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Improved GCSE results across Tower Hamlets

  Students in Tower Hamlets achieved great success in their GCSE results with improvements across all the key measures. 85 per cent of Tower Hamlets students achieved grades 9-4 in English, equivalent to the old A to C grades, (an improvement of three per cent on 2018), while in maths 74 per cent of students achieved grades 9-4, up four ...

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UK government to ask Queen to suspend parliament

The Queen will be asked by the UK government to suspend Parliament days after MPs return to work – and a matter of weeks before the Brexit deadline. The BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, says it will make way for Boris Johnson’s new administration to hold a Queen’s Speech – laying out the government’s future plans – on 14 October. ...

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Chinese companies keen to invest in Bangladesh

A group of Chinese companies on Tuesday showed interest in investing in different sectors in Bangladesh. They expressed the interest at a seminar on China-Bangladesh Investment Facilities organised by multinational professional services network, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) at a hotel in the capital. William Yuan, Partner of Global China Business Network, said they are looking for investment opportunities in Bangladesh.“There’re a lot ...

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Brexit: Job of Parliament is to ‘get this thing done’ – Johnson

“The job of everybody in Parliament” is to deliver Brexit, the PM has said at the end of the G7 summit in France. Boris Johnson also said he was “marginally more optimistic” about striking a new Brexit deal with the EU. But he refused to be drawn on whether he would suspend Parliament to stop it preventing a no-deal exit. ...

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Is India swinging  aerosol-mace  in all direction? Mr Zakir Naiks unfit speeches politically  incorrect though not to persecution level. 

Fatema Miah: Kashmir issue turned into worldwide matter since the article 370 revoked by Indian Government earlier this month Aug ’19.  Pakistan got a clear chance  about Kashmir. There the Kashmiri people, want to be independent or Pakistan in this the entire world is engaged in. Pakistan making Kashmir as Muslims dutiful act Jihad and inciting Bangladeshi Muslims to react ...

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Middle East peace is an Uncertain

Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   While the U.S. convened the workshop in Bahrain, Israelis and Palestinians had more pressing issues to deal with than paying lip service to an event that failed to address the myriad challenges on the ground. The Palestinians are in the midst of an economic crisis. The PA has, for the third time, rejected Israel’s clearance revenues, ...

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UK weather: Hottest late August bank holiday weekend on record

Bournemouth beach enjoy the record-breaking temperatures It has been the hottest late August bank holiday weekend ever – with temperatures reaching 33.3C (91.94F) in west London. The Met Office confirmed the new record temperature, which was set at Heathrow. It beats the previous record of 31.5C (88.7F), set in 2001 and again at Heathrow. The hot temperatures are expected to ...

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Donald Trump: UK is losing the ‘anchor round its ankle’

Trump said Boris Johnson ‘was the right man for the job’ of delivering Brexit President Trump has promised a “very big trade deal” with the UK, saying its departure from the EU will be like losing “an anchor round the ankle”. Mr Trump was speaking after a breakfast meeting with Mr Johnson at the G7 summit in Biarritz in France. ...

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National Mourning Day observed by All European Bangabandhu Porisad

Bangladesh’s National Mourning Day (Jatiyo Shok Dibash) was observed by the All European Bangabandhu Porisad (AEBP) on 17 August 2019 at Harkness House Community Hall, Christian St, East London. The meeting was presided by AEBP’s Chairman Dr. Faizul Islam and conducted by AEBP’s General Secretary S M Mustafizur Rahman with the former General Secretary of UK Awami League Prof. Abul ...

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UEL architecture students shortlisted in Architects’ Journal contest

    Two architecture students from the University of East London (UEL) have been shortlisted for the prestigious Architects’ Journal Student Prize. Undergraduate Nisha Anwar and postgraduate Ze Rou Yong were selected from a pool of their peers representing 51 architecture schools accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The competition will name its top three winners in ...

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