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    Poisoning fears sparked a huge police and ambulance response to an incident in Mayfair this afternoon. Dozens of police and ambulances swooped on the luxury London district following reports of a man in cardiac arrest. The Met and the London Ambulance Service feared launched a major response as it comes just months after Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with a nerve agent in March. The MET police said: "At approximately 15:15hrs on Thursday, 21 June, police responded to a call from the London Ambulance Service (LAS) relating to a man taken ill on Albemarle Street in Mayfair. Officers attended the scene. At the location they found a man being treated by the LAS. He was subsequently pronounced dead at the scene. Due to concerns the victim may have been expose...

    Charing Cross station in central London has been evacuated after a man reportedly got onto the tracks, claiming he had a bomb. Armed officers were called as the station was put on lock down on Friday morning following the disturbance on an Underground platform. British Transport Police (BTP) said in a statement it was called to the scene at 6.35am and later arrested a suspect. The 38-year-old man was then detained under the Mental Health Act and taken to a "place of safety," the force added. Met Police said no one had been injured during the incident. Charing Cross remains closed and train services are currently not stopping at the station. We are now working to reopen the station as soon as possible, BTP said in a statement. BTP would like to thank passengers a...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said, about 99 lakh new workforce would be added to the country’s manpower sector by 2020. Out of them, about 20 lakh workers would go abroad with job while others to find job in local markets as planned in the 7th Five Year Plan, she said. The Prime Minister said this in her question-answer session in the parliament yesterday. She said, the government has already completed a plan to establish 30 Special Economic Zones as part of a longterm plan to build 100 SEZs across the country. These SEZs would create about 10 million jobs, she said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hoped that the women cricketers of Bangladesh would continue their success in future as they showed excellence in the Asia Cup T-20 tournament. The Premier expressed the hope as she was talk...