Virgin Atlantic is to cut 1,150 more jobs after completing a £1.2bn rescue plan that will secure its future for at least 18 months.

The airline had already cut more than 3,500 jobs out of the 10,000 employees it had at the beginning of the year.

The airline said it had to cut costs in order to survive.

“Until travel returns in greater numbers, survival is predicated on reducing costs further and continuing to preserve cash,” it said.

“The outlook for transatlantic flying, which is core to Virgin Atlantic’s business, remains uncertain with US-UK travel curtailed,” the airline said.

It said the past six months had been “the most challenging in Virgin Atlantic’s history”, and that “regrettably the airline must go further one last time with changes at scale, to ensure it emerges from this crisis”.

The carrier added that a 45-day consultation period would begin on Friday with unions.

To try to cut down on crew redundancies, it said it would introduce a voluntary, company-financed furlough scheme for 600 crew members when the government-backed scheme ends in October.

‘A tragedy’

Pilots union Balpa said that it hoped to avoid pilot redundancies.

“Every single job lost to this crisis is a tragedy and we are doing everything we can to mitigate job losses across the board,” said Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton.

“Despite no help from government, their financing is now secure,” he added.

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a dreadful toll on employment in the aviation industry.

Airlines around the world have been haemorrhaging jobs, as they face a future in which fewer people travel, and fewer planes are able to fly.

And it isn’t just airlines. Aerospace firms, airports and groundhandling companies are also being forced to cut back.

Virgin finds itself more exposed than many of its rivals, because it relies heavily on transatlantic traffic – and restrictions on travel to the US remain in force.

The company is hoping its £1.2bn rescue plan will enable it to ride out the storm. But to succeed, it still needs to turn itself into a much smaller business than it was just a few months ago.

US carrier Delta Air Lines, which owns 49% of Virgin Atlantic, said the rescue plan was “an important part of protecting Delta’s position in the UK, particularly in the critical London Heathrow market,” as it vies against American Airlines and British Airways.

The pandemic has had a severe impact on the aviation industry as lockdowns and quarantines hit air travel. Airlines, airports and tour firms have collectively shed thousands of jobs.

Virgin gained approval for its rescue plan from UK and US courts this week.

The £1.2bn deal involves £400m in new cash, half of which will come from its main shareholder, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group.

Virgin Atlantic chief executive Shai Weiss said: “Together, we have achieved what many thought impossible and that is down to the efforts and sacrifices of so many across the company.”

He called for “urgent government action” to introduce passenger testing to help remove travel restrictions.

Since the 16 March it has not been possible for many travellers from the UK to get into the US if they do not have US citizenship and if they have been in the UK, Ireland, the Schengen zone, Iran, Brazil, or China within the past two weeks.

The former head of the World Bank has warned the world could look like it did in 1900 if countries don’t work together to tackle the current crisis.

Robert Zoellick pointed to the rift between the US and China as a serious threat to the global economic recovery.

Mr Zoellick, one of America’s most senior public officials, has advised six US presidents during his career.

He told the BBC co-operation was “the only way the global economy will emerge from the recession”.

Mr Zoellick, who was also the US deputy secretary of state, said his biggest concern was the escalating tensions between the US and China.

“I think [the relationship] is in freefall today and I don’t think we know where the bottom is, and that is a very dangerous situation,” he told the BBC’s Asia Business Report.

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Mr Zoellick warned that “the world could look more like the world of 1900 when the great powers were in competition” if countries start to pull back from globalisation and pursue nationalist interests.

Financial crisis

Mr Zoellick served as the president of the World Bank between 2007 to 2012, the years that encompassed the global financial crisis.

As the head of the organisation he worked closely with the International Monetary Fund and world governments to tackle the financial meltdown.

“The 2008-09 financial crisis was a very serious event but we had the G20, [and] central banks co-operating. President Bush and then President Obama were part of international efforts with [then UK prime minister] Gordon Brown,” he said.

“Frankly, even China had a very strong stimulus programme and also co-operated in various ways. We don’t have that sense of co-operation today.”

Mr Zoellick called for the US to work closely with China in finding a solution to the pandemic, rather than “indicting them for it”.

Trump ‘flawed’

The person he blames for causing much of the damage is US President Donald Trump.

