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Mr. Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman (Nasir) has been unanimously elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NRB Bank Limited in its 39th Board meeting held on 27 June 2016. Prior to his new role, he was the Vice Chairman of the Bank. Mr. Rahman a seasoned businessman and well versed in a broad range of trade ventures around the ...

Boris Johnson crashed out of the Tory leadership today after being sensationally “knifed” by key ally Michael Gove. The former Mayor of London abandoned his dream of becoming Prime Minister at 11.53am, seven minutes before the deadline for nominations. After setting out what would have been his manifesto for the Tory leadership, he said: “That is the agenda for the ...

Britain may not leave the EU because no prime minister will want to preside over the break-up of the UK which would follow such a move, according to an expert on the UK constitution. Dr Jo Murkens, an associate professor of law at the London School of Economics, said the EU referendum could be interpreted as a 2-2 draw because ...

Sadiq Khan today held urgent talks with the Government’s Brexit czar about London remaining in the single market. The Mayor met Tory Oliver Letwin, in charge of negotiations with the EU, to discuss keeping the doors open for London-based firms. City Hall insiders said “nothing was off the table” at the Downing Street talks to protect the capital’s status as a financial ...

Ayesha Qureshi MBE was appointed a Justice of Peace JP for the East London Local Justice Area with courts sitting at Stratford and Thames Magistrates’ Courts. Ayesha took her Oath of Allegiance and the Judicial Oath at a swearing-in ceremony held on Tuesday 28th June 2016 held at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Ayesha is the founding editor of the prestigious British Bangladeshi ...

  Bangla Mirror Desk : The number of alleged hate crimes reported to a police website have risen by 57% after the UK voted to leave the European Union. The 85 reports to True Vision between Thursday and Sunday came as the Prime Minister called for racially-motivated attacks in the wake of the vote must be “stamped out”. Gwent Police ...

  Bangla Mirror Desk: Labour MPs are expected to announce a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership after a motion of no confidence in him was supported by three-quarters of the parliamentary party. Two possible candidates are the party’s deputy leader Tom Watson and ex-shadow business secretary Angela Eagle. But Mr Corbyn has said he would not “betray” his supporters by ...

In a recent statement Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs said: “Whilst we don’t currently know what wider impact Brexit will have, the reports of a short term rise in racially motivated abuse in some areas is very concerning. Thankfully we have not yet seen any evidence of a spike in these incidents in Tower Hamlets but I have asked ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: European leaders insisted Britain must allow freedom of movement if it wanted to access the single market during their first meeting in Brussels without the UK. “There will be no single market a la carte,” said Donald Tusk, the EU Council president, as the group met to set out the terms of engagement for any divorce talks ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Boris Johnson and Theresa May will battle it out to prove to the Conservative Party that they are the leader to reunite the country in the wake of the Brexit vote, as the race to become the next Prime Minister starts in earnest. Both candidates have spent a frantic 48 hours in Westminster mustering support, with nominations ...