More than half a million pounds has been spent since 2024 on using social media influencers to promote UK government campaigns on subjects ranging from the environment to welfare. The spending has included hiring 215 influencers since 2024, of which there were 126 in 2025 – an increase on the 89 hired in 2024 – and is seen as an ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman returned home on Thursday (December 25) morning from London after 17 years’ of exile. The flight carrying him, his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman and their only daughter Zaima Rahman, touched Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at about 11:40AM after making around one-hour stopover at Sylhet’s Osmani International Airport from London. Close relatives and senior ...

The reception venue of Dhaka’s 300-Foot Road for BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman is packed to capacity several hours before the scheduled ceremony marking his return home after nearly 17 years of exile in London. On-the-ground observations revealed that party leaders and activists were arriving at the venue from different parts of the country by buses, trucks and private vehicles. ...

Chief Adviser’s Special Assistant (Home Ministry) Khoda Bakhsh Chowdhury has resigned from his post. A gazette was published on Wednesday in this regard by Cabinet Secretary Dr Sheikh Abdur Rashid as per order of the President. His resignation was accepted by President Mohammed Shahabuddin. The resignation would take effect immediately, the gazette added.

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, who is now on his way to Dhaka from London, reaches Sylhet on Thursday morning. The flight, carrying him, reached Sylhet’s Osmani International Airport at about 9:55AM. He is accompanied by his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman and their only daughter Zaima Rahman. After an one-hour stopover at the airport, the flight will start for Dhaka ...

Christmas Day, marking the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ, a Jewish preacher and religious leader of the first century, is being observed across the country on Thursday. Christian community in Bangladesh, like elsewhere in the world, is celebrating the day with religious fervour and festivity. Special prayers are offering at churches, makeshift Christmas trees set up at homes, churches and ...

The government’s partial U-turn on what opponents dubbed the “farms tax” was a Christmas present for those who had campaigned against the imposition of 20% inheritance tax from next April. About half the farms that would have been affected will now be exempt. But given that minsters had defended the policy in the 14 months since last year’s Budget, the ...

As December arrives, London’s sky begins to change. Even if the sun appears less often, the city never loses its glow. Instead, colourful, sparkling lights spread everywhere, and the warmth of the festive season fills the air. Streets are draped in Christmas lights, Santa figures appear everywhere, and the city blends into one grand celebration. Shops overflow with discount crowds, ...

Journalists, media professionals, cultural activists, and members of the British Bangladeshi community gathered at the Altab Ali Park in East London on Sunday to protest the attacks on Bangladesh’s leading newspapers, The Daily Star and Prothom Alo, and growing threats against journalists. The demonstration, organised by Bangla-speaking journalists working in London, strongly condemned the vandalism, arson, looting, and alleged attempts ...

The culinary essence of the festive season is a kind of sanctioned chaos. Never mind that, from one angle, Christmas is mostly just rigidly observed collective food traditions and grown adults dying on the hill of whether yorkshire puddings should be served with turkey. I don’t think I ever really feel that warming yuletide rush until I have turned a ...