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BBCCI election to be held on 20th April

The bi-yearly General meeting and election of British-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries will be held on 2oth of April.  Candidates have already started submitting their candidacy and 13th April would be the last day for withdrawal of candidacy.  On 13th of April BBCCI will also finalise the nominations of the candidates. The board meeting will be held at BBCCI ...

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Taxpayer ‘pays for Samantha Cameron’s £53,000- a-year fashion adviser’

‘When tough decisions have to be made, I’m not sure the wife of the prime minister needs a special advisor’, says MP Samantha Cameron has a personal stylist who is employed on a civil servant’s salary Reuters The salary of a “special adviser” who helps Samantha Cameron with her social diary and fashion style is being paid for by the ...

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Married couple who set up bogus charities and flew hundreds of Bangladeshis to Britain to claim £1.6million in benefits are facing jail

Chowdhury Muyeed, 51, and Asma Khanam, 47, to be sentenced on April 8  Essex couple set up fake companies to pay wages to Bangladeshi migrants ‘Sophisticated’ rouse allowed the migrants to claim housing benefit Accomplice Habibur Rahman, 36, also faces jail for similar con Judge Nigel Peters, QC, said it was ‘housing benefit fraud on a huge scale’   A married ...

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EU to change European asylum rules

Bangla Mirror Desk : EU authorities in Brussels will unveil long-awaited proposals to overhaul  European asylum rules, following the arrival of more than 1.1 million refugees and migrants last year. The rules, known as the Dublin regulation and dating back to the 1990s,  require refugees to seek asylum in the first country they arrive in. This system has been under ...

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Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury MP is coming to the UK

Bangla Mirror Desk: Panel Speaker of Bangladesh Parliament, Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury MP is coming to the UK for a brief personal visit.  He will be arriving in Heathrow Airport on 13th April by Biman. He will attend as Chief Guest in meetings organised by ex-residents of Sylhet 3 (Dakhin Surma, Fenchuganj and part of Balaganj), which will be held ...

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Who’s Who 2015 on Channel S

Channel  S is broadcasting British Bangladeshi Who’s Who 2015 gala dinner and award ceremony on Sunday 10th of April at 3pm on Sky Channel  814.  A repeat broadcast of the this event will ake place  on Friday 15th of April 11pm. British Bangladesh Who’s Who is an annual publication and a celebration of all individuals from various sectors who are ...

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Who’s Who 2015 on Channel S

Channel  S is broadcasting British Bangladeshi Who’s Who 2015 gala dinner and award ceremony on Sunday 10th of April at 3pm on Sky Channel  814.  A repeat broadcast of the this event will again take place  on Friday 15th of April 11pm. British Bangladesh Who’s Who is an annual publication and a celebration of all individuals from various sectors who ...

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Sadiq Khan eight points ahead of Zac Goldsmith in new poll

Zac Goldsmith faces the political fight of his life to become Mayor after Sadiq Khan extended his lead among first preference votes to eight points, according to a new poll. With less than five weeks before polling day, the exclusive Opinium survey for the Standard showed growing first preference support for Labour contender Mr Khan particularly in inner London. Conservative ...

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Steel crisis: David Cameron urged to take personal charge of talks

Union leaders are calling on David Cameron to take personal charge of talks to prevent the closure of Tata Steel’s Port Talbot plant. They have accused Business Secretary Sajid Javid of “taking his eye off the ball” and say the PM needs “to get a grip” of the negotiations. It comes ahead of emergency talks in London between unions and ...

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