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A Japanese maglev (magnetic levitation) train speeds during a test run on the experimental track in Tsuru, 100km west of Tokyo, on May 11, 2010. A Japan Railway maglev train hit 603 kilometers per hour (374 miles per hour) on an experimental track in Yamanashi Tuesday, setting a decisive new world record. A spokesperson said the train spent 10.8 seconds ...

Hundreds of people were cleared from an area of central London and at least one person was injured after a building collapsed at a construction site today. Emergency services were called to Serle Street and Portugal Street in Holborn after witnesses reported hearing a “massive crash” and seeing plumes of dust. A 56-year-old man was treated at the scene before ...

Italian authorities have so far rescued 28 people alive, including a Bangladeshi, according to reports by CNN and the BBC. Quoting the rescued Bangladeshi, CNN reported many were trapped inside locked doors when the boat packed with hundreds sank in the Mediterranean sea on Sunday. The identity of the Bangladeshi citizen was not yet known— nor was it confirmed whether ...

Some 337 Bangladeshis evacuated from Yemen have reached home in two special flights of Biman from India’s southern state of Kerala. They were evacuated by the Indian naval ships and later carried by passenger ships to Kochi port in Kerala state on Saturday. Biman Bangladesh Airlines flights carried them to Dhaka from there early on Sunday. The first flight landed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...