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. ...

Police have sought to reassure the public over reports that British jihadis are planning to blow up the Queen during next weekend’s Second World War memorial events in London.   The assassination plot is being orchestrated from Syria by Islamic State commanders, according to the Mail on Sunday. The newspaper reported that extremists aim to explode a bomb in central London ...

Cuts are putting care under “stress and strain” and carers’ efforts are being undermined, the chief inspector of adult social care in England has said. Andrea Sutcliffe told the Observer many carers ended up being “the sort of care worker you wouldn’t want them to be”. There were 30,000 allegations of abuse of people using social care services in the first six ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: One in six jobseekers has their allowance stopped by Department and Work and Pension each year, a national newspaper claims. The figures contradict official claims that only a small minority of jobseekers have been affected by the government’s increasingly severe welfare policies. A recent analysis shows that of those unemployed for 12 months up to April ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: MP for Bethnal Green and Bow Rushanara Ali MP has urged everyone to register their names to take part in the mayoral candidate nomination for forthcoming London mayor election. She also said that if someone registers his or her name, they can also vote for Labour leader election. Rushanara Ali said this in a press conference ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: Tony Blair should stand trial on charges of war crimes if the evidence suggests he broke international law over the “illegal” Iraq war in 2003, the Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn has said. Corbyn called on the former prime minister to “confess” the understandings he reached with George W Bush in the run up to the ...

Many voluntary sector groups were left disappointed that their applications for funding were turned down by the Commissioners appointed by the Government to manage Tower Hamlets Council’s grant making. A total of 368 applications were made for funding under the Main Stream Grants 2015/18 Programme. Funding was agreed by the Commissioners for 131 of these applications at their Decision Making ...

John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, held his first Cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon (28th July). Mental health services, re-procurement of waste management contracts and a report on the council’s budget were among some of the items on the agenda for discussion. The Cabinet agreed savings of £340,000 for the year 2015/16 as a result of a salary sacrifice from Mayor Biggs and ...

Following David Cameron’s speech about tackling Islamist extremism, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has raised concerns about the approach the Government is taking. He said: ‘When David Cameron speaks as he does, there is a risk people will be labelled in a way that is inappropriate and wrong. In Tower Hamlets we have a relatively peaceful borough – ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah :: The Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee, who is on a five day visit, was given a business reception in London on Monday 27 July at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office following a bilateral meeting. Work and Pensions Minister Priti Patel, British Prime Minister’s Indian Diaspora Champion met with the Chief Minister of West ...