Emdad Rahman The hugely popular Disability Sports Day Festival 2016 has been successfully delivered by Vallance CSA for an 8th consecutive year. Junel Uddin – Senior Sports & Project Manager said: “The 2016 festival was described by participants as one of the best they had attended.” Over 250 registered participants took part and guests included Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John ...
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Hawks trapped as Scintilla take
Emdad Rahman : Scintilla CC were in no mood to take prisoners as Hawks were skittled out 140/10 from 36 overs at the Jubilee Sports Ground. Top scorers for Hawks were Siddique 28, and Osman 24. Captain Shaha Riadh and Ayaz Karim took 3 wickets each. Rifat Mahmud took 2 with one apiece for Morshed and Foysal. Scintilla reached 141/2 ...
Read More »Barts Health NHS Trust has joined forces with local Muslim religious leaders to encourage residents to have a healthy and memorable Ramadan.
This year, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar starts on or around 7th June 2016 and lasts until 6th July 2016. Adults are required to fast from dawn to sunset, but those in poor health or who have deteriorating health, the very elderly and mothers who are breastfeeding are exempt from doing so. Residents who suffer from any chronic ...
Read More »Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK: have you registered to have your say in the historic EU referendum?
By the British Government’s Minister of State for the Commonwealth: Rt Hon Hugo Swire MP In just a few weeks, on Thursday 23 June, the UK will vote in an historic referendum to decide whether it should remain in or leave the European Union. I firmly believe that the UK will be stronger, safer, and better-off staying in ...
Read More »Migration can transform art and culture, argues Birmingham Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Migration from Asia and the Middle East to Western Europe could provide the kind of vibrant boost to arts and culture as movement from India and Pakistan did to UK food tastes over the past 40 years, a leading artist and academic has said. Professor Bashir Makhoul, practising artist and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Birmingham City University, believes the movement of ...
Read More »Peanut curry death: Restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman jailed
A “reckless” restaurant owner has been jailed for six years for the manslaughter of a customer who had an allergic reaction to a curry. Paul Wilson, 38, suffered a severe anaphylactic shock in January 2014 after eating a takeaway containing peanuts from the Indian Garden in Easingwold, North Yorkshire. Mohammed Zaman, 52, was found guilty at Teesside Crown Court. The ...
Read More »10 Reasons the Royal Mail should never have been privatised
By Rayhan Ahmed Topader : The government has sold a 13 per cent stake to institutions, and gifted its remaining 1 per cent stake to eligible Royal Mail staff, meaning the company is now fully privatised for the first time in its 500-year history.I think that decision was wrong because Royal Mail is not only profitable business. It’s very helpful ...
Read More »British Bangladeshis Have Come of Age – Should Bangladesh Take Notice?
Najrul Khasru (Part 1) It was an evening in May 1978. A 25 year old Bangladeshi man was walking his way to the bus stop after finishing work as a textile factory worker in Brick Lane, East London. He was chased along Brick Lane by three young racist thugs and was stabbed to death near Aldgate Tube Station. His ...
Read More »CURRY BUSINESS ; WHY I AM A PROUD OWNER OF A CURRY HOUSE
by Imran Chowdhury : Curry business in the United Kingdom is the trade mark and signature traits of the sprawling Bangladeshi Bengali community. The architect of the business have been very successful in making the curry a life style food of the British nation. It has come a long way from it’s humble beginning in the mid fifties of the ...
Read More »How Corporate Governance practice in Saudi Arabia and Anglo-American model
Corporate governance has existed since antiquity, when tribal communes supervised the activities of tribal members to ensure that they conformed to tribal norms. In the agricultural communities that followed, family councils performed family-centric monitoring for the same reasons as the tribes. The Roman Empire appointed municipal bodies to manage public affairs and compel administrators to be transparent in order to ...
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