As part of the interim government’s activities, Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus will sit with representatives from the major political parties on Saturday. The chief advisor’s schedule shows a five-hour block of time from 3pm to 8pm on Saturday for the meetings, reports bdnews24.com. An official from the chief advisor’s office says he wants to speak with representatives of all political ...

A 21-year-old youth’s body was found hanging from a tree at Madhyanagar upazila in Sunamganj district on Friday. Police recovered the body of Sheikh Shahid, 21, of Harinakandi village under the upazila, around 11 AM on Friday. Madhyanagar Police Station sub-inspector Bikash Sarkar confirmed the information. Citing the deceased family members, Bikash Sarkar said that the victim was suffering from ...

The contractual appointments of two Bangladesh press ministers at the the United Kingdom and the United States have been terminated. A notification issued by the Ministry of Public Administration on Thursday confirmed the cancellation of contracts for Md Ashequn Nabi Chowdhury, press minister at the Bangladesh High Commission in London, UK, and AZM Sajjad Hossain, press minister at the Bangladesh ...

Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif had a telephone conversation with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Friday and emphasised the need to revitalise relations between the two nations. “There remains immense potential in expanding bilateral trade and economic cooperation,” Pakistan Prime Minister told Prof Yunus, congratulating him on his assumption of the leadership of the Interim Government of Bangladesh, ...

Conservative MP Esther McVey has been branded “repugnant” for using a poem about the Holocaust to criticise the government’s proposals for tougher rules on outdoor smoking. The MP for Tatton shared a section of Martin Niemoller’s 1946 poem, “First They Came”, on social media, adding: “Pertinent words re Starmer’s smoking ban.” The Board of Deputies of British Jews called on ...

A government scheme to use vacant military land for new homes was quietly shelved two years ago without a single house being built. The plan was meant to deliver up to 10,000 new homes, but came to an end after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) withdrew most of the chosen sites from the programme. Earlier this year the MoD identified ...

A man caught upskirting a woman at the British Museum by an off-duty police officer has been jailed for four months. Jake Verano Gomez, 33, was seen by the City of London officer, who was on his day off, secretly recording a woman on Aug 19. The officer detained the man with the help of museum staff and security before ...

Full-time workers’ rights to ask for a four-day working week could be strengthened under government plans to increase flexible working. Employees would still have to work their full hours to receive their full pay but could request to compress their contracted hours into a shorter working week, as first reported by the Daily Telegraph. Since April, workers have already had ...

Wales’ national teams will wear differing kits next season for the first time following consultation with the women’s squad over period anxiety. Captain Hannah Jones’ side will wear the traditional red shirt but with red shorts and white socks, while the men will wear red shirts, white shorts and red socks. Wales have also opted to return to a white ...

The mother of a teenage girl who died of an allergic reaction after drinking a Costa hot chocolate has told the BBC she lies awake at night thinking about whether she could have prevented her death. Hannah Jacobs, 13, had a severe dairy allergy and died within hours of taking a sip of the drink on 8 February last year. ...