Mr Zoellick served under previous Republican Presidents George W Bush and George H W Bush. But he is clear about his dislike for the current Republican in office.

“I’ve been opposed to Trump from the start… not only because of his policy positions but also because of what I think are flaws in his character.

“I was worried about what he would do with institutions and the constitution and we’re seeing that borne out, and in the pandemic, we’re seeing another dimension, which is a question of competence.”

He believes that President Trump’s scepticism about US alliances and protectionism has added to Asian anxieties at a time when China’s power is starting to overshadow the region.

It is a topic he explores in his new book America in the World: A History of US Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.

US President Donald Trump has described as a “slimeball” a journalist who quoted him as saying dead US soldiers were “losers” and “suckers”.

He likened the Atlantic magazine report to unproven accusations made against him of colluding with Russia to win the presidential election of 2016.

The damning quotes were corroborated independently by The Associated Press.

Veterans’ groups are among those condemning Mr Trump, less than two months from the 2020 election.

Progressive group VoteVets posted a video of families whose children had been killed in action. “You don’t know what it is to sacrifice,” says one.

A small group of protesters waved placards at the president’s motorcade on Saturday near the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia.

Mr Trump has often staked a claim to strong support among the military, and last year Pew Research Center found that veterans were generally supportive of him as commander-in-chief, with 57% in favour. Three-fifths of the veterans identified as Republican, the research found.

What is Trump reported to have said?

According to The Atlantic, when Mr Trump cancelled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery outside Paris in November 2018, 100 years after the end of World War One, he said it was “filled with losers”.

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Four sources told the magazine he had rejected the idea of visiting because the rain would dishevel his hair, and he did not believe it important to honour America’s war dead.

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During the same trip, the president also allegedly referred to 1,800 US soldiers who died at Belleau Wood as “suckers”. The battle helped to prevent a German advance on Paris during World War One and is venerated by the US Marine Corps.

The Atlantic’s reporting was based on anonymous sources but a “senior Defense Department official with first-hand knowledge of events” and a “senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trump’s comments” confirmed the cemetery comments to AP.

In 2018 the White House said the cemetery visit had been cancelled because bad weather had grounded the president’s helicopter. This account was backed up in a recent book by President Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, who has been a vocal critic of Mr Trump.

The US Navy also said it cancelled the trip to the cemetery because of rain in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act from Buzzfeed reporter Jason Leopold.

How did Trump react?

Without referring to Jeffrey Goldberg, the author of the Atlantic report, by name, he tweeted on Saturday: “You work so hard for the military, from completely rebuilding a depleted mess that was left by OBiden [the previous presidential administration when Joe Biden was vice-president to Barack Obama], to fixing a broken V.A. and fighting for large scale military pay raises, and then a slimeball reporter, maybe working with disgruntled people, makes up such a horrible charge..”

“This reminds me of the Dirty Dossier [the Steele dossier which alleged collusion with Russia], which was pushed hard by John McCain, & then with a thud turned out to be a total fraud. So many other scams also. The Radical Far Left is VICIOUS, they will do or say anything to win. But they won’t, we will WIN, & have four great years!”

Mr Trump went on to attack another journalist, Jennifer Griffin of Fox News, normally one of the president’s favourite news outlets.

Griffin had reported disparaging remarks about the US military allegedly made by Mr Trump on other occasions such as calling soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War “suckers”.

“Jennifer Griffin should be fired for this kind of reporting,” Mr Trump tweeted. “Never even called us for comment. @FoxNews is gone!”

White House officials have either denied the remarks allegedly made on the trip to France or stressed the president’s respect for the military.

What are Trump’s opponents saying?

Mr Biden, the Democratic challenger in the 3 November election, said his rival was “unfit” to lead.

“Mr. President, if you don’t respect our troops, you can’t lead them,” he tweeted.

Media captionJoe Biden talked about his late son Beau’s military service

If elected, he said, he would “ensure that our American heroes know that I will have their back and honor their sacrifice. Always.”

Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, a veteran who lost both legs while serving in Iraq, said President Trump “liked to use the US military for his own ego”.

Khizr Khan, the father of a US soldier killed in Iraq who criticised Mr Trump during the 2016 Democratic convention, joined Ms Duckworth on the call.

