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  • Bhangra for Leicester Tigers

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    Bhangra Dancers to entertain the crowd at Leicester Tigers vs. Northampton Saints Dance group from West Midlands ‘Gabhru Panjab De Bhangra Dancers’ (GPD) were invited to perform in front of a crowd of 24,000 at the Leicester Tigers vs. Northampton Saints game and launch the Leicester Tigers Foundation’s new ‘Nach Nach Tigers’ program  at Welford Road stadium. GPD…

  • Husain paintings on display in London

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    Works of India’s ‘Barefoot Picasso’ will be displayed at Grosvenor Vadehra in London   Grosvenor Vadehra in London to showcase M. F. Husain, Paintings and Drawings: Works from a Private Collection. The exhibition opens with a private reception on Friday May 22ndand runs until Tuesday June 9th. There is also another late night event at the Gallery on Friday 5th…

  • NRI professionals most successful in UK

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    People of Indian origin are most likely to be in elite professional and managerial roles in Britain, a study based on official census figures has found. According to a detailed analysis of the 2011 census, Indians are the most successful ethnic minority group with 15.4 per cent found in class 1 of eight occupational groups,…

  • Mother Teresa to be canonised

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    Mother Teresa would be canonised in September 2016, senior priest and spokesperson of the Syro Malabar Church Paul Thelekat said. Pope John Paul-II beatified Mother Teressa on October 192003. “As a Christian, I am eagerly waiting for the canonization of Mother Teresa. She has been a mother to millions of Indian especially the poorest of…

  • South Korea offers India $10-bn fund

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    By Rohit Vaid    As Prime Minister Narendra Modi commenced his two-day visit to Seoul , South Korea has offered to set up a $10-billion fund to support several of his ambitious projects, from bullet trains to smart cities, the country’s envoy to India Joon-gyu Lee has said. “My country is offering India a financial package…

  • Nine dead in shootout in Texas

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    At least nine people were killed and 18 injured in a shootout between rival biker gangs in Texas’ Waco city, police said . The shootout occurred in a parking lot between the Twin Peaks and Don Carlos restaurants shortly after noon, said local television station News Channel 25. All the dead – eight of whom…

  • World’s oldest comatose patient Aruna Shanbaug dies

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     The world’s oldest comatose patient, nurse Aruna Shanbaug who had been in a vegetative state ever since she was raped and choked with a dog leash, died in Mumbai’s KEM Hospital after remaining in coma for almost 42 years, Dean Avinash Supe said. She was in her early 60s and was deserted by most of…

  • ‘White Widow’ responsible for 400 deaths

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    Britain’s most wanted female terrorist, Samantha Lewthwaite, commonly known as the “White Widow” is believed to have killed 400 people and has directed terror raids, suicide attacks and car bombings in Somalia and Kenya, a media report said. According to official security reports, Lewthwaite, 32, and a mother of four, has murdered 400 people after…

  • RCN warns Cameron of industrial action

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    David Cameron will lay out plans to create a “seven-day” NHS service today – but has been warned that nurses could walk out if their pay and conditions are affected. The Prime Minister will commit to boosting NHS funding by at least £8bn a year by 2020 when he makes his first major speech since the…

  • Cameron planning ‘seven day’ NHS

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    Prime Minister David Cameron is planning to renew his vow to boost NHS funding and create a “seven-day” health service in his first major post-election speech. He will commit to a pre-election pledge to increase budgets by at least £8bn a year by 2020, during his speech at a GP surgery in the West Midlands reports…

  • India looking into universal healthy coverage

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    Investment in universal health coverage, including for the aged population, should be considered a smart investment for the future, union Health Minister J.P. Nadda said here. “India is committed to achieve universal health coverage for all age groups. It has charted a path that depends largely on provision of affordable, quality health care through the…

  • Modi gets a 7 on year one report card

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    The Assocham  awarded Narendra Modi government 7 out of 10 for its first year’s performance, saying it still needed to cover some ground on tax issues and a lot more remained to be done on improving ease of doing business. “The NDA government has to cover some ground in terms of taxation issues, particularly with…

