Ansar Ahmed Ullah Bangladesh is making remarkable progress in the areas of poverty reduction, increasing enrolment at primary schools, lowering infant mortality rate and maternal mortality ratio, improving immunization coverage and reducing the incidence of communicable diseases said Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury. Media Adviser to Bangladesh’s Prime Minister, Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, who is accompanying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on a visit ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah Bengali ex patriates have always stood by Bangladesh in crisis said Bangladesh’s Prime Minister who is on short personal trip. She was addressing a gathering on 14 June in a reception organised by the UK Awami League in her honour at Park Lane Hotel in central London. She said the UK Bengalis have always supported Bangladesh from ...

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage, landed at the Heathrow Airport at 15:41. She is accompanied among others by State Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Md. Shahriar Alam, Media Adviser to Prime Minister Mr. Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury and Press Secretary to Prime Minister Mr. A K M Shameem Chowdhuri. Bangladesh High Commissioner in ...

By A Shahid A reception at the Houses of Parliament featuring live music to mark Raja Kasheef and Rubayyat Jahan’s latest songs will take place next month in the Palace of Westminster. A prestigious event it is a rare honour for any singers to play live music in this place made more famous for politics but even less for Asian ...

Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman has been elected as the chairperson of Asian Clearing Union (ACU).   He was elected as the next ACU chairperson in the 44th annual meeting of its board of directors in Dhaka on Saturday, central bank General Manager AFM Asaduzzaman told bdnews24.com. The governors of the central banks of India, Pakistan, Iran, Nepal, Bhutan and ...

Labour Party’s John Biggs has become the mayor of London borough Tower Hamlets after the election of the previous mayor was declared void. The London Assembly member took the east London borough’s top post, winning 32,754 votes to take the job previously held by Lutfur Rahman. Biggs was runner-up last year to Rahman, who was removed from office in a ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah At a press conference held on Thursday, 11 June, in an East London venue the UK Awami League announced that Bangladesh’s Prime  Minister Sheikh Hasina will be arriving in London on Friday, 12 June, on a five day personal trip. The UK Awami League will receive her at the hotel on Friday afternoon. In addition a citizen ...

Newly elected councillor for Stepney Green, Sabina Akhtar, made a heartfelt speech  as she was duly elected to serve the ward on June 11. Ms Akhtar, representing the Labour Party, received 1,643 votes, closely followed by  the Independent candidate Abu Talha Chowdhury with 1,472 votes. She said: “I am overwhelmed and so happy. I would never have made it without ...

Dr. Mozammel Haque Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom delivered a speech in the House of Lords in which Her Majesty said that measures will be brought forward to promote social cohesion and protect people by tackling extremism. There was discussion and debate on this speech at the House of Lords. Lord Sheikh and Lord Ahmed ...

By Fatema Miah Ramadan is an Arabic month which is well known to the world, obviously to the Muslims also to Non-Muslims because of the importance of Muslims preserving the fast. Ra madan is the Ninth Lunar calendar month of Arabic year and the Arabic Lunar calendar months are followed by entire Muslim (Ummah) population throughout the world. Ramadan word ...