The Princess of Wales will attend Remembrance events in London at the weekend, Buckingham Palace has said. She will attend both the Sunday service at the Cenotaph and the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening. The princess has been gradually returning to public royal duties following her cancer treatment. The Queen’s attendance will be subject ...

A lung-cancer screening programme that sees mobile clinics visit local communities in England has detected the disease earlier in more than 5,000 people. Specially adapted lorries have been visiting supermarkets, football grounds and town centres in areas with the highest rates of the disease, as part of the biggest initiative of its kind in NHS history. Since the programme’s launch, ...

Six trucks loaded with 33,810 kilogram sugar smuggled from India were seized in Sylhet on Thursday. The police also arrested a youth, Md Hasan, 19, resident of Sunamganj’s Nagdipur village, for his involvement in smuggling the sugar, the police said. Sylhet Metropolitan Police additional deputy commissioner Mohammad Saiful Islam told that a team of Detective Branch of the SMP set-up ...

The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) has announced to reduce gold prices by Tk 3, 452 per bhori (11.664g) in the country as the cost of pure gold falls in the local market This information was provided in a press release signed by Masudur Rahman, the chairman of BAJUS’S pricing and market monitoring permanent committee, on Thursday. The price of each ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Friday urged the government to take effective steps to meet the expectations of people in order to foil any plots by the evil forces. “I want to warn the freedom-loving people of one thing, and I myself also want to remain alert that the conspiracy of the anti-democratic evil forces has not stopped yet ...

BNP brought out a massive colourful rally in the capital on Friday, marking ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day. Tens of thousands of leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies, wearing colourful caps, assembled at Nayapaltan since noon, prepared to participate in a large-scale showdown. Streets and alleys from Kakrail Mosque to Fakirerpool and adjoining areas were packed with ...

Marcus Harris hit a patient and timely 74 against India A on Friday to thrust himself into prime contention to open for Australia in the first of five Tests against the tourists this month. The diminutive 32-year-old steered Australia A to 223 in reply to India A’s 161 on day two of their four-day match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ...

Former lawmaker from the Jhenaidah-2 constituency Tahjib Alam Siddique has been placed on a three-day remand in connection with two separate murder cases. Senior Judicial Magistrate in Dhaka Rumana Afroz passed the order on Friday noon (November 8). On Thursday night, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested him from Nabinagar area, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Tahjib was shown arrested ...

The interim government has decided to repeal the controversial Cyber Security Act 2023. The decision was taken at a meeting of the advisory council held at the Chief Advisor’s office at Tejgaon in the capital with Dr Muhammad Yunus in the chair. Following the meeting, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Syeda Rizwana Hasan. There were allegations that Sheikh Hasina-led Awami ...

The present interim government has taken effective measures over the last three months after the fall of Awami League government through student-led mass uprising, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam has said. “They have taken many steps,” he said. He made the remarks while talking to newsmen after placing wreath on BNP founder Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman’s graveyard at Sher-e-Bangla ...