State Minister for Finance and Planning M A Mannan MP officially inaugurated Ayub Nagar Residential Area project on 8th January at a civic felicitation at Dular  Bazar in South Chatok.  The Ayub Nagar Residential area is project initiated by UK residing Joynal Abedin who has also came up with the slogan “my village, my town”. At the civic felicitation, the ...

Tower Hamlets Council is the highest new local government entry on the UK’s Stonewell Index. The council has been named as one of the best employers for lesbian, gay and bi-sexual staff. The organisation was praised for recognising LGBT heroes across different strands of diversity and using creative mechanisms to work with the  community and celebrate diversity. The council entered ...

Chef online organised a road show in Sussex as part of it’s contentious road shows in different cities in the UK.  This time it was held in Bexhill city in Sussex on 25th January. Community leader and local businessman Abdul Mokit presided over the Road Show which was held in a local restaurant. Guests who addressed the audience included Managing ...

Rushanara Ali MP attacked the Government’s recent decision to replace maintenance grants with loans for lower income students through the back door using a statutory instrument which avoids proper parliamentary scrutiny. Despite substantial opposition the Government used an obscure parliamentary committee to push through their changes to higher education funding on 14 January 2016. This denied debate to a policy ...

Tower Hamlets Mayor, John Biggs, held his first Mayoral Assembly at Swanlea School on January 21. More than 80 residents, business owners and voluntary sector partners attended to feedback ideas and concerns about the Whitechapel Vision; work being done to create jobs for local people; support for businesses and local anti-social behaviour issues. Discussion was particularly lively around affordable housing ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: David Cameron has been accused of using inflammatory language about refugees after referring to people in camps at Calais as a “bunch of migrants”. The prime minister made the comments in the House of Commons on Wednesday as he criticised Jeremy Corbyn’s call for Britain to do more to help refugees in French camps. Pointing at ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: Curry has been one of Britain’s most loved foods since the 1940s. Currently it is a huge industry generating over £4.1 billion for the economy with over 15,000 outlets in the UK from big cities to the smallest of villages. Yet the industry is struggling to survive weighed down by staff shortages, immigration laws, competition from ...

Newly appointed British High Commissioner in Dhaka Alison Blake recently said that her country would continue to work with the government, political parties, democratic institutions, and other stakeholders to help ‘flourish democracy’ in Bangladesh. Blake, the first female High Commissioner from UK to Bangladesh, made the remark while talking to journalists at her first interaction with media after taking over ...

Emdad Rahman : Team Legend played in The Peoples FA Cup today at The Norwegian Playing Fields at Power League Newham. To be honest we turned up to have a bit of fun and do our bit to promote and support grassroots football. All our team are aged 38-42. Most have grey, receding hairlines and expanding paunches. The game plan ...

Emdad Rahman ::   This weekend Tower Hamlets’ Oakland’s Weightlifters had the first of a A three-part London Junior Weightlifting Series hosted at Crystal Palace in London saw Oaklands Weightlifters take part at a crucial event hosted by the school. The Oaklands Weightlifters (the Tower Hamlets Youth and Junior Weightlifting Club) fielded 3 athletes; Taslima Begum, Ubayda Choudhury, and Afreen ...