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Shahid Malik to lead on combating poverty in Asia |
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Shahid Malik MP, the UK Government’s first Muslim Minister, joins the new ministerial team at the Department for International Development (DFID) with responsibility for DFID’s work in South, Central and East Asia, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Mr Malik, appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, will also support ministerial colleagues on DFID’s work in India, Afghanistan, the Middle East (for example, aid for Palestinians), and conflict resolution issues. He will also lead on the department’s work with faith groups and unions; he will manage DFID’s funding partnerships with the top UK aid agencies such as Oxfam, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief, WWF and VSO; and he will help promote development awareness through the Development Awareness Fund grants.
Commenting, Mr Malik said: ... Details |
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Shahid Malik to lead on combating poverty in Asia |
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UK unemployment rise to 5.8 percent by 2009 |
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| Unemployment in the United Kingdom will go up from 5.4 percent in 2007 to 5.8 percent in 2009, according to a forecast of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The 0.4 percent rise will be equivalent to 100,000 workers losing their jobs over the next two years.
The OECD has more bleak outlooks for the U.K. in other key economic areas. From a 3 percent growth in its gross domestic product, Britain's GDP growth rate for 2008 was placed at 1.8 percent for 2008 and will likely further decline to 1.4 percent in 2009. ... Details |
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Operation Blunt makes sharp progress |
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| Operation Blunt II has seen a recovery of more than 500 knives, it has been announced.
London's Mayor Boris Johnson and Commissioner Sir Ian Blair announced the figures at a joint press conference at City Hall detailing the activity to target knife crime in the capital.
Sir Ian said: "We need, as the whole community of London, to reach out to young people and their parents to help them get rid of the knives on our streets and provide them with alternatives to crime and gang membership. I really admire those, for instance, who organised the demonstration in Islington yesterday. ... Details |
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Govt weighs AL demand for end to emergency rule |
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| Dhaka —The government has taken into account the Awami League's (AL) calls for an end to the state of emergency ahead of national polls, said commerce adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman Thursday.
A final decision on the state of emergency, whether or not to lift it will be taken later through negotiation and an assessment of the situation, the adviser said at a press conference attended by the AL leaders after a government dialogue. ... Details |
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Corruption Charges: AGAIN for Sylhet Mayor Badr'uddin Kamran |
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The Mayor of Sylhet Badruddin Ahmed Kamran is under fresh charges again! Despite charges of corruption and illegal activities in Kitchen Market for which he was imprisoned, the governments anti corruption taskforce have recently revealed the mayors scrupulous activities in several other retail outlets (shops), in markets belonging to the City Corporation. ... Details |
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Top ethnic cop accuses Met of race discrimination |
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| Britain's most senior Asian police officer is preparing to take legal action against Scotland Yard for racial discrimination amidst claims he has been ''sidelined''.
Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur is said to be upset on being excluded from key meetings about the London Olympics in 2012, despite his role in charge of security planning. ... Details |
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British soldier faces life sentence for murder of Bangladeshi |
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A decorated British soldier was convicted of a racist murder of a Bangladeshi waiter in an Indian restaurant and now faces life imprisonment.
As Judge Lord Hardie pronounced the judgement at the High Court in Glasgow, 29-year-old Michael Ross leapt over the dock and charged across the courtroom in an attempt to escape. ... Details |
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Communication, community and the National Health Service |
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Emdad Rahman |
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1. How does your organisation communicate with the wider community?
2. What approach do you use for this?
3. What medium(s) do you use to engage users?
Jeremy Gardner: We try as many methods as we can from advertising at bus stops and in newspapers and meetings such as discussions at Local Area Partnership events. We have been on local TV channels. We distributed fridge magnets, delivered to local homes, publicising the number for our GP service when the local practices are closed in the evening. ... Details |
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Advisor: Food prices in Bangladesh will start coming down |
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LondonBangla Desk |
| Commerce adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman said Thursday that prices of essentials will start coming down.
"The International Monetary Fund has said that food prices in the international market are decreasing. We hope the impact will fall on the local markets soon," the adviser told reporters at the Secretariat, after a high-level meeting on monitoring the price of essentials. ... Details |
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First Solution to reimburse customers |
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| The sudden closure of former First Solution Money Transfer Ltd (now known as XTL Ltd) on 28th June 2007 was a major blow to the UK Bangladeshi community, which had used it to send their hard earned money to relatives in Bangladesh. ... Details |
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'BNP will not go to the polls unless demands are met' |
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| A senior BNP figure said on Thursday the party would not go to the polls unless certain demands were met, as around 140 former BNP lawmakers demanded the release of party chairperson Khaleda Zia and asked that her two sons be sent abroad for better medical treatment. ... Details |
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Forest Gate brothers receive compensation from MET |
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| The two brothers at the centre of the bungled Forest Gate anti-terror raid will receive £60,000 compensation from Scotland Yard.
The decision to reach a settlement with Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 25, and Abul Koyair, 23, comes after more than six months of negotiations with the police. ... Details |
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New Cabinet Members of LBTH: Brief The Media |
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LondonBangla Report |
| "To Achieve a Four Star Rating and to realise the vision of 'One' Tower Hamlets, the support of the media is essential".
Improved services and better facilities centred on user needs have created a confident mood. Tower Hamlets is on the path to successfully achieving four star rating from the current three. ... Details |
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Electoral Reform Dialogue |
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AL, BNP factions, 11 other parties invited |
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The caretaker government yesterday invited 13 more political parties including the Awami League (AL) and both the factions of BNP to the electoral reform dialogue, which will begin at the chief adviser's office from May 22. ... Details |
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