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A 26-year-old Indian-origin man has been killed in a knife attack in Southall, west London, the Metropolitan Police said on Saturday. The victim has been identified as Gurbhej Singh, who was stabbed on North Road near the junction with Dormers Wells Lane. A second man, believed to be in his 30s, was also found injured at the scene. He was ...

The US technology company Palantir plans to take legal action against the mayor of London’s decision to block a contract between them and the Metropolitan Police. The Met had proposed a £25.3m deal with Palantir UK for 2026-27, to use the firm’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology to speed up criminal investigations and root out corrupt officers. The Mayor’s Office for ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Mohammad Koysor Ahmed, MP from Sunamganj-3 (Jagannathpur-Shantiganj) constituency, has been nominated as a member of Parliament Members Club. Relevant sources confirmed this information on ThursdayJune 11. Mohammad Koysor Ahmed is one of the members of BNP’s National Executive Committee and is serving as a member of the parliamentary committee. This time, leaders and activists in his ...

Muhammed Shahed Rahman: In recognition of their outstanding contributions to volunteering and leadership, two Bangladeshi students—Abdur Rahim and Jahidul Islam—have been honoured at the UWS Employability and Student Development Awards 2026, held at the London Campus of the prestigious University of the West of Scotland (UWS). Among other international students receiving awards were Mukti Ghale from Nepal and Qasim Saeed ...

  Bangla Mirror desk : A protest rally was held in East London, organized by the World Human Rights Organization UK, to protest the rape and murder of Ramisa in Bangladesh. The rally was organized on Tuesday (June 9) at the Shaheed Minar premises in Altab Ali Park, East London, in the presence of all professional and conscious citizens of ...

The capital’s most senior British Asian police officer says he is “truly humbled” to have been awarded the Freedom of the City of London. City of London Police Commander Umer Khan was given the honour in recognition of more than three decades of “exemplary service” to policing and work in cohesion, the City of London Corporation said. Originally from Pakistan, ...

  By Matiar Chowdhury:   Tamil journalist Hamshika Krishnamoorthy has brought light to the faces of South Asians by becoming the runner-up at the 2026 Migration Journalism Awards held in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Applications for the 2026 awards opened in October Over 800 applications were submitted from over 44 countries in five categories: Special Reporting Award, Innovation Award, ...

Schools banning pupils from having smartphones are commonplace. But what about a school where pupils ban teachers from using their smartphones, and then get their parents to join in? And not just phones: at Holy Family Catholic primary school in west London teachers are also barred from using laptops, monitors or tablets during the school’s screen-free Mondays, after an idea ...

Having fled sex trafficking gangs in Belgium and Manchester, the woman from Albania thought she was finally safe when she arrived in west London with her two young children. A single mother, she had been granted asylum in the UK and was ready to start a new life in the capital. But first they needed a home. She approached Ealing ...

London Underground drivers staged their second strike of the week on Thursday causing fresh disruption for travellers in the capital. The Circle and Waterloo & City lines are not running at all on Thursday. There are part suspendions on the Circle Line between Liverpool Street and White City; on the Metropolitan Line between Baker Street and Aldgate, and on the ...