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  • Poor Greece: Tsipras Slipped

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    Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras threatened to resign if he fails to win the referendum on Sunday….reports Asian Lite News Mr Tsipras said a clear vote against austerity would help Greece negotiate a better settlement to the crisis. Otherwise, he warned, he would not stay in office to oversee more cuts. Greece’s bailout expires on…

  • By-election defeat shocks Kerala Communists

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    Congress wins Aruvikara by-poll in Kerala by a margin of over 10,000 votes….reports Asian Lite News Congress candidate K.A. Sabarinathan on Tuesday won the Aruvikara assembly constituency by-election in Kerala, beating his nearest rival by around 10,000 votes. Sabarinathan, 31, was leading right from the start in the counting of votes in the morning. According…

  • Amma set to rock Chennai

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    AIADMK General Secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa on Tuesday was all set to return to the state assembly as she surged towards a massive victory in the Radhakrishnan Nagar by-election….reports Asian Lite News At the end of 10 rounds, Jayalalithaa had got 98,519 votes while her nearest rival, the Communist Party of India’s…

  • The killing fields of Bangladesh

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    The situation in Bangladesh has ominous portents – so much so that even the prime minister chose not to send any public condolence to the wife of slain Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy. Hasina might have done it privately but her son Sajeev Wazed Joy had shocked the nation by admitting that it was not possible…

  • Heat wave toll touches 1,242 in Karachi

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    The devastating heat wave that struck Pakistan’s Sindh province is slowly subsiding but the toll has climbed to 1,242 with 32 deaths reported in Karachi….reports Asian Lite News. Various government-run hospitals in Karachi confirmed that at least 32 people died of heatstroke. At least 13 people died in Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), 11 in…

  • China warns Glastonbury organisers

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    China has warned the organisers of the annual British Glastonbury Music Festival over inviting exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a media report said. “China resolutely opposes any country, organisation, body or individual giving any kind of platform to the 14th Dalai Lama to engage in anti-China activities,” The Telegraph quoted Lu Kang, China’s…

  • Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical

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    Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical opened to a packed house at London’s Phoenix Theatre.  Amongst the audience were familiar faces including Omid Djalili, Naughty boy, Madhu and Sulaiman from Signature, Anita Anand, Nihal, Adil Ray, Vanessa Feltz, Graham Norton, Juliet Stevenson, Lily Collins, Indira Verma and Manish Bhasin. Adapted by Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges…

  • Yvette seeks more BAME MPs

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    Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said Labour must double the number Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) MPs if the party were to win a majority….reports Asian Lite News The shadow home secretary has also argued that there must also be greater diversity in the police, armed forces and civil service.  She has said that she…

  • Suu Kyi’s presidential hopes dashed

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    Myanmar’s National League for Democracy chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi won’t be able to run for president in the upcoming election as the country’s parliament on Thursday failed to remove the army’s veto over constitutional change, media reported. Myanmar’s parliament voted on six amendment bills, five of which were turned down as the number of…

  • ?Pakistan to probe BBC report on MQM

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       Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif directed the interior ministry to thoroughly investigate claims made in a BBC report about the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) receiving funding from India, and sought an early report. Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan and special assistant to Sharif on national security and foreign affairs Tariq Fatemi met the premier…

  • India announces $1 bn aid to rebuild Nepal

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    India announced $1 billion in aid to rebuild Nepal, with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj saying that from “the debris of destruction a stronger united and more confident Nepal will rise”….reports Asian Lite News.   The aid will be used in the reconstruction of physical infrastructure as well as some key heritage sites. India’s contribution…

  • NEWS N PICS – Summer Fest and MERS Scare in Korea

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    Asian Lite News compiles a series of news pictures from around the world. Asian Lite News regularly features pictures from Asian events

  • US hopes India, Pakistan will resolve issues

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    Expressing the hope that Pakistan would be a responsible stakeholder on security issues, in particular the nuclear issue, the US has said that New Delhi and Islamabad need to work on issues between them peaceably on their own….reports Asian Lite News.   US Secretary of State John Kerry has talked “about his concerns about tensions…

