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Bangla Mirror Desk:   London, 18 November:  The 16th annual edition of the British Bangladeshi Who’s Who was unveiled at a distinguished gala ceremony at the Meridian Grand Hall, recognising the outstanding achievements and contributions of British Bangladeshis across the United Kingdom. The publication continues to showcase the community’s remarkable progress and its significant role within multicultural Britain. Baroness Pola ...

  Tower Hamlets Council has appointed Hannah Dalgleish as its new Director of Regeneration and Development. She will join the council in early 2026. Hannah brings 19 years’ experience across public and private sectors, delivering complex mixed use regeneration schemes. Most recently she held senior roles at Waltham Forest Council, including Director of Capital Delivery and Acting Corporate Director of ...

Indoor play areas, TV rooms, a cinema, and even a bowling alley are redefining what modern living looks like in social rent and affordable homes in Tower Hamlets. With space to build in short supply and more than 29,000 residents on the council’s Housing Register, there has never been a greater need for innovative design and planning to help address ...

  By Matiar Chowdhury:   An exhibition of the Holy Quran translated into 75 languages ​​and Interfaith Week have been inaugurated at Baitul Ahad Mosque to change the misconceptions of followers of other religions about Islam. The mosque's imam, Samar Ahmed, and the mutawalli, Mr. Seti, said that this arrangement is so that followers of other religions can easily gain ...

Muhammed Shahed Rahman : A discussion meeting was held with Sirajul Islam, the Labour Party’s mayoral candidate for the upcoming London Borough of Tower Hamlets council election, with members of the UK Bangla Reporters Unity. The exchange of views held at the Pure Chai-conference room in White Chapel, East London on Thursday (November 13) was presided over by Professor Md. ...

    By Matiar Chowdhury:   Balochistan National Movement UK Chapter on the occasion of Baloch Martyrs’ Day on 13 November 2025, A discussion meeting and cultural event was organized in memory of the Baloch freedom fighters at the Caribbean Centre on Dickens Street in Peterborough, England. A large number of freedom-loving Baloch men and women living in Britain participated ...

Should she come back to Britain, or shouldn’t she? It’s the question that has been raging around the fate of former Bethnal Green schoolgirl-turned ISIS bride Shamima Begum ever since she and two classmates fled to Syria to join ISIS as 15-year-olds more than a decade ago. ‘She was just a child, she was groomed’, versus ‘she’s a traitor, they ...

While Sir Sadiq Khan’s answers to questions about grooming gangs in his city at a London Assembly meeting on Thursday told us almost nothing, the man to his right, Sir Mark Rowley, made some stunning revelations. At the top of the list was that the Met has tens of cases, which are “close to what the public understands as grooming ...

  UK Minister for International Development, Jenny Chapman will confirm UK support for Rohingya refugees, including and women and girls, while visiting Bangladesh this week (13–14 November 2025). During her visit, Minister Chapman will see UK-funded programmes supporting Rohingya refugees to help prevent Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). The UK continues to call for the safe, voluntary, and dignified return of Rohingya refugees to ...

Plans to transform Liverpool Street station have been delayed again after the organisation behind the redevelopment added further details to the application. Network Rail’s plan – to partially demolish Britain’s busiest station and build a multi-storey tower cantilevered above a neighbouring Grade II* listed former hotel – was due to be decided by the City of London Corporation by the ...