Likewise many other expats living in different parts of the UK, Ipswich Suffolk Bangladeshi has come forward to support Iqra Academy, a project of Iqra International, which is working for the disable people of Bangladesh. A charity dinner was held in a local restaurant in Ipswich on 13th May which was presided over by Head of Programme of Channel S ...
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Conservative to offer 1.3m families right to buy housing association homes
Bangla Mirror Desk: An unabashed extension of the Thatcherite right to buy for 1.3m families in housing association properties will be at the centre of an aspirational Tory manifesto launched on Tuesday in the West Country. The pledge is expected to see tens of thousands of housing association tenants a year take up a discount on buying a housing association ...
Read More »British Muslim women 71% more likely to be unemployed due to workplace discrimination
Bangla Mirror Desk: Discrimination against Muslim women in the workplace means they are much more likely to be unemployed than white Christian women – even when they have the same qualifications and language skills – research shows. British Muslim women are around 70 per cent more likely to be looking unsuccessfully for work, according to the University of Bristol’s Dr ...
Read More »Blackstones Solicitors’ Launching Ceremony Held
To mark the formal opening of Blackstones Solicitors, a forward looking new solicitors practice based in New Road, East London, the launch ceremony was held on last Friday, 10th April 2015 at the London Muslim Centre. Professionals from different professional backgrounds including senior barristers, solicitors, accountants, journalists; businessman and community leaders were in attendance. Blacktones Solicitors intends to offer legal ...
Read More »Mahtabur Rahman Naser visits Bangla Mirror office
Dubai based high flying Bangladeshi businessman Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman (Nasir) recently came to London for a family visit. While he was in London he visited Weekly Bangla Mirror’s East London office for a view-exchanging meeting with Editor Abdul Karim Gani. During this visit he discussed how his business is developing across the UK and Europe. He also expressed his deep ...
Read More »UKBCCI Leaders Talk Business with British High-Commissioner at Breakfast Meeting
To discuss mutual economic benefit through enhancement of investment at the entrepreneurial scale UKBCCI leaders recently held a breakfast meeting with the British High-Commissioner His Excellency Robert W Gibson CMG at an aristocrat restaurant in the diplomatic area in city. Their talk included market expansion for Bangladeshi products in the UK besides investment possibilities and finding ways to mitigate trade ...
Read More »Gulam Kibria receives Tower Hamlets Civic Awards 2015
Bangla Mirror Desk : Tower Ham lets Council took an unprecedented step to honour borough’s unsung heroes and heroines to recognise them for their generosity, commitment and dedication at the annual Tower Hamlets Civic Awards Ceremony, which was held last week in Town Hall in Mulberry Place. This year, the Annual 2015 Civic Award went to Md Gulam Kibria for ...
Read More »Rushanara Ali launches East End Labour General Election campaign
Bangla Mirror Desk : Rushanara Ali officially launched her campaign for re-election in Bethnal Green and Bow at a local event attended by a host of fellow Labour colleagues, members and supporters, with former Labour leader Lord Kinnock giving the keynote address. Her Labour colleagues Lyn Brown, Margaret Hodge and Frank Dobson also gave speeches to a packed auditorium ...
Read More »Prime Minister’s Baishakhi message
“I send my best wishes to everyone in India, Britain and around the world celebrating Baisakhi. “I know this is an incredibly important time for the Sikh community as families and friends come together to commemorate the birth of the Khalsa and give thanks. From Southall to Sunderland, from Ottawa to Amritsar Sikhs around the world will be marking Baisakhi ...
Read More »The endless possibility of British Bangladeshis Race is on for the 56th parliament
Bangla Mirror Desk : Four weeks today people of the UK will be going to the polls on May 7 to place a cross on the ballot paper to elect the 56th parliament and the end result has never been so uncertain. As former Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said ‘a week is a long time in politics’, and ...
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