  • Pakistan vows to crush terrorism

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    Pakistan will do everything it can to stamp out terrorism, top Pakistani diplomat Maleeha Lodhi has said. “Let me be clear. We will be relentless in rooting out terrorism, whosoever its sponsors, external or internal,” Dawn quoted Lodhi as saying at the UN Security Council. Lodhi is Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN. “Any effort…

  • India looking to avoid ‘Banglawash’

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    As the words ‘whitewash’ and ‘minnows no more’ are making rounds in Dhaka and around the country, India head into the third and inconsequential One-Day International tie against Bangladesh  looking to salvage some pride and respect….reports Asian Lite News. What many experts had written off as a cakewalk for the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led cricket team…

  • Many die in Pakistan heatwave

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     At least 136 people have died in a heatwave in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi and other districts of the Sindh province, media reported. Saturday was the hottest day this year in Karachi, where the mercury had shot up to 45 degree Celsius, Dawn online reported. The maximum temperature of 48 degree Celsius was recorded…

  • Taliban attack on Afghan parliament

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    At least 21 people were injured when a string of explosions rocked the Afghan parliament complex and a gun battle ensued between Taliban militants and security forces, officials said. According to eyewitnesses, a car bomb exploded at the gate of the parliament premises, leaving dozens of people, including five women, injured, According to interior ministry…

  • BRICS bank not to replace global institutions: Putin

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    By Hardev Sanotra  Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the BRICS Bank set up by five countries with a capital of $100 billion will not challenge the existing multilateral institutions…..reports Asian Lite News. Putin, who was interacting with a dozen visiting wire service reporters said, the intention behind the bank and the reserve currency pool…

  • NBW issued against Musharraf

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    A non-bailable arrest warrant was issued against former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf  in a murder case. The court of additional sessions judge Kamran Basharat Mufti ordered the former military ruler to be arrested and presented in court on July 24 in connection with the murder of former Lal Masjid cleric Ghazi Abdul Rasheed, Geo News…

  • AHLAN RAMADAN – Gallery

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    Muslims across the world begin Ramadan fasting yesterday. Asian Lite News capture a selection of images

  • Bradford charity sets an example

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    Bradford-based charity QED (Quest for Economic Development) celebrates 25th years of excellent services to the communities this year. Asian Lite News look into their activities and talks to Mohammed Ali and Adeeba Malik who are spearheading the movement at one of the most deprived areas in the country….reports Asian Lite News Some people see things…

  • Captain Nemo’s Ganesha is for sale

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    One of the most famous cars in the tinsel world will go under the hammers on July 11th.  Captain Nemo’s six-wheeled Nautilus car from Sean Connery/Naseerudhin Shah adventure movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen will be sold by international auctioneers Coys at their Blenheim Palace auction on July 11th….reports Asian Lite News This vehicle nicknamed…

  • Pakistan releases 113 Indian fishermen

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    Pakistan released 113 Indian fishermen as a goodwill gesture ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan….reports Asian Lite News. The release came on a directive of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the wake of a similar announcement by his Indian counterpart Narenda Modi. The fishermen, who had been kept in Karachi’s Malir jail for…

  • India lacks system to check Emergency

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    Forces that can crush democracy are stronger…I don’t have the confidence it (Emergency) cannot happen again: BJP leader LK Advani told Indian Express ahead of the 40th anniversary of the Emergency….reports Asian Lite News Veteran BJP leader Advani said India’s political system is still to come to terms with the Emergency and a similar suspension of…

  • Ban Ki-moon hopes for ‘amicable’ Kashmir resolution

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    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hopes Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif “will continue to engage with each other” to try to resolve the Kashmir situation “peacefully and amicably”, according to Ban’s deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq….reports Asian Lite News. At the daily press briefing here on Wednesday, Haq side-stepped a question by a…

