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Four Bangladesh-origin candidates– Tulip Siddiq, Rushanara Ali, Rupa Huq and Apsana Begum– have been elected as Labour Party lawmakers in the UK parliament. The result was published on the official website of the British Parliament on Friday (July 5) morning. Tulip Rizwana Siddiq Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has won by a huge margin in the ...

Tulip Siddiq, grand-daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been elected MP for the fourth consecutive term from Hampstead and Highgate (UK Parliament constituency) in the United Kingdom. She is the candidate of Labour Party in the election. According to the BBC, he got 23,432 votes (48.3 per cent), while her nearest opponent Conservative candidate Don Williams received 8,462 votes. ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: London, 29 June 2024: Established in 2020, Easthands Charity aims to serve humanity globally and promote local community development in Britain. With everyone’s support, numerous projects have already been successfully implemented in a short time. To announce the construction of a multipurpose center in Sylhet and update on past activities, Easthands Charity held a press conference on ...

    THE BBHF organised a community event on 30 June 2024 at 7 pm at the Micro Business Centre, Greatorex Street, Banglatown and Spitalfields, London. The event was well attended by a cross-section of the community. The first part of the event was a condolence tribute in remembrance of the late Abdul Noor, who was a key activist in ...

Giant peacock floats, motorbike formations and martial arts demonstrations accompanied by thumping pop tunes have formed part of London’s annual Pride Parade this year. Attendees in the colourful procession wore all kinds of outfits ranging from carnival costumes to gym gear, while crowds lined the streets from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square to cheer them on as a giant rainbow ...

    ” A total of 98 political parties, large and small, are taking part in the forthcoming UK elections. There are a record number of 4,515 candidates for 650 seats in the House of Commons “ A significant number of British citizens of Bangladeshi origin are contesting from various parties in the national elections of the United Kingdom to ...

Leading members of the Labour Party in Islington North, the seat represented by Jeremy Corbyn since 1983, have resigned or announced they are willing to be expelled to campaign for him. Former Labour leader Mr Corbyn is standing as an independent after the party whip was suspended from him in 2020 – and was never restored – when he suggested ...

The deputy leader of the Labour group on Tower Hamlets council in east London has resigned from the party after Sir Keir Starmer made reference to Bangladesh when answering a question about the deportation of illegal migrants. In a statement posted on X, Councillor Sabina Akhtar said: “I can not be proud of the party any more when the leader ...

  Matiar Chowdhury London: At the invitation of Councilor Moin Qadri, the newly elected British Bangladeshi Mayor of Barking and Dagenham Council, prominent people of the British Multicultural Society gathered in Barking Park from different parts of Britain to attend the mayor's annual civic reception and parade. This festival is one of joy, tradition and honor for the British royal ...