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  • Pak fashion due in Mumbai

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    Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW) Winter-Festive 2014 will host four Pakistani designers Faiza Samee, Rizwan Beyg, Sania Maskatiya and Zara Shahjahan. Presented by POPxo.com and Hello! Pakistan, the designers will mark their LFW debut with a grand show Aug 22 at the winter-festive edition of LFW. “This season we are very excited to host four exceptional…

  • King Khan to tour in the US

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    Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan is ready to shake a leg with his fans in the US after a gap of 10 years. Along with his “Happy New Year” co-stars Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan and Boman Irani, he will thrill the audience with SLAM! THE TOUR starting Sep 19. He will also be joined by filmmaker…

  • More BAME in civil services by 2020

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    The Opposition Labour party has announced that the party will set new targets for the percentage of black and minority ethnic (BAME) employees in the Senior Civil Service. People from BAME backgrounds are still woefully underrepresented at senior levels and the Government has lost sight of the diversity agenda in the civil service. Labour will…

  • Queen’s horse fails dope test

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    Estimate, the horse that realised a lifelong dream for the Queen at Ascot last year is now at the centre of racing’s latest drugs story. Buckingham Palace issued an unprecedented statement saying Estimate has failed a routine dope test for morphine. “Her Majesty,” it added, “has been informed of the situation”. Estimate will face inevitable disqualification and her…

  • Parents to face jail over FGM

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    UK will introduce new legislation to prosecute parents if they fail to stop their daughters undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM). Prime Minister David Cameron is unveiling a £1.4m prevention programme aimed at ending the practice at a global summit in London. It is estimated that up to 137,000 women and girls living in England and Wales…

  • Rochdale to host Gaza rally

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    Rochdale is gearing up to host a huge rally on Sunday to show their support and solidarity with victims Gaza and condemn Israeli aggression on innocent civilians during the holy month of Ramadan. Thousands will assemble outside Rochdale Town Hall on Sunday 27th July 2014 at 2pm .  This peaceful rally will hear from a number…

  • 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…

  • UN Calls for Gaza Ceasefire

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    The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after holding an emergency closed-door meeting on the crisis. The talks came after the UN chief described Israel’s shelling of a Gaza City suburb as “an atrocious action”, BBC reported. A total of 501 people have now died in Gaza during Israel’s operation against…

  • BAPIO chief joins march to save NHS

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    Prof.  Rajan Madhok, Chairman of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO), is joining a campaign to save the crisis-hit National health Services (NHS). Prof. Rajan, one of the senior most Indian-origin doctors in the country, is a  former director of public health and medical director in the NHS.  BAPIO is the largest organisation of the…

  • Mosque Offers One Million Iftars

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    The Shaikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre in Abu Dhabi has hosted around 515,000 people who are fasting in the first half of the Holy Month of Ramadan, WAM reported. The mosque is providing Iftar meals in tents located in the grounds of the mosque, including 350,000 through the “Guests for Iftar” project which is held…

  • FRIGHTFUL STUFF

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    DAILY DOSE By Bikram Vohra So I am catching up with my email having left it all unplugged these past four days and there is the usual dross and spam and I notice that my old friend Joanna who wants to meet me terribly has been joined by Esmerelda and Ibo, both of whom share…

  • Israel escalates Gaza raids

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    At least 330 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians, have died and 2,400 others have been wounded since Israel launched a major military offensive in the Gaza Strip 12 days ago, medical sources said. The number of people killed has risen sharply since the Israeli army escalated its “Operation Protective Edge,” campaign of massive…

  • Heatwave in Paris

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    An unsual heatwave is gripping the European cities.  People cool themselves in a fountain near Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

  • PICS: The massacre on air – A tribute

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    Rescuers are still working at the crash site of MH17 of Malaysian Airlines near the city of Shakhtarsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said according to the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Annex 13, the Ukrainian government should institute an investigation into the circumstances of the deadly MH17 incident, and be responsible…

  • Roy remarks on Gandhi draw flak

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    Booker wwinner Arundhathi Roy’s remarks on Father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi  triggered a new row in India . During a speech in India, Roy accused Gandhi of discrimination and called for institutions bearing his name to be renamed, The Guardian reported. She was addressing students at Kerala University in  Thiruvananthapuram, Roy, 52, described the generally accepted…

  • Morocco’s Sahara plan gets the nod

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     US President Barack Obama has extended support to Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara in line with the policy adopted by the last three US administrations. This “explicit support” is a recognition by Washington of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI’s regional leadership and stabilising force in Africa, according to Peter Pham, director of the Africa Centre…

