Bangla Mirror Desk : Sadiq Khan revealed that his campaign to be Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London has the support of 14 London MPs and over 150 councillors. Among the MPs is former Public Accounts Select Committee chair Margaret Hodge, Shadow Justice Minister Andy Slaughter and Rushanara Ali, whom Khan had nominated for deputy leader before she withdrew from ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : An expatriate philanthropist named Jilu Miah has come forward to arrange the supply of electricity in three villages of Nabiganj under Habiganj district in Bangladesh. Those three villages are Gumgumia, Halimpur and Korgaon. Members of the 475 families of these villages are very happy to get the long-awaited connection of electricity supply line.Local school, madrasas and ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Shelim Hussain MBE, owner of the Euro Foods Group and Founder of Kukd.com won the EY London & South Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2015 last night at a ceremony at the Tate Modern. Shelim Hussain MBE is a Bangladeshi-born British entrepreneur. He has worked in restaurants since the age of 11 and started the Euro ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Hundreds of failed asylum seekers in immigration detention centres will be able to apply to be freed on bail, the Home Office is expected to confirm shortly. A ruling by appeal court judges on Friday that a “structurally unfair” fast-track asylum appeals system must be suspended is expected to lead to 300 to 400 asylum seekers, ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Many disabled people in Bangladesh are housebound because they cannot use their legs for whatever reason. These people are often a burden on their families who are already suffering due to extreme poverty. Iqra International has been donating wheelchairs over the past couple of years. The charity organisation has witnessed how the lives of these unfortunate ...

For six days last week, thousands of people protested in the streets in Jinshan, a Shanghai suburb. They believe the government plans to build a chemical plant making paraxylene, or PX, a material used in polyester clothing and plastic bottles. Jinshan’s protests attracted thousands more people every day. They appeared to be tolerated by the authorities until they moved to ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi has “retired”  the army’s chief of staff, the most senior officer removed since rebel fighters  overran large parts of the country last year, his spokesman has said. General Babaker Zebari “has been retired” on Abbadi’s orders, Saad  al-Hadithi told the AFP news agency on Monday, without providing further details. Military sources say a Kurdish general ...

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has urged voters to soundly reject austerity proposals by the troubled country’s lenders, as thousands of his supporters rallied in the capital, Athens. “We ask you to reject it with all the might of your soul, with the greatest margin possible,” he said on Monday. “The greater the participation and the rejection of this deal, ...

At least 30 people have been killed in a military transport plane crash in a residential area of the Indonesian city of Medan, officials say. Local TV reported that the Hercules crashed into two houses and a car and burst into flames. Military spokesman Fuad Basya told the BBC that the plane came down soon after take-off and that there ...

In the ongoing debate over the significance of the Confederate flag in the United States, Indian American Nikki Haley has emerged as a civil rights champion. Haley has come a long way, from being unable to qualify to become either the white or the black pageant queen and facing ethnic slurs from her own party when standing for elections, to ...