Bangla Mirror Desk: Bangladeshi origin writer Zia Haider Rahman has won the James Tait Black Literary Prizes, Britain’s oldest literary award, for his debut novel In the Light of What We Know. The novelist has joined some of the world’s greatest names in literature, including DH Lawrence, Graham Greene, Angela Carter and Ian McEwan, by winning the prize this year. ...

Following two years of hard work, students across Tower Hamlets today (August 13) celebrated as they opened their A Level results. Results at Mulberry were extremely strong – with Head Teacher Vanessa Ogden indicating that 75 per cent of students achieved A* to C grades. 80 students from the school hold offers for Oxbridge or Russell Group universities. Cllr Sirajul ...

Dr. Mozammel Haque This July marks the first anniversary of the Israeli attack on Gaza named, Operation Protective Edge. We are also remembering the attack on London’s transport system on 7 July 10 years ago and, also the Srebrenica Genocide, 20 years ago. Since Israeli assault on Gaza in 2014, two parliamentary delegations visited Palestine; discussions and debates took place ...

By A. Rahman Two dates – August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945 – will remain firmly etched in the minds of humanity as the example of the world’s worst man-made disaster and cruelty. People will recoil, as long as human civilisation lasts, at how the evil nature of human beings can cause such enormous death, destruction, and sufferings — ...

By Fatema Miah On the 28th of July 2015, Saudi beheading news published on the front page with a full picture. In the picture it shows a scene of the beheading individual is blind folded forced down on his knees among few other people, including uniformed police officers, another official and the be-header dressed up in traditional white Arab long ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: UK unemployment ticked up to 1.85 million in the April to June period, a rise of 25,000 on the previous quarter. It is the first time in two years that there have been two consecutive rises in the number of people out of work. But over the last 12 months employment levels are still markedly higher with ...

Emdad Rahman Volunteers and charity workers for the Rural Development Foundation Global (RDF Global) enjoyed a weekend at the Lake District as the charity announced it’s latest plans in the run up to the opening of a maternity hospital in Bangladesh. RDF Global is a non-profit charitable foundation established in 2006, with an aim to develop maternity and women’s healthcare ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Hundreds of runners took part in a most popular fundraising event Muslim Charity Run 2015 from over 20 charities at Victoria Park, Bow, East London on Sunday 9 August. This year’s run evolved from the previously successful Run 4 Your Mosque. On a gloriously sunny day with temperatures peaking at 25 degrees, runners – young and old ...

A married couple and their three daughters have been arrested in east London on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offences. A 51-year-old man, two women aged 53 and 19, and two girls aged 17 and 16, who are understood to live in Tower Hamlets, were held on suspicion of possessing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing ...

Prime Bank owned PBL Exchange has already earned a positive reputation in sending money to Bangladesh in most secured and fastest way.  It is also actively working to provide the remittance benefit to all the non-resident Bangladeshis.  Director of Prime Bank Mafiz Ahmed Bhuyan told this in a Get Together meeting at a restaurant in East London as chief guest. ...