Ansar Ahmed Ullah : The vicious killing of another secular activist in Bangladesh is a grave reminder that the authorities are failing to protect people exercising their right to freedom of expression, Amnesty International said in a statement issued on 7 April. Four masked men attacked Nazimuddin Samad, 28, with a machete in Dhaka late night on Wed 6 April ...

Children in Southall enjoyed two weeks of sporting activities at London Tigers Sports Complex over their Easter holiday break from school. The programme saw over 50 local children aged 6-12 years old making new friends and learning new skills over fun football activities. They learned drills and techniques and played matches against each other. On their last day, Friday 8th ...

On Friday 15th April, people from Tower Hamlets will join a national sleep-out protest against the Housing and Planning Bill (the Bill).  They will meet outside the Council’s housing office at 62 Roman Road E2 0PG at 8pm to raise awareness of the threats to our local community posed by the Bill, including a rise in homelessness (62 Roman Road ...

Tower Hamlets Council’s cabinet have approved the creation of two new Neighbourhood Planning Forums, which would put parts of planning and development directly in the hands of local communities. The two new planning forums are in Spitalfields and the Isle of Dogs, and join Limehouse, Wapping and East Shoreditch. These forums are empowered by the Localism Act to establish a ...

David Cameron’s mother gave him a £200,000 gift after his father’s death which could potentially avoid inheritance tax, his accounts show. In a first for a UK prime minister, Mr Cameron has released a summary of his tax returns from 2009- 15 as he tries to defuse a row over his finances. The two £100,000 payments were made a year ...

Minister Tobias Ellwood said: I am shocked and appalled by the murder of Nazimuddin Samad and strongly condemn this attack on free speech claimed by Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. Violence is never the answer. The right to life of all citizens of Bangladesh must be upheld, as must the right to freedom of expression and open debate. I ...

The bi-yearly General meeting and election of British-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries will be held on 2oth of April.  Candidates have already started submitting their candidacy and 13th April would be the last day for withdrawal of candidacy.  On 13th of April BBCCI will also finalise the nominations of the candidates. The board meeting will be held at BBCCI ...

‘When tough decisions have to be made, I’m not sure the wife of the prime minister needs a special advisor’, says MP Samantha Cameron has a personal stylist who is employed on a civil servant’s salary Reuters The salary of a “special adviser” who helps Samantha Cameron with her social diary and fashion style is being paid for by the ...

Chowdhury Muyeed, 51, and Asma Khanam, 47, to be sentenced on April 8  Essex couple set up fake companies to pay wages to Bangladeshi migrants ‘Sophisticated’ rouse allowed the migrants to claim housing benefit Accomplice Habibur Rahman, 36, also faces jail for similar con Judge Nigel Peters, QC, said it was ‘housing benefit fraud on a huge scale’   A married ...

Turkey will work on a new rule to strip citizenship from Turks found to be supporting terrorism, the justice minister said on Wednesday, a day after President Tayyip Erdogan said he wanted such a measure. Erdogan first floated the idea on Tuesday in a speech to lawyers. Since becoming president, he has transformed the largely ceremonial role into a more ...