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Bangla Mirror News :: Internet and communications companies will be required to store details of people’s web usage for up to a year under new spying laws revealed by Home Secretary, Theresa May. Mrs May addressed MPs on Wednesday by presenting the draft Investigatory Powers Bill that will monitor communications between citizens. In 2012, Ms May presented a similar bill, ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah :: The Netherlands based European Bengali diaspora organisation BASUG (Bangladesh Support Group) celebrated its 10th anniversary with a day long programme on Sat 31 Oct 2015 at The Hague, the Netherlands. The day long programme started with an international conference on the ‘Role and Contribution of Migrants and their Remittance in Sustainable Development’ that included a photo exhibition, ...

Rushanara Ali MP will join the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee. The Energy and Climate Change Committee is made up of 11 MPs from across the main political parties. It is empowered to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Commenting on her election to the Committee, Rushanara said: ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: George Osborne is preparing to bow to bow to pressute to soften the impact of tax credit cuts to resolve standoff with the House of Lords over his proposed cuts to tax credits. As a growing number of ministers warn in private that the government has been damaged by its apparent insensitivity to low-paid workers, the ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: London Tigers is an Award winning Organisation delivering wide range projects including Sports, Education, Employment Training, Health and Volunteer development for the community across London, UK and Abroad.  The heart of the organisation is the London Tigers Football Club, which is very highly recognised throughout the UK Asian Community and Mainstream football in UK and Bangladesh. ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: The Bangla Mirror Group, publishers of the British Bangladeshi Who’s Who publication, held a press conference on Thursday 22nd October 2015 at the London Muslim Centre, to announce the launch of the much anticipated 2015 publication. The official launch of the British Bangladeshi Who’s Who 2015 publication and award is being held in the prestigious Meridian ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: The prospects of an interest rate rise from the Bank of England this year is disappearing after a recession in manufacturing and the biggest slump in construction output in three years slowed the UK economy by more than expected in the third quarter of 2015. City analysts said news that the economy’s rate of expansion eased ...

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, shaking the capital Kabul and killing 233 people – 200 in Pakistan and 33 in Afghanistan – and injuring thousands, officials said. The death toll could climb in coming days because communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range area where the quake was ...

Shahena Uddin, found dead at her home last year had “suffered a regime of brutality and extreme punishment” at the hands of her family for years, a court heard today. The body of Shahena Uddin was found in the bathroom of her house in Leavesden Road, Watford, by paramedics shortly before 9.30am on Saturday, October 11, 2014, after a brother ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: The number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance benefits has dropped dramatically across East London boroughs over the last year, figures show. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS),Tower Hamlets has seen a 36.6 per cent decrease in Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) claimants since September 2014. In real terms, there are 2,299 less claimants within ...