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  • Miliband attacks Cameron over Libya policy

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    Labour leader Ed Miliband is to accuse David Cameron of presiding over the “biggest loss of influence for our country in a generation”. Mr Miliband will use a foreign policy speech to criticise the PM’s approach over Libya, Ukraine and the EU reports |BBC. He will promise to “speak up for Britain’s values” on the…

  • YouTube turns 10

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    The ‘popstar’ YouTube that actually made several pop stars what they are today, including Justin Bieber and Zoella, has turned 10 . It’s been 10 years since Jawed Karim — the man behind the concept of the video sharing site — uploaded the first ever video of his zoo visit on the website. The then…

  • Obama takes responsibility for accidental killing of hostages

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    US President Barack Obama said  that he took “full responsibility” for a counter-terrorism operation in January against Al Qaeda which accidentally killed two hostages. “As president and as commander-in-chief, I take full responsibility for all our counter-terrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of Warren (Weinstein) and Giovanni (Lo Porto). I profoundly…

  • Indian seafood exports to the EU on the rise

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     Indian seafood exports to the European Union (EU) have been steadily growing from $227 million in 2000-01 to $805 million in 2011-12 and is expected to reach $1.06 billion in 2014-15 , according to Leena Nair, chairperson of Marine Products Export Development Authority of India (MPEDA). Speaking at a luncheon event organised by the MPEDA…

  •  UNI HONOURS SINGH TWINS

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    The Singh Twins after being conferred with their Honorary Doctorates of Fine Art, outside Chester Cathedral…writes Asian Lite, UK’s No 1 newspaper for British Asians Acclaimed British artists, The Singh Twins, whose work as young art students was dismissed by their tutors as “backward, outdated and having no place in modern art” because it was…

  • Lopa Wins Queen’s Honour

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    Lopa Patel MBE has become the First Asian woman to receive the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion Digital Entrepreneur and STEM evangelist, Lopa Patel MBE, was named as one of the latest recipients of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion, becoming the first Asian woman to receive the award. She is also the first Asian woman to be…

  • Older people alerted upon scams

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    Jacqui Kennedy, Director of Regulation and Enforcement, looks at how Trading Standards are protecting older and vulnerable people from scams Britain’s population of older adults is increasing, which raises numerous issues ranging from healthcare and housing to pensions and money worries. So when a letter arrives promising a prize or lottery win, it can be…

  • Obesity has six types not one

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    The six groups identified by researchers from the University of Sheffield in Britain are young males who were heavy drinkers, middle-aged individuals who were unhappy and anxious, older people who despite living with physical health conditions were happy, younger healthy females, older affluent healthy adults and individuals with very poor health…reports Asian Lite, UK’s leading newspaper…

  • Britain is Orange Too

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    Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha joined thousands celebrating Vaisakhi celebrations at the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in Gravesend. The prime minister said Britain  isn’t just red, white and blue – it’s orange too   Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha joined thousands celebrating Vaisakhi celebrations at the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in Gravesend. Cameron…

  • The Growing threat of BLUKIP

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    Mr Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister and the leader of the Liberal Democrats,  says the threat of a Labour/SNP alliance has been well covered in the media. But the threat of a Conservative government held hostage by Nigel Farage and his friends on the angry right wing of the Conservative Party is just as real Liberal Democrats will…

  • ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’

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    The stars of 2007 viral video ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ are now on their adolescents . Charlie is now 9, his brother Harry is 11 – they got two additional brothers too. CBBC, the children’s channel of BBC, recently portrayed them in their Newsround. ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ video is one of the most watched videos on YouTube of…

  • Kalyan withdraws ‘racist’ ad

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    Kalyan Jewellers withdraw ‘racist’ ad featuring Aishwarya Jewellery brand Kalyan Jewellers on Thursday announced its decision to withdraw its Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-starrer advertisement, which a group of activists has labelled as “insidiously racist”. “This creative was intended to present royalty, timeless beauty and elegance. If we have, inadvertently, hurt the sentiments of any individual or…

