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UK unemployment fell to 1.68 million between November and January, down 28,000 from the previous quarter, the Office for National Statistics says. The rate of unemployment remained at 5.1%, maintaining a decade-low rate. Some 31.42 million are in work, 478,000 up on a year ago. The employment rate is 74.1%, the joint highest since current records began in 1971. Average ...

London, 12 March: Bangladesh High Commission London organised a ceremony today at the Kensington Town Hall in Central London to confer awards to the British-Bangladeshi students who have achieved outstanding results in the 2015 GCSE and A Level examinations. A total of 127 students who achieved at least 10 A/A* in GCSE and 3 A/A* received crests and certificates from ...

Emdad Rahman : Newark Youth London celebrated another great year by delivering a successful awards event at Mulberry School, east London. Newark Youth London was formed in 1984 by a group of young people aged between 9-12 years old. This group congregated at the old London Hospital Car Park in Newark Street (now the Centre of the Cell building) and ...

Chancellor George Osborne has warned the UK has to “act now rather than pay later” ahead of this week’s Budget, with further spending cuts planned. He said the cuts would be “equivalent to 50p in every £100” of public spending by 2020, which was “not a huge amount in the scheme of things”. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show ...

Chancellor George Osborne has warned the UK has to “act now rather than pay later” ahead of this week’s Budget, with further spending cuts planned. He said the cuts would be “equivalent to 50p in every £100” of public spending by 2020, which was “not a huge amount in the scheme of things”. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Cruel cuts to benefits for sick and disabled people will now go ahead, after Lords were forced to back down in their opposition to Government plans. Ministers were twice defeated by Peers over plans to slash Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) by £30 a week. But the measure was today pushed through the upper chamber, in ...

A wonderful evening was had by all who attended the Saree Soiree event on Sunday 6th March organised by Dr Momotaj Islam and Miss Tia Khanam, at the Osmani Centre. The ladies got into the spirit of it by coming in colourful sarees and there were just as many gentlemen to support them. During an evening of informative and moving presentations, ...

Bangla Miror Desk : The number of workers on zero-hours contracts has increased by 104,000 to 801,000. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that 2.5% of the employed UK workforce were on zero-hours contracts in the quarter to last December, up from 2.3% in the same period of 2014. The data showed there were around 1.7 million ...

By Ansar Ahmed Ullah : Following the death of Lord Eric Avebury, the UK Nirmul Committee (International Forum for Secular Bangladesh) organised a condolence meetingon Thursday 25 Feb, 6pm at the Montefiore Centre, East London in memory of the Lord who tirelessly worked for the betterment of Bangladesh. The meeting was chaired by Nirmul Committee’s central executive member Ansar Ahmed ...

 Bangla Mirror  Desk 2 March, 2016 Bangladesh reached in to the Asia Cup final defeating Pakistan by five wickets at Shere Bangla National Stadium in city’s Mirpur on Wednesday night.   This victory takes Bangladesh on India in Sunday’s blockbuster Asia Cup T20 final, leaving all other activities including two league games as mere academic exercise.   The tigers stunned ...