Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Hasan Mahmud has called for creating greater awareness and documentation on the role of the Mujibnagar government during our glorious War of Liberation, amongst the new generation of Bangladeshi expatriates. He made the call while speaking as the chief guest at the Bangladesh High Commission, London's commemorative virtual event
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Conservative win in former stronghold emblematic of Labour s wider decline in North of England
7 May 2021 • 5:52pm
Labour s crushing Hartlepool defeat is its worst result in the area since the Second World War, historic data show, with the by-election lending further weight to suggestions that the party is being abandoned by its traditional base.
Paul Williams, the Labour candidate, received just 28.7 per cent of votes in Thursday s by-election, with 51.9 per cent going to Jill Mortimer, the Conservative. It was the lowest vote share in the constituency and its predecessors in 78 years.
Mr Williams performance is only outdone by the Labour affiliated candidate in 1943, standing in what was then known as The Hartlepools constituency, who received 11.3 per cent of the vote at a time when the UK also faced a national crisis.
BRITISH MPS URGE UK TO ENSURE RELIEF WORK
A delegation headed by Labour MP John Stonehouse and top officials of War on Want, Christian Aid and Oxfam, called on Sir Alec Douglas Home, British foreign secretary, and told him that Britain should do something so that international relief work could be started in Bangladesh.
The former minister for development Reg Prentice MP also led a deputation to the present minister Richard Wood, and told him not to give British aid to Pakistan until the Bangladesh situation was politically settled.
Another British MP, Bruce Douglas-Mann, who had been in India to assess the situation, informed that he was carrying a special message from Bangladesh Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad for the British government.