Emdad Rahman Before the winter league kicks off, Sylhet FC would like to send their greetings to everyone who will be celebrating Eid next week. Team captain Kamal Chowdhury said, “Eid is a time of unity, happiness and peace. We wish ...
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Canary Wharf hosts launch of UK Bangla Media Cup 2016
Emdad Rahman Medialink has announced plans to launch Europe’s first ever Bangla Media Cup. The landmark event, which is supported by the Canary Wharf Group plc, was officially launched at One Canada Square. During the first annual UK Bangla Media Cup, ...
Read More »Suspended sentence for UKIP MEP’s worker
Christine Hewitt, who has been found guilty of trying to fiddle her MEP boss’s expenses, has now been sentenced to 40 hours of community service. She has also been sentenced to four months in prison – but this part of ...
Read More »Jeremy Corbyn highlights housing crisis at PMQ
Jeremy Corbyn laid into the Tory Government today (politely, of course!) for doing nothing to alleviate the housing crisis. Speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ), Corbyn pointed out that the Prime Minister had voted against a Labour amendment stating that ...
Read More »City Airport Nine charged after demo
Nine people staged a protest at City Airport on Tuesday – disrupting air travel in order to highlight how black people suffer most from climate change. The campaign group Black Lives Matter, which was founded in the USA but has ...
Read More »Goodness gracious: great walls of… Calais?
UK taxpayers are to fund the erection of a “keep the refugees out” wall in Calais, Home Office Minister Robert Godwill has confirmed. Building will begin any day. The wall, which will be 4 metres high, will seal the last ...
Read More »Syria: new chlorine attack on Aleppo?
Last month a UN inquiry came to the conclusion that the Syrian Government had twice used the highly poisonous gas chlorine against its own people. In August there were allegations that chlorine had been used for a third time, and ...
Read More »Kick It Out urges football to tackle hatred in the game
Kick It Out, football’s equality and inclusion organisation, has called for a unified effort from everyone involved in football to eradicate prejudice and hate from the game. The call came as Kick It Out showcased its “Call Full Time On ...
Read More »Osmaninagar celebrate Cup win with open top bus tour
Emdad Rahman Osmaninagar celebrated their triumph in the Greater Sylhet Upazila Cup with style, as squad members, officials, volunteers and representatives from other Upazila teams joined the 2015 and 2016 champions on an open top bus tour of Tower Hamlets. ...
Read More »Who am I?
By Shahanara Begum My elbow used to be a dinosaur, my toenail, an ancient king, my blood was the flowing river and my stomach is the bread that I ate yesterday. A whole star had to die for me to ...
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