He said: “When Donald Trump calls anyone who places their lives in service of others a loser, we understand Trump’s soul.”

Where do Trump and the US military stand?

There have been previous spats and controversies.

Media captionTrump and the US military: Friends or foe?

Mr Trump caused outrage by saying the late Senator John McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam, was not a “war hero” saying: “I like people who weren’t captured.”

The president has never served in uniform. He received five deferments from a military draft during the Vietnam War – four for academic reasons and one for bone spurs, a calcium build-up in the heels.

Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War before being disqualified from serving in the military because of asthma as a teenager.

Source : BBC

Bangladeshi brand Walton has started to strengthen its footprint in the Iraqi market by exporting its own branded compressor.

Walton has signed an agreement with Ashrqat Alnarjes General Company, a renowned electronics retailer in Iraq, in this regard.

Roqibul Islam Rakib, head of Asia, Middle East and African regions of Walton’s International Business Unit (IBU), said that two representatives from the Iraqi company visited Walton Compressor Manufacturing Industry at the end of last year.

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The representatives were impressed witnessing the compressor production process with the state-of-the art technologies, he said, adding that later, they have showed their interest to be a distributor of Walton branded compressor in the Iraqi market.

Rakib said they have already sent the first consignment of its compressor to Iraq.

“After a successful penetration in Iraqi market, we will ensure our footprint in the neighbouring countries in the Middle East region,” he added.

Meer Muzahedin Islam, chief executive officer of Walton Compressor, said they are manufacturing world class compressor and its related essential components in Bangladesh.

“At the production stage, we have taken ‘zero tolerances’ policy to assure quality,” he said, adding that they have installed an international standard QC (Quality Control) laboratory, equipped with advanced testing tools and machineries in the factory.

The factory also has world’s advanced Hemi Anechoic Acoustic Chamber imported from USA to ensure the lowest noise level of the compressor, he added.

He also said that Walton is manufacturing world’s most ‘silent and durable’ compressors by using German technologies.

Edward Kim, president of Walton IBU, said it is very inspiring that more and more global brands are also continuously knocking them to supply compressors in a huge volume even in this evolving Covid-19 pandemic.

From the Switzerland based international testing lab SGS, several products of Walton have already received many standard certificates including CE, ROHS and EMC, he said.

He said Walton is working to expand its export market to Europe.

Terming compressor industry as a promising sector of Bangladesh, Engineer Golam Murshed, additional managing director of Walton, said the goal of Walton is to be the world’s leading compressor manufacturer.

Walton compressor factory has the capacity of manufacturing four million units of compressors annually, he added.

A team of highly skilled engineers are working relentlessly with the plan of raising the annual production capacity to 10 million units by 2025.

Bedarul Islam Babla
Renowned Businessman, Ex-Chairman of FOBANA

Though Bangladesh is considered as a developing country of third world but many talented personalities have uplifted the image of Bangladesh before the world. Bedarul Islam Babla is one of them who has enlightened the country’s image through his merit and hard work. Though Bangladesh is lagging behind from economically developed countries but golden sons of this soil aren’t staying behind. The best example of this is Bedarul Islam Babla who is one of the entrepreneurs of Bangladesh League of America and Ex-Chairman of FOBANA.

Bedarul Islam Babla was born in a respectable and educated Muslim family of Kulaura under Sylhet district on November 20, 1961. After passing HSC, he got himself admitted to Sher-E-Bangla Krishi College which is now Bangladesh Agricultural University with a view to establishing a modern agriculture system in Bangladesh as Bangladesh is an agricultural county. Babal didn’t restrict himself only in study. Besides student politics, he also engaged himself in Leo Club. When he was a student of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural College in 1981, he joined to International Lions Convention in Huston. After participating at this program, a huge change was appeared in his mind. He got the opportunity to see the developments of the world practically.

When he came to America, he took steps to establish himself. But he is a different kind of man. He never remains busy only for himself. He once thought to work with Bangladesh community in America. He believes that a man doesn’t get real happiness if he or she remains busy with his or her interest. For this reason, he joined to Bangladesh League of America in order to make cultural development of immigrants Bangaldeshi. He acted as Cultural Secretary of this organization.

