Peter Hawkey (left) congratulating Sumon Hoque (right) on becoming the Scottish Labour candidate for Banff and Buchan in the General Election. Friday 13 February 2015 The Banff and Buchan Labour Party has selected Sumon Hoque as its candidate for this May’s General Election during a meeting in Banff recently. A graduate from University of Aberdeen, Sumon has been working in ...

Ahead of International Women’s Day on Sunday 8 March, Rushanara Ali MP last night marked the occasion by hosting a large public event alongside Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman MP. Part of Labour’s Woman to Woman campaign, the event celebrated the history and contribution of women in Bethnal Green and Bow and provided an opportunity for local ...

University heads received an average of £260,000 per year and 18 received pay rises over 10%, according to a salary survey from the UCU lecturers’ union. The biggest earner in 2013-14 was the head of Nottingham Trent University whose total benefits were £623,000. Last week, university leaders warned against cutting tuition fees to £6,000, arguing that budgets were under threat. ...

TUSC parliamentary candidate for Bethnal Green and Bow Glyn Robbins joined scores of other local people taking part in a national day of action to Save the NHS (Saturday 29th Feb).  Petitions were collected in Roman Road and later outside the Whitechapel Idea Store (photo attached).  Heath care services have been threatened in Tower Hamlets where a strong campaign has ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah :: Avijit Roy, a US-based blogger of Bangladeshi origin, was hacked to death on the streets of Dhaka on 26 February by terrorists trying to stifle free speech. His wife and fellow blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonya suffered head injuries and lost a finger. She remains in hospital in a serious condition. Roy, who ran a popular site ...

Crossing the divide: dozens of designs have been submitted for a new Nine Elms to Pimlico bridge. All of them struggle with the differing elevations of the two sides. This one deploys snaking ramps in an attempt to overcome the problem New bridges — for cyclists and pedestrians — across the Thames in central London are set to change the ...

By Fatema Miah :: The mystical glory vision, under the glary heaven that staring down at the disciples, and there ahead stands the enormous heavenly surrounding wall of boundaries. It enriched the glorious holiness in your vision. The heaven staring down at your, enriches your glorified inner passion, the deep humble, dedication to the Lord of the universe. It draws ...

By Piya Mayenin :: The ISIS led since 2010 by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is so hardline and violent that Al Qaida led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is based in Pakistan has disavowed them. Isis is highly fanatical; killing Shia Muslims and Christians whenever possible, as well as militarily and under tight direction by top leaders. What would drive three teenagers ...

BY  SHABBIR AHMED :: The students of history of South Asia know it too well that the partition of India into two nations did not bode well for us, the inhabitants of the then East Pakistan.Punjabi clique ruled our motherland for a long time and that includes the military and the communal forces of Pakistan. These Islam-based communal forces tried ...

By M. Sophia Newman::  This weekend, Bangladesh celebrated Language Martyr’s Day once again. The holiday is one of my favourites – a celebration of the genuinely beautiful thing that brought me to Bangladesh in the first place. Yet I am too afraid to celebrate. In 2011, I came to Dhaka on a scholarship for ten weeks of intensive Bangla-language study. ...