Home / 2015 / May

Monthly Archives: May 2015

Redbridge Welfare Association UK summer sports festival starts

Redbridge Welfare Association UK officially started its annual sports festival. The organisation organises this festival every year to enhance relationship across communities. Association officials were present at the opening ceremony on 10th May which took place in Laxford Park in Illford. Along with many contenders from Bangladeshi community, a number of competitors from other communities took part from the multicultural ...

Read More »

Flying empty with 80 seats, passenger did not get ticket!

Bangla Mirror desk : UK living Shahanara Akhtar’s husband died in Bangladesh. She wanted to go to Sylhet with her children to attend the funeral of her late husband. When she wanted to book the tickets, she was told by the travel agent that there was only one seat left. As a result, she could not take her two children ...

Read More »

Jury returns critical narrative in the inquest of Rubel Ahmed

Ansar Ahmed Ullah :  On 18 May, the jury in the Central Lincolnshire Coroner’s Court found “inadequate” communication between multi-disciplinary teams was one of the factors that contributed to Rubel Ahmed’s death following the service of removal directions on him. Rubel Ahmed was discovered hanging in his cell on 5 September 2014, a few days after being informed of the ...

Read More »

Oil down as firmer dollar, ample supplies offset Mideast turmoil

Oil slipped on Monday as a rallying dollar and concerns of growing oversupply weighed on the market after Saudi Arabia reported its highest crude exports in nearly a decade. Crude oil futures erased early gains of more than $1 a barrel on worries of turmoil in the Middle East after a major advance by Islamic State militants in Iraq and ...

Read More »

Obama to demilitarize US police

President Barack Obama plans to bar US police from getting tracked armored vehicles, bayonets, grenade launchers, and large-caliber firearms, in response to accusations that law enforcement has become too militarized. After controversy over the policing of high-profile protests in Baltimore, Maryland and Ferguson, Missouri, the White House said Monday that Obama will move to choke police access to military equipment. ...

Read More »

Fresh coalition strikes on south Yemen

Saudi-led coalition air strikes resumed against rebel positions in Yemen’s south after a five-day ceasefire expired late Sunday, despite a UN envoy’s calls for an extension of the truce. The humanitarian ceasefire that began late on Tuesday expired at 2000 GMT Sunday with no word from the coalition, which had repeatedly accused the rebels of “violations”, on where the truce ...

Read More »

Thai general election to be delayed for referendum

A general election in Thailand is to be delayed following a decision by the military government to hold a referendum on a new constitution. The military has been in charge since a coup last year and an election was expected in the middle of 2016. But a constitution re-drafted after the takeover is now to be put to the public. ...

Read More »

Saudi-led coalition bombs Yemen rebels as truce expires

Saudi-led coalition warplanes resumed strikes on rebel positions in southern Yemen on Monday after a five-day ceasefire expired, jeopardising efforts to deliver desperately needed aid. The humanitarian truce ended at 2000 GMT Sunday despite calls from a UN envoy and relief agencies for an extension. An hour later, air raids hit the rebel-held presidential palace in the main southern city ...

Read More »

EU approves naval force to tackle migrant crisis

European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to set up a naval mission in the Mediterranean to target gangs smuggling people from lawless Libya to Europe. The EU’s foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said the decision taken at a meeting of foreign and defense ministers in Brussels would “disrupt the business model of smugglers and traffickers networks in Mediterranean.” The ...

Read More »