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David Cameron has said he wants to complete the job of “turning the country around” as the election campaign officially got under way. The prime minister said he would offer the “strong leadership” needed while Labour would lead to “economic chaos”. Ed Miliband said the Tories’ EU policy threatened business, but the Labour leader faced questions over corporate backing for his ...

David Cameron will make a short trip from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace today to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament. The final act of pomp and ceremony of his coalition government will be followed by a statement from the Prime Minister on the steps of Number 10 in which he will say the country faces “a stark choice” between ...

The great champions have all come back from defeat but this Australian side did not have to do all that. They were the favourites from the very beginning of the tournament and kept playing like the best in the competition. In the end, like they have been great champions in every generation, Australia captured the coveted 2015 ICC Cricket World ...

Arab coalition warplanes bombed the runway at Yemen’s main international airport and struck a renegade troop base in the capital in a fourth night of Saudi-led raids against Iranian-backed rebels. The strikes on the country’s main air gateway came just hours after UN workers were evacuated following deadly fighting that has sent tensions between Tehran and other Middle East powers ...

A general meeting of UK Biman Approved Travel Agents Association was held on 12th March 2015 in Whitechapel. The speakers at the meeting demanded the immediate start of Sylhet –Dhaka- London direct flight without change of aircraft in Dhaka. The Minister for Civil Aviation and tourism Rashed Khan Menon had said last year that direct flight might start by February ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: The UK’s annual inflation rate fell to zero in February as the slide in the cost of oil continued to act as a brake on prices.Inflation dropped from 0.3 per cent in January to a record low, against economists’ expectations of a fall to 0.1 per cent. The news hit sterling, which was down 0.4 per cent ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Bangladeshis living in the UK and elsewhere in the world celebrated the 45th Independence and National Day on Thursday to mark the declaration of independence. The country has made remarkable progress in a number of areas over the years after independence although there is a long way to go to attain advanced stage of development. Bangladesh’s independence ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Labour Party has introduced a special bus to help to run the campaign for its Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.  The campaign bus started its journey from Labour Party Head Office in central London on Tuesday 24 March with named ‘BAME Bus’. Around 45 BAME members, including seven of Bangladesh origin, are taking part in the ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Tower Hamlets Council has signed a 125-year long lease on a multi-faith burial ground.The new burial site in Sidcup in Bromley, just a short drive from the borough, will secure burial plots for the use of Tower Hamlets residents when the number of graves both nationally and locally is diminishing.  Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman visited the ...

Bomb throwers will also be tried like war-time criminals. ———- M A Mannan MP State minister for finance and planning MA Mannan MP has said, the present government is education- friendly government. The govt. is working to build up students as competent citizens of the country. He was speaking as chief guest at 15th Stipend Distribution Programme organized by Jagannathpur ...