BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas has strongly condemned the attack on Sharif Osman Hadi, saying the assault was not only an attack on Hadi but also on democracy itself. Speaking at a protest rally on Saturday in front of the BNP office in Nayapaltan, Abbas said, “Hadi is like my own child. I was mentally shattered when I heard ...

Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has announced a reward of Tk 50 lakh for anyone who provides information leading to the arrest of the attackers of Sharif Osman Hadi. The announcement was made on Saturday while speaking to journalists following a meeting of the Law and Order Core Committee held at the ministry conference room ...

The Metropolitan Police has announced an increased police presence in central London tomorrow ahead of the Unite the Kingdom protest and Stand Up to Racism counter-protest. The “Unite the Kingdom” protest is set to begin in the north end of Whitehall from 3pm, and the Stand Up To Racism counter-protest will begin at the south end from 1pm. A march ...

Keir Starmer has said it is “frankly beyond belief” that resident doctors would strike during the NHS’s worst moment since the pandemic, in remarks that risk inflaming tensions with medics. Writing for the Guardian, the prime minister made an outspoken attack on the strikes planned for 17-22 December for placing “the NHS and patients who need it in grave danger”. ...

Leading organisations have criticised the development of the government’s flagship violence against women and girls strategy, calling the process chaotic, haphazard and “worse than under the Tories”. Ministers are gearing up for a policy announcement blitz before the publication of the long-awaited plan next week. Important voices in the violence against women and girls (VAWG) sector have privately accused ministers ...

Reform UK says it is now the largest political party in Britain and has overtaken Labour, which has reportedly seen its membership fall below 250,000. Nigel Farage’s party says it has more than 268,000 members on the live tracker displayed on its website. Farage said: “As we have suspected for some time, Reform has overtaken Labour to become the largest ...

London hospitals are dealing with an “unprecedented wave” of super flu, and “facing a worst-case scenario”, NHS England has said. An average of 380 patients per day were in hospital beds with flu last week – the highest ever recorded for this time of year and 46.7% higher than the previous week. More than 1.8 million people in the capital ...

Taylor Swift broke down in tears after meeting survivors and families of the victims of the Southport stabbing attack, backstage footage from her Eras tour reveals. The star met privately with some of those affected by the attack in July 2024, which took place at a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop, and claimed the lives of three young girls. Afterwards, she ...

Sharif Osman Hadi remains in an extremely critical state after suffering a gunshot wound to the head said Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) neurosurgeons who performed emergency surgery before he was transferred to Evercare Hospital on Friday evening. Although DMCH authorities did not issue any formal update on Hadi’s health, Dr Zahid Raihan, head of the hospital’s Neurosurgery Department, described ...

Narges Mohammadi in her apartment in Tehran, Iran, on January 23.(Nooshin Jafari/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images) Iranian authorities arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi on Friday, according to a statement from her foundation citing information from her brother, reports CNN. The Paris-based foundation said Mohammadi was “violently detained” by security and police forces during a memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi, ...