Bangla Mirror Desk:   The British High Commissioner Designate to Bangladesh Ms Sarah Cooke arrived today in Dhaka. She succeeds Mr Robert Chatterton Dickson. On her appointment as the British High Commissioner Designate to Bangladesh, Ms Cooke said: “I am delighted and deeply honoured to be returning to Bangladesh as British High Commissioner. The United Kingdom has strong cultural, political ...

By Muhammed Shahed Rahman :     A press conference was held in East London on the initiative of expatriate citizens of Sylhet City Corporation in support of Bangladesh Awami League and expatriate representative mayor candidate Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury in the Sylhet City Corporation election. On Friday (28 April 2023) afternoon in the hall of the London Bangla Press Club, the ...

By Muhammed Shahed Rahman : Sumaiya’s murder in Sylhet’s Balaganj, a protest event was held in London in the presence of a large number of conscious citizens. The expatriate people are vocal in demanding exemplary punishment by bringing the killers to justice. On Tuesday (25 April 2023) evening at the Micro Business Center in East London, the protest meeting organized ...

Ahead of Report Stage (26th April) of the Illegal Migration Bill, Apsana Begum MP is proposing a range of human rights amendments and protections for pregnant migrants.  Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse, said:   “This Bill will imprison pregnant women and put their health and the life of their unborn child at risk. “Migrant women, who should have finally escaped persecution, will ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   The London Bengali Film Festival today announced the full line up of films included in this year’s 6th edition of Europe’s largest Bengali film festival, running April 26 – 30, 2023. The programme includes seven feature films and three shorts in Bengali and Hindi languages from Bangladesh, India and beyond. The festival launches at the prestigious ...

  Diane Abbott has been suspended as a Labour MP pending an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism for the Observer, the party has said. The politician said “many types of white people with points of difference” can experience prejudice, in a letter published on Sunday. But they are not subject to racism “all their lives”, she said. ...

  Ahead of the ten-year anniversary since the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh killed at least 1,132 workers and injured more than 2,500, Apsana Begum MP has tabled a parliamentary motion condemning the ongoing poor labour conditions, low wages, and unsafe work environments, with a high incidence of work-related accidents and deaths, faced by workers in the garment sector worldwide. Apsana Begum, ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :   Karim Foundation Trust has donated seven lak taka to more than 100 families of Kishorpur, Nuapara and Mujahidpur villages of Pailgaon Union of Jagannathpur Upozila. The trust has donated 7000 taka to each family on the occasion of Eid. The trustees donated this money to poor and destitute families at Trustee’s house in Kishorpur. A ...

Muhammed Shahed Rahman :   In front of Tower Hamlets new Town hall Whitechapel, people from curry industry and other professions stood with placards in their hands to demand Eid holiday in the UK on the two Muslim Eid.  Seeing that, many more consumers and conscious citizens of the community joined in the demand of Eid holiday. On Tuesday (18 ...

By Taslim Ahammad:   The title “Sir” is a mark of honour and respect that typically used to address men who have been awarded knighthood by a monarch or head of state, or those who have been granted the title by the Queen or King. Knighthood is a form of respect for an individual’s outstanding contribution to the society as ...