  • NEWS N PICS – World

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    latest news pictures from world event. Asian Lite, UK’s best newspaper for British Asians, compiles news pictures every day  

  • India to create EU-model virtual university

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    In collaboration with King’s College London and the University of Bologna, Italy, four Indian unis will create EQUAL – a ‘virtual university’ Four Indian varsities will launch pilot open online courses by the beginning of next year to spearhead a major ‘virtual university’ concept funded by the European Union, officials said here. Called Project EQUAL (Enhancing…

  • GALLERY: Rains Hit Bengaluru

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    Bengaluru, the capital city of Karnataka, welcomes the Monsoon rains. Even though the rains hamper the normal routine, Kannadigas  dare the rains to continue life as usual

  • A Sikh Samaritan lauded worldwide

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    A young Sikh from India who did not hesitate to break religious protocol by removing his turban to help an injured child bleeding profusely after an accident in New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland has earned worldwide praise. Harman Singh woke up on Sunday to hundreds of messages from around the world praising his humanity.…

  • How to conquer the sugar cravings?

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    Excessive sugar cravings are a sign that your body is deficient in trace minerals like zinc, magnesium, chromium and vanadium that are involved in glucose metabolism. Increase the intake of yoghurt, chickpeas, almonds, oatmeal, asparagus, cheese, brewer’s yeast, whole grains, mushrooms, soy beans, spinach, oat bran and brown rice to address the root cause of…

  • Moo-ving series of cow-on-the-run tales

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     Everyone is health-aware these days. Last weekend, a colleague lifted his T-shirt to show off his six-pack abs, or abdomen muscles. I told him that I only had one ab but it was a biggie…writes Nury Vittachi in his The Funny Side column for Asian Lite, UK’s  best newspaper for British Asians A rural friend was worried…

  • Modi vs Manmohan

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    Modi’s foreign trips (53 days) are not very different from his predecessor Dr Manmohan Singh, who spent 47 of 365 days in 12 countries during the first year of the second term of the United Progressive Alliance, or UPA-II (and 30 days during UPA-I) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is executing his “fast-track diplomacy” -as his…

  • Inspector Chen and his cases

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    Vikas Datta follow up the Chinese Puzzles -Qiu Xiaolong’s Inspector Chen and his cases “When I am satisfied questions of state security are not involved, then you begin,” a secret police operative tells homicide investigator Arkady Renko in Martin Cruz Smith’s “Gorky Park”, stressing order, not justice – the basic objective of policing not only in authoritarian…

  • SPECIAL: Shia community in India

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    Centrality of Lucknow in world’s Shia culture…writes Saeed Naqvi  Last year, addressing a group of foreign policy analysts in New Delhi, the ambassador of Iran to India, Gholamreza Ansari, made an important admission. He admitted that Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, came from an important family of divines from Kuntoor, in the…

  • Can women take smart decisions?

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    Can women take smart decisions? Asks Amit Dasgupta  If you were asked to respond “Yes/No” to the above question, there is every likelihood that, apart from some good humoured jokes about women and decision making, your response would emphatically be in the affirmative. The uncomfortable fact is that you probably believe that women are incapable of…

  • Modi signs $1 bn cheque for Mangolia

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      India and Mongolia  elevated their 60-year-old diplomatic ties to a strategic partnership as Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister to visit the landlocked northeast Asian nation, which has declared India as its “third neighbour and spiritual neighbour”. The two countries inked 13 agreements, including in the sphere of air services and cyber…

  • Jaipur Literary Fest Opens in London

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    The highlight of the first day’s event includes a clash on dais in between India’s leading journalists Rajdeep Sardesai and Swapan Das Gupta and Mrs Nadira Naipual’s allegations against Jnanpith Award winner Dr Kirish Karnad…writes Kaliph Anaz London gets the taste of Jaipur Literary Festival as South Asia’s largest literary event showcased some of its programmes…

