Britain’s highest court yesterday rejected a bid by a woman who was stripped of her UK citizenship for joining the Islamic State group to return to challenge the decision.

Britain’s Prince Harry will relinquish his honorary military appointm-ents and patronages after confirming to Queen Elizabeth II that he and his wife Meghan Markle will not return as working royals, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday.

Britain has downgraded its terrorism threat level from “severe” to “substantial”, interior minister Priti Patel announced yesterday.

Captain Tom Moore, 100, who won British hearts with a Covid-19 fund raising drive, was hospitalised on Sunday with the virus, his family said.

Britain’s government yesterday pressed China to allow UN rights inspectors to visit Xinjiang after raising anew allegations of “appalling” human rights abuses against the Uighur minority people.

On January 13, 2021, Hugh Brammer breathed his last in a hospital in Brighton, England. He died at the ripe age of 95 years and thus conventionally speaking it was not an untimely death. But Hugh’s absence from this world saddens us because of what he was to the last.

Britain’s government is under growing pressure to abandon plans to reopen most primary schools in England, with one teachers’ union demanding evidence it is safe to open and another telling members they do not have to work in an unsafe environment.

The first ferry from Britain bound for Calais after the UK’s exit from the EU customs union docked in the northern French port yesterday, with three dozen vehicles disembarking in a smooth operation, an AFP correspondent said.

Britain yesterday began a new year and life outside the European Union after leaving the bloc’s single market, with the first trucks crossing the Channel by ferry and rail reporting largely plain sailing despite new customs rules.

The world yesterday began ushering in the New Year, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020.

The Chittagong University authorities have rescheduled the timetable of shuttle train service on Monday and it will take effect today.

Bangladesh has huge sea potentials and hydrographic information is crucial to explore sea resources, said Navy Chief Vice Admiral Nizamuddin Ahmed.

The United Kingdom (UK) will work closely with Bangladesh to address shared issues and threats, including tackling illegal migration and organised crime, countering the risk of terrorism and improving aviation security.

A mobile court sentenced a drug addict to three months' imprisonment at Padumshaher village in Saghata upazila of the district yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has cancelled her France tour after the near-simultaneous attacks in Paris that left at least 129 dead.

Two people were found dead in two upazilas of the district yesterday. On information, police recovered the body of a

A woman allegedly committed suicide after killing her 10-month-old son at Kulunia village in Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday.

Law enforcers detain two students for their alleged involvement in fraudulent activities during the admission test for ‘E’ unit of Chittagong University (CU).

President Abdul Hamid issues an ordinance amending the local government law making municipal polls partisan.

A BNP-backed platform of eminent citizens hold the government responsible for the killing of Jagriti Prokashany owner Faisal Arefin Dipan.