Bangladeshi-origin Labour Party councillor Nadia Shah has been appointed as the new mayor of Camden, UK.

Nadia, the first Bangladeshi-origin female mayor in any city in the UK, was officially given the charge at a ceremony in Town Hall on Wednesday night.

She represents Regent's Park ward of Camden where Tulip Rizwana Siddiq was a councillor before becoming MP last year. Nadia was born and raised in Camden.

Her ancestral home is in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.