Asian Lite News Archive

Category: Media Scan

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  • Cyberbullying is now more common

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    Cyberbullying and exposure to online sites with negative content such as messages of hate or self-harm is a growing problem for the UK’s children, according to a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The report from EU Kids Online, a research programme based at LSE, examines how the UK’s…

  • Ethnic students get fewer uni seats

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    Britain’s ethnic minority students are less likely than their white British peers to receive offers from UK universities, research suggests. A study, by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), analysed university applications made in 2008 by 50,000 would-be students, BBC reported. Degree applications from 12 minority groups analysed were “significantly” less likely to…

  • Tulisa seeks action against Fake Sheikh

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    Former X-factor judge and singer Tulisa  Contostavlos seeks action against The Sun  journalist Mazher Mahmood aka Fake Sheikh for trying to tarnish her image and a year of torment over drug charges. In a statement, the singer said:  I have never dealt drugs and never been involved in taking or dealing cocaine. This whole case…

  • Fake Sheikh Lied in Court

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    A drugs trial involving the singer Tulisa Contostavlos has collapsed after a judge ruled that it was likely the Sun’s veteran investigative reporter Mazher Mahmood aka Fake Sheikh had attempted to persuade a witness to change his evidence and then lied about it under oath, The Guardian reported.. The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos –…

  • Miliband raps Israeli incursion

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    British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has become the first western politician to condemn the ongoing Israeli incursion on Gaza. The Labour leader, son of Jewish parents who fled the Nazi regime to escape holocaust, said the the incursion into Gaza is likely to help Hamas’ recruiting efforts, and undermines Israel in the eyes of the international…

  • Delhi seeks World Heritage City tag

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    Shilpa Raina looks into Delhi’s campaign to become World Heritage City  As Delhi gears up to welcome a team from Unesco in September to evaluate the national capital’s bid for the World Heritage City tag, an NGO spearheading the move says this idea should have been proposed earlier and reveals how “frustrating” it can be…

  • Lady Gaga to perform in Dubai

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    Lady Gaga will perform in Dubai September 10, the Gulf News reported. The tour, launched to support the singer’s third studio album, ArtPop, kicked off earlier this week in Florida in the US. Gaga will perform across North America until August before heading to Japan later that month. Her UAE stop will kick off the tour’s European…

  • In Love with Death

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    Join author and philanthropist Satish Modi as he talks about his book, In Love with Death, at the Just Festival in Edinburgh on Saturday 16 August. Now in its fourteenth year, Just is one of Edinburgh’s most exciting and diverse festivals. The festival explores equality and diversity through a range of top-quality speakers, performances, films, food, exhibitions and workshops.…

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  • Naga joins Breakfast Club

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    The presenter line-up for BBC Breakfast has been cemented, with Naga Munchetty confirmed as a co-host alongside Charlie Stayt, BBC reported. Munchetty, who has already appeared regularly on the show, will present with Stayt from Thursday to Saturday. Bill Turnbull and Louise Minchin anchor the programme from the BBC’s Salford studios from Monday to Wednesday.…

  • Violent cartoons and children

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    Shilpa Raina and Mudit Gupta analysing the violent in children’s cartoon series. How violent cartoon shows make children aggressive ? Children are unable to understand the thin line between reality and fiction, say experts who feel violent cartoon shows make them aggressive and less sensitive to pain and suffering.”Children don’t understand that the violence shown…

  • SPECIAL REPORT: Pakistan TV Shows

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    Pakistani TV shows are breaking down walls of mistrust, delusions  says Vikas Datta  “Mulk taksim huye, dil to abhi ek hai/Isi liye hamne khidkiyan kat rakhi hai deewaron mein (The nations were divided, but hearts are still one/That is why we’ve cut windows into the walls (between us))”, wrote an Urdu poet. Divided amid bloodshed, experiencing long spells…

  • PICS: The Big Hug @Big Iftar

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    Actors Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, who maintain a cordial relationship in public, have repeated their famous hug of last year yet again. Both the stars gave each other a warm brotherly hug at an iftar party hosted by congress leader Baba Siddiqui at Mumbai’s Taj Lands End Hotel. In 2013, during Ramadan, the…

