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Bangla Mirror Desk: Bangladeshi origin writer Zia Haider Rahman has won the James Tait Black Literary Prizes, Britain’s oldest literary award, for his debut novel In the Light of What We Know. The novelist has joined some of the world’s greatest names in literature, including DH Lawrence, Graham Greene, Angela Carter and Ian McEwan, by winning the prize this year. ...

Following two years of hard work, students across Tower Hamlets today (August 13) celebrated as they opened their A Level results. Results at Mulberry were extremely strong – with Head Teacher Vanessa Ogden indicating that 75 per cent of students achieved A* to C grades. 80 students from the school hold offers for Oxbridge or Russell Group universities. Cllr Sirajul ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: UK unemployment ticked up to 1.85 million in the April to June period, a rise of 25,000 on the previous quarter. It is the first time in two years that there have been two consecutive rises in the number of people out of work. But over the last 12 months employment levels are still markedly higher with ...

Emdad Rahman Volunteers and charity workers for the Rural Development Foundation Global (RDF Global) enjoyed a weekend at the Lake District as the charity announced it’s latest plans in the run up to the opening of a maternity hospital in Bangladesh. RDF Global is a non-profit charitable foundation established in 2006, with an aim to develop maternity and women’s healthcare ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Hundreds of runners took part in a most popular fundraising event Muslim Charity Run 2015 from over 20 charities at Victoria Park, Bow, East London on Sunday 9 August. This year’s run evolved from the previously successful Run 4 Your Mosque. On a gloriously sunny day with temperatures peaking at 25 degrees, runners – young and old ...

A married couple and their three daughters have been arrested in east London on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offences. A 51-year-old man, two women aged 53 and 19, and two girls aged 17 and 16, who are understood to live in Tower Hamlets, were held on suspicion of possessing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing ...

Prime Bank owned PBL Exchange has already earned a positive reputation in sending money to Bangladesh in most secured and fastest way.  It is also actively working to provide the remittance benefit to all the non-resident Bangladeshis.  Director of Prime Bank Mafiz Ahmed Bhuyan told this in a Get Together meeting at a restaurant in East London as chief guest. ...

Police have sought to reassure the public over reports that British jihadis are planning to blow up the Queen during next weekend’s Second World War memorial events in London.   The assassination plot is being orchestrated from Syria by Islamic State commanders, according to the Mail on Sunday. The newspaper reported that extremists aim to explode a bomb in central London ...

Cuts are putting care under “stress and strain” and carers’ efforts are being undermined, the chief inspector of adult social care in England has said. Andrea Sutcliffe told the Observer many carers ended up being “the sort of care worker you wouldn’t want them to be”. There were 30,000 allegations of abuse of people using social care services in the first six ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: One in six jobseekers has their allowance stopped by Department and Work and Pension each year, a national newspaper claims. The figures contradict official claims that only a small minority of jobseekers have been affected by the government’s increasingly severe welfare policies. A recent analysis shows that of those unemployed for 12 months up to April ...