  • China favours an all-win Iran n-deal

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      Chinese President Xi Jinping said that his country stands ready to work with relevant parties to hammer out a fair, balanced and all-win agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue. He made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, during which the Chinese leader welcomed the recent framework deal Iran reached with…

  • Farmer’s suicide upsets a nation

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi  said he was “deeply shattered” by the suicide of a farmer at an AAP rally here, and added that efforts were on to improve farmers’ lives. “Gajendra’s death has saddened the nation,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement, referring to the Rajasthan farmer who hanged himself from a tree…

  • New Zealand PM apologises for pulling waitress’ ponytail

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    New Zealand Prime Minister John Key apologised to a waitress for pulling her ponytail on several occasions at an Auckland cafe where she worked, media reported. Key, on his way to Turkey to commemorate the World War I battle of Gallipoli, explained that he was simply being playful and friendly, and apologised when he realised…

  • INTERVIEW: Vivek Murthy

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    By Arun Kumar    Son of Indian immigrant parents, Dr. Vivek Murthy says his rise to the position of “America’s Doctor” was improbable but he got where he was by standing on principle. “As I look around this arena, I am struck by a simple truth: by any reasonable measure, I shouldn’t be standing here,” he…

  • India’s inevitable rise to the top

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    Bhim D. Asdhir writes on India’s rise top in world affairs in UK’s leading newspaper Asian Lite. India’s meteoric rise to global prominence is inevitable. Perhaps, US President Barack Obama, writing in Time Magazine on April 16, puts India’s and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rise to prominence best: “Today, he’s the leader of the world’s…

  • Climate change needs urgent action: Obama

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     US President Barack Obama said  that climate change “can no longer be denied” and immediate measures are needed to mitigate its effects. Obama said during his Earth Day address on Wednesday at the Everglades National Park — the largest subtropical wilderness in the US — that global warming threatened the 600,000-hectare (1.5-million-acre) park and the…

  • Indian scientists develop new drug for Parkinson’s

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    Indian researchers have developed a new therapy that has been found to reverse Parkinson’s-like symptoms in rats and the researchers believe that the findings could one day lead to a new therapy for human patients. The researchers found that infusing the chemical dopamine into the brain can relieve symptoms in animal models of the disease.…

  • Wendell Rodrick’s creation heads to NY

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    Indian fashion designer Wendell Rodricks’ 30 metre net panels, built on a silver lycra swimsuit, has made its way to a New York museum. Valerie Steele, director and author at the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and curators Ariele Elia and Elizabeth Way picked out Rodricks’ gown constructed on a swimsuit, to…

  • Indian space science benefiting common man

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      Former ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan has said India is the “role model” in the world in harnessing space research and explorations for the benefit of the common man. “The vision of Vikram Sarabhai, our founder, was that this high technology (space science) should be beneficial for the people of this country, for the governance…

  • Election 2015: Economy takes centre stage

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    Election campaigning is to focus on the economy as Labour and the Tories attack each other’s plans before independent analysts present their verdict. Labour leader Ed Miliband will claim the Tories are planning “the biggest cuts anywhere in the developed world”. But Conservative Chancellor George Osborne highlighted what he called the “frightening” cost of a…

  • Vatican urges dialogue with Islam

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    Dialogue is needed with Islam “now more than ever”, the Vatican said , stressing that most Muslims abhor violent acts perpetrated in the name of religion. “Recent events have caused many to ask if there is still room for dialogue with Muslims,” the Vatican’s interfaith dialogue body said in a statement. “The answer is yes…

  • Rahul spar in parliament over net neutrality

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      Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi  accused the government of floating a “trial balloon” on net neutrality even as Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said his regime was in favour of free and fair access to the World Wide Web. In his second intervention in the Lok Sabha since his return from a…

  • US seeks extradition of NRI UK trader

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    US authorities have sought extradition from Britain of an Indian origin trader accused of contributing to the “flash crash” of 2010 that briefly wiped out nearly $1 trillion in stock market value. Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, from West London, appeared in a Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday and said he would oppose extradition to the…

