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Under the initiative of UK Bangla Reporters Unity Paying tribute to the martyrs of the 1952 Language Movement at the Shaheed Minar premises in Altab Ali Park in East London, the speakers at the poetry recitation and discussion meeting said – Ekushey February is our pride, seventyone is our consciousness. If the importance of language is not understood at home ...

Residents on the Royal Mint Garden Estate in Tower Hill enjoyed a fun day at the start of the school half-term break, in celebration of completed capital works to install a children’s play area, outdoor gym facilities, new outdoor seating, and new landscaping. The council consulted with residents in, May 2024 and people living on the estate said they would like ...

Albert Bridge in west London may be closed to motorists for up to a year for repairs, the local authority has said. Kensington and Chelsea Council (RBKC), which manages the 150-year old bridge, said engineers discovered cracks in a cast iron component earlier this month. The authority said sensors were continuously measuring the cracks to check that their condition did ...

Nine people were injured, with seven taken to the hospital, after a double-decker bus crashed into a bridge in Croydon. The latest collision happened on Park Street near George Street in Croydon at about 11.30am today. It is the second incident involving a bus in south London within 24 hours after another crash in Southwark yesterday involving two double-deckers. Several ...

  Matiar Chowdhury:   Shah Mansur Ali Noman, an essayist, researcher and education administrator in London, has been awarded the ;Best Feature Writer of the Year-2025 award. He was selected for this honor based on the evaluation of the best features, columns and articles published in the media at the UK Bangla Reporters Unity Awards and Inauguration Ceremony. The event, ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued arrest warrants against two people, including British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, niece of deposed former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over alleged flat fraud in the capital’s Gulshan area. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz passed the order after taking cognisance of the charge sheet submitted ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: The UK Bangla Reporters Unity was inaugurated in the presence of journalists, experts, and community dignitaries. The inaugural ceremony of the UK Bangla Reporters Unity 2026 was held in a festive atmosphere with seminars, scholarship distribution, UKBRU Award 2025 presentation, magazine publication, poetry recitation and musical performances in the presence of community dignitaries, MPs, deputy mayors, cultural ...

  Former General Secretary of UK BNP and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Party BNP, Mohammad Koysar Ahmed, who was elected to the Sunamganj-3 (Jagannathpur-Shantiganj) constituency in the 13th National Parliament election, expressed his gratitude to the voters of his constituency, saying, “This victory is not mine, this victory belongs to the entire people of Jagannathpur-Shantiganj. ...

An annual event aimed at giving LGBTQ+ students networking opportunities is set to end after 21 years in London due to a drop in corporate sponsorship. National Student Pride, a non-profit organisation created in 2005, said its income had reduced by about two-thirds in the last two years, “largely due to widespread cuts to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) budgets” ...

Muhammed Shahed Rahman: At a meeting with journalists in London A call to play a responsible role in ensuring the security of religious minorities after the elections. Concerns about the safety of religious minority communities are growing in Bangladesh ahead of the upcoming national elections. According to reports from international and local human rights organizations, there has been a consistent ...