  • Breaking news face bumpy road

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    Shilpa Raina and Kavita Bajeli-Datt is looking for Breaking News. Hardly any because the Modi government tightens grip on information Among the subtle changes associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government are those dealing with the media and nowhere has it affected a news-hungry media’s working more than in the way news sources from the government…

  • New York Times drops India Ink section

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     Citing resource constraints, the New York Times has dropped its special “India Ink” section providing in-depth coverage of “The World’s largest Democracy at a Crossroads” after a three year run. The Times though painted it only as a ‘change of address” saying “that kind of specificity is no longer the way The Times wants to…

  • Murdoch team jailed for hacking

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    Rupert Murdoch’s closed title News of the World’s former  editor Andy Coulson and his three  associates have been jailed for conspiracy to hack phones. Coulson, 46, who went on to become director of communications for Prime Minister David Cameron, was found guilty at the Old Bailey last week, BBC reported. He was one of four ex-journalists…

  • ENGLISH IS NO CRIMINAL

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    Daily Dose by Bikram Vohra The current brouhaha that is being witnessed in India over downgrading English is one fraught with danger. English is not a language in India. It is a caste. It is also a free pass to the best of jobs. And anyone tells you differently they are hypocrites. This hypocrisy raises…

  • Thousands forged English Results

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      Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said about 48,000 immigrants may have fraudulently obtained English language certificates despite being unable to speak English. Mrs  Brokenshire told the Commons that an inquiry into abuse of the student visa system had found evidence of criminal activity, which would now be investigated fully, BBC reported. Of the 48,000 certificates, 29,000 were invalid and…

  • Andy’s Guilty Verdict Rocks British Media

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    Kaliph Anaz says the fall of Andy will be the end of a darkest episode in Britain’s tabloid journalism. Nowadays few remember the preaching of a pioneer named Charles Prestwich Scott. People are doomed  if they fail to learn lessons from the history The guilty verdict in the phone hacking charges against former News of the world…

  • BBC to recruit more from BAME

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    BBC announces  three new apprenticeship schemes to help people gain employment and make career progress at the BBC On the announcement of the BBC’s plans to address the on and off screen representation of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community at the BBC, Sadiq Khan MP, Shadow London Minister, said: “I warmly welcome the new…

  • WORLD – News N Pics – Potholes & Iraq

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  • Media focus on Jihadists

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    Sunday newspapers carried details about the recruitment video appeal by young British and Australian Muslims fighting with the extremist Isis group in Syria and Iraq. The newspapers carried interviews with some of the identified militants.  The Mail on Sunday focuses on one man, 20-year-old Reyaad Khan from Cardiff, showing a picture of him as a young teen…

  • THE BITTER FRUIT OF TOTAL NONSENSE

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    So much for the arrogance of power. This government promised Indians a service for the people. Less government, more governance. Reflect that sentiment in a nine strong police force that has gathered in the home of Janata Dal (United) MP Mahendra Prasad in upscale New Delhi. When he went to sleep the night before there…

  • Acronyms trigger new crisis

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    Vishnu Makhijani in his column Soliloquy says acronyms are creating fresh crisis in communication. Sample just these three: IITYWTMWYBMAD (If I tell you what this means will you buy me a drink), EOTWAWKI (End of the world as we know it) and ANAWFOS (And now a word from our sponsor).   How would you react if you were…

  • Training for journalists in London

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    The Thomson Reuters Foundation, London, the charitable arm of Reuters, will be running a seminar in London for journalists from across the world. We have been asked to alert journalists about this seminar and encourage them to apply to take part. The seminar, held on 22 – 24 October 2014, will focus on how to cover…

  • VIDEO – Shameless Onlookers!

