Ramadan is six weeks away and a pre-hand preparation of the self and a spiritual warm up is due in order to be fit enough as well as work hard to attain the great rejuvenation of the annual holy month. As the blessed month await, many others also prepare for fasting months in advance as they set off to shop ...

  The 37th Annual Altab Ali day took place this week beginning with a solemn and dignified wreath laying ceremony. It brought together veterans of the 1978 era and a number of current leaders and organisations from the wider anti racist movement. Below Rajonuddin Jalal, a former Tower Hamlets Council deputy Leader and prominent in that famous struggle highlights some ...

by Farooque Chowdhury :  THE wage ‘slaves’ were coerced or allured out of their villages with the power of starvation. ‘[B]etween the years 1921 and 1931 the number of industrial workers employed in establishments of more than 10 workers rose from 2.6 million to 3.5 million. In the intervening decade, and especially in the last two and a half years of the war ...

By A. Rahman :    Only a few weeks ago, Bangladesh celebrated Bengali New Year’s day (Bangla Noboborsho) with unprecedented razzmatazz – colourful festoons donned the apartments in high-rise buildings, rickshaws, and even lamp posts; women wearing bright yellow saris chanted Noboborsho-welcoming songs; girls with garlands in their hands walked the streets, as if to offer garlands to the exalted ...

Everyone has a favourite ‘ curry house’ and Curry is one of Britain’s most loved food. Currently it is a huge industry generating over £4.1 billion for the economy with over 15,000 outlets in the UK. Yet the industry is struggling to survive. Agroup of around 100 Southend curry houses and businesses gathered to discuss the slow death ofthe curry house in Britain.   The event ...

Aerospace Travels and Al-Amin Travels jointly organised a meeting to give farewell to former Country Manager of Biman Bangladeshi Airlines in UK and Ireland, Atiqur Rahman Chisty and to welcome the new Country Manger Shafiqul Islam. The meeting took place in the The Collective of Bangladeshi School Governors office in East London on 2nd May. The event was presided over by prominent educationist ...

Labour Friends of Bangladesh organised a networking meeting on 4th of May in a restaurant in North London which was supported by BCA North London-Heardforshire East. BCA North London President Mujahid Ali Chowdhury presided over the meeting. Organising Secretary Delwar Hossain and Treasurer Akhtar Hossain jointly conducted it. BCA North London General Secretary M Foyjul Haque acted as the co-ordinator ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah :  This year the annual Altab Ali Day was commemorated by Altab Ali Foundation (AAF) on Mon 4 May 2015, at the ‘Shahid Minar’, Altab Ali Park, Whitechapel, with a solidarity rally. The event started with a minute silence, took place on Monday 4th May, to coincide with the date of Altab Ali’s murder. Floral wreath in honour of Altab Ali & ...

Mirpur Union Welfare Trust held a special general meeting on 28th of April 2015 at the Micro Business Centre. The meeting was chaired by Chairperson Md Alhaj master Amir Uddin Ahmed and conducted by general secretary Md Angur Ali. The meeting started with recitation of the Quran by Mowlana Helal Uddin Ahmed. After the welcome speech by the Chairperson, speeches were made by ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: In his first public speech since his removal, former Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman said that more than 37,000 voters gave him votes because of his successful contribution in community development. People have voted him because of his record-breaking achievement in Housing, education, regeneration and creating jobs. He also said that “I am, as you know, no longer Mayor,” Rahman ...