Boris Johnson sought to suspend Parliament to avoid the risk of MPs “frustrating or damaging” his Brexit plans, the Supreme Court has heard. Lawyers for campaigners challenging the suspension said there was “strong evidence” the PM saw MPs “as an obstacle” and wanted to “silence” them. But a government lawyer said the PM was “entitled” to suspend Parliament, and it ...

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets has backed a new campaign from the homelessness charity Crisis, calling for the government to urgently address the gap between Local Housing Allowance rates and private sector rents. Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates are set by the government and are used to calculate Housing Benefit for tenants renting from private landlords. LHA rates were created ...

  Extra places available for affordable holiday scheme for October half term. Record attendance at summer holiday schemes. Ofsted has rated a Tower Hamlets summer holiday scheme as good following an unannounced inspection last month. On one of the busiest days of the summer programme, Ofsted visited as 230 children were attending the scheme, which also included two trips to ...

Projects to support future young leaders and transform a community garden among the successful bids. A total of 13 local community projects and thousands of residents are set to benefit from almost £45,000 funding announced as part of Tower Hamlets Council’s Small Grants Fund (SGF). The fund was agreed last year to support mainly small scale community projects with one ...

  Fatema Miah: UK have plenty of matters on the table to deal with; home affairs, Brexit is a sharp point, the budget, decision making about the primary services to corporal and concern of Suitable Ministers to party candidates.  Simultaneously, UK must be careful about India and Pakistan political rivalry and it’s very  crutial and an alert matter that Britain ...

  Fatema Miah: Empire and power abuse went on together, it was power seeking a norm as a desire in the past centuries, what marked horrible chapters of serving cruelty against victims and history been written with pride of being abusively power exercising by some to their victims. Here,  let’s talk about Libya. In the past centuries, Battles and bloodshed ...

Apple embarks on an epic court battle with the EU on Tuesday, fighting the commission’s landmark order that the iPhone-maker reimburse Ireland 13 billion euros ($14 billion) in back taxes. Lawyers for the world’s biggest company will face EU officials in a Luxembourg court, challenging a decision that CEO Tim Cook slammed at the time as “total political crap”. The ...

Although the government has lifted the ban on raw jute export, traders here are yet to start collecting jute fearing such a ban again, causing losses to them. The traders said the jute export witnessed a sharp fall last year due to the ban on the export of uncut Bangla tossa rejection (BTR) and Bangla white rejection (BWR) varieties of ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah: In a petition dated 10 September UK based Campaign for the Protection of Religious Minorities in Bangladesh (CPRMB) draws British Anne Main MP’s attention to the sufferings of the minorities in Bangladesh. The petition goes on to say Hindus are the minority in Bangladesh, and they are leaving Bangladesh in thousands according to the census of Bangladesh ...

  Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   Despite a string of stinging defeats in Parliament, and the painful, public resignation of his own brother, Prime Minister Boris Johnson continued his passionate push for an early general election he hopes would help him deliver Brexit by Oct. 31.Johnson cast his quest to bust Britain out of the European Union in defiant and populist ...