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Muhammed Shahed Rahman : UK Bangla Reporters Unity’s new EC committee’s inauguration 2025 and UKBRU Award 2024 to honor the creative work of talented and talented young journalists in the UK has been completed. The event was held on Sunday (January 19) afternoon at a hall in London in the presence of media personalities, Sudheejans. Outgoing Secretary of UK Bangla ...

  Today’s children are tomorrow’s future. Based on this belief, Redbridge Community Trust organized an award ceremony to inculcate interest in education among students. Students, parents and community dignitaries attended the event, which was held at St John’s Church Center in Redbridge on Saturday. Certificates and crests were presented to students who passed GCSE and A Levels at the event. ...

    Local solicitors TV Edwards based in East London celebrated 95 years of service with a special reception at The Courthouse Hotel, Shoreditch, on Thursday, 16 January. Over 200 guests were in attendance including former and current staff—some with longstanding tenures—as well as valued business colleagues, clients and friends. Established in 1929 in Aldgate on Great Prescot Street, TV ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   London, January 14, 2025 – The International Health Development Foundation (IHDF) has announced its expanded global medical outreach program, set to take place from 3 – 14 February 2025. The announcement was made during a press conference at the London Bangla Press Club. Building on the success of previous Bangladesh Health Tours, IHDF is extending its ...

Kemi Badenoch has called for the PM to sack Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq after she was named in an investigation into claims her family embezzled up to £3.9bn from infrastructure spending in Bangladesh. In a post on X, the Conservative Party leader said: “It’s time for Keir Starmer to sack Tulip Siddiq,” adding that the PM had “appointed his personal ...

The British government is considering replacing Tulip Siddiq, if she is forced to quit over her alleged ties to aunt Sheikh Hasina’s corrupt rule in Bangladesh, and have at least verbally prepared a list of possible alternative officials for the Treasury minister post. A government spokesman has said it is “completely untrue” to suggest the party had drawn up a ...

  Khaleda Zia has been admitted to a hospital called The London Clinic in the United Kingdom. Khaleda Zia’s personal physician and BNP Standing Committee member A ZM Zahid Hossain gave this information. Khaleda Zia came to the UK for treatment seven and a half years ago. Seva took treatment for eyes and feet. She is suffering from various complications ...

British daily The Times in a damning editorial has called on Sheikh Hasina’s niece, the embattled Labour MP Tulip Siddiq to step down from her role as the UK’s Treasury minister, pending investigations into allegations of corruption involving Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project and a “free flat” in London. In the editorial, the newspaper owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch ...

Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq has referred herself to the PM’s standards adviser after controversy over her links to her aunt’s political movement in Bangladesh. It comes after the minister was named last month in an investigation into claims her family embezzled infrastructure funding in the country. Siddiq had faced growing calls for an investigation after reports in recent days she ...

Tulip Siddiq, a British treasury minister and ousted dictator Sheikh Hasina’s niece, has used at least three London apartments as her official address despite the properties being once owned by people close to Hasina’s despotic regime. The current residence of Siddiq’s mother and Hasina’s sister Sheik Rehana also has ties to a glaringly questionable pro-Awami League figure. The UK-based Financial ...