On 17 August 2020 a three member UK Nirmul Committee team comprising of Syed Enamul Islam, Vice Chair, Harmuz Ali, Vice Chair and Jamal Ahmed Khan, General Secretary went to see Bangladesh’s High Commissioner to the UK, Saida Muna Tasneem at the Bangladesh High Commission in Kensington to hand over a memorandum addressed to Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   Humanity needs more and more electricity, but we need to find a way to generate it while reducing the use of hydrocarbons. This can only be achieved with cooperative actions by China and the United States. The technologies will emerge, but one has to set the correct economic price for carbon. Without such agreements on price ...

  The Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has made a last-ditch appeal to the Government to bring in additional protections for private renters before the eviction ban is lifted at the end of this week (23rd August). Although the Scottish and Welsh governments have moved to increase protections for private renters, there have been no such plans from Westminster despite ...

  The Mayor of Tower Hamlets has branded the Government’s decision to scrap Public Health England (PHE) during the Covid-19 pandemic as ‘irresponsible and astonishing’. The Government’s plans, first announced in a Sunday newspaper, will see the ex-boss of the TalkTalk mobile phone company Dido Harding take control of a new agency called the ‘National Institute for Health Protection’ (NIHP). ...

Fatema Miah: During Hajj using fragrance is forbidden then its matter of necessity and to the acceptability, for medicinal purposeful i oitments allowed. Women can wear normal cloths and men/male must wear two sheets of unstriched/towels, to wrap around on.  Mannerism, should Muslims apply? Hajj is stressful time, and its needs very much precaution not to be wrong. (In 2018 ...

By Taslim Ahammad:   How much employees like their jobs and their job satisfaction is the critical concept in the study of work. Job satisfaction is likely to result in a number of positive benefits for employees such as; their well-being, mental health, life satisfaction and on the other hand positive benefits for organizations like; better performance, more responsibility, less ...

  Parts of Brick Lane will be temporarily pedestrianised next week to provide safe spacing for walking and outdoor seating for restaurant customers. The temporary closure is being delivered by Tower Hamlets Council using funding from the Department for Transport. From Thursday 27 August, sections of the iconic street will be closed to vehicles to promote social distancing while providing a timely boost to restaurants facing some of the ...

    A council officer who volunteered to put her experience supporting start up businesses to use as a mentor for the borough’s young people has been named London Enterprise Adviser of the Year. By day, Deborah Millington works with budding entrepreneurs to help them put their ideas into action. Last year she saw an opportunity to use the knowledge ...

A-level and GCSE students in England will be given grades estimated by their teachers, rather than by an algorithm, after a government U-turn. It follows uproar after about 40% of A-level results were downgraded by exams regulator Ofqual, which used a formula based on schools’ prior grades. GCSE results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland come out on Thursday. Ofqual ...

  Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   Children are not the face of this pandemic. But they risk being among its biggest victims, as children’s lives are nonetheless being changed in profound ways. All children, of all ages, and in all countries, are being affected,in particular by the socio-economic impacts and, in some cases, by mitigation measures that may inadvertently do more ...