Those who are contributing to highlight the contribution of the language martyrs of our country to other parts of the world, Babla is one of them. He is one who played a vital role establishing Shaheed Minar in America in 1989. After constructing a Shaheed Minar, this organization has introduced the celebration of Amar Ekushey placing floral wreaths at the Shaheed Minar at dawn. The new milestone of celebrating Amar Ekushey in America then.

He performed the duty as Member Secretary of a Bangladesh conference held at world famous Madison Square in Manhattan organized by Bangladesh League of America and FOBANA. For his excellent organizing skills, he was elected as President of this organization in 2008. He acted as Convener in the conference of FOBANA held in New York in 2015 and he made this conference a successful one. Later, he was elected as Chairman of FOBANA. Ex-Chairman of FOBANA and skilled organizer Bedarul Islam Babla is now an Outstanding Member of this organization and became Chairman of ‘Liaison’ committee of Convention held in 2019. There is a preparation to hold this convention in New York.

Agriculturist Bedarul Islam Babla wanted to become an organizer with a view to making development in Bangladesh’s agriculture but the Almighty Allah doesn’t fulfill his wish. Though his dream didn’t come true but he continues to make cultural development of Bangladeshi people across the globe through his leadership. His great quality is that he has indomitable love for people and engaged himself to the work protecting the interests of his own community.

Bedarul Islam Babla’s wife Nahrin Islam always inspires and supports him in his activities. His wife also acts for him as a business consultant. They are blessed with two sons- Kasfi Islam and Priyom Islam. Though they are raised in America but they have great affection for their motherland. They also think like their father. Bedarul Islam Babla is an always smiling, livable and silver-tongued person. He can easily adopt people. He puts his hands forward helping Bangladeshi immigrants if they face any difficulties there. He is successful as a businessman. As there are many big-hearted people like him, the image of Bangladesh is getting higher day by day. He acknowledges that the indomitable love of the people is his inspiration.

US police have shot dead a man suspected of fatally shooting a right-wing activist during last weekend’s tension in Oregon, officials say.

Michael Reinoehl, 48, was being investigated for the killing of a President Donald Trump supporters during anti-racism protests in Portland.

Reinoehl said he had acted in self-defense when he shot Aaron Danielson, a member of the Patriot Prayer group.

It was not immediately clear why officers shot Reinoehl.

Some officers were quoted as saying he had pulled a gun.

Black Lives Matter protesters have demonstrated nightly in Portland since the killing of black man George Floyd in May but the city has seen clashes with right-wing groups.

Reinoehl, who regularly attended the protests, had told Vice News that he had thought he and a friend were going to be stabbed by Danielson.

“I had no choice. I mean, I, I had a choice. I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color. But I wasn’t going to do that,” he said.

What happened at the Portland protests?

Reinoehl was suspected of shooting Danielson during clashes on Saturday night when a large procession of supporters of President Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters.

The shooting came amid fights between the Trump supporters and BLM protesters in the city center.

Tension rose after a convoy of some 600 vehicles flying flags and carrying an estimated 1,000 Trump backers proceeded through central Portland.

The video showed some people firing what local media described as pepper spray and pellets at BLM groups who had tried to prevent them from entering the city by blocking streets.

