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Tenants urged to know their rights as new law comes into force

Residents in Tower Hamlets are being urged to familiarise themselves with changes to the law covering letting agents fees. It is now illegal for agents to charge most fees on new and renewed tenancies. Charges for reference and credit checks have been abolished and caps on how much landlords and agents can ask for as a security deposit and rent ...

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Modern;  past, present and  Islamic law (a gift for Shawal after Ramadan, 2019)

Fatema Miah:   I couldn’t refrain from forwarding these points were raised in discussion about Islam and law,  and where I strongly emphasised on few facts of Hudud the Islamic law, actually what people not aware of rather do know of Sharia as a matter of criticism. Ottoman word comes up strongly when Islam sharia rule talked about. Yes, understandably ...

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Mechanism of America’s complex political system

  Rayhan Ahmed Topader : Mr Trump was different from all who had gone before. He claimed to be actuated by rigid conformity to perceived national self-interest. He professed to put America first on all matters. He proffered the idea that should each country do the same, the result would be stability through an equilibrium of multiple interests. The logical ...

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The energy sources

Fatema Miah: The energy we use everyday are produced from these sources. Worse of from among them fossil fuel and the coal burning source is the worse harmful to the environment. Also the gas burning adds carbondioxide to the environment. Nuclear:  The fission of uranium or other heavy elements produces a great deal more energy than fossil fuels but needs ...

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Global warming is taking its toll

  Afridi Raihan:   Most people think that climate change is something that warms up the earth but that is not the case, if you really think about it, climate change literally just means a change in climate, either hot or cold. An example of this is when we had the ice age around 2.7 million years ago and it ...

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Record ethnic minority students at Oxford

Oxford University’s latest admissions figures show the highest ever proportion of places for ethnic minority students – at 18%. There were also rising numbers of state school pupils, up to about 61%. But the figures, for undergraduate entry in autumn 2018, showed more places taken by students from Singapore than from the north-east of England. Vice-chancellor Louise Richardson said a ...

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Brexit: Government spends £97m on consultants P

Reparing for Brexit has cost the UK government £97m in consultancy fees, the National Audit Office has revealed. The money has been spent on hiring external experts because government departments lack the staff and skills needed, the NAO said. It criticised the government for a lack of transparency, saying details of contracts had not been published in a timely fashion. ...

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Shifting paradigm of personnel management to HRM

By Taslim Ahammad: Human Resource Management has come up with an extension over personnel management, which eradicated the shortcomings of the personnel management. It is quite essential in this era of intense competition where every organisation have to put their manpower and their needs first. Personnel management – Personnel management may define as an administrative specialisation that focuses on hiring ...

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Practice Week connects leaders to frontline children’s services 

  John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, his Cabinet along with 23 other council senior leaders recently took part in ‘Practice Week’ – a week of over 30 activities that showed them first-hand how frontline children’s services support families. Practice weeks have been introduced over the last two years. They provide senior leaders with a unique opportunity to hear directly ...

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The Queen praises the ‘courage and sacrifice’ of D-Day

The Queen has paid tribute to the “heroism, courage and sacrifice” of those who died in the D-Day landings. She was joined by 16 world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, in Portsmouth to commemorate the 75th anniversary of history’s largest combined land, air and naval operation. Mr Trump, who was on the last day of his UK state visit, ...

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