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Enam Ali MBE has become the President of British-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries which was held on 20th of April. Monir Ahmed, Managing Director of JMG Air-Cargo was elected as Finance director for the organisation. The bi-yearly General meeting and election of British-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries was held on 20th of April in a hall in East ...

This year, we have the honour of celebrating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th Birthday. We celebrate Her Majesty’s dedication, service and commitment to the United Kingdom, and the Commonwealth. Our celebrations are shared:  Bangladesh is a highly valued member of the Commonwealth family and I am delighted to be part of the festivities in Dhaka in my first year ...

Government attempts to introduce a discriminatory residence test for anyone claiming legal aid have been summarily thrown out in a unanimous supreme court ruling. Halfway through a two-day hearing, the bench of seven justices in the UK’s highest court abruptly halted the case and announced on Monday afternoon that it had found against the Ministry of Justice. The surprise ruling ...

As the country prepares to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Queen — the first reigning monarch to reach the milestone Dynasty: the Queen with Prince Charles, Prince George, Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry at Trooping the Colour last year Rex She once confided that, had she not become Queen, she would have liked simply to be ...

The UK would be “permanently poorer” outside the European Union, Chancellor George Osborne has warned ahead of the in-out vote on membership on 23 June. A Treasury analysis suggests an EU exit could see the UK economy 6% smaller than it would otherwise be by 2030. Mr Osborne said the smaller size of the economy projected in the report was ...

17 APRIL 2016 Theresa May is the In campaign’s secret weapon to win over eurosceptics and will be given an enhanced role in the final two months of the referendum, leading pro-EU strategists have said. Senior figures in the Remain campaign believe the Home Secretary’s record in tackling crime and terrorism gives her an unparalleled position to deliver warnings over Britain’s ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah : On Thursday 14 April the world witnessed the first medical operation streamed live in 360-degree video, allowing medical students and trainee surgeons across the world, including Bangladesh, to view the procedure in real time via website. A surgeon at the Royal London Hospital Whitechapel, Dr Shafi Ahmed said before the operation that he believed the approach, ...

The Great British Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain has revealed that she is to bake the Queen’s 90th birthday cake. The winner of the popular BBC show said she would be serving an orange drizzle cake with orange curd and orange buttercream. Revealing the news on ITV’s Loose Women, Hussain said the cake would be “very citrusy”. She had considered ...

Five people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences as part of an investigation launched after the recent attacks in Paris and Brussels, West Midlands Police say. Three men, aged 26, 40 and 59, and a 29-year-old woman, were arrested in Birmingham on Thursday night. A fourth man, 26, was arrested at Gatwick Airport in the early hours of ...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed Bangladesh-born British MP Rushanara Ali as ‘trade envoy’ for Bangladesh. The appointment underlines the importance the UK attaches to its trade and investment partnership with Bangladesh, the British High Commission in Dhaka says. Ali is the Labour Party MP for the constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow. She was the first person of ...