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Millions of people across the UK and beyond are preparing to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III – a symbolic ceremony combining a religious service and pageantry. It is being held at Westminster Abbey on 6 May and the King, who will be crowned along with Camilla, the Queen Consort, will be the 40th reigning monarch crowned there since ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   The British High Commissioner Designate to Bangladesh Ms Sarah Cooke arrived today in Dhaka. She succeeds Mr Robert Chatterton Dickson. On her appointment as the British High Commissioner Designate to Bangladesh, Ms Cooke said: “I am delighted and deeply honoured to be returning to Bangladesh as British High Commissioner. The United Kingdom has strong cultural, political ...

London: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s mother-in-law, Sudha Murty said that her daughter, Akshata Murty, “made her husband a Prime Minister.” Rishi Sunak’s quick ascension to power has been highlighted before but his mother-in-law claims it was her daughter who made that possible. His mother-in-law, Sudha Murty, has claimed in a video circulating online that because of her daughter, Rishi ...

The chairman of the BBC, Britain’s main public broadcaster, resigned on Friday after he was found to have breached ethical standards over the Boris Johnson loan scandal, reports Deutsche Welle. Richard Sharp announced his resignation as an investigation found him in breach of a governance code for public appointments. The report is also being published on Friday. Yet, he said ...

  Diane Abbott has been suspended as a Labour MP pending an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism for the Observer, the party has said. The politician said “many types of white people with points of difference” can experience prejudice, in a letter published on Sunday. But they are not subject to racism “all their lives”, she said. ...

Charles III will be officially crowned king next month, in a solemn religious service eight months after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. The set-piece coronation at Westminster Abbey on May 6 is the first in Britain in 70 years, and only the second in history to be televised, reports AFP. Charles will be the 40th reigning monarch ...

Head of the British government Rishi Sunak’s office confirmed on Friday that Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Cabinet Office Secretary Oliver Dowden has been named the new deputy prime minister. No. 10 added Dowden will keep fulfilling his role as the Duchy of Lancaster chancellor. Earlier in the day, Dominic Raab announced his resignation as deputy prime minister ...

Dominic Raab said Friday he had resigned as UK deputy prime minister and justice secretary, following the conclusion of an inquiry into bullying allegations. The review into Raab, conducted by independent investigator Adam Tolley, followed eight formal complaints about his behavior while acting as foreign secretary, Brexit secretary and justice secretary. In a resignation letter posted on Twitter on Friday, ...

The Crescent of the month of Shawwal has been sighted in Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom and Eid ul Fitr will be celebrated in Hajaz-e-Muqadas tomorrow on Friday. According to reports, the Arab media reported on Thursday evening that the crescent of Shawwal has been sighted in Saudi Arab and England. As per the Islamic calendar, now Eid ul ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :   Karim Foundation Trust has donated seven lak taka to more than 100 families of Kishorpur, Nuapara and Mujahidpur villages of Pailgaon Union of Jagannathpur Upozila. The trust has donated 7000 taka to each family on the occasion of Eid. The trustees donated this money to poor and destitute families at Trustee’s house in Kishorpur. A ...