Newham Council is joining the Let’s Talk Loneliness Campaign to mark Loneliness Awareness Week between 14 and 18 June 2021. The week aims to raise awareness of loneliness and encourages people to speak openly about it. After a year of lockdowns, social distancing, and restrictions, more of us are experiencing loneliness than ever before. This can have a great impact ...

By Shofi Ahmed: Should you put your pretty pound in bitcoin? Can it be a good investment for us? It’s a question many have in their minds nowadays. Citing that last Thursday, I recommended you to watch a programme on bitcoin. This is an advanced subject. To give advise on it would require one to be proficient at chart reading ...

  Rayhan Ahmad Topader:   The connection between democracy and health runs deep, and it is tempting to tie a country’s political institutions directly to its overall health. A country’s political structure, however, influences essentially every facet of society, including health, and thus interactive and interdependent effects work in multiple directions. Democracy is but one determinant of health. And even ...

  Bangladesh signals moves to transition away from coal and submit an ambitious climate plan during COP26 President’s visit COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma visited Bangladesh, following successful visits to Viet Nam and Indonesia He met Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina as well as government ministers, climate experts and youth to discuss shared aims A joint statement on UK-Bangladesh climate ...

  The government has launched its first ever Virtual IT Desk and B2B Connectivity Portal, the `Bangladesh IT Connect-UK’, at the Bangladesh High Commission in London to attract more FDI and create greater business connectivity between entrepreneurs and vendors from IT Industry in Bangladesh and the UK. Developed by the LICT Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT ...

Bangladesh-UK Joint Statement following the meeting between Foreign Minister of Bangladesh H.E. Dr A.K. Abdul Momen and COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma Foreign Minister of Bangladesh H.E. Dr A.K. Abdul Momen and COP26 President-Designate the Rt Hon Alok Sharma met on 02 June 2021 in Dhaka during the visit of COP26 President-designate to Bangladesh on 02-04 June 2021. They jointly reaffirmed ...

  By Shofi Ahmed: Smart topic! Well chosen for tonight’s Reality With Mahee. It’s worth watching. Mainstream media, CNN, Al Jazeera all keeping an ear on the crypto ground. Riding the crypto ride is all the rage now. The hack so called Bitcoin is roaming big in DeFi (decentralised finance) space. Wall Street’s alchemists’ and retail traders’ eyes are on ...

    Tower Hamlets Council has stepped up its commitment to make the borough an anti-racist place to live and work by asking high profile organisations in East London to pledge their support to make it a reality by 2025. Mayor John Biggs was joined by representatives from Barts Health Trust, East London Business Alliance, London Muslim Centre, No Place ...

  The ongoing commitment and hard work of thousands of volunteers across Tower Hamlets is being recognised and celebrated as part of National Volunteers’ Week 1-7 June. The theme of the week (now in its 37th year) is ‘a time to say thanks’ in recognition of the huge role that volunteers have played in their communities throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Since ...

Sections of Brick Lane will become traffic-free on certain evenings and all weekend as part of Tower Hamlets Council’s Liveable Streets programme. The changes will see the famous road closed to traffic on Thursday and Friday between 5.30-11pm and Saturday and Sunday from 11am-11pm. Proposals to restrict traffic at these times to support Brick Lane businesses and make the road ...