Source: BBC

Asian American Author & Young Scholar, Bilingual Story Writer and Poet, Voice Narrator Artist & Reciter, Banglali Community Activist New York and Philanthropist. She completed a Masters in Science of Education (School Building Leadership) with Scholarship from St. John’s University, New York. And Business Graduate from Daffodil International University, Bangladesh. Bachelor of Business Administration (Major: Marketing and Human Resource Management), 23rd Batch, Daffodil International University, 2013. Professional Education Certification, Commercial Real Estate Finance, MIT, Boston, 2020.
Professional Experiences:
5 Years of Volunteer Experience, British Council of Bangladesh.
2 Years Administrative Experiences, Alliance Française de Dhaka (French Institute, Affiliate with French Embassy), Bangladesh
Two years of French Language teaching experiences, Daffodil International School, Dhaka Bangladesh.
Three years of Research Experiences, St John’s University-New York.
Two years Management Consultant, S&N B Corporation, New York.
Three years volunteer and Donor at Clinton Foundation, New York.
Two years Editor at Hijab Magazine, USA.
Three years are running with the Interfaith Center of the USA.
3 Year Real Estate Research Experiences and one year Real Estate investing and consulting, Platinum Niagara LLC, New York.
Fifteen years of Writing experiences in Bangladesh and New York Community Newspapers.
In a professional outlook, Bidita Rahman is a Business Educator and Educational Leadership specialist. She is writing since childhood and starts with diary writing and essay writing. When she grew starts with the poems in Bengali, Urdu, and English. She likes Poet Jalaluddin Rumi, Poet Jibonanondo Dash, Poet Emily Dickenson, Novelist Bongimchandra Chattapaday, Novelist J.K Rowling, Stephen King, and Dan Brown. She is a Professional Article and Column writer last ten years in Bangladesh and United States Asian Community Newspapers.
Website: International Author, www.biditarahman.com
Publications: 7 Books related to Education, Self-development, and Non-fiction.
1. The Dark Window:
Watching brightness alone and feels black time wheels (American Poetry Book, Language: English)
2. Grey Sense:
A Mysterious Silence – English language (Asian Poetry Book, Language: English)
3. 21st Century Educational Science (General Education, language: Bangla)
4. The Poetry of sigh (Poetry Book, Language: Bangla)
5. The Powerful Diary of Human Mind. (Personal Development Book, Language: English)
6. The Road of Obstacles. (Poetry Book, Language: Bangla).
7. You are More than You are, (Self Development Book, Language: English). Upcoming
Award: She recognized as a Scientific Poet and Writer from The Gemini Magazine, New York Asian Community, for her distinguished contribution to the field in 2017. She is Achieved New York City Council Citation Honoree Award as a Community Writer from the council of the city of New York, 2018. She has achieved NRB Writer Award as a Best Community Contribution Writer from the North American Bangladeshi Community in New York City, 2018.
Professional Affiliation: Kappa Delta Pi, American Educational Research Association, And Writers Club USA.
Activity: Voice narration with ten books, recitation poems, New York Bengali Community Activist, Philanthropist.
Hobby: Playing Chess, Jigsaw, Sudoku, and Painting.
Motivation strategy: Patience: Practice: Persistence
By Nature: Motivator, Kind, Loving, Responsible, Challenging, and Stubborn.
Aim: Teaching and Research
Academic Conference:
• Participating Teaching Narratives Symposium: Sharing Innovative Pedagogies by Center for Teaching and Learning, St. John’s University, May 31, 2018.
• Arranging and Participating Faculty Forum on a Novel Assessment Approach to Identifying Characteristics of early mathematics teaching occurring in early childhood settings by Dr. Bilge Cerezci at Pacini Room, Sullivan Hall, St John’s University, April 25, 2018.
• participating in Public Meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy at Murry Bergtraum High School, Manhattan, NY, on Feb 28, 2018.
• Participating Faculty Forum on Learning in and from practice: Opportunities and Implications for teacher’s informal learning in Lithuania and the USA by Dr. Elena Jurasaite-O’Keefe at St. John’s University, New York, February 13, 2018.
• Participating Faculty Forum on Community-Based Programs Fostering Knowledge toward Latino Parental Involvement by Elizabeth Gil, Executive Director of the Detroit College Access Network and Assistant Professor St. John’s University, December 5, 2017.
• Attending Faculty Forum on “Friendly Competition Among Our Schools: How Open Enrolment Affects Leadership and Equity” on Pacini Room at St. John’s University from Dr. Stephen Kotok, October 2017.
• Attending Faculty Forum on “Comparison between US and Turkey on Gifted Education System and on Instructional Materials and strategies for Nurturing Creativity in Mathematics Education for Gifted Students” on Pacini Room from Dr. Burcu Durmaz at St. John’s University, September 2017.
• Participate in Kappa Delta Pi, Delta Rho Chapter’s Regional Chapter Conference-Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading at Kean University New Jersey, April 2017.
• Attained Workshop on Educational Technology for Authentic Lifelong Learning AT4All at Mount Saint Mary College, New Burgh, April 2017.
Quote:
“Life is real imagination where the human can hive or can thrive.”
“Survival depends on your decision, either you type or you quip.”
“The destiny of life is one feels excellent, and others are in threat.”
“Experience is watching the power of helpless and quitting the selfless.”
“When life examines your emotion over your intellect, emotion wins, and the situation worse. Do not control your feelings because it is dominant than you, but you can change the hands to choose intellect, which supports you.”
“In life, you can educate, or you can dedicate or both”
“Life becomes suspense when you become pretense.”
“Hope is the sense yellow box; you can wear it, or you can live it.”
” The honor of hope is today what you have, and tomorrow what you will achieve.”
“Hope can define mental stress or strength.”
“You can measure the day with three-time with hours, but the hope is measuring your limitless power where you can find your dopamine to use in a particular place.”
“When life kicks you, feel like a raining or like a ruining, you judge.”
“The intention of life and petition of life. Two different appeals, but you use both”
“Life gives you two options, either you preside, or you reside.”
“When the combination of heal and feel, then the pain of life is can Neil.”
“The champion of life is focusing on the depth existence of yourself.”
“Confidence about your skills may interact with your inner talent, where life helps you to teach more.”
“When life gives you a hard lesson, take it with challenges.”
“The life of happiness is not creating by yourselves, but you build with small charity practices.”
“Life is not easy drinking water; it is a sweet orange juice with making some effort and mixing some sweetness.”
“Hope is the way of thinking about the reason you live.”
“Hope and troop, think, or act; you define the strong resilience inside you.”
“Pain can defeat weakness.”

