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  • First proof of planetary formation

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    Researchers from the University of Toronto have offered first-ever proof of a planetary system under formation. The team led by Daniel Tamayo found that circular gaps in a disk of dust and gas swirling around the young star HL Tau are, in fact, made by forming planets. “HL Tau likely represents the first image taken…

  • How Twitter world reacted to Salman’s verdict

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    After superstar Salman Khan was found guilty in the 2002 hit-and-run case on Wednesday morning, some of the Twitter users have shown support while others are content with the verdict. Additional Sessions Judge D.W. Deshpande found Salman guilty of most of the charges in the September 2002 accident in which one person was killed and…

  • How faith dictates marriage in India

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    Khabar Lahariya & Prachi Salve If you are a girl — educated and from an economically stable family — from an urban area,  either Jain, Christian or upper-caste Hindu, the chances are you will not be married before adulthood (18 years), according to a new report. Some other highlights: * Teen pregnancy is nine times higher…

  • UN peacekeepers killed in DR Congo

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    At least two peacekeepers were killed and 13 injured when a UN convoy came under attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), a media report said. Four more peacekeepers were missing after the attack by suspected rebels in the northeastern city of Beni, CNN quoted the UN as saying in a statement. The…

  • US has given Pakistan arms worth $5.4 bn

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     Since the September 11, 2001 terror attack, the US has given Pakistan arms worth about $5.4 billion for counter-terrorism operations, along with many “big ticket” platforms more suited to conventional warfare. Sales of F-16 combat aircraft and related equipment account for nearly half of these Foreign Military Sales agreements with Pakistan, according to a report…

  • Salman gets 5 years in jail

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    Bollywood actor Salman Khan was on Wednesday sentenced to five years in jail for a 2002 hit-and-run accident that left one man dead and four others injured here. Additional Sessions Judge D.W. Deshpande announced the verdict at a packed courtroom here, stunning the actor and his family. Salman, one of the highest paid actors in…

  • The Beatles didn’t start musical revolution in US: Study

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    Contrary to popular belief, the so-called “British Invasion” of US pop music by groups like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones did not start rock revolution, researchers have found. The greatest musical revolution in US pop history was also not 1964 but 1991 when hip-hop arrived in the charts, said the team that studied trends…

  • Government must tell where is Dawood: Azad

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    Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad sought an explanation from Home Minister Rajnath Singh over the whereabouts of wanted underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary in a written reply in the Lok Sabha  said: “The subject has not been located so far. Extradition process with…

  • US posts hefty bounty on four key ISIS figures

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    The US administration has posted a bounty of $20 million for information on four key figures of the Islamic State (IS), an extremist group it is fighting in Iraq and Syria. The State Department is seeking tips that can lead to the arrest of Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili and…

  • The final countdown

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    Party leaders and candidates are making a last-ditch grab for votes on the final day of campaigning before the general election polls open. Prime Minister David Cameron will promise to keep Britain “on the road to a brighter future”, while Labour’s Ed Miliband will pledge “a government that will put working people first” reports BBC.…

  • Permanent seat for India is ‘urgent’: France

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      To bolster the legitimacy of the UN in a changed world, it is “vital” and “urgent” to expand the Security Council’s permanent membership to include India, France has declared. France’s Permanent Representative Francois Delattre said Tuesday, “France favors enlarging the Security Council’s both categories of membership, permanent and non-permanent, and supports Germany and Japan,…

  • Salman Khan guilty in hit & run case

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    Bollywood star Salman Khan convicted, court to announce sentence tomorrow. Is he joining with another star in jail – Sanjay Dutt?  Superstar Salman Khan has been found guilty in the 2002 hit-and-run case and the sessions court here is scheduled to pronounce the quantum of punishment on Thursday. Additional Sessions Judge D.W. Deshpande reading out his…

