Euston has erupted into travel chaos as all trains from the station has been suspended. Pictures from the concourse show crowds of frustrated passengers afters being informed their journeys have been delayed or cancelled. The incident was first reported shortly before 12.45pm this afternoon (Thursday, September 26). National Rail has confirmed an issue has occurred between Shepherds Bush and Watford ...

Treating patients during the pandemic was like responding to a daily terror attack, the Covid inquiry has heard. Giving testimony, Professor Kevin Fong, spoke of staff he met during a hospital visit being in “total bits”. The former national clinical adviser in emergency preparedness at NHS England recalled a conversation with an intensive care doctor during a visit in December ...

US woman dies after first use of ‘suicide pod’Dr Fiona Stewart, a lawyer on the board of Last Resort, exhibits the organisation’s ‘Sarco’ pod in July. A 64-year-old US woman took her own life inside a controversial suicide capsule at a Swiss woodland retreat, with police on Tuesday saying several people had been arrested. The space-age looking Sarco capsule, which ...

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday called upon the world’s leading charity organisation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase support to the health sector of Bangladesh. He made the call when Mark Suzman, CEO of the foundation, called on him at the UN headquarters here on the sidelines of the UNGA session on Wednesday (local time). Chief ...

The residential halls for male students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) will reopen on October 8, said acting registrar Syed Salim Md. Abdul Qadir on Thursday. The decision was taken at an emergency syndicate meeting of the university on Wednesday afternoon. The acting registrar said, “Students will be able to move into the residential halls between October ...

Amid criticism for his political career and off-form on the field, former Bangladesh captain and all-rounder, Shakib Al Hasan, announced retirement from Tests and T20Is. Shakib announced it on Thursday in Kanpur ahead of the second Test against India. He, however, will play home Test series’s against South Africa in October.

Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 72 people on Wednesday, the health ministry in Beirut said, raising the toll from the latest wave of bombardments. The ministry said in a series of statements that “Israeli airstrikes” killed 38 people in southern Lebanon, 12 in the eastern Bekaa region and 22 in three towns north and south of Beirut. Nearly 400 people ...

Dr Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of the interim government, has said that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is now in India, must be brought back and put on trial if she had committed crimes. Yunus made the remark in response to a question at an event in New York on Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said his country wants to invest in solar panel manufacturing in Bangladesh and further deepen trade and economic ties with the South Asian country. He made the announcement when he called on Bangladesh Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters on Wednesday afternoon (NY ...

The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), under the Stockpile Project funded by the Government of Japan, officially handed over critical medical supplies to the Government of Bangladesh to support the country in combating dengue, cholera, and other emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) while strengthening its health system. The project, funded by the Government of Japan and the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and ...