The Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets has said that we all need solidarity of our human conscience in order to come out from the terrorist attack in Paris and the aftermath of it. He also said that, rather than creating divisions on the basis of religion or colour, we should see terrorists as terrorists. He said this in a meeting ...

Bangla Mirror Desk::A mother of Bangladeshi origin and her lesbian lover killed her daughter Ayesha Ali after developing a relationship centred on fictional characters, a court has heard. Kiki Muddar, 43, and Polly Chowdhury, 35, are accused of murdering eight- year-old Ayesha Ali at a block of flats in Chadwell Heath on 29 August 2013. At the Old Bailey, prosecutor ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:: Primark has organised a press conference on their ongoing work in Bangladesh and its response to Rana Plaza tragedy.  The press conference was held in Bombay Restaurant in West London on 19 January. The Press briefing was conducted by the Ethical Trading Director of Primark Katherine Stewart and chaired by Paul Lister, Director of Legal Services and ...

Bangladesh won a direct entry in the Fifa World Cup 2018 Qualifiers as per the new regulations introduced by the world football’s governing body Fifa. The new system dubbed as the Preliminary Joint Qualifiers officially reached the Bangladesh Football Federation yesterday. As per the new regulations the first 34 ranked teams of the current 46 members of Asian Football Confederation ...

Pope Francis is firmly upholding church teaching banning contraception, but said Monday that Catholics don’t have to breed “like rabbits” and should instead practice “responsible parenting.” Speaking to reporters en route home from the Philippines, Francis said there are plenty of church-approved ways to regulate births. But he said most importantly, no outside institution should impose its views on regulating ...

Khaleda Zia is expected to address the media soon after police were withdrawn from her Gulshan office. The BNP chairperson has been there since Jan 3 after she failed to get out amid heavy police presence. The former prime minister called an indefinite transport blockade two days later when police barred her from leaving office to lead anti-government agitations. She ...

Dhaka court has issued arrest warrant against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a defamation case. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Anwar Sadat issued the warrant on Tuesday morning. AB Siddique, president of Bangladesh Jononetri Parishad, a pro-Awami league organisation, filed the case against the duo for making derogatory remarks on Bangabondhu Sheikh Mujibur ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:: A Bangladeshi is among 60 young people from across the commonwealth who have been selected for the first-ever and prestigious Queen’s Young Leaders Award. The British High Commission in Dhaka on Tuesday said Shamir Shehab would be recognised for his “exceptional leadership” in the community. The award, which will be presented in London by the Queen in June, ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Eight British citizens of Bangladeshi origin are going to participate in the upcoming parliamentary election of the United Kingdom, which is due to take place on 7 May, just one day after the coalition government fulfils its term. They have been nominated from three major political parties of the country for the election to be held ...

Divers in the Java Sea have retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501, say officials. The retrieval comes a day after the first piece of the so-called black box, the flight data recorder, was also found and brought to shore. The aircraft with 162 people on board disappeared between Surabaya in Indonesia and Singapore on 28 ...