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Bangla Mirror Desk: Panel Speaker of Bangladesh Parliament, Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury MP is coming to the UK for a brief personal visit.  He will be arriving in Heathrow Airport on 13th April by Biman. He will attend as Chief Guest in meetings organised by ex-residents of Sylhet 3 (Dakhin Surma, Fenchuganj and part of Balaganj), which will be held ...

Channel  S is broadcasting British Bangladeshi Who’s Who 2015 gala dinner and award ceremony on Sunday 10th of April at 3pm on Sky Channel  814.  A repeat broadcast of the this event will ake place  on Friday 15th of April 11pm. British Bangladesh Who’s Who is an annual publication and a celebration of all individuals from various sectors who are ...

Channel  S is broadcasting British Bangladeshi Who’s Who 2015 gala dinner and award ceremony on Sunday 10th of April at 3pm on Sky Channel  814.  A repeat broadcast of the this event will again take place  on Friday 15th of April 11pm. British Bangladesh Who’s Who is an annual publication and a celebration of all individuals from various sectors who ...

Zac Goldsmith faces the political fight of his life to become Mayor after Sadiq Khan extended his lead among first preference votes to eight points, according to a new poll. With less than five weeks before polling day, the exclusive Opinium survey for the Standard showed growing first preference support for Labour contender Mr Khan particularly in inner London. Conservative ...

Union leaders are calling on David Cameron to take personal charge of talks to prevent the closure of Tata Steel’s Port Talbot plant. They have accused Business Secretary Sajid Javid of “taking his eye off the ball” and say the PM needs “to get a grip” of the negotiations. It comes ahead of emergency talks in London between unions and ...

A record 12 candidates are in the running to be the next Mayor of London, it has been confirmed. Nine men and three women will vie for the public’s vote to succeed Boris Johnson in the May 5 election, officials at London Elects said on Friday. In 2012, when Labour’s Ken Livingstone was defeated by Mr Johnson, only seven candidates ...

More than 100 London business  figures today came out to back Sadiq Khan as Mayor, saying he would be a “business friend at City Hall”. Labour’s candidate sought to paint himself as the most business-friendly contender by publishing a list of 101 endorsements including a sheaf of directors and entrepreneurs. Laura Tenison, founder of children’s boutique JoJo Maman Bébé, said ...

Dame Zaha Hadid, the world-renowned architect, whose designs include the London Olympic aquatic centre, has died aged 65. The British designer, who was born in Iraq, had a heart attack on Thursday while in hospital in Miami, where she was being treated for bronchitis. Hadid’s buildings have been commissioned around the world and she was the first woman to receive ...

David Cameron has said his government is “not ruling anything out” when it comes to helping to rescue the British steel industry, but warned that he does not believe that nationalisation is the right answer. The idea of placing plants in public ownership following the financial crisis that led to Tata Steel deciding to sell its British operations was seen ...

Sadiq Khan’s bid to be London Mayor was dealt a blow today as hard-Left activists admitted backing him to “strengthen” Jeremy Corbyn. The Standard can reveal that leaders of the controversial Momentum group told activists to support the Labour candidate because defeat in London on May 5 would “undermine” his party’s leader. Tories seized on the revelation by taunting: “Vote ...