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 ...

Bangladesh Student Organisation UK has declared its new committee. The organisation has vowed to work for the welfare of UK residing Bangladeshi students when it declared the new committee at Oxford Union Hall of Oxford University on 24 April. Founder Chairman of Bangladesh Student Organisation (BCO) Ataullah Faruk declared the new committee. The 155 member’s executive committee included Dr S ...

Bianibazar Thana Janakalyan Shomity organised a general meeting on 26 April in a community centre in East London. The association members unanimously decided and declared 6th September as date for its general meeting and election. The committee also declared that members who want to participate in the election need to renew their membership by 6th July whereas general members would ...