The Brit Awards belonged to Charli XCX on Saturday night, who completed her transformation from underground hero to bona fide pop star by winning five awards including best artist and song of the year. Ezra Collective, Sam Fender, Stormzy and The Last Dinner Party were the other big British winners on Saturday night, while Fontaines DC and Chappell Roan bagged ...

“I just wanted to own a house and pay off my debts – that’s why I decided to sell my kidney,” says Zeya, a farm worker in Myanmar. Prices had soared after a military coup in 2021 triggered civil war. He could barely feed his young family and was badly in debt. They all lived in his mother-in-law’s house, in ...

Doctors in the Indian capital, Delhi, have performed a life-changing surgery on a 17-year-old boy to remove his “parasitic” twin that was attached to his abdomen. A parasitic twin is an underdeveloped conjoined twin that relies entirely on the host twin for survival. They are extremely rare, with less than one case occurring per 100,000 births. The teenager who had ...

A law to give terminally ill adults on the Isle of Man the right to end their own lives is entering its final stages, making it potentially the first jurisdiction in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying. Anyone over the age of 18 and with a prognosis of 12 months or fewer to live would be eligible, under the ...

All government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous organisations will go on from 9AM to 3:30PM as holy month of Ramadan begins today (Sunday). Meanwhile, banking transactions will begin at 9:30AM and continue until 2:30PM. But bank office hours will extend until 4PM. The offices will run with a 15-minute Zuhr prayer break from 1:15PM to 1:30PM every day. Currently, banks open ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee member, Salahuddin Ahmed, has raised questions about the newly formed Jatiya Nagorik Party’s (NCP) demands for a “Second Republic” and a “Constituent Assembly Election.” He stated that those advocating for these ideas either do not understand their implications or are conspiring to prolong an undemocratic process in the country. Speaking at a discussion titled ...

Press Secretary to the Chief Advisor, Shafiqul Alam, has stated that the government had no involvement in the requisition of five buses by the Pirojpur District Commissioner (DC) for transporting people to the unveiling ceremony of the newly formed political party, the Jatiya Nagorik Party. He claimed that the DC acted under pressure and in response to a request from ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday wished the month of Ramadan would bring a message of peace and happiness to every Muslim’s life and everyone’s life would become auspicious, reports BSS. In a message on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, he said, it is the duty of every devout Muslim to strive to ...

The Gono Odhikar Parishad has put forward four significant demands, including the reconstruction of the advisory council, to ensure the neutrality of the interim government. President of Gono Odhikar Parishad Nurul Haque Nur expressed their demands during a press conference held at Bijoynagar in the capital on Saturday. The demands are: 1. Resignation of student representatives from the advisory council ...

The formation of Jatiyo Nagorik Party (NCP) and the Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chatro Sangsad has triggered heated debates over leadership struggles, financial transparency, and alleged political engineering. At the recent NCP inauguration at Manik Mia Avenue, thousands of activists from across the country participated, with claims surfacing that government-requisitioned buses were used to transport attendees. Disputes over key leadership positions led ...