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North West London Bangla Academy celebrated the International Mother Language day by organising a discussion meeting as well as hand-writing and drawing competition for the kids. The event was held on the 22nd of February at a venue in Colindale with the presence of Barnet councillor Zakia Jubairi as the chief guest. Convenor of North West London Bangla Academy Shah ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: People from all walks of life thronged Shaheed Minars across Bangladesh on 21 February to pay tribute to Language Movement martyrs marking Amar Ekushey. Programmes including discussions and coloruful cultural sessions nationwide and in Bangladesh missions abroad reminisced the supreme sacrifice made by Salam, Barkat, Rafiq, Jabbar, Shafiur and others for Bangla, say messages received on ...

Bangla Mirror editor Abdul Karim Goni said expatriates of Jagannathpur are leading in different sectors of businesses including Bengali media in the UK. He was exchanging his views at a reception event on Monday the 22nd of February. Jagannathpur Press Club and jagannathpur24.com jointly organised the reception event for Bangla Mirror editor Abdul Karim Goni and the senior reporter of ...

Government restrictions are unlawfully preventing “something like half the working population” from any possibility of marrying a foreign spouse and bringing them to UK, the Supreme Court has been told. The highest court in the land is hearing legal challenges to immigration rules that require a UK sponsor to have a minimum gross annual income of £18,600 before they can ...

Editor of UK based newspaper Bangla Mirror and online news portal Sylhet Mirror Abdul Karim Goni said that the new dimension in journalism created by the Sylheti journalists in UK is praiseworthy. While exchanging views with journalists at Sylhet Press Club on Thursday the 18th of February, he also said that journalists are the pioneers of our society. Chief Editor ...

Zac Goldsmith believes he has an “ethical obligation” to demolish London’s council estates, he said on Tuesday. The Conservative candidate for mayor told a hustings organised by the property industry charity Land Aid that the city’s post-war era housing estates are “past their use-by date” and must be “regenerated” in order to tackle London’s housing crisis. He pointed to research ...

UK Based Weekly Bangla Mirror, English Online Portal Sylhet Mirror Editor and Chief Editor of  Who’s Who Abdul Karim Goni Said new Dimension created by Sylheti Journalist in UK is Praiseworthy. I work Life long for the Welfare of the society. I need help from people for the socio-economic Upliftment of our Society. He said Journalist are the pioneer of ...

George Osborne’s ratings as Chancellor have turned negative amid a sharp fall in confidence in the  economy, it was revealed today. For the first time since the economic recovery began in spring 2013, more people are dissatisfied with his  performance than satisfied, research by Ipsos MORI for the Evening Standard has found. The setback comes at a time of intensifying ...

Talks on reform of the UK’s place in the EU continued in the early hours after Downing Street said there was “real hard work to do overnight”. European Council President Donald Tusk said there had been “some progress” on the first day of the Brussels summit, but “a lot still remains to be done”. He began a series of meetings ...

The proportion of young women smoking cigarettes has risen for the first time in almost 10 years. About 21% of women aged between 16 and 34 currently smoke cigarettes, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics, up from 20% the previous year. Smoking among young women had been slowly declining since 2008, when the figure was 27%. The ...