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    Tower Hamlets Council is the first local authority in England to fund universal free school meals up to the age of 16. Plans to begin a phased rollout from September 2023 were approved at a Cabinet meeting on 24 May 2023. The scheme supports families during the cost-of-living crisis, providing a saving of £550 per year, per child. ...

A 16-year-old boy is due in court today over the murder of a man who was stabbed to death nearby a south London pub. Lucas Sutton, 22, died of his injuries after being attacked on Tuesday evening, not far from the Pawsons Arms. It is thought he sustained his injuries following an altercation on Mayo Road before officers were called ...

  On 22 May members of an European delegation spoke at the conference on recognition of the the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh. It was held at the place where the genocide began, Dhaka University. The academic consensus that the events which took place during the Bangladesh Liberation War should be seen as genocide is convincing. The facts speak for themselves: ...

    It has been decided to form a new executive committee of the Greater Deulgram Welfare Trust UK. The decision to form a new executive committee was taken unanimously at the meeting of the executive committee of the Greater Deulgram Welfare Trust UK held at the Coriander restaurant in North London on Monday, May 22. Greater Deulgram Welfare Trust ...

      The Redbridge Community Trust (RCT) has welcomed Humayun Islam Kamal, Bangladeshi veteran politician, Joint Secretary of Sylhet District Awami League and former Acting Chairman of Golapganj Upazila Parishad in London. The reception was held at the residence of RCT President Mohammed Ohid Uddin in Newbury Park  last Wednesday. The Bangladeshi politician, Sylhet’s Awami League leader Humayun Islam ...

  By Matiar Chowdhury London: "Let hope be awakened in language, let life be awakened in language, and you shall live in song, and be eternal." Through this slogan, Amar Ekushey, the composer of the song, Legendary writer, renowned journalist-columnist The first death anniversary of Abdul Ghaffar Chowdhury was observed Ekatterer Ghatok-Dalal Nirmul Committee UK branch. Yesterday, May 19 Friday ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   A Bangladeshi-born film producer, screenwriter, producer, and social entrepreneur, who was elected to the City of London Corporation in 2017, is the new chairman of its Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee. Following a vote at today’s Committee meeting at Guildhall, Munsur Ali, who represents the Portsoken ward in Aldgate, has taken over from Wendy Hyde, who ...

Muhammad Shahed Rahman : Rahima Rahman, a well-known face of Bangladeshi community in London, community activist, pioneer of women’s awakening, organizer. She was elected as the Chair of the Council (Speakar) of Borough Council or Newham Council, the city authority with the second largest Bangladeshi British-Bengali population in Great Britain. Rahima Rahman was the first Bangladeshi to be elected as ...

■ Muhammed Shahed Rahman ■ United Kingdom women community meeting was held in Sylhet City Corporation with the support of mayoral candidate Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury. On Saturday (May 20, 2023) at the Micro Business Center in East London, a meeting was held in support of Awami League candidate Anwaruzzman Chowdhury in the Sylhet City Corporation elections under the initiative of the ...

Muhammed Shahed Rahman : London’s Tower Hamlets Labour Party BME leaders recently visited the Scottish Parliament on the invitation of Faisal Chowdhury MSP, a native of Nabiganj, Habiganj District, Sylhet Division, the first elected Member of the Scottish Parliament, Faisal Chowdhury MSP. Tower Hamlets Labour Party BME leaders presented crests to Scottish Labour Leader and Shadow Minister Anas Sarwar MSP ...