Fatema Miah:   Eid Saeed, Eid Mubarak and Hajj Mubarak to Worlds Al Hujjajs.  Arafat today Saturday the 10th and Eid tomorrow Sunday the 11th  of August 2019. This is the last lunar calendar Dual Hujja Islamic month.  Millions of Muslims from across the world goes to perform pilgrim one of  the  pillars of Islam, the Hajj. Ya Allah accept my ...

By Shofi Ahmed: Books are written and films made with the perspective that it’s a machine-generated dream world we live in. Often demonstrated by a popular cultural meme red pill and blue pill. It’s a metaphor representing a choice between the red pill and blue pill. The red pill represents an uncertain future— but it would free from the enslaving ...

Jeremy Corbyn has urged the UK’s most senior civil servant to intervene to prevent a no-deal Brexit happening during a general election campaign. The Labour leader is concerned that the UK could leave the EU on 31 October, while a campaign is ongoing and before a new government is elected. He has written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill saying ...

The British economy shrank in the second quarter for the first time in six and a half years as Brexit uncertainties weighed on business investment and firms reduced their stockpiling of goods after Britain was granted an extension to its departure from the European Union, official figures showed Friday. The decline, the first since the fourth quarter of 2012, was ...

Boris Johnson has instructed government departments to devise a new fast-track visa system to attract leading scientists to work in the UK. The Prime Minister plans to remove the cap on so-called tier one visas for highly skilled migrants. This cap currently restricts numbers to 2,000 a year. Mr Johnson also wants to make the system easier and quicker to ...

Beijing, Aug 8 : China’s lunar rover Yutu-2 has driven 271 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration on the virgin territory. Both the lander and the rover of the Chang’e-4 probe switched to its dormant mode for the lunar night on Wednesday (Beijing time), according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of ...

Tower Hamlets Council has achieved an 18 per cent reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions compared to last year as its drive to become carbon neutral by 2025 continues. Progress has been tracked as part of a carbon management plan, which commits the council to a 60 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020, potentially saving more than £2 ...

  Applications worth £10 million received for a £2.7m funding pot. Over 50 local community groups take a share of the Tower Hamlets Local Community Fund. Council commits to dedicated community funding, which many others have ended. Recognition of the dedication and commitment of local organisations to serve the community. The scheme will start to deliver from later in the ...

  Traders and shop owners in Tower Hamlets are taking their traditional sales technique online in an effort to attract new customers. Over the past three months, the council’s high streets and town centres team has arranged for 16 businesses in Watney Market to take part in social media and online marketing training. The programme, delivered by Social Streets, saw ...

Cabinet minister Michael Gove says the EU “seem to be refusing to negotiate with the UK” over a new Brexit deal. Mr Gove, who is responsible for no-deal planning, said he was “deeply saddened” that Brussels was, in his words, saying “no, we don’t want to talk”. It comes after the EU said UK demands to remove the Irish backstop ...