London, Oct. 23 : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson put his Brexit deal on hold Tuesday night, almost certainly ruling out any chance of Britain leaving the European Union (EU) at the end of October. It was a sweet and sour night for Johnson in the House of Commons, finally winning support for his Brexit deal, also known as the ...

WeWork has been thrown a multi-billion-dollar lifeline from Softbank that will give the Japanese company more control of the troubled property start-up. In a statement, Softbank said it would provide $5bn (£3.9bn) in new financing and up to $3bn for existing shareholders.The deal will see Softbank increase its stake in the US office-space sharing start-up to roughly 80%. Co-founder Adam ...

  F R Chowdhury:   We have an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to deal with corruption. Corruption does not mean monetary/ financial corruption alone; it also includes other forms of corruption. Nepotism and favouritism are also corruption. If the commission works in full force then corrupt officials should be scared of indulging in corruption. Country should be free of corruption. If ...

Man, 25, from Northern Ireland held on suspicion of murder after bodies found in Grays A murder investigation has been launched after 39 bodies were found inside a lorry from Bulgaria on an industrial estate in Essex. A 25-year-old driver, from Northern Ireland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The victims, found at the Waterglade industrial park in Grays, ...

The government will abandon its Brexit bill if MPs vote down its three-day timetable to get it through Parliament. Boris Johnson told MPs if the programme was rejected and the EU confirmed a delay to the 31 October exit, he would instead push for a general election. The PM said Parliament had been “caught in a deadlock of its own ...

Department of Environment (DoE), Chattogram chapter fined Taka 4.76 lakh to steel producing company, Ratanpur Steel Rerolling Mills (RSRM), in city’s Biyazid area for polluting the environment by releasing excessive unrefined smoke in the air. Director of DOE, Azadur Rahman Mallick pronounced the penalty after the hearing at DOE office on Tuesday. DOE Director Azadur Rahman told  that RSRM breached ...

By Naz Islam: My recent visit to Bangla-desh was incredible, a truly memorable experience to last a lifetime. I visit Bangladesh relatively frequently, at least once or twice a year, but my visit in September 2019 will always be the most eventful and remarkable. For those of you who don’t know, I am involved with the Conservative Party here in ...

New research from the National Housing Federation (NHF) shows that more than nine in ten homes for private rent (94%) in England are too expensive for those on housing benefit. The NHF analysed 75,000 rental homes advertised on Zoopla and compared the cost of rent for each property with the rate of Local Housing Allowance that a family requiring that ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a major actor in Middle Eastern as well as global politics. The kingdom has justified this proactive foreign policy approach as a necessary response to force Shiʿa powerhouse Iran to scale back its presence in Arab countries and to keep Iranian power under check. Lately, the kingdom is pursuing policies ...

Mansoor Ahmad, a member of Commonwealth Journalists Association UK won British Community Honours Award 2019. He received this award in an award giving ceremony organised by British Community Honours Award – BCHA held on Friday, the 18th October, 2019 at The House of Lords, the second chamber of the UK Parliament for his outstanding contribution towards British Society. Expressing his ...