A father and daughter who fraudulently claimed £65,000 in Covid loans have been given suspended jail sentences. Catherine Deegan, 43, used some of the money to rent a caravan, insolvency officials said. She was given a 10-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, while her father Gerard Deegan, 65, was given a 16-month jail sentence, also suspended for 18 months. Claire ...

Police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder after a woman and her three children died in a house fire in Bradford. Bryonie Gawith, 29, and her daughter Denisty Birtle, nine, son Oscar Birtle, five, and daughter Aubree Birtle, 22 months, died on Westbury Road on 21 August. Two men, aged 36 and 45, were arrested overnight in the ...

Up to 70mm of rain could drench parts of the UK on Saturday with a yellow weather warning issued for the south-east of England, following widespread disruption caused by Storm Lilian. The warning will be in place from 06:00 to 13:00 and will span Portsmouth, Hampshire and parts of Suffolk including Ipswich. “With that yellow warning, expect some small travel ...

Bangladesh is carrying out “fundamental, philosophical” reforms to bring back the country on the path of growth after living through years of entrenched corruption under the now ousted Awami League government led by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, adviser for social welfare told NDTV in an exclusive interview. Sharmeen Murshid, who is one of the top advisers assisting chief adviser ...

A court in Sylhet has sent retired Supreme Court justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik to prison. Earlier, he was taken to the court of Sylhet judicial magistrate-1 Alamgir Hossain at 4:10pm on Saturday (August 24). Witnesses said many people hurled eggs and shoes at Justice Manik when he was being produced before the court. Even, several people tried to attack ...

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) was served a legal notice seeking for immediate removal of ace allrounder and former MP Shakib Al Hasan from the National cricket team as he named as an accused in a murder case. Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Shajib Mahmood Alam has sent the legal notice to BCB on Saturday. The legal notice demands that Shakib, facing ...

Three more deaths were reported from floods created in 11 districts due to heavy rainfall and onrush of upstream water from India. With the three, the death toll rose to 18. KM Ali Reza, additional secretary of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, stated it at a press conference on the overall flood situation held at the secretariat on Saturday ...

Bangladesh wicket-keeper batsman Mushfiqur Rahim hit an incredible century to guide Bangladesh to 389-6 at Lunch, as Bangladesh trailing by 59 runs to Pakistan’s 448 in the first innings at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Saturday. The senior batter completed his 11th Test hundred yielded by 12 boundaries and remained unbeaten on 101. In addition, Mushfiqur scored his fifth hundred in ...

As many as 40,000 individuals were made accused in a case filed over an attack on Chattogram Kotwali Police Station, looting arms and torching police station on August 5. Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) inspector (investigation) Ripon Kumar Das filed the case under Special Powers Act and Explosive Substances Act on Friday night. Officer-in-charge of the police station SM Obaidul Haque ...

There has been no heavy rain in Noakhali in the last 24 hours and there is no sign of heavy rain in the next 24 hours. Hoping that, the flood situation may improve in Noakhali district. The water receded three to four inches in the city and nearby upazilas. Besides, the water is receding through a regulator connected to the ...