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State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury has called on International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and major maritime partners to strengthen their support for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s initiatives towards a greener maritime industry in Bangladesh by 2050. “In order to transition to a greener maritime industry, Bangladesh, Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) require financial, technological, ...

The majority of Muslims are living in the areas of England and Wales with the worst levels of deprivation, the UK Office for National Statistics revealed on Wednesday. Muslims now account for 6.5 percent of the population in England and Wales, some 3.9 million in 2021, according to the latest ONS census, reports Arab News. However, the data showed 61 ...

Britain on Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering Covid protests, government sources said, reports AFP. Zheng Zeguang was called into the foreign office after the incident involving Ed Lawrence in Shanghai, which Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Monday called “deeply disturbing”. Lawrence was hauled away ...

In his first major address on Foreign Policy, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday strongly asserted that the “golden era” between Britain and China is “now over” and that it is time to evolve the approach towards China as the country is posing a systemic challenge to UK’s values and interest with its authoritarian rule. During his address at ...

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Monday (Nov 28) hosted an international conference in London to strengthen urgent action against the use of sexual violence in conflict. Representatives from 70 countries attended the conference to drive forward urgent action to tackle the scourge of sexual violence in conflict. Bangladesh was represented by Ms. Fazilatun Nessa Indira, Minister of State for ...

Britain must do more to defend its values of freedom and openness on the world stage, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will argue Monday in his first major foreign policy speech since taking office a month ago. “Freedom and openness have always been the most powerful forces for progress,” Sunak will tell dignitaries gathered at the Guildhall for the annual Lord ...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be considering “all options”, including reducing the number of foreign students, in his bid to bring down the rising net migration in the United Kingdom, according to a BBC report. Mr Sunak will be looking into imposing curbs on foreign students pursuing so-called “low quality” degrees and bringing in dependents, the report said, quoting ...

Net migration to the UK rose to a record of around 504,000 in the year to June 2022, official statistics showed on Friday, driven by an increase in the number of non-EU nationals, reports Reuters. The Office for National Statistics said a recovery of travel following COVID-19, and an increase in arrivals of international students who had been studying remotely ...

With record waiting times, staff shortages, financial black holes and now a nurses strike over pay, the UK’s state-run National Health Service is facing an unprecedented crisis. The walk-out by nurses next month heaps fresh misery on the much-loved but creaking institution, just as winter illnesses bite and as the country faces a prolonged recession. Matthew Taylor, head of the ...

Lawyers for a woman who was stripped of her British citizenship after travelling to join the Islamic State group in Syria challenged the decision on Monday, arguing she was a victim of child trafficking. Shamima Begum is one of hundreds of Europeans whose fate following the 2019 collapse of the Islamist extremists’ self-styled caliphate has proved a thorny issue for ...