  • Intelligence breakdowns behind Mumbai attacks: Report

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    By Arun Kumar  Citing what it called “hidden intelligence breakdowns” behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, a new investigative report has described Mumbai “as a tragic case study in the strengths and limitations of high-tech surveillance”. An analysis of documents leaked by Edward Snowden contradicted the US government’s claims that the National Security Agency had…

  • India urges for political settlement in Middle East

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    By Arul Louis  To bring peace to the Middle East, India has called for political dialogue to find solutions to the hostilities wracking the region while urging strong action against extremist groups whose deadly violence “strikes at our common humanity.” In a Security Council debate on the Middle East, Permanent Representative Asoke Kumar Mukerji touched…

  • Obama submits n-deal with China to Congress

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      US President Barack Obama has submitted to Congress a proposed 30-year agreement on cooperating with China in peaceful uses of nuclear energy. “In my judgement, it meets all applicable statutory requirements and will advance the nonproliferation and other foreign policy interests of the US,” Obama said in a message to Congress issued by the…

  • Palani Kumanan shares Pulitzer Prize

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    A software engineer of Indian descent shared The Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in growing recognition of the importance of using information technology tools for reporting as well as for presentation. Palani Kumanan, who is a software architect and technical lead with Dow Jones that publishes the Journal, was a part of…

  • Saudi Arabia ends operation in Yemen

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    The Saudi Arabia-led coalition command announced on Wednesday the end of its military campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen after receiving a message from President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, evoking welcome reactions from several countries. The coalition stated that the airstrikes conducted as part of the “Operation Decisive Storm” military campaign managed “to successfully remove…

  • Cameron promise new childcare places

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    The Conservatives’ manifesto pledge on childcare will create an extra 600,000 free places. Under the £350m Conservative plans, the amount of state-subsidised childcare for three and four year-olds would be doubled to 30 hours a week reports BBC. Labour said it was “another unfunded announcement”, accusing the Conservatives of “desperation”. BBC political correspondent Carole Walker…

  • Tesco record a loss of £6.4bn

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    Tesco has reported the worst results in its history with a record statutory pre-tax loss of £6.4bn for the year to the end of February. That compares with annual pre-tax profit of £2.26bn a year earlier reports BBC. It is the third year in a row in which the supermarket giant has reported falling profits.…

  • Headley joined LeT “full time” after 9/11

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    By Arun Kumar   A Pakistani-American key plotter of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks has revealed that he decided to join Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) “full time” following the 9/11 attacks in the US. Born Daood Gilani in the US to an American mother and a Pakistani father, David Coleman Headley makes the disclosure…

  • Morsi jailed for 20 years

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      An Egyptian court  sentenced Mohamed Morsi, who was ousted as president in 2013, to 20 years in prison for inciting the killings of protestors outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace in December 2012. This is the first verdict issued against Morsi since his ouster on July 3, 2013. However, Morsi and all other 14 defendants…

  • Japanese maglev train sets speed record

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    Central Japan Railway’s high-speed train broke its own world speed record , clocking 603 kilometres per hour (374.69 miles per hour), after having set the previous record less than a week ago. The maglev — magnetically levitated — train broke the record during a 42-km test run in Yamanashi, a district about 35 km west…

  • Spotlight on missing black men in America

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    By Arun Kumar  As yet another black man died, this time in police custody, unleashing a fresh wave of protests asking whether black lives matter, a media report spoke of some 1.5 million missing black men in the United States. For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men, the…

  • US beefs up presence off Yemen

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      The US has bolstered its naval presence in the waters off the war-torn Yemen by sending an aircraft carrier and a guided missile cruiser following the spectre of Iran sending weapons to the Shia Houthi rebels to fight the Yemen government. The US Navy confirmed in a communique that the US had decided to…

  • Modi’s stewardship in confronting climate change

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    Rajendra Shende,an IIT-alumni, is chairman of the TERRE Policy Centre and former director UNEP writes about Modi’s stewardship on confronting climate change in UK’s leading Asian paper the Asian Lite. US President Barack Obama, in his 166-word eulogy in Time magazine that named Prime Minister Narendra Modi among the 100 most influential people in the…

