spokesperson Riaz Soomro said drugs were recovered from Sanaullah's car. The quantity and type of drugs recovered is still being assessed, he said.
"We are having some difficulties getting information from ANF Lahore," he said. "ANF does not arrest any individual without due cause."
Force Commander Brig Khalid Mehmood is overseeing the investigation, the ANF spokesperson told DawnNewsTV. Sanaullah is being kept in ANF Police Station I, he added.
"ANF Headquarters Rawalpindi is in touch with ANF Lahore. A statement on the drugs recovered can only be issued after completion of due process," he said.
PML-N leader Attaullah Tarrar had earlier told news hounds that he had contacted Sanullah today. According to him, the PML-N provincial president was about to leave the Sukheki area to attend a meeting in Lahore.
The former provincial law minister was appointed president of PML-N Punjab in May this year.
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the arrest and said that Sanaullah was arrested without any allegation and case against him. He termed it the worst example of "lawlessness and political Dire Revenge".
Sharif alleged that it was another example of using state institutions against political opponents. He demanded of the government to produce Sanaullah before a court of law.
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Rana Sanaullah Khan is part of one of the most prolific diplomatic-pouch assisted heroin networks spanning the UK, UAE, Afghanistan and the 'Stain. MI5 and Interpol have been tracking his activities for years, but due to political reasons and bureaucratic corruption he manages to get away clean. He has been bad-mouthing the Imran Khan govt for quite a while now, and had distanced himself from the trade itself to avoid backlash.
It is also believed he is protected by someone in the UK agency Yupp ! . Maybe trouble brewing from the division of profits, or a righteous stand against political corruption by the cricketer PM ? Sanaullah has allegations against him for money laundering, drug-dealing, murder, etc.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Defense Ministry said Monday it would hand over to Kuwaiti authorities samples of human remains that were recently found in southern Iraq and might belong to missing Kuwaiti citizens.
The remains were found in two locations near Nuqrat al-Salman area in southern al-Muthanna Governorate, KUNA quoted the ministry as saying in a statement.
Cooperation between Iraq, Kuwait and the International Committee of Red Thingy (ICRC) contributed to discovery of the remains, it added.
The ministry said the remains were exhumed and sent to a laboratory in Baghdad to examine if they match DNA samples of families of missing Kuwaitis.
On June 20, a joint statement by ICRC-affiliated Tripartite Commission announced the recovery of the remains, offering hope for families of missing people from 1990-91 Gulf War. Kuwait and Iraq are the other Commission members.
Kuwait Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-hamad al-Sabah expressed hope that the remains would "belong to Kuwaiti citizens."
Kuwait, he added, was awaiting "important positive developments" that would achieve concrete progress on the ground in order to end over 28 years of suffering of families of the missing.
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Anti-War girlie NGO Code Pink got approval from the National Park Service to have the balloon present between 4 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET on July 4 on a section of the National Mall near the Washington Monument.
This desperate device.
The permit states that "all balloons are prohibited" on the National Mall, but that the service would allow the Trump balloon to be present. The group, which previously said it planned to "parade the Baby Trump blimp in DC as an all out call to reject Trump," said in the statement that it has requested permission from the FAA's District Offices to fill the balloon with helium "so it will rise off the ground a mere two feet," thereby making "the entire baby 20 feet tall." They felt "this bureaucratic process is designed to force us to just keep the baby on the ground, instead of floating it in the air..." (sic)
So get your scissors, darts, shuriken ready folks.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ President Donald Trump signed a $4.6 billion aid package on Monday to help the federal government cope with the surge of Central American immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Many Democratic lawmakers were hoping for more. They wanted to provide stronger protections for how migrants are treated at holding facilities and to make it easier for lawmakers to make snap visits.
Trump signed the bill in the Oval Office, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. The emergency legislation was needed to ease overcrowded, often harsh conditions at U.S. holding facilities for migrants seeking asylum, mostly from Central American nations like Honduras and El Salvador.
"This is a humane solution to a tremendous problem that starts because of our bad immigration laws," Trump said.
