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Ansar Ahmed Ullah :: Provide support to Bangladesh by sharing knowledge on countering radicalisation, provide assistance in cyber space management and monitor UK based NGOs with links to religious extremism said Prof Abul Barkat. Prof Abul Barkat, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka was speaking at a seminar titled ‘Bangladesh and the UK: Countering Religious Radicalisation & ...

Tower Hamlets Independents have today called for Labour to ‘put their money where their mouth is’ on the refugee crisis and accept our fair share of Syrian refugees into the borough. The call was made as Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to accept 20,000 refugees by 2020, Labour leadership candidate Yvette Cooper called for councils to take on refugees ...

No one can erase Martyr Zia’s role from the history, however and whatever propaganda and conspiracy are being made against him.  He will always be in people’s heart for his benevolent work and heroic activities.  Speakers attending the discussion meeting told this which was organised to mark 37th anniversary of formation of BNP.  The discussion meeting was held on 10th ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah :: Provide support to Bangladesh by sharing knowledge on countering radicalisation, provide assistance in cyber space management and monitor UK based NGOs with links to religious extremism said Prof Abul Barkat. Prof Abul Barkat, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka was speaking at a seminar titled ‘Bangladesh and the UK: Countering Religious Radicalisation & ...

Muhammad Ismael :: The Newbury Park Islamic Cultural Centre held a Dementia Friends Information session to highlight the effects on Dementia on people’s lives and how people living with Dementia can be supported to live well. By the end of the Dementia Friends session all attendees became Dementia Friends and were presented with pin badges. The session was well attended ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah :: Longstanding friend and a campaigner for Bangladesh Dutch citizen Dr Peter Custers died on Thursday, 3 September at 20.15 hours at his residence in Leiden, The Netherlands from a sudden severe heart attack. Peter Custers was a campaigner, journalist, author and theoretician. He wrote several books, articles focusing on social change and development. Among many, his ...

A man was recently arrested and charged with threatening behaviour following an incident at the Tower Hamlets Council car pound. Customers who attend the council’s car pound are often angry at having had their vehicle removed for parking illegally and having to pay charges to retrieve their vehicle. Sadly this can lead to the cashiers at the pound being at ...

To make the new generation British-Bangladeshis more interested to Bangladesh, they need to maintain the connection with their homeland. Similarly, the non resident Bangladeshi should invest more in Bangladesh, so that their next generations are more interested in Bangladesh.  Dewan Gazi Jafar Sadek (Koyes Gazi), Vice-president of Sylhet Awami League, told this in a view exchanging meeting organised by Nabiganj ...

UK Bandhu Shomabesh organised an “Anondo Adda (pleasure gathering) 2015” at the Banqueting Hall of Water Lily in East London on 26 August. Organisation’s President Taraj Uddin presided over the meeting and General Secretary Faruq Miah and poet Mijanur Rahman Miru jointly conducted it. Guest who addressed the audience included Professor M Tanbir Ahmed, Advocate Fajrul Haque Enam, Kamrul Islam, ...

In a ceremony held on the week commencing the 9th of August 2015, the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Robert W Gibson CMG, formally handed over specialist forgery detection equipment to the Bangladesh Special Branch, in an effort to tackle immigration crime. This equipment will be used by immigration officers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to detect false and counterfeit ...