The Queen has dropped out of the Sunday Times Rich List’s top 300 for the first time. Despite seeing her wealth increase by £10 million over the past year, the Royal has slipped from the paper’s list of the 300 richest people in Britain, published today, due to a dramatic rise in the number of billionaires. The paper reported the ...

Private landlords would not be able to increase annual rents by more than inflation for three years under Labour plans to give tenants more security. Ed Miliband said he would act immediately as prime minister to curb “massive” rent hikes. Conservative London mayor Boris Johnson described rent controls as a “disastrous policy”. Mr Miliband also ruled out any post-election “deals” ...

Scores of restaurants in Sylhet divisional city are rampantly selling adulterated and stale food items which are injurious to public health.  After consuming such food items, many people in the city and other places who are dependent on these restaurants are attacked with various diseases, including stomach-related disorders. Likewise, drinking water served in the restaurants and food shops are reportedly ...

Thirty-five teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), who had earlier resigned from their posts over ‘misconduct’ of the SUST vice chancellor, revoked the decision yesterday, The decision was taken after a meeting between the protesting teachers and acting vice-chancellor of the university Ilias Uddin on the university campus yesterday morning, said SUST acting proctor Md Emdadul Haque. ...

The London Labour Party has announced that John Biggs has been selected as Labour’s candidate for the re-run mayoral election in Tower Hamlets on 11 June. John Biggs said: “I am delighted to have been confirmed as Labour’s candidate. “Tower Hamlets must now move on from the divisive politics of Lutfur Rahman and his disgraced regime of corruption and mismanagement. ...

Some 35,000 athletes will begin their gruelling 26.2 mile journey at 10.10am on Sunday when the London Marathon mass event gets underway. Charity runners will begin the course at three different start points in Greenwich Park and Blackheath, south London, before the routes converge just before the three-mile mark. The first six miles take place in Greenwich before the route ...

A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India on Saturday, killing more than 1,100 people, touching off a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest and toppling a 19th-century tower in the capital Kathmandu. There were reports of devastation in outlying, isolated mountainous areas after the midday quake of magnitude 7.9, Nepal’s worst in 81 years, centered 50 miles ...

The first black or Asian prime minister will be a Conservative, David Cameron has said, in a speech on opportunities for ethnic minority Britons. The prime minister told in audience in south London he looked forward to the day, as he outlined plans to increase the number of ethnic minority Tory MPs. Mr Cameron also pledged to boost minority ethnic ...

A man looks at his home which was damaged by a shell which landed from a nearby missile base after the base was struck by a Saudi-led coalition air strike, near Sanaa April 23, 2015. REUTERS A man looks at his home which was damaged by a shell which landed from a nearby missile base after the base was struck ...

Bangladesh has invited Thailand’s biggest energy firm to bid for exploration in the Bay of Bengal, to which the Forbes Global 500 company has responded positively, an official statement in Dhaka said Ambassador to Bangkok Saida Muna Tasneem extended the invite to Thai Energy Minister Narongchai Akrasanee on Thursday Narongchai said PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, as the state oil ...