Bangla Mirror Desk :: UK visiting General Secretary of Awami League and Public Administration Minister of Bangladesh, Syed Ashraful Islam has said that minister of Bangladeshi origin in the UK is now matter of time.  There will be a time soon, when there will be a minister of Bangladesh origin in UK government. Syed Ashraf told this in a felicitation ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: The general reaction in east London to last weekend’s attack on the Cereal Killer Café by anti-gentrification protesters has been neither anger nor approval, but bafflement. “Everyone agreed it was the wrong target,” said William Exley, who works in a shop in Boxpark, a pop-up shopping mall that fits well in trendy Shoreditch. “I don’t think ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: Election of three Bangladeshi MPs in British Parliament has been seen has a huge success in the annual conference really of Labour Friends of Bangladesh, where the participants also expressed of their hope of electing many more Bangladeshi MPs in future. Along with many members of Labour Friends of Bangladesh, senior leaders of Labour part were ...

Bangla Mirror Desk Sadiq Khan, Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London, on Wednesday pledged to turn next May’s battle for City Hall into “a referendum on London’s housing crisis”. On the final day of Labour’s conference in Brighton, Sadiq Khan said the housing crisis is “the greatest challenge facing our city that now affects all Londoners, regardless of age or ...

Jeremy Corbyn has told British voters they don’t have to accept that inequality and injustice are inevitable – and things “can and must change”. In his first conference speech after becoming Labour leader, Mr Corbyn vowed to create a “kinder politics, a more caring society”. But he also attacked David Cameron’s “shocking broken promises” and said Labour would “challenge austerity”. ...

Jeremy Corbyn has avoided a showdown over his support for scrapping Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons at the Labour conference in Brighton. The highly anticipated vote had been expected to take place on Wednesday. But the motion failed to get the support it needed from activists in a ballot selecting the issues to be debated this week in Brighton. Mr Corbyn ...

Tulip Siddiq, niece of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh has been made state minister for culture, media and sports in Labour Party shadow cabinet. Newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbin included Bangladesh-origin British MP Tulip as a junior member in the cabinet. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s special assistant Mahbubul Haque Shakil confirmed the matter to media. In a ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah Conservative Friends of Bangladesh (CFOB) UK will this week lead a delegation of twenty three volunteers on a social action project in Bangladesh. The six-day mission, under the Project Shapla banner, will see the group working at a number of BRAC project sites in Dhaka as well as in Sylhet. Led by Conservative MP for St Albans, ...

At least 717 pilgrims from around the world were killed on Thursday in a crush outside the Muslim holy city of Makkah, Saudi authorities said, in the worst disaster to strike the annual Hajj pilgrimage for 25 years. At least 863 others were injured at Mina, a few kilometres east of Makkah, when two large groups of pilgrims arrived together ...

Four in five squatters prosecuted in London since the introduction of legislation making it a criminal offence were from overseas, figures show. Metropolitan Police statistics reveal that 211 people — including two 65-year-olds and 20 teenagers — have been taken to court for squatting in a residential building since the law came into effect in September 2012. They include 43 ...