  • SPB Honoured at British Parliament

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    Padma Bhushan Dr. SP Balasubramaniam was felicitated at the British Parliament . The event was hosted by  Senior Labour leader and MP from Southall Virendra Sharma MP. The Chief Guest on the occasion was High Commissioner of India Ranjan Mathai, Guests of Honour included Lord Loomba and Lord Dholakia, while Dr Nanda Kumara of Bharatiya…

  • From police with Love…

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    A Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer has helped to raise £1,570 for a family who were the victims of two terrifying aggravated burglaries in the space of a year. Sucha Singh, 44, is paralyzed from the neck down and was forced to watch in horror as three masked men forced their way into the house…

  • UK to overhaul insurance system

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    The British government has introduced the Insurance Bill to Parliament, which will support the growth of Britain’s insurance industry and help customers by updating the 100 year-old rules governing contracts between businesses and insurers. The new bill introduces a more modern legal regime which will benefit both insurers and their business customers by increasing transparency…

  • How to write a balanced news report?

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    The Funny Side  By Nury Vittachi   So I get a news report from a young reporter. “A car was in collision with a bath” the other day, it told me. Huh? So why was someone driving a bath down a road? In a follow-up email, she explained that the guy in the bath claimed that…

  • Leaders urged to alleviate inequality

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    World’s most respected charity leaders including Graça Machel, widow of the late South African statesman Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the rock star Bono, the Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus, in a joint letter urged British Prime Minister David  Cameron to act swiftly to alleviate global inequality to stem military conflicts across the world. The joint letter said unless…

  • Hillary seeks action on Russia

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    US President Barack Obama speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin in related to the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 which killed 298 people onboard. More details are awaited.The tele conversation when Hillary Clinton,  the former US secretary of state, seeking more action against Russia. “The world is watching,” Obama said during a speech in Delaware. “The…

  • Crackdown on paedophiles network

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    Police arrest several doctors, teachers, scout leaders, care workers and former police officers during a nationwide crackdown on paedophiles networks. The unprecedented six-month operation coordinated by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and involving 45 police forces across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland exposed the highly organised paedophiles network. More than 400 children across the UK have been safeguarded,…

  • Media focus on new cabinet

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  • Heatwave hits Britain

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    Public health officials said they were particularly concerned about Muslims fasting for Ramadan. Temperature soars to Middle Eastern levels as an unusual heatwave tighten its grip on the Island nation.   Britons are advised to stay indoors after forecasters warned that much of the country would be hotter than Barbados during a two-day heatwave, The Telegraph…

  • Cameron to unveil final list today

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    British Prime Minister David Cameron is due to complete the final appointments in his biggest ministerial reshuffle later ahead of questions from MPs in the Commons, BBC reported. The prime minister made sweeping changes to his front bench, replacing Education Secretary Michael Gove and Foreign Secretary William Hague. Some junior posts are yet to be filled.…

  • Priti joins Cameron Cabinet

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    Indian-origin MP Priti Patel  becomes British Treasury Minister The Witham MP Priti Patel has been appointed as Treasury Minister  in the Prime Minister’s reshuffle. Priti is Prime Minister’s India Diaspora Champion and accompanied him in his India trips. She met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the high level delegation led by William Hague and Chancellor…

  • London to host Girl Summit

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    Unicef is orgnaising a major summit in London on July 22 to discuss a new strategy to protect girls from abuse. The organisation in a statement said: Child, early and forced marriage affects millions of girls every year. One in three girls in developing countries is married by the age of 18. Some are as…

  • Modi meets Chinese leader

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Brazil to attend the BRICS  summit. He held its first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The meting was lasted more than an hour The Indian prime minister conveyed India’s desire to maintain peace at the border. The Chinese President invited PM Modi to Beijing for a summit of Asia and Pacific (APEC) leaders in November.…

  • Global Jihad reaches Indian shores

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    Hundreds of Indian Muslim youth, mostly from poor and vulnerable backgrounds, are lining up for visas at the embassies of some of the Gulf and Middle East nations with the aim of joining the ‘jihad’ in Iraq, according to diplomatic sources. Iraq alone has had to deal with nearly 2,000 applications from highly charged Muslim…

  • London rally to rap Gaza raids

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    The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) will stage a protest march in London on 25th July to mark Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day.  IHRC chair Massoud Shadjareh said the annual commemmoration of the dispossession and oppression of the Palestinian people will take place on 25 July and end in a rally outside the US embassy, chosen as a rallying…

  • Banks freeze Cage accounts

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    Cage,, a forum promoted by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has claimed that its bank accounts have been closed. Cage, which campaigns on behalf of terrorism suspects, said Barclays and the Co-operative Bank had shut down its business accounts without any notice or explanation. The move appears to have coincided with Begg being charged in…

  • Jihadists urged to come back & rehab

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    The British  government is considering adopting a German scheme that encourages jihadists to return home from Syria and Iraq and sign up to de-radicalisation classes, The Times reported.A pilot programme, expected to be launched in London by September, will be modelled on Hayat, a scheme that offers those who return from Iraq and Syria the…

