BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that a “deep conspiracy” is unfolding in the country, which he fears may be tied to an international plot. “I have a strong feeling that a deep conspiracy is going on inside the country,” Rizvi said while addressing a *milad mahfil* organised by the party at its Nayapaltan central ...

Jamaica thrashed Bermuda 4-0 to make a strong start to the final round of 2026 World Cup qualifying for North and Central America and the Caribbean on Friday. Damion Lowe got the visitors off to a quick start with a goal in the sixth minute, before Renaldo Cephas made it 2-0 and Kasey Palmer and Shamar Nicholson added second-half goals ...

Five people were killed after a passenger bus fell into a roadside canal in Laxmipur Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. The accident occurred in front of Chandraganj Kafil Uddin Degree College at about 8AM. Three of the deceased were identified as Md Morshed Alam, 40, Jaynal Abedin, 57, and Humayun Rashid of Noagaon district. A bus of ‘Ananda Paribahan’ fell ...

Around 100 firefighters were called to a blaze on Saturday at the former BBC headquarters Television Centre in London’s White City, the British public broadcaster reported. The London Fire Brigade said firefighters from Hammersmith, North Kensington, Kensington, Chiswick and surrounding fire stations were mobilised after it was called to a fire at a nine-storey building soon after 3 a.m. UK ...

Pakistan’s new High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Haider met with BNP leaders at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday morning. The meeting, attended by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing Committee Members Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and International Affairs Committee Member Shama Obaed, was held at 10:30AM. Theparty sources said that the ...

The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, commemorating the birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be observed across the country today with due religious reverence. The government has taken up elaborate programmes to mark the day. The programmes were finalised at an inter-ministerial meeting with Religious Affairs Adviser AFM Khalid Hossain in the chair. The national flag has been hoisted atop ...

United Kingdom foreign minister David Lammy has been appointed as the country’s new deputy prime minister, replacing Angela Rayner after she resigned amid a tax scandal. Rayner’s resignation on Friday for breaching ministerial code after underpaying tax on her flat prompted a major cabinet reshuffle, with Lammy’s elevation to deputy prime minister among a raft of new appointments. The departure ...

In response to the devastating earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on August 31, Government of Bangladesh has sent emergency humanitarian aid to support the affected people facing shortages of food, water, shelter and medical care. According to a statement from Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a Bangladesh Air Force transport aircraft carrying 11.227 metric tons of relief materials departed for Kabul ...

BNP Chairperson’s Advisory Council member Zainul Abedin Farroque on Friday called upon Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to apologise to the nation for its past mistakes and take part in the upcoming national election, reports UNB. “I saw in a newspaper that they (Jamaat) said PR is not needed if people don’t want it. May Almighty Allah guide them on this holy Jumma ...

Angela Rayner has resigned as housing secretary and deputy prime minister two days after admitting she underpaid the stamp duty due on her £800,000 flat in Hove. She has also stepped down as deputy Labour leader, a position to which she was elected by party members. Her departure comes after the prime minister’s ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus said Rayner ...