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  A research book edited by journalist and researcher Matiar Chowdhury on the Circle Panchayat system and Sarpanch system of local government The unveiling of the cover of Kaler Abhijanan was held on Monday, July 28, 2025 Monday at 6pm London time at the Banglar Sada Restaurant on Valence Road, East London. Under the chairmanship of writer and researcher Shah ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   £1 million is urgently needed to complete the construction of the Stenhagen Mosque in Uppsala, Sweden, and if this work is not completed within the next few weeks, local government officials may stop the construction work and even demolish the entire mosque. A press conference has been organized at the London Bangla Press Club on Friday ...

A train operator which runs services between London and the home counties has announced a temporary summer timetable. South Western Railway is reducing some of its services from London Waterloo to destinations in Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire between 28 July and 29 August. It will affect off-peak services, which the company said have fewer customers during the summer holidays. It ...

DLR services have been cut back as the rollout of a new fleet of trains costing over £900 million has been delayed for over a year. Transport for London (TfL) has announced the first of 54 new, air-conditioned trains are expected to enter service on the DLR later this year, after the majority of them became stuck in Spain. An ...

The purpose of Model London is to create a diverse model agency which can provide equal opportunities and resources to both young male and female models. The main purpose was to encourage uprising designers to exhibit their creativity through fashion and promote diversity in both London and globally by representing and promoting multicultural England. Model London is going to be ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   21 July, 2025 — Shuchishmita Maitra Auhona, a remarkable 20-year-old from Barking, London, has secured a coveted place at the University of Oxford to pursue a DPhil (PhD) in Medical Sciences — a rare achievement attained directly from a Bachelor’s degree, with no Master’s required. The daughter of Engr. Dr Sukanta Maitra and Kanika Mukherjee, Auhona completed ...

The mayor of London has been cleared of wrongdoing in accepting free tickets worth around £3,000 to a Taylor Swift concert last August. An independent investigation concluded that Sir Sadiq Khan did not breach the Greater London Authority (GLA) code of conduct, and that he had exercised an appropriate degree of caution. The Tories asked the GLA’s monitoring officer Rory ...

  The Save Bricklane Campaign Group has called on the council’s planning committee not to grant permission for the construction of any commercial building on the Truman Brewery Complex in Bricklane. The group’s leaders made this call at a press conference held at the Hason Raja Centre in east London on Friday (July 18). They said that the people of ...

    Former Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has suggested the BBC cancelled her cooking shows as she no longer fit the corporation’s “very neat box”. Hussain was a fixture on the broadcaster’s schedules ever since she won the baking competition in 2015, but earlier this year revealed the BBC no longer “wanted to commission” her show. The chef, whose shows included Nadiya’s British Food Adventure, Nadiya’s Everyday Baking and Nadiya’s Everyday Spices, ...

  Ansar Ahmed Ullah:    July 17, 2025 — British MP Bob Blackman has submitted an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the UK Parliament calling on the interim government of Bangladesh to prioritise the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission amidst ongoing political and social instability in the South Asian nation. The EDM, tabled on 16 July, notes the efforts ...