  • NASA’s New Horizons already started imaging Pluto

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      Though the images are still not large enough, but for the first time in the space history we are seeing our dwarf planet Pluto clearer than ever before. New Horizons – NASA’s one of the leading and one of the longest projects, has already been sending images of Pluto from thousands of miles away. And within a…

  • India against role of religion-based organisations at UN

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    By Arul Louis  India has cautioned against the UN giving religion-based organisations a role in international security matters and warned that it could be “counterproductive”. Prakash Gupta, a counsellor at India’s UN mission, said the UN Charter’s provisions on the role of regional organisations in international peace and security issues clearly refers to “organisations formed…

  • Nepal may call off Everest expeditions for 2015

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    Nepal may call off the expeditions to Mount Everest this year after an elite team of sherpas informed the government that they would take at least two months to set up a new route to the top of the world’s highest peak after an avalanche on April 25 hit the traditional route. Hundreds of climbers…

  • Cameron visits Neasden Temple

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    Prime Minister David Cameron visits the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in North West London. The following is the transcript of his speech at the temple: “Jai Swaminarayan. This is the third time I’ve been to Neasden Mandir and I want to thank you for the warmth and kindness you have always shown Samantha and me…

  • Mourinho is the best: Fabregas

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    Chelsea’s Spanish footballer Cesc Fabregas has claimed that Jose Mourinho is the best manager he has played under, placing him ahead of the likes of Pep Guardiola of Bayern Munich and Arsene Wenger from Arsenal. Fabregas played under Guardiola when the latter was in charge of Spanish side FC Barcelona and under Wenger at English…

  • Asian voters crucial to win British polls

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    Some 30 million votes will be cast in Thursday’s general election, but the opinion of just a small group of people could decide who walks through Number 10…writes Kaliph Anaz As the election enters the crucial 48-hrs phase, Prime Minister David Cameron and other British leaders are own prowl to bag the undecided voters. Asians…

  • Kerry arrives in Somalia amid tight security

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    US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia,  marking the first visit of a US secretary of state to the country in over 20 years. Security in Mogadishu has been tightened with roads leading to the airport sealed off, Xinhuia news agency reported. Kerry is scheduled to officially open the…

  • Gurkha land is in ruins

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    By Gaurav Sharma  Ran Bahadur Gurung is scouring for his belongings in the rubble which once used to be his house at this remote but picturesque village of Gurkha in Nepal, the epicentre of the devastating earthquake in Himalayan nation. While rummaging through the ruins, he stumbles across a mangled aluminum container. He flings it,…

  • NASA records ‘alien sounds’ above Earth

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    Ultra-sensitive microphones aboard a NASA student balloon, floating at the edge of space has captured infrasonic sounds whose source has not been ascertained as yet. Theories for the sounds range from wind in the balloon’s path, to ocean waves, gravity waves and clear air turbulence. Others suggest the noises may be coming from movements from…

  • Dawood hasn’t been located

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    The location of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was not known to the government and extradition proceedings against him will start once he is traced, parliament was informed. Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha that Dawood was an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial…

  • Huge lava lake on Jupiter’s moon

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    An extremely powerful telescope on Earth has revealed in detail a huge lava lake on Io – the innermost of the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Italian scientist and scholar Galileo (Galilei) in 1610. Io is the most geologically active body in our solar system. Hundreds of volcanic areas dot its surface, which is…

  • Obama selects new Joint Chiefs of Staff

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    US President Barack Obama has selected Marine General Joseph Dunford as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US media reported. According to The Washington Post, CNN and FOX News, citing top government officials, Obama selected Dunford to replace General Martin Dempsey, who will leave the top job later in the year after…

  • Humour make us happier than religion

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    Our view of what makes us happy has changed markedly since 1938, revealed a British psychologist who has recreated a famous study of happiness conducted in 1938. Seventy seven years back, Mass Observation, a social research organisation, placed an advertisement in the Bolton Evening News in Bolton, a town in Greater Manchester, asking readers to…

