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Bangladesh women win their first Asian Games hockey match "Roid" is Bangladesh's Oscar entry Korai Kitchen makes the NYT's 50 favorite restaurants Japan deal opens 10 years of skilled jobs Miles frontman Hamin Ahmed becomes the first Bangladeshi on the Asia-Pacific music creators' board Rooppur nuclear plant reaches its first controlled chain reaction Two Bangladeshi students win SpaceXAI challenge at HackMIT with a tool that tracks space debris New York-raised diplomat Trishita Maula leads the US Embassy in Dhaka Brick Lane Curry Festival draws a record 40,000 people to London's Banglatown Bangladesh trains field epidemiologists and lab leaders to strengthen health emergency readiness Bangladesh Under-19s beat Afghanistan in a Super Over thriller in Oman Shuvagata Hom becomes the first Bangladeshi with 7,000 runs and 300 wickets in first-class cricket

Bangladesh women win their first Asian Games hockey match "Roid" is Bangladesh's Oscar entry Korai Kitchen makes the NYT's 50 favorite restaurants Japan deal opens 10 years of skilled jobs Miles frontman Hamin Ahmed becomes the first Bangladeshi on the Asia-Pacific music creators' board Rooppur nuclear plant reaches its first controlled chain reaction Two Bangladeshi students win SpaceXAI challenge at HackMIT with a tool that tracks space debris New York-raised diplomat Trishita Maula leads the US Embassy in Dhaka Brick Lane Curry Festival draws a record 40,000 people to London's Banglatown Bangladesh trains field epidemiologists and lab leaders to strengthen health emergency readiness Bangladesh Under-19s beat Afghanistan in a Super Over thriller in Oman Shuvagata Hom becomes the first Bangladeshi with 7,000 runs and 300 wickets in first-class cricket

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Iqbal Wahhab OBE

Founder, The Cinnamon Club · Hospitality

ROOTSBangladesh RISINGLondon, UK

He founded The Cinnamon Club and Roast in London and served as High Sheriff of Greater London.

Iqbal Wahhab was born in 1963 in what is now Bangladesh and moved to Britain as a baby. He launched Tandoori Magazine in 1994, then opened The Cinnamon Club in Westminster in 2001, which became one of the best known Indian restaurants in the world, followed by Roast at Borough Market in 2005.

He was appointed OBE in 2009 and served as High Sheriff of Greater London in 2019. From 2012 he chaired a UK government ethnic minority advisory group.

Sources: Wikipedia

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