Bangla Mirror Desk: Britain’s parliament approved legislation on Wednesday to ban branding on cigarette packs, drawing immediate threats of legal action from the country’s $29 billion (19.43 billion pounds) tobacco industry. Aimed at improving public health and cutting the number of child smokers, the measure is likely to crimp tobacco company profits and emulates Australia, which in 2012 enacted a ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: A Bangladeshi man has died after being shot in what police believe is a “targeted attack”.  Police say an ambulance was called to a shop on Markham Avenue where a man had gunshot injuries. They  believe he might have been shot in his car and then gone to the shop for help.  Five persons were  arrested including ...

By A Shahid 7th March should become an official National day and declared a public holiday in Bangladesh says a new initiative, which is spearheaded by a social research company, based in Bow Tower Hamlets. Agroni Social research is currently working on a groundbreaking socio educational study focusing on the significance of the famous speech given by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ...

Conservative spending plans will mean £70 billion of cuts to public spending if the Tories win the election – more than double the amount admitted to by David Cameron and George Osborne – an analysis by Labour exposes today.  In a major speech in central London, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said that the unprecedented and extreme scale of these ...

Prime Minister David Cameron today announced 49 new free schools for communities across the country, strengthening the Government’s mission to give all parents the choice and security of a good local school. The move brings the total number of free school places created since 2010 to almost a quarter of a million, making this policy the most successful new schools ...

David Cameron has called on Labour’s Ed Miliband to rule out a post-election deal between Labour and the SNP in the event of a hung Parliament. The PM said such a pact would be the “worst outcome” of May’s election. “You cannot let the people who want to break up our country into the government of our country,” he said. ...

Labour London Assembly Member John Biggs has spoken out to condemn this month’s ticket office closures at Aldgate East and Bethnal Green which marks the start of a project to close several ticket offices across Tower Hamlets. Mr Biggs said the move will leave passengers in Tower Hamlets paying more money for less staff support. The closure comes after it ...

BY  MUHAMMAD ZAMIR ::  Six weeks have passed and yet violence continues to rage on in the name of achieving democracy for the common man. On the plea of recovering the inherent and inalienable rights of the people, the 20-Party coalition led by the BNP continues to foment arson and unrest. Non-stop blockade and hartal have not only disrupted the ...

Most of us are aware that the world is affected by violent behaviors of different individuals or groups and it has increased significantly in recent years. Religions, in particular Islam, have received a great deal of criticism due to these activities. Even though the vast majority of Muslims condemn terrorism, the frequency and cruelty of the assaults have led many ...

By Piya Mayenin ::  In recent years the use of Human Rights as a defence for Immigrants and foreign Criminals in removal and deportation cases has been at the forefront of criticism. Surrounding the controversy has been a curtailing, repealing of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998), and replacing it with a UK Bill of Rights. We have seen ...