Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman has been thrown out of office after being found guilty of corruption and illegal practices during election. The results of his re-election as mayor of the east London borough in 2014 was declared ‘void’ by Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey, who sat as a judge in the special High Court hearing. The Bangladesh-born politician was banned ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah : Citizens Unite, a campaigning group, held a meeting recently to address the issue of young people especially young women from Tower Hamlets who have recently gone to join ISIS in Syria/Iraq. The meeting was held on Wednesday 8th April in Tarling East Community Centre and was presided by Farhana Zaman, Chairperson of the organisation. The well ...

The main parties are running their campaign tirelessly for the 7th May election and political parties are mainly concentrating their campaign on Housing, Education, Health and employment.  In the run up of Conservative Party campaign in Barking, a series of meetings were held for its candidate Mina Rahman.  These campaign meetings were held in Barking Station, Barking Market, Long Bridge ...

Banlga Mirror Desk: Few politicians would be foolish enough to say publicly they’d prefer not to be elected because of the unpopular decisions that await, but next month’s election in Britain is one some may privately regard as a poisoned chalice. Britain’s economy is one of the fastest growing in the developed world, but whoever wins still faces challenges that ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Chairman of Brick Lane Mosque Committee and prominent community leader Ataur Rahman passed away.  He died in a hospital in East London on 15th April at 5.50 in the afternoon (Inna Lillahi…. Rajiun).  His dead body was then taken Chanvorang village of Bishwanath on 18th April and buried there next to his mother’s grave on the 19th. ...

Senior Judicial Magistrate court of Habigonj on Thursday upheld an arrest warrant against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman in a mudslinging case filed for his derogatory remarks against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after he failed to appear before it. Nishat Sultana, Senior Judicial Magistrate, passed the order around 12:30pm. According to the local source, Tarique delivered disparaging speeches about Bangabandhu ...

Indian of officer, a special wine called ‘Choice Wine’ and 116 bottles of beers were seized from the border area of Companigonj Upazilla under Sylhet district. BGB grabbed these from the border area namely Kalirag of Companigonj. A group of of BGB members led by Shafiur Rahman, Naik of Kalirag BOP of Companigonj expedited this area at 8:30. During their ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) student wing called the “Jatiyatabadi Chattra (Chhatra) Dal (JCD)”; its current leaders and activities, brought out a sudden procession and broke many vehicles and threw cocktails at Zindabazar of Sylhet city. This incident took place around 4pm in the afternoon on Thursday. They broke at least two CNG fueled auto rickshaws giving slogans. Besides, they blasted ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Player of the match Soumya Sarkar remained unbeaten on 127 runs from only 110 balls and took Bangladesh home in the third and final ODI match of the series at Mirpur on Wednesday. After the comprehensive victories in the first and second matches, Bangladesh won their tenth ODI series via a whitewash, or “Banglawash” for the millions ...