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By Emdad Rahman: Students and staff from the London Enterprise Academy delivered a community event to raise awareness and celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Activities included fact presentations on Ramadan and a nasheed song and Quran recitation competition for students and staff.  In attendance were guests from the community and there was also a guest appearance by singer ...

By Chris Evan: A new book is published on Amazon that proclaims the modern world has the heap to gain from it. Al-Fātiḥah is the first chapter or surah of the Holy Q’uran. This chapter has an essential role in Islamic prayer or salāt, as it literally means “The Opener”. Al-Fathiha is recited in every prayer unit or rakʿah for ...

Fenchuganj Education Trust has started its activities officially.  To mark this occasion a number of ex-residents of Fenchuganj got together at May Fair venue in East London on Sunday 13 May.  At the event, prominent community leader and main architect of the trust Ahmed Us Samad  Choudhury JP explained organization’s aims and goals in his opening speech. He also emphasized that this ...

London Bangla Press Club recently organised a training session for journalists and media employees  working in North England.  A number of media personnel took part in this hugely successful training session first time of its kind. The training session took place in Eastern Pavilion in Oldham.  As well as from Oldham, a number of journalists and media personnel from Liverpool, ...

More than 5,000 Tower Hamlets residents were supported into work or training last year thanks to the council’s WorkPath programme. WorkPath was launched in April 2017 to provide a bespoke job brokerage and training service for residents looking to get into work either for the first time or after a period of unemployment. In the past 12 months, the team ...

The Advisory Committee of Italian Bangladeshi Welfare Association received nomination papers in order to elect a new executive committee on 5ht May in a restaurant in East London.  After careful scrutiny, the Advisory Committee approved the new committee for 2018-2019 on  10th of May.  Chief Advisor Habibur Raihan  Shahid And Advisor Johirul Islam approved the new committee. The leaders of the ...

Bangladesh is fast moving forward under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina said Parliamentary Panel Speaker Syeda Saira Mohasin MP. She said to realise Bangabandhu’s dream we must strengthen Sheikh Hasina’s hand to build a digital Bangladesh. Proof of digital Bangladesh is that today we own satellite, while many rich countries in the world do not have their own satellites. Today, ...

Three elected councillors in London Borough of Tower Hamlets were given a reception in east London on Friday 11 May 2018. Locally based Gram Bangla Badminton Club hosted the reception. The club’s chair Abdul Shaheed, Shofi Ahmed and Badruzzaman Babul welcomed the councillors Sirajul Islam, Abdul Mukith Chunu MBE and Ahbab Hussaain with flowers. The recent election saw a landslide ...

With Ramadan only matters of days away Darul Ummah Mosque is proud to confirm the huffaz who will be leading tarweeh prayers this Ramadan which is as follows: Sheikh Mansoor Al-Wuajee (Saudi Arabia), Islamic Lawyer, Graduated and completed Hifz from Madina Islamic University Sheikh Tariq Nasrullah (United Kingdom),Head of Arabic, London East Academy,Graduated from Islamic University, Madinah, TV Personality Sheikh ...

Rajnagar welfare Society UK organised a view-exchanging meeting with Syeda Saira Mohsin on 8th of May in Brookshire.  A number of leaders of Rajnagar Welfare Society took part in the meeting.  The speakers reminisced the work and life of Syeda Saira Mohsin MP’s husband late Social  Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali and discussed a range of problems across Rajnagar. Syeda ...