FB to remove content containing ‘stop the steal’ phrase
Agencies
January 12, 2021
Washington, Jan 12: Facebook has announced that it would remove all the contents from its platform that contain the phrase stop the seal , which is being used by the supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump to allege election fraud.
Trump and his supporters believe that there was massive voters fraud during the November 3 elections. While the allegations are unsubstantiated, his supporters have been using this phrase to organise themselves and often hold protests through social media outlets. We are now removing content containing the phrase stop the steal under our Coordinating Harm policy from Facebook and Instagram. We removed the original Stop the Steal group in November and have continued to remove pages, groups and events that violate any of our policies, including calls for violence, Guy Rosen, vice president, integrity, and Monika Bickert, VP, global policy management, s
Kim terms US biggest enemy , calls to develop more nuclear weapons to combat hostility
Agencies
January 9, 2021
Seoul, Jan 9: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called the United States the biggest enemy of his country and vowed to advance the nuclear arsenal of his country unless the US ended what he called its hostility to his regime, reported state media. Washington s policy against Pyongyang won t change regardless of who is in the White House, adding that an end to its hostile stance will be the key to future relations between the two countries, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Kim on Friday speaking at the eighth congress of the ruling Workers Party.
Delwer Hussain elected new SAFA president
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DHAKA, Jan 3, 2021 (BSS) – AKM Delwer Hussain, former president and council member of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB), has been appointed as the new President of South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) for the year 2021.
Delwar is a senior fellow member of the ICMAB. He has served ICMA Bangladesh as its President for two times in the year 2004 and 2013, said a press release.
He was elected as a board member and also member of the strategic committee of the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) in 2004.
Delwer is principal and CEO of AKM Delwer Hussain and Associates. He is also Director of Agrani Equity and Investment Limited (A subsidiary of Agrani Bank Limited).
Emran Hossain | Published: 00:07, Jan 02,2021 | Updated: 00:13, Jan 02,2021
A balance between the capacity to generate and the capability to use electricity remains a major challenge for Bangladesh as the generation capacity has been enhanced without developing commensurate transmission and distribution networks.
The country’s annual spending on the idle power plants has increased 300 per cent over the last decade with the highest amount of Tk 108 billion paid in 2019–20. Over the past decade the idle power plants have been paid nearly Tk 600 billion.
The price of power has seen a 98 per cent rise over the last decade as the government has tried to rein in the sector’s increasing deficit that is, experts predict, likely to go up further with the government continuing to increase the power generation capacity.
Ras Al Khaimah, Jan 1: The Ras Al Khaimah New Year’s Eve Celebrations dazzled the world with a 10-minute fireworks show that underlined the UAE’s message of hope, peace and achievements.