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    An Actor Tried To Recreate The Infamous Nirbhaya Post-Rape Scenes. Look How People Reacted.This is so scary…it could be you or I. Go through it, please and share it with the world. It is not essentially Indian yet it is. We do not want to get involved, so corrupt is our system it has made…

  • Ethnic paper wins top award

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      The South Asian Times, a leading newspaper for the Indian community in the US, has bagged an Ippies award given to the ethnic and community press for “Best Investigative/In Depth Story”. The Ippies Awards are given by the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism. Jinal Shah (Associate Editor) won the…

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    Shilpa Raina writes on a new online solution for sensible gifting to the needy in India The most pertinent question that crosses the mind of a donor is “will my donation be used for the right purpose” while the most daunting task a NGO faces is “to find ways to utilise unwanted gifts”. Bridging this chasm…

  • Major shake up in Indian media

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    Asian Lite, best newspaper for the Indian diaspora, looks into the recent development in Indian media industry. Reliance to acquire Network 18 and veteran journalist Shekhar Gupta is leaving Indian Express Reliance Industries will acquire a majority stake in Network18 and its subsidiary TV18. In another development in the media industry, Shekhar Gupta is rumoured…

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    Asian Lite, the world’s first global newspaper forthe Asian diaspora, presents a bouquet of front pages from world’s best newspapers . The mutiny in the Liberala Democrats; Zayne smoking weed tops the news agenda  

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    Asian Lite, the world’s first global newspaper for NRIs and the Asian diaspora, presents a bouquet of front pages from world’s best newspapers

  • Lightning strikes Shard

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    Guardian carried a dramatic cover pic of the moment lightning strikes shard in London. Please watch the video from BBC

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    EU elections, Unemployments and the problems in the housing market set the news agenda of today’s papers. The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Times and The Telegraph and Daily Mirror carried stories on the story of youth who committed suicide after disappointed to get a decent job Please see the link from BBC –…

  • Front pages from British newspapers

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    British newspapers today carried lead stories on the US conviction of London cleric Abu Hamza and the brewing mortgage crisis. The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Times and The Telegraph and Daily Mirror carried stories on Hamza and Mortgage issue. The Times said Hamza, the former Imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London,…

  • Sick Advet on Malala draws flak

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    The media agency agency responsible for using cartoon images of Pakistani-school girl Malala Yousafzai, shot in the face by the Taliban, to promote a mattress brand has apologised and launched an investigation, The Guardian reported.  The poster ad features a series of images of Malala being shot, falling backwards covered in blood, being put on a…

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    BAFTA and Culture Secretary Sajid Javid’s comment on Britishness top the news agenda of The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Times, The Telegraph and Daily Mirror. They also carried stories on the Heatwave and Nick Clegg’s offer to support Help to Buy scheme.     Please clcik the link to see the pages – http://bbc.in/1o4Tof8

  • Front Pages from Brtish newspapers

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    Housing crisis; EU Polls, an exclusive interview with the Top Tory leader Sajid Javid; a rape allegation against a top Tory leader top the news agenda of British newspapers- Front pages from  The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Times and The Telegraph and Daily Mirror Please see the cover- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-27459028

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    The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, The Times and The Telegraph carried stories of Modi victory in India. The Independent’s lead story is about a British-born man believed by the Nigerian government to be behind extremist group Boko Haram’s bombing offensive. The paper says Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche was radicalised while studying in Britain.…

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  • Front Pages from UK Newspapers

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    Daily Mail, The Guardian,  Daily Mirror, The Times, The Sun were among the leading newspapers  focus on the death of teenage cancer fundraiser Stephen Sutton, from Staffordshire, who died in his sleep after raising more than £3m for the Teenage Cancer Trust. The Daily Mirror calls him a “credit to humanity”. The Daily Mirror said the 19-year-old…

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    Bad news for politicians ass Britain gears up for European elections. Bad survey reports for Labour leader Ed Miliband, the prime minister admission of goofing up on migration, the British Asian star leaving UKIP tops the news. Please click the link to see the Front Pages http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-27403158

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    Images of dozens of schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria appear on several front pages, with the Independent making striking use of stills from the video release by their kidnappers. For viewing all the Front Pages –http://bbc.in/1jbTEJD