The London Ambulance Service (LAS) faced its busiest day on record on Friday as extreme heat continued across the capital, declaring a critical incident due to the pressure on the service. Call handlers took 8,869 emergency calls in a single day and between 18:00 BST and midnight, they were answering more than 500 calls an hour. Ambulances were dispatched to ...

For 300 years, the towering Gothic steeple and temple-like columns of St Martin-in-the-Fields have stood at the corner of London’s Trafalgar Square, with the building’s three century-long history now being explored in a new exhibition. St Martin’s position at the heart of the capital makes it the parish church for the residents of Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing Street and the ...

Health and Family Welfare Minister of Bangladesh, Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain, is set to inaugurate the first round of nationwide ‘Vitamin A Plus Campaign 2026’ on Sunday, June 27, 2026. The inauguration ceremony will be held at 10:00am at the Shaheed Abu Sayed International Convention Center in Shahbagh. According to the programme schedule released by the Ministry of Health and ...

The LGED has taken an initiative to construct a 32.5 kilometre road to connect three popular tourist destinations in Sylhet’s Bholaganj directly. As a result, travellers would reach the spots without having to travel to Sylhet city and enjoy the landscapes that feature mountains, rivers, tea gardens and rockey streams along the border. People linked with tourism of the district ...

Pregnancy can be a deeply challenging time for women with eating disorders, with experts warning that the physical and emotional changes can sometimes trigger relapse or new symptoms that often go unnoticed. When Elizabeth Claydon became pregnant at 27, she noticed rapid changes in her body that she found difficult to accept. Like many pregnant women, she experienced hormonal shifts, ...

Seven more children died from measles and measles-like symptoms in the past 24 hours till 8am on Saturday, bringing Bangladesh’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 709. Of the new deaths, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has classified one as confirmed measles fatality while six others as suspected. With the latest update, the number of ...

Andy Burnham is poised to become Britain’s next prime minister following Keir Starmer’s resignation, but analysts say he could find it difficult to quickly break away from the policies of his predecessor. Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, was sworn back into Parliament just hours after Starmer announced he would step down on Monday. If no other candidate joins ...

Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Shahjahan Chowdhury on Saturday criticised the proposed national budget, alleging that the finance minister had prioritised business interests instead of addressing the needs of the country’s 18 crore people. “You are from a business family. So, you gave a business-friendly budget,” he told Parliament, pointing at the finance minister. The Jamaat-e-Islami MP, elected from Chattogram-15 constituency, made this ...

BNP lawmaker Zainul Abdin Farroque on Saturday questioned Jamaat-e-Islami’s role in the 1971 Liberation War and urged the government to increase allowances for freedom fighters. Speaking during the general discussion on the proposed FY2026-27 national budget, he also referred to the killing of intellectuals in the final days before Bangladesh’s independence. “Judge yourselves. Where were you in 1971?” Farroque questioned, ...

The US Embassy in Dhaka has issued an urgent warning to Bangladeshi and other foreign nationals, stating that the misuse of US government-funded public benefits could result in visa revocation and other serious legal consequences. The information was disclosed in a notice published Saturday on the verified Facebook page of the US Embassy in Dhaka. According to the embassy, foreign ...