More than 2 million acres of land have been burned by wildfires in California as of Monday, according to state fire agency Cal Fire, surpassing the all-time record of 1.9 million sets in 2018. Cal Fire and climate scientists predict that the number of acres burned this year will continue to grow with upcoming weather conditions, including continued heat and offshore winds.

“This is crazy. We haven’t even got into the October and November fire season and we’ve broken the all-time record,” Cal Fire Capt. Richard Cordova told CNN on Sunday.

A Monday statement by Cal Fire said it and fire departments across the state remain prepared for potentially more significant wildfires due to critical fire weather.

In a Friday tweet, climate scientist Daniel Swain of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, predicted Monday’s new record. He tells TIME the prediction was not very impressive “since we were 95% of the way there on Friday.”

The state is experiencing another wave of record-breaking heat this weekend, and offshore winds beginning around this time of year—the Santa Anna winds in the south, and the Diablo winds in the north—are expected to spread fires further towards the coast of California, according to Swain, where most people live.

“All indications are that this fire season is going to continue to be worse than average,” Swain says.

With the large number of fires burning already, stretching firefighting resources, and the combination of a heatwave and offshore winds, “you don’t even need new ignitions, new sparks,” Swain adds. “These winds will push those fires in places where we don’t want them to go, close to where people live.”

Climate change has worsened fire conditions in the state, primarily by affecting the dryness of vegetation, Swain says.

One thing worth noting, Swain adds, is that huge numbers of acres burning isn’t inherently bad. “The problem is that the kinds of fires we’re seeing specifically right now are mostly bad fires because they’re occurring in close proximity to where people live,” he says. Historically, the state of California has tried to completely suppress fires, creating unnaturally dense forests that then become susceptible to more extreme weather events caused by climate change.

“The growing consensus among climate scientists is that more fire on the landscape is inevitable in the 21st Century,” Swain says. “What we want to do is decrease the number of acres that are burning at an extremely high intensity and the ones that threaten people’s homes and lives…And the way to do that might actually be to allow more of the other kinds of good fire on the landscape.”

Two Jubo League leaders, who were arrested in connection with the attack on Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Wahida Khanam, have been expelled from the ruling party’s youth wing.

The expelled leaders are Jahangir Alam, convener of Ghoraghat Upazila Jubo League, and convener committee member Asadul Islam.

Alhaj Moinul Hossain Khan Nikhil, general secretary of Jubo League central unit, confirmed their expulsion to media on Friday noon.

He said: “Jubo League is an orderly organization where no terrorist or extortionist will get a place. The arrested leaders- Jahangir Alam and Asadul Islam- were expelled from the organization for breaching party code of conduct and for carrying out an attack on Ghoraghat UNO.”