Muzahid Khan, Managing Director of Janala Venture, describes his company’s assessment of the current business opportunities in Bangladesh. FOR MANY, Bangladesh is known for its garment trade, an industry that now accounts for nearly 78% of the country’s exports. It ...

THE GOVERNMENT OF Sri Lanka has today announced that it will respect the right of Muslims to have a burial in accordance with their religious practices and obligations and will no longer take the bodies of those who have died ...

MOST LONDONERS are following the restrictions of the third lockdown – but a small number are involved in flagrant or silly breaches. In response, the Metropolitan Police have made it clear they will enforce the law. The need to keep ...

A LOCAL ICELAND supermarket has come under a shower of complaints as Poplar residents have realised they have similar complaints about the store – which does not appear to be operating Covid safety measures. The complaints were first aired by ...

THE FIGURE of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the UK has been described by the Muslim Professionals Forum (MPF) as a “grim milestone”. The MPF pointed out that every person who has died has left behind family and friends who ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE has joined the long list of authorities and public figures who have urged members of the public to have the COVID-19 vaccination as soon as the NHS invites them to do so. The Mosque quotes Prophet ...

TODAY, 15TH JANUARY, is the second Friday on which the doors of the East London Mosque have been closed at prayer time, as Tower Hamlets’ most famous Mosque does its bit to protect worshippers from Coronavirus. The guidelines which relate ...

LEVELS OF infection with Covid remain high across London, according to Public Health England. The organisation has warned today (Friday, 15th January) that the public must observe the letter and the spirit of lockdown to try to bring the virus ...

Tom Zagoria, a member of the Labour Homelessness Campaign, looks at the developing humanitarian crisis among the homeless. AS THE UK goes back into lockdown in the cold winter months, campaigners are warning that the Government’s refusal to fund a ...

A RANGE OF organisations are joining forces to urge Londoners to recognise the severity of the Covid crisis in London and to observe the letter and spirit of the lockdown. London Mayor Sadiq Khan has declared “a major incident” in ...