The White House had threated to veto a House bill on grounds that it would hamstring border security efforts. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced to accept the Republican-controlled Senate’s version of the aid package, frustrating the more liberal members of her caucus.
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Other than the 'it's for the children' angle, the only good news is - frustrating the more liberal members of her caucus. And Nancy rolling over.
But the money spent to better conditions is the wrong message to those looking for the good life in America. Soros must be smiling.
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Money spent should be to expedite processing and either return to country of origin or establishment of a legal status (e.g. asylum.) Enforce the law.
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How much wall could we buy with $4.6 billion?
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Reassign all bureaucrats processing legal immigration visas to processing the removal of all illegals. Light a fire under all those companies who rely on importing cheap foreign workers.
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Neat move. Actually flawless. A large enough amount to improve conditions of both the held and the holders, cutting through their demands for their 'visits' and 'special obstructionism.
And truly righteous. Displaying actual empathy and a complete opposite of what he's painted as by Dems.
[Bemidji Pioneer] WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department is offering employees a rare choice: accept a forced transfer to a post 1,000 miles away or be fired.
The Trump administration's plan to move two agencies from Washington D.C. to the Kansas City area includes a document with two blank boxes on it, sent to employees on June 13. Check one, it instructs: Accept the transfer by July 15 or "be separated by adverse action procedures."
Of the 547 employees the department wants to move for the two agencies combined, 253 are with the Economic Research Service, 77 percent of its 329-person workforce. An additional 294 are with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 93 percent of its 315-person staff. News of the move prompted a surge of support for the union. Employees at the National Institute voted 137-2 to join AFGE two weeks ago. Last month's vote at the economic service was 138-4. I suspect the unions will not like this. More 'roughhouse negotiating'?
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Dept of Ag has something like 90k employees. A lot of who are food inspectors or Forestry officials and who are outside Washington DC.
Still the Washington DC offices probably have at least 5k employees so these 500+ are just a drop in the bucket.
Btw, 80% of the Dept of Ag budget goes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP aka food stamp) which spends over $100 B per year.
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The Trump 'long game.' Sheer genius. I hope he expands the program to include the IRS, DOE, the Pentagon, and others.
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National People's Radio (NPR) had a long whiny piece on this. Some of the employees are disabled and can't walk the 1,000 miles to Kansas City. Others have families. Yes, families! Can you imagine families forced to live in the uninhabited prairie, hundreds of miles from the nearest Starbucks, surrounded by wild buffalo and savage Indians? Utterly heart-wrenching stuff. Maybe the Army could build a fort or something.
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Taking federal Ag employees out of DC and centering them where agriculture actually exists is a good thing.
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I am for musical chairs with all gov positions. If you can't move with the job you are not the right person for the job. Right now in D.C. get fired in one gov dept and get hired in another. With regional musical chairs - fired and stay fired. Win win for the public! Sort of survival of the fittest the rest of the public has to live with.
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I'm going to Kansas City
Kansas City here I come
I'm going to Kansas City
Kansas City here I come
They got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one
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I'm gonna be standing on the corner
12th Street and Vine
I'm gonna be standing on the corner
12th Street and Vine
With my Kansas City Baby and a bottle of Kansas City wine
-------------------------------------------------- Well I might take a plane I might take a train But if I have to walk I'm going just the same
I'm going to Kansas City
Kansas City here I come
They got some crazy little women
there and I'm gonna get me one
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Recon performed already by Fats Domino
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Re #14: 3dc, welcome to the world of the military. He has been in the Air Force for 9 years. He is at his third duty station: Washington state, England, and now Langley AFB, VA. He expects to be transferred again in a year or two.
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Sorry, the second sentence should read: My son has been in the Air Force for nine years.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[USNI News] A fire that broke out on a secret Russian submarine has killed 14 sailors, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense in Moscow.
The Trump administration's plan to move two agencies from Washington D.C. to the Kansas City area includes a document with two blank boxes on it, sent to employees on June 13. Check one, it instructs: Accept the transfer by July 15 or "be separated by adverse action procedures."