  • Salman case verdict on May 6

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    Mumbai Sessions Court Additional Sessions Judge D. W. Deshpande will pronounce the verdict on May 6 in the 13-year-old case of an accident involving Bollywood actor Salman Khan, in which one person was killed and four were injured. The announcement was made here on Tuesday, a day after the prosecution, led by special public prosecutor…

  • EU urged to rescue endangered migrants

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      The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) urged the European Union on Monday to establish rescue operations to address the increasing number of migrants perishing in the attempt to traverse the Mediterranean Sea. The request came after a boat attempting to reach European shores sank on Saturday night in the Strait of Sicily, where the…

  • UNSC calls for access to Palestinian camp

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     The UN Security Council (UNSC) has called for “unhindered humanitarian access” to the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near the Syrian capital of Damascus and stressed on “the protection of civilians” there. “The members of the security council called for unhindered humanitarian access to the Yarmouk camp and for the protection of civilians inside the camp,”…

  • ‘Darwin’s theory not original’

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    The well-known Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was actually proposed by a little-known horticulturist 27 years earlier and he should be given due credit for his work, claims a British scientist. A new review of the ideas and work of Patrick Matthew, a Scottish landowner and fruit farmer, argues that he under-appreciated…

  • US Sikhs honour Eric Holder

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     The Sikh community here has honoured the US Attorney General Eric Holder with a siropa, a ceremonial robe of honour, and a Sewa Service Award for services to their community. Guru Gobind Singh Foundation (GGSF) of Rockville, Maryland and National Sikh Centre (NSC) of Washington, DC presented the award to Holder at a ceremony at…

  • Hepatitis B cure in sight

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    A combination therapy of an antiviral drug and an anti-cancer drug has been found 100 percent successful in eliminating the hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections in pre-clinical models, Australian scientists have said. Hepatitis B is a chronic viral disease that is currently incurable. The virus infects liver cells and can lead to complications including cirrhosis…

  • Labour promise 20,000 more nurses

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    Labour says it will launch a drive to get 1,000 more nurses into training this year if it wins the election. Ed Miliband will say the emergency move would form part of Labour’s bid for 20,000 more nurses by 2020 reports BBC. He will add that if elected he will ask universities to reopen admissions…

  • Hillary leads Democratic pack

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    By Arun Kumar   As the 2016 US presidential race gets going, Hillary Clinton dominates everyone on the Democratic side while Jeb Bush has a slight edge among the Republicans, a new poll said. Democrats are broadly enthusiastic about the former First Lady and secretary of state’s candidacy, far more than they are for any other…

  • Suit-boot government has failed: Rahul

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    A combative Rahul Gandhi here  mounted his second successive attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi since returning from leave of absence, accusing his “suit boot” and “acche din” government of working for corporates and forgetting farmers. Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu, however, rubbished the Congress vice-president’s allegations, reminding him that it was due to…

  • India’s space journey after Aryabhata

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    Venkatachari Jagannathan writes about India’s long and exciting journey into space and beyond in UK’s  top Asian newspaper.  India’s first satellite – Aryabhata – was launched successfully by a Russian rocket on an April day 40 years ago, taking the country on an exciting space odyssey as far as the Moon and the Mars. The year…

  • Bibi gets two-week extension to form new Govt

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    Israeli President Reuven Rivlin  granted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a two-week extension to form a new government, a media report said. On March 25, Rivlin tasked Netanyahu with the responsibility of forming the next government and gave him 28 days to do so — a deadline which will be reached this week, Xinhua reported. Netanyahu,…

  • Asking prices for houses reach record high

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    A shortage of homes and high demand for properties have combined to drive asking prices to a new record high, according to Rightmove. The property website said new sellers’ asking prices increased by 1.6%, or £4,381, month-on-month in April to reach £286,133 on average across England and Wales reports Sky News. The figure beats a…