Italian authorities have so far rescued 28 people alive, including a Bangladeshi, according to reports by CNN and the BBC. Quoting the rescued Bangladeshi, CNN reported many were trapped inside locked doors when the boat packed with hundreds sank in the Mediterranean sea on Sunday. The identity of the Bangladeshi citizen was not yet known— nor was it confirmed whether ...

Some 337 Bangladeshis evacuated from Yemen have reached home in two special flights of Biman from India’s southern state of Kerala. They were evacuated by the Indian naval ships and later carried by passenger ships to Kochi port in Kerala state on Saturday. Biman Bangladesh Airlines flights carried them to Dhaka from there early on Sunday. The first flight landed ...

Likewise many other expats living in different parts of the UK, Ipswich Suffolk Bangladeshi has come forward to support Iqra Academy, a project of Iqra International, which is working for the disable people of Bangladesh. A charity dinner was held in a local restaurant in Ipswich on 13th May which was presided over by Head of Programme of Channel S ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: An unabashed extension of the Thatcherite right to buy for 1.3m families in housing association properties will be at the centre of an aspirational Tory manifesto launched on Tuesday in the West Country. The pledge is expected to see tens of thousands of housing association tenants a year take up a discount on buying a housing association ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Discrimination against Muslim women in the workplace means they are much more likely to be unemployed than white Christian women – even when they have the same qualifications and language skills – research shows. British Muslim women are around 70 per cent more likely to be looking unsuccessfully for work, according to the University of Bristol’s Dr ...

To mark the formal opening of Blackstones Solicitors, a forward looking new solicitors practice based in New Road, East London, the launch ceremony was held on last Friday, 10th April 2015 at the London Muslim Centre. Professionals from different professional backgrounds including senior barristers, solicitors, accountants, journalists; businessman and community leaders were in attendance. Blacktones Solicitors intends to offer legal ...

Dubai based high flying Bangladeshi businessman Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman (Nasir) recently came to London for a family visit. While he was in London he visited Weekly Bangla Mirror’s East London office for a view-exchanging meeting with Editor Abdul Karim Gani. During this visit he discussed how his business is developing across the UK and Europe. He also expressed his deep ...

With the onset of globalisation, the international environment for trade, business and investment has become far more competitive than any time in the past and there is but no other option for Bangladesh to be transformed into a knowledge-driven economy to survive in this fiercely competitive environment, writes Shahabuddin Rajon and Harunur Rashid THE ruling Awami League’s political manifesto, ‘Vision ...

By M. A. JABBAR : The observance of World Health Day again reminds us that adulteration or contamination of food not only affects the life of each people irrespective of gender, age, or economic status but also pose great threat to the growing children and even womb of a mother. Child health specialists have disclosed the fact that the number ...

By Fatema Miah : War crime and genocide issues are international matters because of the globalisation and international Justice System that was formed and agreed by United Nation post World War II.  During the 2nd world war according to the reports and records, it was about sixty to seventy million people were killed over the duration of six years’ war. During the ...