  • Britain denies visas to radical Hindu activists

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    By Anasudhin Azeez  The British government has revoked visas issued to two prominent members of right-wing Hindu organisations in the south Indian state of Kerala after the Indian community here filed complaints against their visit. Sasikala Teacher, chairperson of Kerala-based Hindu Aikya Vedi (United Hindu Front), and N. Gopalakrishnan, director of Indian Institute of Scientific…

  • World News In Pictures

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  • BJP to counter opposition onslaught

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    Brajendra Nath Singh In a move to counter opposition parties’ attack against the Modi government, the Bharatiya Janata Party is planning a major outreach programme involving its ministers and members of parliament. According to party insiders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed all his ministers and BJP parliamentarians to visit their Lok Sabha constituencies and…

  • Modi’s rope trick to befriend Chinese

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    Chaitanya Mallapur  Ahead of his visit to China — from May 14 to 16 —India’s social-media friendly Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined the Chinese social media platform Weibo to connect with Chinese citizens. Sina Weibo is the largest Chinese micro-blogging site with over 140 million monthly active users, and China, with 1.29 billion subscribers, has…

  • ‘Sense of unfairness’ behind protests: Obama

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    By Arun Kumar   A “sense of unfairness and powerlessness” has helped to fuel protests across America that have occurred after the deaths of black men at the hands of police, according to President Barack Obama. “By almost every measure, the life chances of the average young man of colour is worse than his peers,” he…

  • Towards the finish line

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    Party leaders are starting a two-day marathon tour of the UK as the election campaign enters its final stages. Conservative leader David Cameron is beginning 36 hours of campaigning, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is launching a “two-day dash” from Land’s End to John O’Groats, while Ed Miliband is also travelling around the country. Labour…

  • Silicon Valley’s Dave Goldberg dies in a gym accident

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    The Silicon Valley entrepreneur and SurveyMonkey chief executive Dave Goldberg died of severe head trauma, according to local officials. Mr Goldberg, 47, husband of Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, was found lying next to a gym treadmill at a Four Seasons resort in Mexico reports BBC. Mexican authorities have no plans for a criminal investigation. The…

  • How India drifted towards Eurasia

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    For years, scientists have struggled to explain how India could have drifted northward so quickly. Now, geologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have unearthed India’s rapid move toward Eurasia 80 million years ago that later gave rise to the Himalayas. According to them, India was pulled northward by the combination of two subduction…

  • How to counter side effects of antibiotics

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    By Amar Chandel   There are times when it becomes unavoidable to take antibiotics. While these may cure you of your diseases, they leave you with nasty side effects like bloating, belching, gas, constipation and diarrhea. As the very name antibiotics suggests, it kills bacteria. Unfortunately, it also kills friendly bacteria which are so very valuable…

  • Modi to visit China

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a three-nation official visit to China, Mongolia and South Korea from May 14-19. In China, Modi will visit Xian, Beijing and Shanghai from May 14-16. He will hold bilateral meetings with the country’s leadership and participate in cultural and business events. The prime minister will also attend an event…

  • Tsunami warning following quake in Papua New Guinea

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    A tsunami warning was issued following a 7.5-magnitude earthquake that struck 150 km south of Papua New Guinea. According to the US Geological Survey, the epicentre, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 5.6 degrees south latitude and 152.1 degrees east longitude. It issued a “hazardous” alert within 300 km…

  • Bibi calls for eradicating racism in Israel

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     Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for eradicating discrimination against Jews of Ethiopian origin, following violent demonstrations by Israeli Ethiopians in recent days. “We must stand as one against racism, condemn it and eradicate it,” Netanyahu said at a three-hour meeting with leaders of the Ethiopian community representatives in Jerusalem. “There is clearly a…

