Tower Hamlets Council is reminding retailers that all displays of tobacco products must be covered up from April 6, 2015. New legal requirements mean that all businesses must hide from public view any tobacco products they sell. There are also specific rules for how you display the prices of tobacco products. Large retailers have had to cover tobacco displays since ...

Founder of British Curry Awards Enam Ali MBE has won the Non Resident Bangladeshi Person of the Year award by reader’s vote and judgement of selection committee panel.  First Secretary of Bangladesh High Commission in London Mohammod Monirul Kabir declared his name as the NRB person of the Year 2014 in an event held in Montefiore Centre in East London. ...

Anti-cuts candidate Hugo Pierre was confirmed as a general election candidate by the Council today. Hugo was proposed by Dave Wallis, an RMT rep, and seconded by Mohshin Ahmed, a Unite member who has been part of the recent strikes for one rate of pay for bus drivers in London. Hugo Pierre said: ‘The mainstream parties have declared war on ...

Iqra International’s Swansea Charity Fund Raising event has raised 25,000 pounds for the disable patients of Sylhet.  The fund raising event took place in Party Pavilion near Prithi Raaj Restaurant in Swansea.  Many non-Bangladeshi Muslim residents of Swansea took part in the charity event along with numerous numbers of Bangladeshis.  Local residents took this as a humanitarian responsibility and came ...

Redbridge Welfare Association has been working for the fulfilment of the hopes and expectation of the local community since when its journey began. The hope will remain with the newly elected committee that they will advance the organisation even further.  The speakers and guests said this while attending special AGM and Independence Day observation organised by Redbridge Welfare Association. Organisation’s ...

Deputy Mayor of Tower Hamlets has urged to retain the culture and custom of Bangladeshi in the UK in an united way. He was addressing the Italian Bangladeshi expats in a discussion meeting to observe Independence Day of Bangladesh. The event was organised by Bangladeshi Italian Welfare Family Welfare Association, Tower Hamlets. The Deputy Mayor also said that people who ...

 At least four people, including a woman and a child, were killed as a tractor collided head-on with a human hauler (locally known as easy-bike) at Umednagar on the Habiganj-Nabiganj Road in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning. Three of the deceased were identified as Rahima Khatun, 30, Lal Miah, 50, and Samia, 1, while identity of the other could not ...