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Income poverty affects third of UK population

Bangla Mirror Desk: Almost a third of the UK population experienced income poverty in at least one year between 2010 and 2013, official data shows. The figures, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday, show that approximately 19.3 million people had a disposable income of below 60% of the national median at some point during the four-year ...

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Baishakhi Mela celebration in East london

Bangla Mirror Desk: Thousands of the UK’s Bangladeshi community members and members from other communities celebrated Bengali New Year 2015 on 17th May with live music and performances on stage together with various stalls offering food and drinks in Victoria Park, London. Glamour’s costumes and traditional food were among the highlights at Bengali New Year celebration in East London. The ...

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Rushanara to fight for Deputy Leadership

Bangla Mirror Desk: Rushanara Ali, the first Bangladeshi origin member of the House of Commons, has become a candidate in the position of Deputy Leader in the Labour Party, the Opposition in the UK parliament. Daniel Hassel, Labour Councilor of the Bromley South ward of the Tower Hamlets Council and Syed Mansur Uddin Shikhon, media adviser of Rushanara Ali have ...

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Rabina Khan wants to keep up the best of position of Tower Hamlets in Housing

Bangla Mirror Desk: Independent candidate Rabina Khan has said that if she is elected, she will continue the provisions of Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), free school meal, free home care service and council tax freeze and prioritise to keep the top position in housing league table. Supported by the former Mayor of Tower Hamlets LutfurRahman, Rabina Khan said this in ...

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Nadeem Qadir joins press minister’s office in London

Bangla Mirror Desk: Eminent journalist Nadeem Qadir joined the office of the Press Minister of Bangladesh High Commission in the United Kingdom on Monday the 18th of may 2015 Government last year made Nadeem press minister for two years. But he could not join on time due to official complexities. On the arrival of Nadeem in the morning local time, ...

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BNP Leader Jillul Haque buried in uk

Founder President of Sussex BNP UK Alhaz Jillul Haque was laid to rest in Durrington Cemetery worthing jame mosque in Sussex brighton area on Tuesday Uk time After zohur salat. (Zohur jamat 1.30pm) prayer. family sources said.Jillul Haque left behind his wife, two sons, five daughter, relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death. Alhaz Jillul Haque also founder of Ranigonj ...

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John Biggs pledges Altab Ali commemoration day

John Biggs, Labour’s Mayoral Candidate in Tower Hamlets has pledged that if he were elected Mayor, the date 4 May in Tower Hamlets would be dedicated as Altab Ali Day, in commemoration of the 25-year-old Bengali worker, who was murdered on 4 May 1978 by three racist teenagers as he walked home from work. After meeting with members of the ...

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Project launched to reflect lives of Bangladeshis in Westminster

Central London Youth Development has started a project on ‘hopes and fears’ of Bangladeshi parents wen they raised their children in 60’s and 70’s. The name of the project is ‘Faced in Westminster’ which will speak about mainly on parents living in Central London. The project will focus largely on stories of parents on that time describing benefits, advantages and ...

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Project launched to reflect lives of Bangladeshis in Westminster

Central London Youth Development has started a project on ‘hopes and fears’ of Bangladeshi parents when they raised their children in 60’s and 70’s. The name of the project is ‘Faced in Westminster’ which will speak about mainly on parents living in Central London. The project will focus largely on stories of parents on that time describing benefits, advantages and ...

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