Life in Sylhet became normal early this month after nearly two months of violence during BNP’s indefinite blockade and general strikes but locals are still scared of making bus journeys. The Sylhet-Dhaka road connects Sylhet with several districts, but this is the road where some of the vicious petrol bomb attacks left many injured as well as killed during the ...

A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Malikandi village of Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Rokeya Begum, 45, wife of Ekhlus Ali, a resident of the village. Local people said, Rokeya mother of five children, took poison in her room in the afternoon. On information, police recovered the body and sent ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : With the 2014 election declared void, Tower Hamlets is  of the east London borough in 2014 was declared ‘void’ by Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey, who sat as a judge in the special High Court hearing. At the special High Court hearing, Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey also ordered Mr Rahman to pay £250,000 in costs. One of ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:  The London Labour Party has announced that John Biggs has been selected as Labour’s candidate for the re-run mayoral election in Tower Hamlets on 11 June.  John Biggs said:  “I am delighted to have been confirmed as Labour’s candidate.  “Tower Hamlets must now move on from the divisive politics of Lutfur Rahman and his disgraced regime of corruption ...

Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has taken a series of steps in relation to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, following last week’s Election Court judgement.  Proposed directions extend the powers of the Commissioners over the whole of the local authority, as the Commissioners see fit, in order to exercise to ensure good governance and ...

The after-shocks of last week’s election court decision are rumbling through Tower Hamlets.  There was already wide-spread anger about the decision of an unelected judge to depose a politician that 37,395 had voted for.  Now there are strong rumours that Eric Pickles (who is himself not currently an elected MP) is planning to impose direct rule on Tower Hamlets.  Glyn ...

By A Shahid Sheikh Dabir Miah is an unassuming pleasant individual who has led an uneventful and ordinary, life in Tower Hamlets for the past forty plus years. However, it was not always like that. 37 years ago, this week he found himself in the cusp of racist murder, turbulent events and a struggle for rights that would go on ...

   Ansar Ahmed Ullah :  The Jury of the world’s largest photography competition today, 23 April, named Rahul Talukder as the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards’ Conceptual Photographer of the Year. Rahul Talukder, a documentary photographer from Sunamganj, Sylhet, was selected from over 87,000 entries to the Professional competition for a series titled “Faded history of the lost”. The work is ...