Her Excellency Saida Muna Tasneem, High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the UK, will present the inaugural ‘Bangabandhu-Edward Heath Friendship Award’ to The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation at Arundells in Salisbury Cathedral Close on Wednesday, 26 January from 1pm. Peter Batey will be receiving the award on behalf of Sir Edward, as Chair of the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation, ...

  Poplar and Limehouse MP, Apsana Begum, has expressed solidary with striking Serco workers on a picket outside Royal London Hospital today. She said, “The covid-19 crisis has highlighted the brutal reality of insecure work in the UK and has exposed the systemic failures of the law around worker protections. “Increases in working poverty during the last decade blights our ...

Muhammed Shahed Rahman: Election and biennial conference of the London Bangla Press Club was held on 30 January 2022. Emdadul Haque Chowdhury from Weekly Potrika, as President, Taysir Mahmud as Secretary, Weekly Desh, and Bangla Post’s Saleh Ahmed as the Treasurer were elected to London Bangla Press Club. The biennial conference and the general election of the London Bangla Press ...

  By Abul Kashem Akmol: The Great War of Liberation was a turning point in overcoming the crisis of identity of the people of Bangladesh. During this time, all classes, professions and groups of this country have united and participated in this struggle. Every region in this country has contributed more or less. One such region is Jagannathpur upazila of ...

    By Matiar Chowdhury:   Canadian coalition of leading aid agencies, The Humanitarian Coalition, describes a humanitarian crisis as a “singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well-being of a community or large group of people”. Well, that is exactly what the people of Pakistan occupied Gilgit-Baltistan are faced with: ...

  In the immediate aftermath of COP 26, the Bangladesh Ministry of Rail, led by His Excellency the Honourable Nurul Islam Sujan, MP and his delegation – in the presence of Her Excellency Saida Muna Tasneem the Bangladesh High Commissioner and UK MPs Greg Smith, and Stephen Hammond – have agreed to take important steps develop the Bangladesh Railway with ...

By Matiar Chowdhury: The French National Assembly held on Monday November 22nd  and for the first time in France, a conference to discuss the danger of the ideology of the Taliban in Afghanistan, its relations with the Muslim Brotherhood, its ideology and its  incitement to terrorism in Europe, particularly in France, and in the countries which support it, in the ...

  Stars of British-Bengali stage and screen will headline one of the UK’s biggest celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence. The event will also mark the conclusion of a nine-month series of events, known as [email protected], which has given residents, visitors and others in Tower Hamlets the opportunity to enjoy some of the best Bengali arts, music and culture in the country. Organised by the council, the [email protected] Victory Day concert on Friday 17 ...

  Poplar and Limehouse MP Apsana Begum has tabled two clauses to the Nationality and Borders Bill, to protect the rights of migrants in the UK. Commenting on the Nationality and Borders Bill Apsana Begum said, “This is a dangerously divisive bill which proposes to erode the basic human rights of migrants and seeks to put already vulnerable migrant communities at further socio-economic disadvantage in ...

    Councillor Khaled Noor has become the latest victim of the Labour Party’s handling of Islamophobia.   He has asked the Redbridge Labour Group for many months to hold a proper inquiry into an Islamophobic tweet sent from the official Redbridge Labour Party Twitter Account. The offending tweet was sent on 29th November 2020. The Leader of the Redbridge Labour Group acknowledged that the tweet was “incendiary” and “extremely ...