Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said warnings that the recognition of a Palestinian state could breach international law are “missing the point”. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK would move towards recognition unless Israel met certain conditions, including agreeing a ceasefire and reviving the prospect of a two-state solution, earlier this week. However, some of Britain’s most ...

An incoming Reform UK government would have to force “nasty cough medicine down the country’s throat”, says the man hoping to shape the party’s policies. James Orr, who is behind a new pro-Reform think tank, told the BBC Nigel Farage’s party “has not got a magic wand” and would have to do some “very unpopular” things in its first 100 ...

London is a “really safe place to live and work” and safer than New York and Paris, according to the Metropolitan police commissioner. Sir Mark Rowley’s remarks came shortly after London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan was challenged over the rise in knife crime during a photo opportunity with the commissioner in the West End. The commissioner’s comments came in the ...

The National Consensus Commission (NCC) on Thursday proposed a significant constitutional amendment that would empower the President to appoint the chiefs of the three armed forces and the heads of two key intelligence agencies without the Prime Minister’s advice. The recommendation includes an amendment to Article 48(3) of the Constitution, under Part IV, Chapter I, which currently requires the President ...

The Council of Advisers has given in-principle approval to the draft of the Local Government (City Corporation) (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2025. The decision was made during the council’s 36th meeting, held at the Chief Adviser’s Office and chaired by Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, according to a press release issued by the Cabinet Division. The draft ordinance will now be ...

A staggering 28.9 per cent of children in Bangladesh, nearly three out of every ten, are affected by multidimensional poverty, a rate significantly higher than the 21.4 per cent for adults, according to the country’s first-ever national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released on Thursday. The report, a collaborative effort by UNICEF, the General Economics Department (GED) of the National Planning ...

Sylhet Office : One worker was killed and another injured on Thursday, July 31, when a boarding bridge wheel suddenly burst during repair work at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Romman, 20, a resident of Saheber Bazar in Sylhet. He succumbed to his injuries at Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College Hospital, where both victims were ...

Criticising the Chhatra Shibir’s campaign over the leadership of the July uprising, Nahid Islam, Convener of the National Citizens’ Party (NCP), has said that no one has denied the role of Shibir in the uprising. But this uprising was not carried out by Shibir alone, nor was it under Shibir’s instruction or direction. ”We have been working for a long ...

We all grew up with it. A bowl of muri with mustard oil, green chillies, and onions: simple, quick, comforting. But who would have thought that this humble puffed rice would one day make its way to fancy restaurant plates? What was once the star of our street food offerings has now found a new life. Thanks to creative chefs ...

The government has formed a high-level taskforce to formulate a list of essential medicines and recommend measures to ensure its accessibility and availability for the population. Chaired by Professor Shahinul Alam, Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh Medical University, the taskforce consists of 16 members and a member secretary. It includes prominent national experts in fields such as medicine, pharmacy, health economics, gynaecology, ...