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17 APRIL 2016 Theresa May is the In campaign’s secret weapon to win over eurosceptics and will be given an enhanced role in the final two months of the referendum, leading pro-EU strategists have said. Senior figures in the Remain campaign believe the Home Secretary’s record in tackling crime and terrorism gives her an unparalleled position to deliver warnings over Britain’s ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah : On Thursday 14 April the world witnessed the first medical operation streamed live in 360-degree video, allowing medical students and trainee surgeons across the world, including Bangladesh, to view the procedure in real time via website. A surgeon at the Royal London Hospital Whitechapel, Dr Shafi Ahmed said before the operation that he believed the approach, ...

The Great British Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain has revealed that she is to bake the Queen’s 90th birthday cake. The winner of the popular BBC show said she would be serving an orange drizzle cake with orange curd and orange buttercream. Revealing the news on ITV’s Loose Women, Hussain said the cake would be “very citrusy”. She had considered ...

Five people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences as part of an investigation launched after the recent attacks in Paris and Brussels, West Midlands Police say. Three men, aged 26, 40 and 59, and a 29-year-old woman, were arrested in Birmingham on Thursday night. A fourth man, 26, was arrested at Gatwick Airport in the early hours of ...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed Bangladesh-born British MP Rushanara Ali as ‘trade envoy’ for Bangladesh. The appointment underlines the importance the UK attaches to its trade and investment partnership with Bangladesh, the British High Commission in Dhaka says. Ali is the Labour Party MP for the constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow. She was the first person of ...

UK inflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index rose to 0.5% in March, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). A sharp increase in air fares, due to the earlier timing of Easter, was the main reason behind the rise from February’s rate of 0.3%, the ONS said. Inflation is now at its highest level since December 2014, ...

Minsters today refused to hand power back to Tower Hamlets without more proof that its council has recovered from claims of corruption and fraud. Cabinet minister Greg Clark said he had not seen enough evidence that the local authority had completely moved on from bad practices uncovered in the days of disgraced former mayor Lutfur Rahman. The Government took control ...

The boss of Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the government department overseeing a £10m inquiry into the Panama Papers, was a partner at a top City law firm that acted for Blairmore Holdings and other offshore companies named in the leak. Edward Troup, executive chair of HMRC since April, is a former partner at Simmons & Simmons, whose clients have included ...

Customs Intelligence has seized a Mercedes-Benz car worth Tk5 crore from Sylhet. The car was seized from the possession of London expatriate Abdul Malek after a 36-hour search drive on Saturday midnight. The car was missing since Friday night. An alert was also announced in Sylhet to find the car. Moinul Khan, director general of the Directorate of Customs Intelligence ...

Pressure is growing on cabinet ministers and senior figures from all parties to publish their tax returns. George Osborne is the latest politician to say he is considering following David Cameron’s lead in releasing details of his income and all tax paid. Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn and Lib Dem Tim Farron are both expected to do so but Nigel Farage says ...