Police arrested two alleged drug peddlers with 25bottles of Indian contraband phensidyl in their possession on the Lamabazar and Moglabazar-Sylhet on Wednesday afternoon. The arrested are Abdul hamid and Alauddin, On a tip-off, a team of police led by Sub-Inspector S Sorkar coming from Lamabazar and Moglabazar area and arrested them.
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Tea Labour commits ‘suicide’ in Sylhet
A Tea Lobur allegedly committed suicide at Tarapur Tea Garden Gohorpur in Sylhet on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Romas bumish, 27, Son of Shitol bumish, a resident of the Tarapur Tea Garden. On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Sylhet Osmani Hospital morgue for autopsy.The reason behind the suicide could not be known yet. Officer-in-charge ...
Read More »Sylhet life normal but the road still haunts
Life in Sylhet became normal early this month after nearly two months of violence during BNP’s indefinite blockade and general strikes but locals are still scared of making bus journeys. The Sylhet-Dhaka road connects Sylhet with several districts, but this is the road where some of the vicious petrol bomb attacks left many injured as well as killed during the ...
Read More »Housewife commits ‘suicide’ in Chhatak
A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Malikandi village of Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Rokeya Begum, 45, wife of Ekhlus Ali, a resident of the village. Local people said, Rokeya mother of five children, took poison in her room in the afternoon. On information, police recovered the body and sent ...
Read More »What next after Lutfur Rahman ?
Bangla Mirror Desk : With the 2014 election declared void, Tower Hamlets is of the east London borough in 2014 was declared ‘void’ by Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey, who sat as a judge in the special High Court hearing. At the special High Court hearing, Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey also ordered Mr Rahman to pay £250,000 in costs. One of ...
Read More »Possible candidates for re-run of mayoral election
Bangla Mirror Desk: The London Labour Party has announced that John Biggs has been selected as Labour’s candidate for the re-run mayoral election in Tower Hamlets on 11 June. John Biggs said: “I am delighted to have been confirmed as Labour’s candidate. “Tower Hamlets must now move on from the divisive politics of Lutfur Rahman and his disgraced regime of corruption ...
Read More »Eric Pickles expands role of commissions to clean up Tower Hamlets
Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has taken a series of steps in relation to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, following last week’s Election Court judgement. Proposed directions extend the powers of the Commissioners over the whole of the local authority, as the Commissioners see fit, in order to exercise to ensure good governance and ...
Read More »Pickles is treating Tower Hamlets like some kind of unruly outpost of Empire: Glyn Robbins
The after-shocks of last week’s election court decision are rumbling through Tower Hamlets. There was already wide-spread anger about the decision of an unelected judge to depose a politician that 37,395 had voted for. Now there are strong rumours that Eric Pickles (who is himself not currently an elected MP) is planning to impose direct rule on Tower Hamlets. Glyn ...
Read More »Altab Ali’s close friend and house mate
By A Shahid Sheikh Dabir Miah is an unassuming pleasant individual who has led an uneventful and ordinary, life in Tower Hamlets for the past forty plus years. However, it was not always like that. 37 years ago, this week he found himself in the cusp of racist murder, turbulent events and a struggle for rights that would go on ...
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