  • Iran calls US sponsor of terrorism

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    Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei  called the US the “main sponsor and engineer of terrorism in the world”, as he expressed his support for the people of Yemen, IRNA reported. “Those countries which are nominally Muslims but in reality puppets are the main agents behind the crisis and insecurity in Yemen,” Iran’s official…

  • US special forces kills senior ISIS leader in Syria

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    US special forces killed a senior leader of Islamic State (IS) group in eastern Syria, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said. The raid was carried out at the direction of US President Barack Obama to conduct an operation in eastern Syria to capture an IS leader known as Abu Sayyaf and his wife Umm Sayyaf,…

  • Turkey shoots down Syrian aircraft

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    Turkeyshot down a Syrian aircraft for violating its airspace near the Syrian border, a media report said. Turkish fighter jets fired at the Syrian aircraft which went down in Syrian territory near Dursunlu and Emek villages of southern Hatay province of Turkey, NTV quoted Turkish military sources as saying, according to Xinhua. Military sources said…

  • Morsi sentenced to death

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    An Egyptian court sentenced ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi to death in a 2011 a jailbreak case. The Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday issued a preliminary ruling of death for Morsi and 105 other defendants in the trial known as the “Natroun Jailbreak case”, Al Ahram online reported The court has sent its decision to…

  • Russian rocket crashes soon after launch

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    A Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite crashed soon after launch. The third stage of the Proton-M carrier with the MexSat-1 communications satellite fell from a height of 160 km. The place where it fell may be in Russia’s Chita region, a source in the country’s space programme told TASS. “Proton’s third stage with the…

  • Indian students wins Intel awards for science

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    An Indian American student won the prestigious Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award, while nine students from across India won awards in various categories and five US students were awarded science trips to India at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (IISEF) in Pttsburgh. The IISEF honors the world’s most promising high school student scientists,…

  • Osborne Budget on 8 July

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    Chancellor George Osborne has said that he will deliver his new Budget on 8 July. Writing in the Sun Mr Osborne said it would be aimed at “working people” and “entrench stability and security”. He admitted it was “unusual” to have two Budgets in the same year, but said he wanted to turn “promises made in the…

  • Foreign policy poll looks good for Hillary

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    By Arun Kumar  Americans are more likely to say Hillary Clinton would do a good job handling foreign affairs as president, but they believe her greatest strength would be race relations, according to a new poll. The former first lady, who is the leading hopeful for Democratic nomination for the 2016 race to the White…

  • Boston bomber sentenced to death

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    A US jury has sentenced Dzokhar Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection for his role in killing three people and injuring hundred others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Tsarnaev, 21, a Kyrgyzstan-born US citizen, was sentenced by a federal jury in Boston. Three people were killed and 260 injured when Tsarnaev and his brother…

  • Modi sells ‘Make in India’ to China

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi  met top Chinese CEOs, including Alibaba’s Jack Ma, and invited them to participate in the Make in India initiative. “I have come to say to you Make in India,” Modi told the CEOs, according to a tweet by external affairs ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup. “India and China can together give something…

  • Cameron rejects SNP demands

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    British Prime Minister David Cameron  rejected some of the core demands put forward by the Scottish National Party (SNP), after holding talks with Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon over increasing powers for the Scottish parliament, a media report said. It was the first meeting of the prime minister and Sturgeon since the May 7 general…

  • US-India defence cooperation approved

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    By Arun Kumar  Reflecting the solid bipartisan support for building US-India relationship, the US House of Representatives Friday passed a key measure calling for expansion of US-India defence cooperation. In addition to urging an overall expansion in defence ties, an amendment to the FY2016 National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) specifically calls for the US to…

  • British drones fly 301 missions against Isis

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    Britain’s Royal Air Force carried out 301 Reaper drone missions over Iraq between the start of UK operations against Isis last September and the end of March, firing a total of 102 Hellfire missiles on 87 separate occasions, according to new Ministry of Defence figures. The numbers were obtained by the Drone Wars UK organisation,…