  • Modi’s phone call reduced India, Pak tension

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    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s phone call to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif has helped reduce tension between the two countries, a daily said. Daily Times, in an editorial “Modi’s overture”, said that Modi’s call has “helped reduce the rising temperature in India-Pakistan relations due to aggressive rhetoric by both sides”. “It was a positive…

  • Palestinian unity government resigns

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    Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas accepted the resignation of the Palestinian unity government. The resignation of the Palestinian unity government was made following a meeting held in Ramallah on Wednesday between Abbas and Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. A well-informed Palestinian official told Xinhua news agency that Hamdallah presented his government’s resignation to President Abbas during their…

  • Kerry tells Sharif to tamp down tensions with India

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    “Enormously concerned” over recent increase in tensions between India and Pakistan, US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to work out how to tamp them down, acknowledging that the latter had just finished a conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi….reports Asian Lite News. The increase “in the…

  • Modi speaks to South Asian counterparts ahead of Ramadan

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke over telephone to his Pakistan and Bangladesh counterparts, Nawaz Sharif and Sheikh Hasina, and Afghan President Ashran Ghani and conveyed to them good wishes for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, an official statement said. In his conversation with Sharif, Modi reiterated his message of “peaceful, friendly and cooperative” relations…

  • Immigrant workers get less pay

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    Immigrant workers earn less than the native workers across the world…reports Asian Lite News A new report by economist Kathryn Anderson said there is a large wage gap between immigrant and native workers. This wage gap lessens over time (a number of decades), but never closes for many immigrant groups. The report was  published by IZA…

  • Sushma offered to quit

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    External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj offered to resign almost a week before the controversy broke out over her help to former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi in getting travel documents on “humanitarian ground”, but her offer was rejected on the intervention of the RSS, informed sources said. The sources said the news channel that on Sunday…

  • Rohingya Muslims concerns Pakistan

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    Pakistani political organisation Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has condemned the plight of Rohingya Muslims and demanded that Muslim countries severe diplomatic relations with Myanmar in protest, a media report said. Addressing a protest rally in Islamabad on Sunday, JI chief Sirajul Haq urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to convene an Islamist summit to come up with a…

  • Sushma in a soup

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    External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was at the centre of a row after admitting to having helped former IPL chief Lalit Modi procure documents to travel to Portugal last July on “humanitarian grounds” with the Congress demanding her resignation for “gross impropriety”…. reports Asian Lite News. Sushma Swaraj, in a series of 14 tweets, said…

  • Pakistan suspends ban on Save the Children

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    Pakistan’s interior ministry has suspended its order to shut down Save the Children international aid organisation in the country, a media report said ….reports Asian Lite News. An assistant commissioner of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration, along with the local police on June 11, sealed the organisation’s country office located on Margalla Road of Islamabad…

  • China may censor digital journalism

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    The Chinese authorities for the press and publications, responsible for censorship in China, have announced a bill that would prohibit web pages and portals from producing news by themselves and impose censorship on such content. Under the bill, released in a statement by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, internet information…

  • Modi gets half a million postcards with ideas

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    Over 500,000 Indians have sent postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi under the the Action/2015 campaign of Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai, urging him to represent their voices at the UN General Assembly later this year ahead of sustainable development goals (SDGs) being adopted for the next 15 years….reports Asian Lite News. By Bhavana Akella  Thousands…

  • Nude Pics girl Heading Home

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     British woman and three fellow tourists are being deported from Malaysia after being sentenced to three days in jail and fined £1,000 for posing naked on a sacred mountain. Eleanor Hawkins, 23, and Canadian siblings Danielle and Lindsey Petersen, and Dylan Snel from the Netherlands – have already spent three days in custody leading up…

  • Protests in Pakistan over Modi’s remarks

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    Protests were held across Pakistan’s Sindh province to voice anger over what people described as “Indian war hysteria and inhuman brutalities being meted out to the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar”. Activists of almost all religious parties and a number of political parties took out rallies and staged demonstrations across Sindh, Dawn online reported. Pakistan Muslim…

