Asian Lite News Archive

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  • REVIEW: Al Pacino rocks in Danny Collins

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    Danny Collins’ – intense and emotionally charged…writes Troy Ribeiro for Asian Lite, UK’s best newspaper for British Asians  Film: “Danny Collins”; Cast: Al Pacino, Jennifer Garner, Annette Bening, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer, Josh Peck, Michael Caine, Melisa Benoist and Giselle Eisenberg; Director: Dan Fogelman; Rating: ***1/2 Released under the PVR Director’s Rare banner, writer Dan Fogelman’s maiden…

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  • 14-year-old NRI wins National Geographic Bee

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    A 14-year-old Indian-American won this year’s National Geographic Bee, the contest about the geograophy IQ, in which the runner-up and the second runner-up are also of Indian origin. Karan Menon, an eighth-grader from New Jersey, fought off competition from 10 finalists, to win the annual contest, joining a long list of Indian-American winners. The win…

  • Modi eyes $10-bn jackpot in China

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      Prime Minister Narendra Modi is looking to clinch $10 billion worth of deals, a leading English daily of China reported . “The two countries are likely to sign deals worth $10 billion during Modi’s first visit as prime minister that will also take him to Beijing and Shanghai as he attempts to attract investments…

  • New research centre at Warwick for steel industry

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    Scientists developing stronger and lighter steels to meet the demands of the 21st century will have access to the latest research facilities, thanks to a deal between Tata Steel and the University of Warwick. An agreement has been signed between Tata and the university’s Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) which marks the next stage in the…

  • Britain’s young leaders to attend Amman event

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    80 young international representatives from 18 countries are preparing to converge on Jordan to take part in an innovative 12 month opportunity designed to enhance their skills as potential leaders of the future. Mosaic’s International Leadership Programme (ILP) 2015 begins with a Summit from 18 – 29 May 2015 which takes place in Amman, Jordan. The programme…

  • Core Cities UK firm on devolution

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    Core Cities UK leaders gathered in Westminster to call for the new government to deliver on city devolution Leaders and mayors of the  10 largest city economies outside London in England, Scotland and Wales – Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield – launched a ‘Devolution Declaration’ in front of an invited audience of…

  • Birmingham goes Mancunian Way

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    10 councils of the West Midlands were urged to follow the example of Manchester to form regional powerhouse. Business leaders urge councils to act with ‘all speed’ on combined authority…reports Kaliph Anaz for Asian Lite, the most popular newspaper for British Asians Business leaders in Greater Birmingham urged local authorities in the West Midlands to work urgently for a…

  • Indian envoy target of Kabul attack?

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     A top Afghan official has been quoted by an Afghan news agency as saying that militants attacked an upscale guesthouse in Kabul, thinking that Indian Ambassador Amar Sinha was inside. The attack at the Park Palace guesthouse in Kabul’s Kolola Pushta left five people dead, including two Indians and an American, officials were quoted as…

  • Four Indians killed in Kabul attack

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     Four Indians were among 14 people killed in a suspected Taliban attack on a guesthouse in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul overnight on, an Indian embassy source said . “Four Indians, including a lady, were killed in the attack,” the source said over telephone. “Nine other foreigners were also killed in the attack,” the source added.…

  • European kids happiest in friendships

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    Children are more likely to be happy with their friendships in Europe and more likely to be happy with their school lives in Africa, says a global survey from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. The survey asked 50,000 children in 15 countries about all key aspects of their lives, including their family and home life,…

  • British singer Sarah Brightman postpones space travel

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    British singer Sarah Brightman has for now dropped her plans to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) as a space tourist, according to a media report. Brightman was to travel to the ISS aboard a Russian Souyz TMA-18M spacecraft scheduled to blast off on September 1,tponed the plan. The Soyuz now will carry only…

  • House prices inching up in UK

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    A  drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale is pushing house prices higher, according to surveyors. A report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) says new instructions by sellers have fallen “deeper into negative territory”. Meanwhile the number of inquiries from would-be buyers remains unchanged reports BBC. As…

  • Charles secret Letters made public

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    After 10-year court battle, estimated to have cost the taxpayer £400,000 in legal fees finally the letters sent by Prince Charles has been made public. The correspondence – known as the “black spider” memos because of the heir to the throne’s unusual handwriting style – was sent between September 2004 and March 2005, when Tony Blair…

  • Osborne to outline devolution plan for England

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    George Osborne plans to give English cities powers over housing, transport, planning and policing will be set out in his first post-election speech. Greater Manchester, which will elect a mayor in two years and take on such powers, should become a blueprint for other large cities, he will say. The “old model” of running everything from…

  • Labour leaders ready for the battle

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    Former cabinet colleagues Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper besides Chuka Umunna and Liz Kendall were in the race for Labour’s leadership. The winner will be announced on September 12 before the party conference. Health spokesman Mr Burnham said the party must support the “aspirations of everyone”, while shadow home secretary Ms Cooper said it must…

  • Cabin Fever hits Blenheim Palace Flower Show

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    Visitors to this year’s Blenheim Palace Flower Show are in for a feast of amazing spaces when it returns to the Oxfordshire stately home on 19-21 June. Forget any thoughts of humble storage huts, exhibitors will be amazing the crowds with the grandest of structures to transform the space and use of any garden. From artic cabins…

  • SAJID JAVID: FUTURE BRIGHT

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    Sajid Javid, the rising star of British politics, has humble origins. Son of a bus driver from now notorious Rochdale, Javid will tick all the boxes for a success story. He left a lucrative job in the finance sector to pursue a career in politics. Prime Minister David Cameron may be predicting the future of Javid,…

  • EU urged to take firm stance on Israel

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    A group of 19 prominent former European leaders have urged the European Union to take a firm stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict in light of the lack of political will for peaceful resolution shown by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government, Efe news agency reported. In a letter to EU foreign policy chief, Federica…

  • Cameron strangling nurse mural to be removed

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    A man in Britain has been ordered by his local council to remove a 30 feet long and 10 feet high graffiti mural painted on a wall of his house depicting Prime Minister David Cameron throttling a nurse, a media report said . Tony Davis, 73, received a notice of prosecution from the South Gloucestershire…

  • HSBC doubtful of returns from Indian equities

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    Finding Indian equities markets to be the most over-owned in Asia, HSBC Global Research has now assigned the country “underweight” status, meaning thereby that it expects the returns to be below normal in the short-to-medium term. “In a report titled “The Flying Dutchman: India – Gravity Sets In”, the research arm of HSBC said the…

  • Death of a family shocks Indian community

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    An Indian-origin mother and her twin daughters have been found dead at a house in Romford , north-east London. The body of the husband was later discovered hanging at Woodford Reservoir in Walthamstow. The family is hailing from Thrissur district of South Indian state of Kerala. The news shocked the Indian community community. Neighbours identified the…

  • Rolls plan to cut jobs draw flak

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      Despite winning a £6.1 billion flight engine deal, Rolls-Royce is going ahead with its plan to terminate 3,000 jobs…writes Kaliph Anaz for Asian Lite, UK’s No 1 newspaper for British Asians Prime Minister David Cameron is facing a dilemma as one of the prestigious British Company begins the process to terminate 3000 skilled jobs…

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  • Hate crime film gets top awards

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    Hate crime film produced by Professor Neil Chakraborti, Director of the Leicester Centre for Hate Studies, and his colleagues bags two national awards…writes Kaliph Anaz for Asian Lite, UK’s No 1 newspaper for British Asians An educational video produced by the University of Leicester to expose the harms of hate crime has been awarded two prestigious…

  • Hinduism becomes fourth-largest faith in US

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    By Arul Louis  Fueled by immigration, America’s Hindu population has reached 2.23 million, an increase of about one million or 85.8 percent since 2007, making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, according to estimates based on wide-ranging study of religions in the nation. The proportion of Hindus in the US population rose from 0.4 percent in 2007…

  • Bank of England cuts growth forecast to 2.5%

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    The Bank of England has cut its 2015 growth forecast from 2.9% to 2.5%, and for next year from 2.9% to 2.6%, as governor Mark Carney unveiled his quarterly inflation report. And he told MPs interest rates would rise only in about a year’s time. Mr Carney also said deflation could emerge during the year,…

  • UK unemployment falls to 1.83m

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    Unemployment In UK continued to fall and the number of people in work has continued to rise, according to the latest official figures. The number of people out of work in the January to March period fell to 1.83 million, down 35,000 from the previous quarter reports BBC. The total number in work rose to…

  • ISS astronauts’ return delayed

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    The return of three International Space Station (ISS) astronauts, originally scheduled for later this week, has been delayed due to the failure of a Russian cargo spacecraft. The spacecraft, Progress 59, launched by a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan on April 28, failed to dock with the ISS after suffering a…

  • UK 20th in global school rankings

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    Asian countries are in the top five places and African countries at the bottom in he biggest ever global school rankings ever published. Singapore heads the table, followed by Hong Kong, with Ghana at the bottom reports BBC. The UK is in 20th place, among higher achieving European countries, with the US in 28th. The OECD…

  • North Korea executes its defence chief

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    North Korea has publicly executed the country’s defence minister after the regime accused him of treason, said a media report. Hyon Yong-chol, the chief of North Korea’s People’s Armed Forces, was executed by firing squad using an anti-aircraft gun at a military school in Pyongyang around April 30, Yonhap News Agency reported quoting South Korea’s…

  • NRI scientist develops new tool for cancer diagnosis

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    Rohit Bhargava, an IIT-Delhi graduate and now with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has developed stainless staining that provides a new tool for clinicians and researchers for better diagnosis of cancer. Till date, prepared biopsy samples are stained and examined under a light microscope. Using infrared spectroscopic imaging for microscopy, Bhargava has reported the development…

  • UK to set new laws to target radicalisation

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    David Cameron is to set out new powers to tackle radicalisation, saying the UK has been a “passively tolerant society” for too long. The PM will tell the National Security Council a counter-extremism bill will be in the Queen’s Speech on 27 May reports BBC. The bill will include new immigration rules, powers to close…

  • Karachi terror attack claims 43

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    At least 43 people were killed and 13 others injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a bus in Pakistan’s Karachi city on Wednesday. The incident took place near the city’s Safoora Chowk area, Dawn online reported.  Those travelling in the bus belonged to the Ismaili community of the city. Sindh Police Inspector General Ghulam…

  • Cameron promises a ‘different government’

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    British Prime Minister David Cameron promised to lead a “different government” at his first all-Conservative cabinet meeting following his triumph in the general election last week. Pledging to deliver his party’s pre-election manifesto in full,quoted Cameron telling his new cabinet: “This will be a different government. It is not a coalition government so we have…

  • Obama’s presidential library to be built in Chicago

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    The future library and museum commemorating Barack Obama’s two presidential terms will be built in Chicago, the US president’s foundation said. The project, which includes the construction of an academic institute, will occupy land provided by City Hall in a public park that will be identified on Tuesday at noon, when the university that will…

  • Tories to steal Labour agenda

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    Cameron unveils plans for a parliament of “blue-collar Conservatism”…writes Kaliph Anaz for Asian Lite, UK’s No 1 newspaper for British Asians Prime Minister David Cameron told the first all-Tory cabinet meeting for 18 years that they must focus on “bread and butter” ways of improving people’s lives. The Conservatives won a 12-seat majority in the…

