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London Mayor Sadiq Khan said “lives could have been saved” if he had been allowed to attend early coronavirus Cobra meetings, claiming Downing Street kept him “in the dark”. Speaking at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Monday, Mr Khan accused the government of ignoring his repeated requests to attend the emergency meetings in March 2020. He said it left him ...

  Muhammed Shahed Rahman:     UK Awami League’s press conference has been completed by inviting all parties to participate in the upcoming national parliamentary elections of Bangladesh. United Kingdom Awami League has invited all the parties of Bangladesh to participate in the next national parliament election on January 7th, 2024 by answering various questions of the journalists present at ...

Hundreds of thousands of people marched through central London in a pro-Palestinian march on Saturday demanding a permanent ceasefire, a day after the exchange of hostages held in Gaza for prisoners held in Israel amid a four-day temporary ceasefire. Protesters old and young chanted for a ceasefire as they marched down Park Lane to Whitehall, some draped with Palestinian flags, ...

British music store HMV will on Black Friday return to its former flagship store on London’s Oxford Street after a four-year absence, offering vinyl, clothing and merchandise in a vote of confidence for physical stores in an increasingly online age. The 363 Oxford Street address hosted the very first HMV store in 1921, opened by composer Edward Elgar, and was ...

 Bangla Mirror Desk:   A delegation from the Study Circle London, a UK-based British-Bangladeshi think tank, handed in a memorandum to the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on 20 November 2023 at 10 Downing Street to express concern over recent violence in Bangladesh and to seek cooperation between the UK and Bangladesh. The delegation, led by Study Circle coordinator Jamal ...

Mirror Desk :   The British Bangladeshis have made their own place in multicultural Britain with contributions in their respective fields and have been playing a major role in the growth of this country. The British Bangladeshi Who’s Who publication emphasises the success of the Bangladeshi community and showcases it to both the British and Bangladeshi community in the UK. ...

    Saima Wazed, Advisor to the Director General of the WHO for Mental Health and Autism and Thematic Ambassador for Vulnerability of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) has recommended that the Commonwealth organize a dedicated climate and mental health resilient day at the first-ever Health Day to be held at the COP28 in Abu Dhabi. Ms Wazed, also the ...

  ■ Bangla Mirror Desk ■ Najmun Nahar recently attended a conference for ‘Climate Vulnerability and Mental Health: Voice of Women’ in common wealth Office London which was organised by Bangladesh High Commission uk. This is the seventh visit of Najmun Nahar in London, she likes to visit London as the Bangladeshi community is so integrated and welcoming.   After ...

In a bold display of solidarity and activism, approximately 400 school children in East London, specifically Tower Hamlets, took to the streets on November 16, calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel. This demonstration comes in the wake of a Parliamentary vote where MPs voted against a motion for an immediate ceasefire with a result ...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday condemned far-right protesters and Hamas sympathisers, as hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian supporters marched through London calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war in Gaza. Nearly 2,000 police were out in force to keep rival groups apart, with the march organised on Armistice Day, the annual event when Britain remembers its war dead ...