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 ...

By Israfil Khosru Connectivity is a must to facilitate trade and enhance it too, but the conditions should not be lop-sided to the extent that it does not become mutually beneficial As I write this piece, the mania surrounding Narendra Modi’s visit to Dhaka would have died down a bit. It was no doubt a whirlwind affair and had all ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : A British Bangladeshi family of 12 has disappeared amid fears they have travelled to Syria. The group from Luton, which reportedly includes a baby and two grandparents, failed to return home from a holiday in Bangladesh. Police said they are investigating and that “there is a suggestion that the family may have gone to Syria”. Bedfordshire ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Sadiq Khan revealed that his campaign to be Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London has the support of 14 London MPs and over 150 councillors. Among the MPs is former Public Accounts Select Committee chair Margaret Hodge, Shadow Justice Minister Andy Slaughter and Rushanara Ali, whom Khan had nominated for deputy leader before she withdrew from ...