  • Andhra to House Mega Google Campus

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    Google to build largest campus outside US in Hyderabad….reports Asian Lite, UK’s No 1 newspaper fro British Asians  Global Internet services company Google will build its largest campus outside the US in Hyderabad with an investment of Rs.1,000 crore, announced Telanagana Information Technology Minister K. Tarakarama Rao on Tuesday. The minister, who is on a…

  • Modi Seeks ‘Cricket Diplomacy’

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi is determined to break the ice with Pakistan through “cricket diplomacy” Despite apprehensions raised by some BJP MPs about a proposed India-Pakistan cricket series, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is determined to break the ice with the neighbouring country through “cricket diplomacy”, informed sources said. “We have taken the decision to start a…

  • Iconic Jaguars Roar to mark 80th anniversary

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    Nine of Jaguar’s most decorated and iconic heritage cars will compete in the 2015 Mille Miglia as the brand celebrates its 80th anniversary. Fans lining the 1,000-mile loop in Italy will be treated to the sight of three C-types, three D-types, an XK120, an XK140 and a MK VII saloon, which will compete as part…

  • Killer Stroke is Rising in the UK

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    There are around 152,000 strokes in the UK every year and it is the leading cause of severe adult disability. There are over 1.2 million people in the UK living with the effects of stroke…reports Stroke Association Today (May 12) is European Stroke Awareness Day. Stroke Association (SA) points out on this day that stroke…

  • Codes of Corporate Dressing

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    The first code is –  Don’t overplay, underplay…says Sheena Agarwaal First impressions tend to last longer when it comes to the world of professionals. Wear properly fitting clothes with smaller prints, and glam up with subtle makeup if you’re in the corporate world, says an expert. Sheena Agarwaal, image consultant at Gurgaon-based Urbanista Image Consultancy, has…

  • Hollande meets Fidel Castro

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     French President Francois Hollande has met retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana, Spanish news agency Efe reported. The meeting  about 40 minutes, a French diplomat told Efe. After meeting the 88-year-old Castro, Hollande paused to place a floral wreath at the monument to Cuban founding father Jose Marti at the Plaza of the Revolution,…

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  • King Salman calls Obama after cancelling US visit

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    President Barack Obama spoke by telephone with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, one day after Riyadh announced that the monarch will not attend a US summit of Persian Gulf leaders scheduled for later this week. The White House said that Salman called the president on to “apologise” for not being able to come to Washington this…

  • Farage takes the U-turn

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    In a U-turn of sorts,Nigel Farage has had his resignation as UKIP leader rejected by the party’s national executive committee and he remains as leader, the party has said in a statement reports The Huffington Post. Farage had promised to step down as leader if he lost the race to be elected MP for Thanet South. Which he…

  • David criticises Ed’s leadership

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    Ex-Foreign Secretary David Miliband has criticised his brother Ed’s leadership of the Labour Party, saying voters “did not want what was being offered”. He told the BBC the leadership had allowed itself to be portrayed as “moving backwards”. There was “absolutely no point” blaming voters for Labour’s defeat, he added reports BBC. But Mr Miliband,…

  • B4U ties up with beyond Bollywood the musical

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    B4U Music has announced that they are the official music partners for the brand new west-end musical ‘Beyond Bollywood’ making its UK Premiere at the London Palladium. Witness the colour, energy and sheer exuberance of Bollywood as a new musical explodes onto the West End stage this May direct from sell out performances in Mumbai. Beyond Bollywood…

  • Bradford Charity Praises Ethnic Minority MPs

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    Campaigning charity QED Foundation has congratulated the new wave of MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds taking seats in Parliament. The House of Commons is more diverse than ever before, with newly elected black, Chinese and Asian members helping to reflect the racial make-up of the general population. The number of ethnic minority MPs has jumped…

  • New Cameron cabinet to meet on May 27

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     British Prime Minister David Cameron is scheduled to meet his new Conservative Party cabinet for the first time since the party won a majority in the House of Commons in the May 7 general election, BBC reported here . During the meet on May 27, Cameron is slated to introduce a bill aiming to boost…