Bangla Mirror desk Tuesday 7 July 2015, Syed Choudhury, 19, sentenced to three years and four months for plotting to travel to Syria to fight for the extremists after being radicalised by older men A teenager from Cardiff has been jailed for plotting to travel to Syria to fight with Isis after being radicalised by older men in the Welsh ...

Bengali Workers’ Union and Camden Surma Centre jointly organised a discussion meeting on the significance of Ramadan which was followed by an iftar mahfil. The event took place on the 28th of june at the hall room of Surma centre in north London. Chairman of Surma centre Abdus Samad chaired the meeting while the director of the centre Moksud Hussain ...

By A Shahid Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborn unveiled the Summer Budget 2015 setting out his plans for the UK economy.  It is a first all – Conservative budget for nearly two decades. Mr Osborn said his party was fulfilling key pre election pledges to reduce welfare bill by a further £12bn. The standout policy was him embracing a ...

Bangla  Mirror Desk Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman last week attended an Iftar Mahfil in his honour arranged by the UK Unit of the BNP.  The iftar event was principally to meet and greet Bangla journalists from a number of print and electronic media in the UK. The party’s UK unit hosted the Iftar Party at Bric ...

Ex. Councillor of Tower Hamlets Rofique Ahmed’s second daughter Nelema Begum has become a Doctor from King’s College London. On July the 3rd of 2015, Nelema Begum graduated with her MBBS degree from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School. Nelema aspires for a career within Surgery and Dermatology specialising in skin cancer. She has spent time at the St. ...

Bangla Mirror desk As London unites to mark the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, staff at The Royal London Hospital will hold a memorial service at the A&E entrance of the old hospital, to remember those who died and honour the courage of all those affected. At The Royal London, home to world-leading trauma services and London’s Air Ambulance ...

Tower Hamlets Council has been today (July 8) declared the legal owner of the Henry Moore sculpture “Draped Seated Woman” at the High Court. The council has been involved in a lengthy ownership debate with Bromley Council (as successor to the London Residuary Body) who claimed rights to the sculpture in 2012. Responding to the news, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, ...

Eurozone finance ministers say they expect to hear new proposals from Greece after the country voted to reject the terms of an international bailout. Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem described the referendum result as “very regrettable for the future of Greece”. Ministers are to hold emergency talks on Tuesday. Earlier, Greece’s outspoken finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, resigned. He said that eurozone ...

Three generations of one family from Dungiven, County Londonderry, have graduated at the same time with a diploma in Irish. Odhrán Mullan, his aunt, Maria, and 82-year-old grandfather, John, were in the same class at the Ulster University at Magee. John Mullan was the oldest student in the class. Odhrán said he began studying the Irish language after being inspired ...

A United Nations tribunal is to begin deliberations on whether it can hear a legal challenge over territorial claims in the South China Sea. In 2013, the Philippines asked the Permanent Court of Arbitration to declare invalid most of China’s maritime claims in the disputed area. China claims almost the whole of the South China Sea angering several Asian neighbours. ...