Protesters and police have clashed during a protest in south London over the planned transfer of asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset. The police were called at about 08:40 BST to a hotel in Peckham where activists had surrounded a coach. They were trying stop the asylum seekers’ removal to the barge. Some activists were seen being ...

State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat has said the government, civil society and mass media can be partners to fight together against the agenda based motivated journalism and disinformation campaign. “Sometimes, media is abused and disinformation campaign is carried out in the country to stop our development using environment and climate change issues as shield . . ...

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The death toll from the collapse of an expressway section in China’s Guangdong province that caused vehicles to tumble down a slope has risen to 48, with rescue work hampered by mudslides, state media reported on Thursday. The road collapsed in the wee hours of Wednesday, the first day of the five-day May Day holiday break as millions in the ...

Five private car passengers were killed after a collision with a truck in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila early Thursday. Of the deceased, four were the members of a same family. They met the tragic accident while returning home in Dhaka from Sylhet, it was learnt. The deceased were Jamal Mridha, 42, and his brother Khokon Mridha, 35, Jamal’s wife Kamrun Nahar, ...

Saima Wazed, WHO Regional Director for Southeast Asia, addressed the Regional Consultation on WHO South-East Asia Priority Programme Initiative in New Delhi, marking a significant step in her first year of leadership. Wazed’s opening remarks came after completing the first quarter of her tenure, a period she described as full of learning and valuable interactions with Member States and the ...

Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto said that they won’t make any experiment in the five-match series against Zimbabwe but want to win the series. Apart from these five matches, Bangladesh will play three more T20 Internationals against hosts USA later this month. After that, they will play in the T20 World Cup to be held in West Indies and USA ...

A Dhaka court on Thursday (May 2) placed Milton Samaddar, founder of ‘Child and Old Age Care’ at Mirpur in the capital, on a three-day remand in a case filed with Mirpur Police Station over issuing fake death certificates through fraud. Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tofazzal Hossain’s court passed the order after the hearing on Thursday afternoon. Earlier, ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir along with his wife left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia on Thursday afternoon to perform Umrah. He left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3:20pm by a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. His wife Rahat Ara Begum was accompanying him. BNP Media Cell’s member Shayrul Kabir Khan confirmed it. He said Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir ...

Former BNP leader Major General (retd) Abu Ahmed Zahirul Amin Khan (ZA Khan) has passed away. He was 79. Family sources confirmed that ZA Khan breathed his last at his Gulshan residence around 11 am on Wednesday. He left behind wife, two sons, and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death, reports UNB. Khan will be laid ...