  • Chuka Umunna withdraws from Labour leader bid

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    Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has withdrawn from the Labour party leadership contest, just days after throwing his hat into the ring. The MP, 36, said in a statement that he was not comfortable with the level of pressure and scrutiny that came with being a leadership candidate. Mr Umunna also cited concerns about the impact…

  • HSBC launches £400m SME support package

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    HSBC – which is moving its retail division to Birmingham – has launched its most ambitious package of support for the city’s small and medium-sized companies (SMEs). The bank has unveiled a £400 million SME fund in the region, one of more than 40 funds to support smaller firms across the country. The newly announced…

  • KPMG supports young Bangladeshi professionals

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      KPMG has hosted an event at its Snowhill offices aimed at helping young professionals from the Bangladeshi community. The event was aimed at members of FYSHnet, which is the Bangladeshi business professionals network, and was co-hosted by Community Connect Foundation and Legacy West Midlands. The former was originally the Smethwick Bangladeshi Youth Forum, and…

  • IAB Elects New Team

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      The Institute of Asian Businesses (IAB) is playing a key role in Team Birmingham, the movement backing the city’s “massive revival,” the organisation’s president, Saqib Bhatti, told members at its annual meeting. Mr Bhatti, who was re-elected for a second term in office, added  that, through its membership , IAB  – the largest ethnic…

  • GALLERY – PICS FROM CANNES

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    The 68th Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes) officially kicked off Wednesday evening in the southern French sea resort of Cannes. Asian Lite, Britain’s Best newspaper for British Asians, captures some of the moments

  • Coup attempt in Burundi condemned

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    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he is gravely concerned by developments in Burundi, while condemning attempts to topple the elected government by military force. Violent protests erupted after Burundi’s ruling party nominated incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza in April as its candidate to run for the presidential election scheduled for June 26. Nkurunziza is in…

  • India, China to explore border solution

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      Prime Minister Narendra Modi said  that he had candid, constructive and friendly talks with the Chinese leadership and both sides agreed to explore a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable resolution to the vexed boundary question which has vitiated bilateral relations over decades. Addressing media after talks with Prime Minister Li Keqiang here, Modi said…

  • Farage rules out quitting

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    Nigel Farage has ruled out standing down as leader of the UKIP party despite a bitter row over his future. Mr Farage told the BBC’s Question Time he had a “phenomenal” level of support within the party. Leaving just as the PM was addressing the UK’s relationship with the EU would be a “massive mistake”,…

  • Wreckage of missing US helicopter in Nepal found

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     More than 60 hours after it was reported missing, a search and rescue mission recovered the debris of a US helicopter that crashed in the mountainous terrain of Nepal. The UH-1Y Huey helicopter, which carried six US Marines and two Nepali soldiers, was found on the northern slope of Kalinchowk hill in Dolakha district, e-Kantipur…

  • Cameron and Nicola to discuss new powers for Scotland

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    The Scottish Parliament will be dominated by new powers for Scotland, when David Cameron and Nicola Sturgeon hold talks in Edinburgh later. It will be the first meeting of the prime minister and Scotland’s first minister since the general election report BBC. Mr Cameron, who is visiting Scotland on a post-election tour of the UK,…

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    Latest News Pictures from acrosss the world. Visit Asian Lite for news and opinions

  • Rail Strike to spoil bank holiday Monday

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    British rail workers will go on strike on May 25 – the bank holiday Monday. The 24-hour strike of Network Rail workers will begin at 5pm seeking salary hike. The workers, including signallers and maintenance staff, will also ban overtime for 48 hours from 25 May. The move follows a decisive vote for strikes from RMT…

  • Second Referendum on SNP Agenda

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      Prime Minister David Cameron will meet Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today in Edinburgh to discuss the devolution of power promised by Westminster parties during the referendum campaign. The landslide victory in the last general election is prompting the Scottish party to hold a second referendum to decide the future of the country, sources…