  • Sharif strikes sobering note amid tensions

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    Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif struck a sobering note while the Pakistani parliament stuck to the “old script” by passing resolutions against India amid “shrill exchanges” between the two neighbours…..reports Asian Lite News. “After the shrill exchanges between Pakistan and India in recent days, calm and sense were finally restored on our side by Prime Minister…

  • US asks India, Pakistan to cool down

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    “We encourage India and Pakistan to take those kinds of steps, and we believe that India and Pakistan each have a mutual interest in addressing the threat posed by violent extremism and terrorism,” By Arun Kumar  While declining comment on India’s surgical strike on militants in Myanmar, the US has asked India and Pakistan to…

  • British girl pleads guilty in Naked Mountain Pose

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    British woman Eleanor Hawkins has pleaded guilty to posing naked on a sacred Malaysian mountain. Eleanor Hawkins, 23, admitted the offence of obscene acts in public during her short court appearance alongside three others – Canadian siblings Danielle and Lindsey Petersen, and an unnamed Dutch man reports Sky News. She confirmed her name and was then…

  • Pakistan ‘rattled’ by Myanmar strike: India

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    India said the its surgical attack on militants in Myanmar has left Pakistan “rattled”, while intelligence inputs warned that retaliatory attacks were possible in the northeast…reports Asian Lite News. The Congress, meanwhile, accused ministers of blowing their trumpets too loudly, while the BJP said the opposition party was trying to belittle the success. On a…

  • Pakistan passes anti-India resolutions

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    Terming the recent statements by the Indian leadership as “irresponsible”, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said  that the atmosphere for relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors has been hampered even as the country’s parliament passed resolutions against India….Asian Lite News “Recent statements by Indian ministers have hampered our relations with India,” the premier said while…

  • Pakistan takes Modi remarks to UN

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     A top Pakistani official called upon the international community and the UN to take notice of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement in Dhaka last week regarding Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War. The people of Pakistan and Bangladesh were bound by strong bonds, said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s key advisor Sartaj Aziz while adressing the Senate,…

  • No ‘hot pursuit’ in Myanmar: Minister

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    There was no “hot pursuit” in the military operation against militants along the India-Myanmar border and it was done with the consent of Myanmar authorities, Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh said….reports Asian Lite News. “We did not use hot pursuit. We contacted Burma (Myanmar) authorities before the attack,” Rao Inderjit said here.…

  • Dubai based Sunny Varkey signs up for Giving Pledge

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    A Dubai-based Indian billionaire Sunny Varkey has become the latest to sign up for Bill Gates’s Giving Pledge, an initiative that encourages the world’s richest people to use their wealth for good causes. Kerala-born Sunny Varkey is chairman of the international education chain GEMS. He is the founder of the million-dollar Global Teacher Prize, the…

  • Suu Kyi begins historic visit to China

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    Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in China, a historic visit that comes during a period of marked tension between the two countries. Her visit will last till Sunday. She is to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Li Keqiang, and a group of Chinese businessmen,…

  • Nikhil Seth to head UN training institute

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      Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appointed veteran Indian diplomat and international administrator Nikhil Seth to head the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). An expert on international development, Seth will be the executive director of the UN’s training arm, which is headquartered in Geneva, Ban’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. Seth is currently the…

  • Malala calls to save Rohingya Muslims

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    Nobel Peace Prize winner and educational activist Malala Yousafzai spoke up for the rights of Rohingya Muslims, urging influential world leaders to take action against the persecution of the minority group reports Asian Lite News. “I stand with the Rohingyas, and I encourage people everywhere to do so,” in a statement released by the Malala…

  • Modi a visionary: Bangla media

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rousing speech and the 65-point joint declaration that wrapped up his two-day trip to Bangladesh received huge splash in the Bangladesh media reports Asian Lite News. They have termed the Indian leader as a “visionary” and one “thinking out of the box”. In a commentary, the largest circulation English newspaper, the Daily…