French National Front leader Marine Le Pen has arrived at a court in Lyon, to answer charges of inciting racial hatred, for comparing Muslims praying in the street to the Nazi occupation. She made the comments at a rally in the city in 2010 when she was fighting for the leadership of the party. Ms Le Pen’s anti-immigration and anti-EU ...

Statement of John Biggs, Executive Mayor, Tower Hamlets I was deeply shocked and disappointed to learn this week of the decision of the London Metropolitan University to relocate out of the Borough. The loss of all the student places in the Aldgate area is a blow, but the decision to relocate the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and ...

Jalalabad Probashi Kalyan Parishad organised a protest meeting demanding the return of visa office from Delhi to Dhaka on 20th October at Impression venue in Milner Road in East London.  52 organisations took part in the meeting. Community activist Ashikur Rahman presided over the meeting and Moinuddin Ansar conducted it where Abdul Halim Chowdhury recited from the Quran in the ...

Tower Hamlets Council opened the borough’s first Coding Club, with partners Kano and the Elysium Foundation on Wednesday, October 14 as part of Digital Inclusion Week (October 12-16) celebrations. The first session saw young people building their own computer, before taking a taster session in coding. The training was led by industry experts Kano at a state of the art ...

Bianibazar Welfare Trust is organising its fund raising dinner and award giving ceremony on Sunday 15th November in Regence Hall in Manor Park in East London. The Trust also decided to organise its biyearly general meeting and election 2016 on Sunday 7th February. To make the abovementioned events successful, an executive committee meeting was held on Sunday 18th October in ...

Sheikh Russell Memorial Association UK celebrated the 51st birthday of Sheikh Russell by cutting a cake. President of the organisation Abdul Ahad Chowdhury and Secretary Shohidur Rahman cut the cake and observed the birthday at a restaurant in West London. Guests who were also present at the event included Vice-president Taraul Islam, Syed Suruk Ali, Joint Secretary Abdul Hafiz Bakkar, ...

To complete the undone works of Syed Mohsin Ali, we all need to support the true friend of Awami League Engineer Forasot Ali, who was with the party in its crisis days.  The speakers attending a meeting organised by people of Rajnagar and Mowlvibazar told this.  The meeting was organised to announce the support for Founder Chairman of NRBC Bank ...

Shahena Uddin, found dead at her home last year had “suffered a regime of brutality and extreme punishment” at the hands of her family for years, a court heard today. The body of Shahena Uddin was found in the bathroom of her house in Leavesden Road, Watford, by paramedics shortly before 9.30am on Saturday, October 11, 2014, after a brother ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: The number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance benefits has dropped dramatically across East London boroughs over the last year, figures show. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS),Tower Hamlets has seen a 36.6 per cent decrease in Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) claimants since September 2014. In real terms, there are 2,299 less claimants within ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: Bangladesh’s migrant workers toil in foreign lands for longer hours compared to peers from other countries, but they earn much less as they lack skills and face a language barrier, depriving themselves of a better future and the country of remittance. Experts on Wednesday called on the government to equip aspirant migrant workers with the right ...