  • Malala dares Boko Haram

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    The most famous teen in the planet, Malala Yousafali, arrives in Nigeria to support the release of 200 girls abducted from their school by Islamic militants in April. The teenager, who was shot by the Taliban, defied security warnings to fly to Nigeria on her 17th birthday, The Times reported. “I want to highlight this…

  • BRICS to form a bank

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    Modi arrives in Brazil for BRICS summit. BRICS bank on agenda In his first multilateral summit meeting since taking office May 26, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Brazil to attend the five-nation BRICS summit in Brazil, where he will have his first interaction with leaders of China and Russia among others. The Sixth BRICS Summit, being held…

  • GALLERY – INDIA NEWS N PICS

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  • 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…

  • ‘ISIS inspiring Taliban in Pakistan’

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    Muhammad Amir Rana, security analyst, says ISIS inspiring Pakistani militants The ISIS in Iraq is influencing Pakistani militants, with at least one group declaring allegiance to the insurgents, a Pakistani security analyst has said. Muhammad Amir Rana said in Dawn Sunday that the Pakistani militant group Tehreek-i-Khilafat’s declaration of allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq…

  • We should remember Homi Bhabha

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    K.S. Parthasarathy says this is payback time for India to the father of its nuclear power. The government must save Homi Bhabha’s home for posterity Homi Bhabha, the architect of nuclear India, lived the most productive part of his life in Mehrangir, the house his father bought in 1937. Scientists regret the disinformation campaign on…

  • WORLD CUP FINAL- Can he fix it?

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    Veturi Srivatsa pondering as the World Cup just hours way – Can Messi make it or mess it up?  Can Messi do a Maradona, screamed a headline to the 2014 FIFA World Cup final curtain-raiser. Lionel Messi partially answered the question by carrying the Argentines into Sunday’s final against Germany. Not many would like to…

  • PICS: CRY THE BELOVED GAZA

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     Since the beginning of operations, the Israeli army has targeted about 1,090 sites in Gaza, taking the death toll to over 100 people. Dozens of them were civilians. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)  strongly condemned the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians, calling for its immediate end in the Gaza Strip. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, as the incumbent chairman…

  • Clegg joins Srebrenica Memorial

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    British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg commits to a Britain free from threats or harm on Srebrenica Memorial Day, 11 July   Today, 11 July, the international community remembers the Bosnian genocide, marking the 19th anniversary of when generations of families were wiped out. The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is one of many politicians Four Mothers of Srebrenica…

  • UK rushes surveillance legislation

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    Prime Minister David Cameron and his Liberal Democrat deputy, Nick Clegg, have unveiled emergency surveillance legislation that will shore up government powers to require phone and internet companies to retain and hand over data to the security services, The Guardian reported. The emergency legislation – due to be debated on Tuesday and complete all its…

  • UK public sector workers on strike

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    More than a million public sector workers are on strike in a series of disputes with the government over pay, pensions and job cuts, BBC reported. Teachers, council staff, firefighters and civil servants are among those walking out on Thursday. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) said public sector pay was lagging behind the cost of…

  • Sir Virdee, Dr Hameid honoured

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    Ragasudha Vinjamuri attends a reception at India House to honour  Sir Virdee and Prof Hameid High Commissioner of India Ranjan Mathai hosted a cocktail reception for physicist Prof Tejinder Virdee, recently knighted by the Queen for services to science, and for Dr Yusuf Hameid, the head of Indian pharmaceutical giant Cipla, who has been conferred…

  • British twin girls elope to join ISIS

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    Salma and Zahra Halane, 16, twin teenage girls from Manchester thought to have run away to join their brother who is fighting in Syria. The girls’ parents from Chorlton have also spoken out for the first time, saying they are ‘shocked’ at their disappearance two weeks ago, the MEN reported. Salma and Zahra Halane, 16,…

  • Israel, Hamas intensify attacks

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    Palestinian militants have fired more rockets at Israeli cities after Israel carried out dozens of overnight air strikes on the Gaza Strip, BBC reported. Israel said it had intercepted eight rockets over Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Ashdod on Wednesday morning. Reports from Gaza said at least eight people had been killed in the latest Israeli…

  • Modi tightens grip on BJP

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    Modi aide Amit Shah is new BJP president  Amit Shah, a close aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was Wednesday named the BJP’s new president, only two months after leading the party to a spectacular win in the Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh. A former home minister of Gujarat, Shah — presently a general…

  • UN honours Shamshad Akhtar

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    Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, was honoured by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, during a swearing-in ceremony held at the UN headquarters in New York. Ms Akhtar of Pakistan was appointed as the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia…