Israel has attacked the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB and interrupted a live broadcast with an explosion, marking another escalation in the conflict with Tehran and replicating its previous attacks on news media targets in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon. TV anchor Sahar Emami denounced Monday’s “aggression against the homeland” and the “truth” as a blast went off and ...

Power connections to 25 stone crushers in Dhopagul area of Sadar upazila in Sylhet district have been severed. A taskforce committee conducted the drive on Monday, two days after the incident of blocking the motorcade of two government advisers in protest against the decision to permanently ban stone extraction leases in Sylhet’s Jaflong area. The taskforce committee, comprising police, Rab ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has launched a formal investigation into allegations of embezzlement and money laundering involving nearly Tk 2,000 crore against Bangladesh’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Saida Muna Tasneem, and her husband, Generation Next Fashions Ltd Chairman Towhidul Islam Chowdhury. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, ACC Chairman Mohammad Abdul Momen confirmed the initiation of ...

A bus driver and his assistant raped a college student inside a bus belonging to ‘Maa Enterprise’ in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila on Sunday night. Police and Bangladesh Army personnel, however, managed to detained bus driver Md Sabbir Miah from the spot. But the helper of the bus, Liton Miah, fled the scene. Confirming the incident, Nabiganj Police Station OC Sheikh ...

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has ordered the publication of newspaper notices summoning ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan to aapear before the court within one week to face charges of crimes against humanity. The directive was issued on Monday by a three-member bench of the tribunal headed by Justice Golam Mortoza Mojumder. The court ...

Sir Keir Starmer has hit back at potential rebels in the Labour Party over his plans to cut the benefits bill, insisting “we have got to get the reforms through.” MPs will vote in the coming weeks on a package of measures aiming to cut the benefits bill by £5bn by 2030 – including making it harder for disabled people ...

MI6 will be led by a woman for the first time in the foreign intelligence service’s 116-year history. Blaise Metreweli, who joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1999, will become the 18th chief of the organisation and take over from Sir Richard Moore later this year. She is currently responsible for technology and innovation at the service and said she ...

A project to build the UK’s largest road tunnel has been granted £590m by the government. Constructing the Lower Thames Crossing, linking Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent, will cost an estimated £10bn. Plans for the 14.5-mile (23km) route were approved in March after a 16-year process that has already cost £1.2bn. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the crossing would ...

As the Oscars approach, Kate Young – the stylist who dresses Scarlett Johansson, Dakota Johnson, Margot Robbie and others – talks risk taking, intimacy, and why method dressing drives her “nuts”. On any given Oscar Sunday, Kate Young is sipping black coffee while perched in a movie star’s bedroom. “If the ceremony starts at 8pm, we’re there in the morning,” ...

“We just wanted a relaxing conversation with our dad and we weren’t able to have one,” says Jack Blumenthal. “It was horrible. And it was constant.” Raw pain is etched on Jack’s father’s face as he finally realises how his undiagnosed mental illness – and erratic manic behaviour – hurt the ones he loves the most. In a new BBC ...