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Tax credit cuts SCRAPED

Bangla Mirror Desk :: George Osborne has backed down on controversial tax credit cuts which were due to cost millions of working families thousands each year. The chancellor had promised to modify his plan to cut tax credits – cuts that would have cost 3m low-income families an average of £1,000 a year. He was facing growing pressure from Tory ...

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Tower Hamlets Mayor opposes government funding cuts

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, has written to the government setting out the impact that a withdrawal of welfare funding could have to families on low incomes. Evidence was given to the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into local welfare safety nets, showing that households dependent on benefits were an average of £32 per week worse since welfare ...

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Train passengers stand up against racial abuse of Muslim woman

Bangla Mirror Desk :: A Muslim woman has thanked the public for standing up to a man who racially abused her and her sister on a packed Newcastle train. Ruhi Rahman, 23, said she was threatened when the abuser told other passengers she could bomb the train, as she sat with her sister. Other passengers on the on the Tyne ...

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PLAIN TRUTH

MCB’s One-day Conference on Terrorism and Extremism: How Should British Muslims Respond?   Dr. Mozammel Haque :: Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), UK’s largest Muslim umbrella body with over 500 affiliated national, regional and local organisations, mosques, charities and schools, organised a one-day conference on ‘Terrorism and Extremism: How should British Muslims respond?’ held at Regent Hall, Salvation Army, London, on Thursday, ...

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Muslims Around the World Condemn Paris Terror Attacks

Dr. Mozammel Haque Before the Daesh or the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), as it is known, had even claimed responsibility for the shootings and explosions that killed more than 120 in Paris on Friday night, Muslims around the world took to social media to condemn the perpetrators and defend Islam as a faith of nonviolence, ...

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November 2015 Paris Attack

By Fatema Miah :: We all are aware of the recent incident of Paris Attack via media news. On the evening of 13 November 2015 there in Paris a series of attacks took place.  It is very disturbing and sad that 129 people were killed and further nearly 500 reported injured in the multiple attacks.  The attacks what is understood ...

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Dr Fahmida Khatun :: Paris was preparing for November 30, not November 13. Both dates reflect threats of two different natures to the human civilisation. Both have similar origins. They are the creations of developed nations manifested in two different forms. But victims are innocent people in both cases. The horrific attacks in Paris have left the people of France ...

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Spending Review: Schools to get ‘fair funding’ formula

Plans to redress differences in school funding across England are expected to be outlined in the Autumn Statement. Change will begin in 2017-18 after consultation on the details, which could happen in early 2016, George Osborne is likely to say on Wednesday. This would begin to reduce historical variations in funding per pupil between different areas of England. School budgets ...

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Defence review: ‘Strike brigades’ to be created by 2025

Two 5,000-strong “strike brigades” that can be rapidly deployed are to be created by 2025 to help the UK respond to “diverse” threats, the PM is to say. David Cameron will give details of an additional £12bn of equipment spending, as he outlines the Strategic Defence and Security Review in the Commons. The extra spending will include a new fleet ...

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Two Hanged, Together

Mojaeed walked separate gallows; jail authorities go for quick execution after president rejects clemency petitions of war criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed were hanged early today for committing crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War. The two walked the gallows around 12:55am together at Dhaka Central Jail amid tight security, Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin, ...

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