Geneva, 3 October 2022: Speakers at a side event at the United Nations in Geneva demanded international recognition of the Bangladesh genocide in 1971 committed by Pakistan and urged the global community, including the United Nations, to recognise the 1971 genocide. They said the time is right for recognition of the Bangladesh genocide, adding it is of great importance and ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   Seven Directors of Homeland Life Insurance company has been granted bail on the condition of compromising.  Jusitce Shumona Paul granted this order at Shalikha Amli Magistrate Court in Magura. Lawyer for Claimant in this case confirmed this. These seven UK expat businessmen were arrested on 21st September from the Head Office of Homeland Life Insurance Company in ...

Addressing Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs (SCG) fringe rally (27 September 2022) at Labour Party Conference, Apsana Begum MP described how she had been treated as “chilling” and vowed to not be silenced. Full Text of her speech: “It is no secret that I have had first-hand experiences of the factionalism and racism exposed in the Forde Report. “You would have ...

, The Bank of England has raised interest rates from 1.75% to 2.25% – the highest level for 14 years – and warned the UK may already be in a recession. The central bank had previously expected the economy to grow between July and September but it now believes it will shrink by 0.1%. It is the Bank’s seventh rate ...

  British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson has inaugurated two learning centres in Narsingdi on 21 September 2022 under the Educate the Most Disadvantaged Children (EMDC) programme funded by the British High Commission in Dhaka and implemented by UNICEF. The objective of the programme is to provide increased opportunities for education to some of the most disadvantaged children, ...

Apsana Begum MP said: “Today I begin a phased return after being signed off sick since 12th June. “Whilst I am feeling better than I was, it saddens me to say that I believe that the Labour Party has failed in its duty of care in relation to my health and well-being. “I have faced a relentless and sustained campaign ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   A heritage project, ‘ Celebrating Bengali Heritage in Luton’ was launched recently by the ‘Centre for Youth & Community Development (CYCD)’, a project of Bangladesh Youth League Luton. The event was held in the CYCD hall room on 3 September at the CYCD. The event was conducted by Trustee Iraq Chowdhury and chaired by Tahir Khan, ...

Saudha Bangla Music Festival, one of the finest celebrations of Bengali music outside the Indian subcontinent is coming to Rich Mix this Sunday(18 September at 5pm) for the eighth year. The festival was launched in 2012 by one of the leading platforms of South Asian Arts in the UK, Saudha Society of Poetry and Indian Music and it was initially ...

Speakers at a condolence meeting organized by Redbridge Community Trust UK (RCT) described Queen Elizabeth II as the greatest statesman of living memory, for 70 years of service to the British people and the Commonwealth of Nations. For this, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will be forever remembered in history. The speakers spoke at a condolence meeting organized by Redbridge ...

  Bangla Mirror Desk :   UKBRU Media Award was presented to four Bangla media journalists working in Britain for their unique contribution to journalism through a ceremony at Conference Room C, House of Commons, on 7 September 7. Under the overall supervision of the host and the first British Bengali MP Rushanara Ali and special guest Minister (Press) of ...