Labour leader Keir Starmer officially became British prime minister on Friday hours after his Labour Party swept to power in a landslide victory after more than a decade in opposition, reports AFP. Starmer was elevated to the nation’s leader after a private ceremony with King Charles III in Buckingham Palace. In the merciless choreography of British politics, Starmer is taking ...

The World Health Organization chief has warned that a dire lack of fuel in the Gaza Strip could have a “catastrophic” impact on already devastated health services in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. Desperate fuel shortages have been a constant problem in the besieged Palestinian territory, facing intense Israeli bombardment since Hamas’s deadly October 7 attack inside Israel sparked the ongoing ...

Former Bangladesh cricket team batsman and current national team logistics manager, Nafees Iqbal has been airlifted from Chattogram to Dhaka via an air ambulance after he suffered a brain stroke on Friday morning. Bangladesh Cricket Board BCB’s chief physician, Debashish Chowdhury, confirmed Nafees’s condition and said, “Nafees has had a minor stroke. He is being brought to Dhaka from Chattogram ...

Rishi Sunak on Friday resigned as UK’s prime minister after meeting the King at Buckingham Palace. In a final Downing Street speech, Sunak said he would also step down as Conservative Party leader, but not immediately. The 44-year-old former financier gambled on going to the polls six months before he had to, hoping that better economic data would swing public ...

The government has extended the service of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun for another year on a contract basis. A gazette notification by the Ministry of Public Administration was issued on Friday in this regard. Abdullah Al-Mamun took charge as the IGP on 30 September 2022. On 9 January 2023, the government extended his tenure by one and ...

Four Bangladesh-origin candidates– Tulip Siddiq, Rushanara Ali, Rupa Huq and Apsana Begum– have been elected as Labour Party lawmakers in the UK parliament. The result was published on the official website of the British Parliament on Friday (July 5) morning. Tulip Rizwana Siddiq Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has won by a huge margin in the ...

Tulip Siddiq, grand-daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been elected MP for the fourth consecutive term from Hampstead and Highgate (UK Parliament constituency) in the United Kingdom. She is the candidate of Labour Party in the election. According to the BBC, he got 23,432 votes (48.3 per cent), while her nearest opponent Conservative candidate Don Williams received 8,462 votes. ...

Lionel Messi needed his Argentine teammates to bail him out, and the world champions delivered for their all-time captain. Messi missed his penalty kick in a shootout, but Argentina outlasted Ecuador 1-1 (4-2 in penalty kicks) in their Copa America quarterfinal match Thursday night at NRG Stadium in Houston to advance to the semifinal. Argentina will meet the winner of ...

Rishi Sunak has said he accepts responsibility for the Conservative Party’s catastrophic general election defeat. Sir Keir Starmer has led the Labour Party to a landslide victory and will take over from Mr Sunak as the UK’s prime minister. Mr Sunak told supporters: “The British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight, there is much to learn… and I take ...

Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jonathan Ashworth among those losing out as party suffers in urban areas with high Muslim populations Labour has lost three seats to pro-Gaza independent candidates and been run close by several others, as the impact of the Middle East crisis dented an otherwise jubilant night for Keir Starmer’s party. Jonathan Ashworth, the party’s shadow Cabinet Office minister, ...