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The official inauguration of London based Bengali web portal Londonbdnews24 took place in Montefiore Centre in East London on 24th March in presence of notable and senior journalists in the UK. President of London Bangla Press Club Nobab  Uddin and General Secretary Emdadul Haque Chowdhury officially launced the website. Chairman of Londonbdnews24.com Abdul Basit Badsha presided over the launching event ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Rushanara Ali campaigned for Labour to renew its commitment to the future of Bengali teaching in schools, in response to Government plans to cut Bengali language qualifications from the school curriculum alongside other foreign languages including Guajarati, Punjabi, Turkish and Polish.   Rushanara said: “From start to finish, this Government has caused chaos in our education system ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman visited the old Royal London Hospital site in Whitechapel on 23rd March – which will be transformed into a brand new civic hub.   A group of journalists from local print and electronic media accompanied him at that time. The old Royal London Hospital was sold to the council for £9 million ...

Tower Hamets Training centre organised a press conference on 3st March to update the community members and media on new English requirement for settlement and British Citizenship. In the beginning Roberto Foth, Head of Language at Hamlets Training Centre, Barrister (NP) Solicitor Mohammed Abul Kalam, and Deborah Perry, English Language Teacher and Examiner were introduced to the attendees who later ...

In celebration of Women’s month Pearl Advertising hosted the Women’s Day Bazaar 2015 on Saturday the 28th March at the Montefiore Centre in East London. The aim was to help women promote their skills and businesses under one roof, which was certainly the case with more than 30 stall holders and over 300 women, men and children attending the free ...

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 ...