Seven Labour MPs have had the whip removed for rebelling against Sir Keir Starmer over the two-child benefit cap. The rebels, including John McDonnell, the former shadow chancellor, have had the whip suspended for at least six months, The Telegraph understands. They had voted for an amendment to the King’s Speech tabled by the Scottish National Party calling on the ...

The postponed Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be held after August 11. Prof Tapan Kumar Sarkar, chief of the Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee and chairman of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, confirmed this on Thursday morning. He said all postponed examinations under nine general education boards, technical and madrasa boards will be held after August ...

Berterame and Moroccan winger Oussama Idrissi also scored for the Mexican league’s elite squad in the triumph at Columbus, Ohio. MLS had won both prior All-Star meetings with Mexican league rivals, playing to a 1-1 draw and winning 3-2 on penalty kicks in 2021 and taking a 2-1 triumph in 2022, AFP reports. Berterame, a 25-year-old forward for Mexico’s CF ...

Shafin Ahmed, iconic band artists and former frontman of the legendary Bangladeshi band Miles, has passed away at a hospital in Virginia, United States, at the age of 63. The popular Bangladeshi rock bassist, singer-songwriter and record producer breathed his last at about 6:50am on Thursday (Bangladesh local time) at the hospital while on life support. His wife Nahin Ahmed ...

A domestic plane with 19 people on board slipped off the runway and crashed Wednesday while trying to take off from the airport serving Nepal’s capital. It was not clear how it slipped or the status of the people on board. It was reported that at least five bodies were recovered from the spot. The Saurya Airlines plane was heading ...

Mst Sagorika slammed a brilliant hat-trick as Bangladesh national women’s football team, came from behind, thrashed host Bhutan by 5-1 goals in the first of the two-match FIFA Tier-1 International Women’s Friendly Football series held at Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan on Wednesday. Bhutan took the lead early and they maintained their lead till the breather. Bangladesh however staged a ...

Bangladesh women’s cricket team thrashed Malaysia by 114 runs in the 11th match of ongoing Women’s T20 Asia Cup 2024 at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Dambulla on Wednesday. It was Bangladesh’s second highest total in this format, the highest being 255-2 against Maldives during the 2019 SA Games in Pokhara where both Joty and Fargana Hoque had struck unbeaten ...

Ingredients: For Fish: v    Ilish (Hilsa): 3/4 pieces v    Onion, chopped: ½ cup v    Onion paste: 3 tbsp v    Ginger paste: 1 tbsp v    Garlic paste: 1 tbsp v    Red chili powder: 1 tbspv    Green chili: 2-4 v    Mishti Doi (sweetened yogurt): ¼ cup, whisked well v    Coconut milk: 1 cup v    Ghee (clarified butter): 3 tbsp v    Salt: 1 ...

European stock markets tumbled at the open on Wednesday following mixed corporate earnings reports. London’s FTSE 100 dropped 0.4 percent to 8,136.64 points while the Paris CAC 40 sank 1.2 percent to 7,511.57 and the Frankfurt DAX shed 0.8 percent to 18,416.71, AFP reports. After Wall Street indices closed in the red on Tuesday, Tesla reported that its profits fell ...

The quota protestors are likely to announce fresh programmes on Thursday as the 48-hour ultimatum to fulfill their four-point demand ends tomorrow. The protestors said that they will speak to the mediamen after the ultimatum period. Earlier on Tuesday, four co-coordinators of the quota reform movement at a press conference in Dhaka Reporter’s Unit, rejected the government circular allocating the ...