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Inaugural Asian Restaurant & Takeaway Awards (ARTA) To pay homage to the UK’s finest Curry Houses

The inaugural Asian Restaurant and Takeaway Awards (ARTA), the most prestigious celebration of South Asian cuisine in the UK, will be taking place on 30th September 2018 at InterContinental London – The O2. ARTA 2018 will welcome a guest list of the nation’s most respected curry restaurateurs alongside MP’s, dignitaries and celebrities as they collectively honour the achievements of the industry. The ceremony will behosted by television ...

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Leading the way in tackling hate

Tower Hamlets Council’s ‘No Place for Hate’ campaign has scooped a prestigious award at the National No2H8 Crime Awards 2018 for its work in tackling hatred, intolerance and prejudice. TV presenter and social commentator, June Sarpong (MBE) gave the council the Upstanding Organisation Award 2018 for making “a significant impact on countering intolerance, hate and bigotry” in the borough. The ...

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London Bangla Press Club enjoys annual picnic party

Bangla Mirror Desk: Members of London Bangla Press club enjoyed their annual picnic party at Fairlop Water Country Park.  Event though there were occasional rain and shower, but it could not stop the members to enjoy the day.   Members of the organisation joined the party with their family and friends. There were marriage anniversary, farewell, gossips, photo sessions and raffle draw among ...

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Human resources (HR): Philosophy

By Taslim Ahammad: Many companies view HR as merely administrative process, with little or no strategic impact based on HR philosophy. While in a few organisations, it has shaped up reasonably followed by the philosophy. Most of them do not understand the HR philosophy and those few who do are unable to push the matter as they are caught up ...

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google join fight to prevent famine

Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organisations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative unveiled.   Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many lives already have been lost, the tech firms “will use the predictive power of data to trigger ...

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Labour conference: deselecting MPs to be made easier

Conference is taking place in Liverpool Labour’s annual conference has voted to make it easier for local party members to deselect sitting MPs. Until now, Labour MPs only faced a reselection contest if 50% of a constituency’s local branches and affiliated unions voted for it in a so-called “trigger ballot”. Delegates in Liverpool voted for that threshold to be reduced ...

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UK’s Labour party ponders supporting new Brexit referendum

London, Sep 23 : Britain’s Labour Party opened its annual conference on Sunday facing a huge choice — whether to change policy and call for a new referendum that could halt the country’s departure from the European Union. The support of the main opposition party would be a major boost to campaigners for a second vote on Brexit. Ever since ...

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British ‘pharmacist who joined IS’ is detained in Syria

A British man who says he is a pharmacist from Birmingham has been detained in Syria on suspicion of being a member of the Islamic State group. Kurdish forces captured Anwar Miah in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour a month ago.  A video of his capture has surfaced on Twitter and shows Mr Miah saying he has lived in ...

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US ports fear they will be big losers in trade war

America’s ports are fearful that they will be big losers as the escalating trade fight between Washington and Beijing bites into business. The anxiety is that tit-for-tat tariffs between the two economic superpowers will crimp shipments, denting port revenues.   Kurt Nagle, head of the American Association of Port Authorities, called the state of play “concerning,” following the latest back-and-forth ...

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9 terrorists, 7 soldiers killed in anti-terrorism operation in Pakistan

The Pakistani army said late Saturday that nine terrorists and seven soldiers were killed in an anti-terrorist operation carried out in North Waziristan district in northwestern part of the country. An army statement said that the security forces killed nine terrorists in clashes when the security forces launched an intelligence-based operation in Gharlamai and Spera Kunar Algad in North Waziristan, ...

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