  • Obama unveils NGO for US minorities

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     US President Barack Obama has launched a new non-profit foundation intended to offer more opportunities to young minority men amid continued heated national debates about racial relations following the death of 25-year-old African-American Freddie Gray. The new programme, “My Brother’s Keeper Alliance,” mirrored a previous Obama administration’s initiative, “My Brother’s Keeper,” launched in 2014 to…

  • Modi joins social media site Weibo

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    Ahead of his visit to China later this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi  tweeted that he has joined Chinese micro blogging website Weibo. Often called the Twitter of China, Sina Weibo is one of the most popular sites in China, in use by well over 30 percent of Internet users. The prime minister uploaded an…

  • She is ‘Charlotte Elizabeth Diana’

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    The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have named their daughter Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, Kensington Palace has said. The fourth in line to the throne will be known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge. There had been speculation that the couple would include the name of Diana in honour of Prince William’s mother, BBC reported.…

  • Special Report: World Asthma Day

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    Cardio exercises can prevent severe asthma attacks writes Rupesh Dutta for Asian Lite, UK’s No 1 newspaper for British Asians, to mark World Asthma Day ((May 5 ) Life had been slowly going downhill for 36-year-old car mechanic Cyril Joseph ever since he was diagnosed with ashtma five years ago. Inhaling toxic exhaust fumes all day long was…

  • BOAT PEOPLE RETURNS – News N Pics

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    Latest news pictures from major events across the world. Asian Lite, UK’s No 1 newspaper will publish daily news galleries on world events

  • NEWS N PICS: NEPAL TODAY

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    The toll across Nepal from the devastating April 25 earthquake has surged to 7,365, according to the latest update by the country’s home ministry. According to the update, the number of injured people has reached 14,355. The highest number of deaths has been recorded in the Sindhupalchowk district, which currently has soared to 2,838, while in…

  •   Langar at Leicester

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    Sikh community provides lunch for students in Leicester Staff and students from many backgrounds came together for a special meal at Leicester College. An estimated 300 people were treated to a free meal courtesy of the ‘Langar on Campus’ event. ‘Langar’ is a Punjabi word meaning community kitchen and was originally instigated by the founder of the…

  • CAMERON: Let’s finish what we’ve begun

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    Prime Minister David Cameron appealed to the British electorate to vote Conservative to finish the good work they have started five years back. In a message, the prime minister said the Conservatives can have a strong economy and a stable government . “I will keep working through our long-term economic plan as Prime Minister,” Cameron said. “But…

  • Miliband: Put Your NHS First on Thursday

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    “Labour will repeal David Cameron’s Privatisation Act and put the right values back at the heart of the NHS – patients before profits,” Miliband said Labour Leader Ed Miliband urged the British voters to put the NHS first, saying there is no bigger choice for the future of their family and country than what happens…

  • Tabloidization of Indian News

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    Tabloidization is the death of good journalism. But I don’t blame our anchors or journalists for this tsunami of tabloid news. I also strongly disagree with the widely held hypothesis that blames the Indian viewer – Indians love tabloid sensationalism … Indians have base, tabloid tastes. So if our anchors are not to blame, and…

  • Waiting for Wassabi!

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    If the Boko Haram wants to kidnap little girls, the Taliban blow up a village and some mentally deranged idiot shoot up a Mall, that’s life. But to make Kanye West and Kim Kardashian wait 30 minutes for a sushi table in Calabasas, California is just not acceptable. The world is going to hell in a…

  • Australian police defend arrests that led to executions

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    Australian Federal Police (AFP) defended their role which led to the arrest of the two convicts who were ultimately executed. Information shared by AFP with Indonesian police led to the arrest of Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, in 2005. They were executed at Besi prison in Nusa Kambangan Island on April 28. Australian…

  • Rafale deal will be quick one: Parrikar

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    The multi-billion dollar Rafale fighter jet deal is expected to be a “quick one” because trading parties involved are two governments, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said here. He also confirmed that he and Jean-Yves Le Drian will set the ground for negotiations when the French Defence Minister arrives in India this week. “We have already…