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    On 14 April 2024, Sunday  the Bangla New Year 1431 was celebrated at Redbridge town hall, Redbridge, which was organized by Redbridge Boishakhi Mela Trust. The organizers were Councillor Mayor Joytsna Islam and Councillor Sham Islam of Redbridge Council. At present hundreds of local residents, councillors, distinguished guests, Community leaders and artists made the program successful with the ...

Madrasah Principal Maulana Oliur Rahman expressed his sincere thanks and gratitude to the management  for raising funds at Newbury Park Mosque after Asr and Maghrib prayers last Friday, April 12. The imam of the mosque, Ml. Mufti Miqdad, and the president of Redbridge Community Trust, prominent politician Ohid Uddin, praised the Jamea Madinatul Uloom Mahila Madrasha for conducting the Islamic education program for the women in ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   Educationalist and  News Presenter Syed Afsar Uddin MBE passed away on the 12th April 2024  at 2.30pm London time, Innalillahi wa Inna Ilaihi Raziun. His Janaza will be held tomorrow, Saturday, April 13 after Zohar at East London Mosque. The desperate surrender of journalist Syed Afsar Uddin after a battle with terminal cancer in London last ...

    Gokul Chandra Biswas:     The recently concluded ‘Harlow Open 2024’ art exhibition at the Gibberd Gallery in Harlow, UK, featured the works of acclaimed British painters alongside those of Bangladeshi artist Ashis Mitra. In an exclusive interview on 10th April, Professor Dr Gokul Chandra Biswas, former Principal of Government Fazlul Haque College in Bangladesh, shed light on ...

    Dr. Anthonie Holslag:     Memories and trauma The title of this article is really a misnomer and misleading. There is no such thing as “old” pain. There is relief of pain. And people stuck in a trauma can relive this suffering over and over again. I had to think of this when I went on my fact-finding ...

    By Matiar Chowdhury:   The rich are getting richer, the number of poor people is increasing in the country every day, the control of the country is now in the hands of the syndicates, the government is also hostage to the syndicates. This situation will continue if the current system is not changed. Comrade Mujahidul Islam Selim said. ...

  Bangla Mirror Desk:   Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA), an organization representing the curry industry in the UK, organized a press conference and Iftar mahfil to mark the initiative to raise awareness among restaurant workers about NHS’s Mental Health Services Awareness Campaign – Talking Therapies service. The Prime Minister’s International Trade Envoy to Bangladesh Tom Hunt MP, Deputy Mayor of ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:     Bangladesh Hindu Association (UK) celebrates Holi Festival & Gour Purnima at the House of Commons on 21 March 2024. Sir Stephen Timms, MP and Mr Virendra Sharma hosted the event. Saida Muna Tasneem, the honourable High Commissioner of Bangladesh, attended the celebration as the guest of honour. Proshanta Datta Purokayastha BEM, Chairman of Bangladesh Hindu ...

A 93-year-old lollipop man has said he has had his lifeline cut after being made redundant as part of council cuts. Alfred Tollon from Romford has been helping pupils cross the road at Harrow Lodge Primary School for 24 years. He said his job had kept him motivated after his wife died and it was “the children that make my ...

A UK-based journalist for independent Iranian media who was attacked outside his London home, prompting a counter-terrorism police probe, is “doing very well”, his news channel said on Saturday. Pouria Zeraati, a presenter for Persian-language outlet Iran International was in stable condition, the channel’s spokesman Adam Baillie said. “He’s doing very well actually. He’s in the hospital recovering from the ...