Authorities in India’s capital Delhi are deploying thousands of police and paramilitary personnel ahead of a protest called for Saturday by the “Cockroach” youth movement to demand the elections chief quit over a revision of voter lists. Several long-distance trains coming into Delhi were also cancelled on Friday, and 57 metro stations were closed from Friday night, authorities said after ...

Lord Sadiq Khan has told how he is working with the Government on international trains stopping at a second major London station. The London Mayor’s intervention will raise hopes of services to and from France, and other European countries, halting at Stratford International in the east of the capital. He posted on X: “Stratford is one of Europe’s great regeneration ...

The Labour chair of the Commons housing committee is urging John Healey to bring forward billions of pounds of planned spending on social and affordable homes in England, after housing associations said they were ready to build tens of thousands more. Abena Oppong-Asare called for the chancellor to allocate money from the £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP) as ...

Tax cuts for big banks have deprived the UK government of £6bn in revenues, according to campaigners, who are calling on the chancellor, John Healey, to increase taxes and force lenders to pay their “fair share” in the budget. Calculations by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents unions with more than 5.3 million members across England and Wales, shows ...

More than 1,000 dockless bikes have been seized from Westminster’s streets since May as part of a council crackdown on obstructive parking. Westminster City Council said it had also issued more than 5,300 fixed penalty notices to bike operators during the same period, amounting to more than £53,000. Caroline Sargent, the council’s deputy leader and cabinet member for enforcement, said: ...

The sixth edition of the weekly ‘Super Sale Car Bazar’ began at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in Dhaka on Friday, offering buyers and sellers a platform to trade a range of vehicles. The marketplace opened at 11:00am and will remain open until 8:00pm. Launched on 4 September, the event has received encouraging responses from buyers and sellers over ...

BNP acting secretary general and Prime Minister’s Political Adviser Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on Friday described threats to halt remittances sent by expatriate Bangladeshis as extremely anti-national and inhumane. He said such a move would threaten the livelihoods of millions of families and harm the national economy. He made the remarks while addressing a prize-giving ceremony, discussion and cultural programme ...

Abdul Khaleque, secretary of the Secondary and Higher Education Division, has said UNESCO must adopt appropriate strategies to keep pace with AI-driven systems and consider initiating a process to regulate the use of artificial intelligence within its areas of operation for the sake of future generations. He made the remarks while delivering Bangladesh’s national statement at the 225th session of ...

Observing that most dengue deaths are linked to delayed diagnosis and hospitalisation, health experts have called for early testing, timely treatment and greater public awareness of the disease’s warning signs to help reduce fatalities from the mosquito-borne illness. They said many dengue patients who die in hospitals arrive at a late stage, leaving doctors with little time to provide effective ...

Imagine a leaf suddenly falling on your head from an Oak tree, and you’re so alert it feels like a bomb has dropped! Well, there is a proper term to describe your hyper-alert self, which is ‘hypervigilance. It is a psychological condition in which the brain is in constant fight-or-flight mode, creating waves of turmoil inside your brain. Hypervigilance is ...