John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, held his first Cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon (28th July). Mental health services, re-procurement of waste management contracts and a report on the council’s budget were among some of the items on the agenda for discussion. The Cabinet agreed savings of £340,000 for the year 2015/16 as a result of a salary sacrifice from Mayor Biggs and ...

Following David Cameron’s speech about tackling Islamist extremism, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has raised concerns about the approach the Government is taking. He said: ‘When David Cameron speaks as he does, there is a risk people will be labelled in a way that is inappropriate and wrong. In Tower Hamlets we have a relatively peaceful borough – ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah :: The Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee, who is on a five day visit, was given a business reception in London on Monday 27 July at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office following a bilateral meeting. Work and Pensions Minister Priti Patel, British Prime Minister’s Indian Diaspora Champion met with the Chief Minister of West ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: It’s a tough time for international students in the UK, and their plight has only been made worse by home secretary Theresa May’s recent announcement of changes to the immigration rules. In a recent confidential letter, May wrote that universities should “develop sustainable funding models that are not so dependent on international students”. And business secretary ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: MP for Bethnal Green and Bow Rushanara Ali MP have supported strongly the Labour’s amendment on Government’s Welfare Bill. After Rushanara Ali voted for Labour’s amendment to the Government’s Welfare Bill, she said: “As well as cutting incentives to work, this Government’s Welfare Bill will mean more than 3 million struggling families will be worse off ...

Abdal Ullah has been selected  at the Poplar & Limehouse CLP all members  meeting held on Tuesday 21st July. There was an exceptional high turnout on the night.  Abdal received over 51% of the total votes in the first round with 94 votes, beating Howard Dawber the Strategic Director of Canary Wharf Group who came second with 40 votes. Abdal ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: After holding Run for Your Mosque campaign successfully for last three years, this year East London Mosque is organising Muslim Charity Run. This charity fundraising campaign will take place on 9th August at 10 o’clock morning at Victoria Park in East London. The registration for this charity run is going on now.  People who are interested ...

David Cameron says business deals worth more than £750m ($1.2bn) will be made during his tour of South East Asia. Mr Cameron is to be accompanied by 31 British business leaders on the trade mission, which starts in Indonesia. The UK prime minister says he wants to forge links with the area’s rapidly growing markets for British goods and services ...

By Fatema Miah, Solihull UK. On the 8th of July a 13/14 year old boy known as Razon was murdered in a village called Kumar Gao of Sylhet district near Jalabad Police Station.  The victim’s full name mentioned to be Samiul Alam Razon, son of Azizur Rahman of Khando Gao in Shador sub-district of Greater Sylhet District in Bangladesh. It ...

By Syed Badrul Ahsan Sometime at the end of July 1975, Tajuddin Ahmad came by ominous news. Elements in the army were busy conspiring to remove the government of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Worse, they planned to assassinate the Father of the Nation. Tajuddin, at that point outside government, having resigned in October of the previous year, rushed to Bangabandhu’s ...