Bangla Mirror Desk: Southall Mela is a free, family-themed event taking place on Sunday June 7 2015 in  Southall Park, which coincides with and incorporates the Bangladeshi festival of Boishaki. Organiser and local businessman Shofiqul Alam had the vision of a free outdoor  festival which would reflect Southall’s diversity and community cohesion, while celebrating the rich fabric of culture that ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Cllr. Parvez Ahmed has been elected as Deputy Mayor of Brent Council.  He has been  elected by Labour councillor of this Labour controlled borough.  Parvez Ahmed is the first  Bangldeshi councillor who has been elected as Deputy Mayor of Brent. Parvez Ahmed is Councillor in Dollis Hill in the London Borough of Brent, having been  elected in ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Prominent MPs and Minsters supported international NGO Muslim Aid to celebrate the launch of its 2015 Ramadan campaign. Key note speeches were delivered by John Penrose MP (Parliamentary Secretary at Cabinet Office), Mary Creagh MP (Shadow Secretary of State for International Development) and Rehman Chishti MP (Member of Parliament for Gillingham and Rainham). The  event was also ...

Labour’s candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, was today joined by Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna MP as he launched his key mayoral policies that will “benefit every corner of the borough.” Among an ambitious list of pledges, Labour’s candidate promised he would build the  borough’s first new council homes in years, crack down on anti-social behaviour ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: The new organisation for the caterers in the UK, British Bangladeshi Caterers Association (BBCA) has officially been launched hailing the slogan ‘catering for caterers’.   The officials of this newly formed organisation told this in a press conference held on Tuesday 2nd June in a restaurant in East London. On a written statement, the organisers informed that they ...

  As part of the Ramadan public health campaign set to be launched next Tuesday, key speakers including Barts Health NHS Trust Public Health Director, Dr Ian Basnett and Imam Faruq Siddiqi, the Trust’s Muslim Chaplain, will reinforce the importance of seeking medical advice prior to fasting, if a patient suffers from any chronic illness or health complication. Ramadan is ...

Shamsul Islam Selim has been elected as the first Bangladeshi councillor from Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.  His home district is Sunamganj in Sylhet. Cllr Selim was elected from Castle Without ward from Conservative Party.   Even though he was elected from Windsor, he does not live there but runs his business here. Shamsul Islam Selim is also the first ...

Sunamganj District Association organised a meeting in Del Centre in East London on 1st June.  A huge number of UK living former residents of Sunamganj took part in the meeting.   Organisation’s convenor Shah Jillul Karim presided over the meeting and Member Secretary Anisuzzaman Azad conducted it. Prominent politician Abul Lais Miah addressed the audience as the chief guest of the ...

Poor families in Korail slum, Kapazia, and Sylhet Town benefiting from free day care services six days a week Apasen International was proud to announce this week that it has started providing its first free health and education services in Bangladesh to poor families with children with severe learning disabilities, autism, and other special needs. Working with the highly respected ...

Bangladesh is the role model of development in the world now. Dr. Abdul Momen, permanent representative in United Nations from Bangladesh, has told this in a view-exchanging meeting with Sylhet Shommiloni at Monte Fiore Centre on 23 May. He also said that Bangladesh is advancing in faster pace. Especially, this country has achieved a lot in agriculture, education, health, poverty ...