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    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 ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah: As Bangladesh prepares for its upcoming national elections, an increasing number of expatriate Bangladeshis are expressing interest in contesting parliamentary seats. Among them are many dual citizens, some of whom have already secured preliminary nominations from major political parties. Yet, their eligibility remains legally uncertain under Bangladesh’s constitution and electoral laws. Article 66(2)(c) of the Constitution clearly ...

Motorists in part of south-east London are less likely to be hit with penalty charge notices (PCNs) this week as traffic wardens begin industrial action. On Monday 10 November, civil enforcement officers in Bromley will embark on action short of a strike for a week, after pay talks with their employer broke down. Bromley traffic wardens who are GMB union ...

By Bulbul Hasan: Some lives leave ripples; others leave radiance. Dr. A. K. M. Hafiz was one whose presence quietly brightened every space he entered — through his kindness, intellect, and profound belief in the goodness of people. To those who knew him, he was more than a physician; he was a healer in the truest sense — of bodies, ...

For the first time in its nearly 700-year history, the Lord Mayor’s Show this year became the Lady Mayor’s Show. Dame Susan Langley DBE is not the City of London’s first female lord mayor – she’s the third in 697 years – but she is the first to take the lady mayor title. The show is a procession from the ...

London’s historic Highgate Cemetery is set for an £18m regeneration after the local authority approved plans to improve the site. Camden Council has approved plans to overhaul the north London site as part of a 25-year “revitalisation” project to combat the effects of climate change and general decay, restore existing structures and construct new buildings. One of capital’s “magnificent seven” ...