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British Minister for Indo-Pacific Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said the UK looks forward to continuing to strengthen their bilateral ties with Bangladesh through trade, investment, and people-to-people links. The British Minister said this during a bilateral meeting with Private Industry and Investment Adviser to Prime Minister Salman F Rahman in London on Monday, reports UNB. Praising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s generous ...

The United Kingdom is contributing an additional £4.5 million to sustain the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh, lifting its funding from the start of the crisis in August 2017 to a total of £345 million. This additional support to WFP (£3m) and UNICEF (£1.5m) will provide food, water, sanitation, and child protection to Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s ...

  Staff Reporter : Bangla Mirror, British Bangladeshi Who’s Who, Online News Portal Sylhet Mirror Editor and senior member of the London Bangla Press Club Abdul Karim Goni’s mother Husnama Bibi has passed away at his daughters residence in Cephas street east London on Sunday morning (Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un). He was 83. He left behind his one ...

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury has called on International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and major maritime partners to strengthen their support for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s initiatives towards a greener maritime industry in Bangladesh by 2050. “In order to transition to a greener maritime industry, Bangladesh, Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) require financial, technological, ...

The majority of Muslims are living in the areas of England and Wales with the worst levels of deprivation, the UK Office for National Statistics revealed on Wednesday. Muslims now account for 6.5 percent of the population in England and Wales, some 3.9 million in 2021, according to the latest ONS census, reports Arab News. However, the data showed 61 ...

Britain on Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering Covid protests, government sources said, reports AFP. Zheng Zeguang was called into the foreign office after the incident involving Ed Lawrence in Shanghai, which Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Monday called “deeply disturbing”. Lawrence was hauled away ...

In his first major address on Foreign Policy, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday strongly asserted that the “golden era” between Britain and China is “now over” and that it is time to evolve the approach towards China as the country is posing a systemic challenge to UK’s values and interest with its authoritarian rule. During his address at ...

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Monday (Nov 28) hosted an international conference in London to strengthen urgent action against the use of sexual violence in conflict. Representatives from 70 countries attended the conference to drive forward urgent action to tackle the scourge of sexual violence in conflict. Bangladesh was represented by Ms. Fazilatun Nessa Indira, Minister of State for ...

Britain must do more to defend its values of freedom and openness on the world stage, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will argue Monday in his first major foreign policy speech since taking office a month ago. “Freedom and openness have always been the most powerful forces for progress,” Sunak will tell dignitaries gathered at the Guildhall for the annual Lord ...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be considering “all options”, including reducing the number of foreign students, in his bid to bring down the rising net migration in the United Kingdom, according to a BBC report. Mr Sunak will be looking into imposing curbs on foreign students pursuing so-called “low quality” degrees and bringing in dependents, the report said, quoting ...