Ansar Ahmed Ullah A public meeting was held in London on 14th July at the East London Microbusiness Centre organised by Amra Sylhetbasi in UK against the brutal killing of Rajon, a 13 year old child brutally killed in Sylhet last week. The Meeting was presided by former student leader Zia Uddin Lala, former GS of Sylhet Madan Mohan College ...

Labour will not be voting against the government’s welfare bill and the limiting of child tax credits to two children, Harriet Harman has confirmed. The interim Labour leader said the party could not tell the public they were wrong after two general election defeats in a row. She said Labour will oppose the cuts in tax credits for those in ...

A “fearless” 101-year-old has set a world record by abseiling more than 300 feet down a tower. Doris Long said she felt no fear as she broke her own previous world record for the oldest abseiler by descending down the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth. The pensioner, nicknamed Daring Doris, took up the challenge to raise money for the Rowans Hospice ...

By A Shahid Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborn unveiled the Summer Budget 2015 setting out his plans for the UK economy.  It is a first all – Conservative budget for nearly two decades. Mr Osborn said his party was fulfilling key pre election pledges to reduce welfare bill by a further £12bn. The standout policy was him embracing a ...

Bangla  Mirror Desk Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman last week attended an Iftar Mahfil in his honour arranged by the UK Unit of the BNP.  The iftar event was principally to meet and greet Bangla journalists from a number of print and electronic media in the UK. The party’s UK unit hosted the Iftar Party at Bric ...

Ex. Councillor of Tower Hamlets Rofique Ahmed’s second daughter Nelema Begum has become a Doctor from King’s College London. On July the 3rd of 2015, Nelema Begum graduated with her MBBS degree from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School. Nelema aspires for a career within Surgery and Dermatology specialising in skin cancer. She has spent time at the St. ...

Bangla Mirror desk As London unites to mark the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, staff at The Royal London Hospital will hold a memorial service at the A&E entrance of the old hospital, to remember those who died and honour the courage of all those affected. At The Royal London, home to world-leading trauma services and London’s Air Ambulance ...

Tower Hamlets Council has been today (July 8) declared the legal owner of the Henry Moore sculpture “Draped Seated Woman” at the High Court. The council has been involved in a lengthy ownership debate with Bromley Council (as successor to the London Residuary Body) who claimed rights to the sculpture in 2012. Responding to the news, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, ...

Dr. Mozammel Haque   Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, Head of the Presidency of the Haramain came to the United Kingdom and visited The Islamic Cultural Centre & The Regents Park London Central Mosque, in the first week of June 2015. Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, Head of the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques & the Imam of the Masjid Al-Haram ...

Piya Mayenin BA (Hons) Econ, PGD Law   ‘Manush dekhte eshechilelam bhobe‘ ( I came to this world to experience humanity) Fakir Lalon Shah. What is Identity Identity needs to be as clear as milk in a bottle. If that milk is spilled into an ocean, the milk will not be traceable. Throughout our lives we often ponder on who ...