The Great British Bake Off final has risen in the TV ratings to be crowned the most watched TV programme of 2015. More than 15 million people tuned in to watch Nadiya Hussain bake her own wedding cake to win the coveted title of Bake Off champion 2016. BBC One controller Charlotte Moore said: “It’s wonderful to see the fabulous ...

The government has decided to cut subsidies to householders installing rooftop solar panels by 65% just days after agreeing to move swiftly to a low-carbon energy future at the climate change conference in Paris. An impact assessment study by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) admits the move could wipe out up to 18,700 of the industry’s 32,000 ...

The European Union wants to reach a “fair deal” for the UK and other EU countries, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said. Mr Juncker was speaking as David Cameron prepares to discuss his reform plans at a summit of EU leaders. Mr Cameron will seek to convince sceptical EU leaders to accept his plans to limit benefits for migrants. ...

MPs have voted to allow fracking for shale gas 1,200m below national parks and other protected sites. The new regulations – which allow drilling from outside the protected areas – were approved by 298 to 261. Opposition parties and campaigners criticised the lack of a Commons debate – and accused ministers of a U-turn as they previously pledged an outright ...

The UK unemployment rate fell to the lowest for nearly 10 years at 5.2% in the three months to October. It was the lowest jobless rate since the three-month period to January 2006, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The number of people out of work fell by 110,000 to 1.71 million between August and October. There were ...

British Muslim Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, also Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s niece, has said she would like to ban US presidential candidate Donald Trump from going to Britain. She made statement while talking to Alan Kasujja of BBC World Service’s Newsday radio programme on Wednesday. Tulip said: “The US presidential candidate’s speech is disgusting.” As a Muslim herself, the Bangladeshi ...

Dr. Mozammel Haque Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” on Monday evening in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attack and hours before a campaign rally on the USS Yorktown, a second world war aircraft carrier berthed near Charleston, South Carolina. Jessica Glenza reported from New York to The ...

Author: Mashuk Ahmed Khan Member of: The University of Oxford Philosophical Society and; The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development                                                                                                                           This article is intended to rebut the fallacy in the survey report published by Tom Newton Dunn (“Tom”) (the political editor of the SUN newspaper, London) in the SUN dated 23 November 2015 on sympathy for “Jihadis” by British ...

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh): The Greatest Leader, Reformer and Finality of Prophethood   Dr. Mozammel Haque This is the month of Rabi al-Awwal when Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him came to this world and spread the message of Islam revealed to him by Archangel Jibrail. This year, I read three books on the life of the Prophet (peace be upon ...

By Professor Raihan Ahmed Topader :: Bangladesh is a developing country that is classified as a next Eleven emerging market and one of the Frontier Five.According to a recent opinion poll,Bangladesh has the second most procapitalist population in the developing world.Between 2004 and 2014,Bangladesh averaged a GDP growth rate of 6%.The economy is increasingly led by export -oriented industrialization.The Bangladesh ...