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  • Attenborough plans another film in India

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    Raymond Kharmujai says the late British director had plans to make a documentary on Meghalaya’s matrilineal system Tribal Khasi philanthropist Honsen Lyngdoh, who was closely associated with Richard Attenborough’s Oscar-winning film ‘Gandhi’, said the late British director had plans to make a documentary on Meghalaya’s matrilineal system. The filmmaker died in London at the age of 90.…

  • Court asks DLF to pay Rs 630 crore

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    The Supreme Court penalised real estate giant DLF Rs.630 crore for exploiting its dominant position to the disadvantage of its customers in three projects in Gurgaon. The bench of Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice N.V. Ramana said DLF would furnish an undertaking to pay Rs.170 crore interest on the penalty of Rs.630 crore or the…

  • Karnataka seeks UK’s help

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    Karnataka sought Britain’s help in setting up an aerospace technology centre in this tech hub modelled on the High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult, a consortium of seven world leading research centres headquartered in West Midlands in Britain.”As a first step towards greater collaboration, I seek your cooperation in helping our state set up the aerospace…

  • Calling wife fat is domestic abuse: Seema

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    Husbands who constantly criticise their wives over their weight or appearance may be guilty of domestic abuse, a Labour frontbencher has suggested. Seema Malhotra, Labour’s new shadow anti domestic violence minister, told MailOnline that such abuse could be part of a wider pattern of ‘controlling behaviour’ which can be as bad as a physical attack. She said:…

  • Extra £483,000 to live near top schools

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    Parents in the postal district of the Beaconsfield High School in Buckinghamshire face paying a premium of £483,031 (154%) compared to the average house price in neighbouring areas, according to new research by Lloyds Bank. Average property prices in the postal districts of the top 30 state schools in England – defined as those secondary…

  • Scottish case not been made: businesses

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    More than 130 business people from different sectors have signed an open letter arguing that the business case for Scottish independence “has not been made”. The letter, organised by Keith Cochrane, chief executive of Weir Group and signed by figures included Ian Marchant, former chief executive of the utility SSE and Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of miner BHP…

  • Dogs face cyclist scare

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    A quarter of guide dogs working in London have been hit by a bike, according to the organisation Guide Dogs. A survey involving a fifth of guide dog owners in the city also found 70% had experienced a near miss with cyclists on pavements or jumping red lights, according to the BBC. Rob Harris from…

  • Blatant failure in stopping Asian predators

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    Blatant failures of political and police leadership contributed to the sexual exploitation of 1,400 children in Rotherham over a 16-year period by Asian men, according to an uncompromising report published in the aftermath of allegations of gang rape and trafficking in the South Yorkshire town. Written by Prof Alexis Jay, a former chief inspector of social work, the investigation…

  • UK honours Dadabhai Naoroji

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    British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced an award in memory of the legendary Indian businessman and freedom-fighter, Dadabhai Naoroji. “Today, I am announcing the Dadabhai Naoroji Awards which will be given annually to individuals promoting partnership between India and UK in domains like commerce, education and culture,” Clegg said on the sidelines of an…

  • GALLERY: Notting Hill Carnival

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    The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event that since 1966[1] has taken place on the streets of Notting Hill, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, UK, each August over three days (the August bank holiday Monday and the two days beforehand).It is led by members of the West Indian community. The carnival has…

  • Child sex scandal rocks Britain

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    After Rochdale and Oxford, another sex scandal in which Pakistani-origin men were involved rocked Britain. An independent report commissioned by the Rotherham Borough Council reveals about  1,400 children were exploited between 1997 and 2013. Council leader Roger Stone said he would step down with immediate effect. Professor Alexis Jay, the author of the report, said Children as young…

  • Indian-origin MP elevated

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    Indian-origin British MP Seema Malhotra has been appointed as the Labour party’s first-ever shadow minister dealing with violence against women and girls.  42-year-old Malhotra was named shadow minster by Britain’s Opposition party leader Ed Miliband amidst efforts by all the parties to win Asian support prior to polls.  Malhotra’s role will also involve working on…

  • WHO snubs e-cigarettes

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    The World Health Organisation (WHO) says there should a ban on the use of e-cigarettes indoors and that sales to children should stop, BBC reported. In a report the health body says there should be no claims that the devices can help people quit smoking – until there is evidence to support this. WHO experts…

  • Violence at Carnival

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    Three men were stabbed and two police officers were injured in a series of violent clashes at the Notting Hill carnival. The Metropolitan Police imposed Section 60 public order measures, giving officers powers to stop and search, in response to the stabbings, according to the BBC. The police officers were assaulted during an attempted arrest…

  • ‘Anti-terrorism strategy failed’

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    A senior figure in the Muslim Council of Britain says a key government anti-terrorism strategy has “failed’. Deputy secretary general Harun Khan told BBC Radio 5 live the Prevent scheme was having a “negative impact”. The scheme seeks to lessen the influence of extremism – but Mr Khan said it alienated young Muslims and pushed…

  • Nick assures help for India

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    British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Monday said his country was “ready” and “able” to help build India’s “good days” and that bilateral trade between the two countries would be boosted. “Good days are coming. Britain is ready and able to help build that. India is our biggest G20 investor and UK has the expertise…

  • Boris wants legal bullying

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    Boris Johnson has called for the presumption of innocence to be reversed in cases where Britons travel to Iraq or Syria and said he wants the jihadist who beheaded an American journalist to be killed in a bomb attack. The Mayor of London, who has overall responsibility for the Metropolitan Police, said legislation should be…

  • Attenborough no more

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    Richard Attenborough, an Oscar-winning British film director known for the monumental film ‘Gandhi’, died at the age of 90 Sunday, media reported Monday. Attenborough was one of Britain’s leading actors, before becoming a highly successful director, BBC reported.In a career that spanned over six decades, he appeared in films including “Brighton Rock”, “The Great Escape”…

  • UK plans Asbos for terrorists

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    New powers to tackle extremist groups are being looked at by the government, the home secretary has said. The Government is planning to acquire new powers to tacle extremist groups, the home secretary said. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Theresa May said what have been dubbed “Asbos for terrorists” could be introduced for those who…

  • UK detainees on slave wages

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    Campaigners have criticised private firms for using immigration detainees as cheap labour inside detention centres after research suggested this saves them millions of pounds. Some detainees said they were being paid as little as £1 an hour to cook and clean, according to a Guardian report. Home Office figures showed that in May this year,…

  • Apollo strikes deal with Man United

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    India-based Apollo Tyres strikes a deal with one of Europe’s most favourite football clubs to promote the brand in 69 countries across the world. Apollo Tyres in association with Manchster United will set up eco-friendly football pitches by using 100% recycled rubber from its own tyres to engage with the communities in the grass-root level.…

  • World’s 1st ‘Green’ temple

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    Acharya Swamishree Maharaj presides over the opening ceremonies of Shree Swaminarayan Mandir at Kingsbury in London. The ornate £20m temple will be the world’s first ‘eco-temple’ featuring solar panels on the roof and a rainwater harvesting system. The new mandir combines traditional Indian architecture and carvings with “green” technology, and is funded entirely by the…

  • Opportunity for British brands

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    The UK India Business Council have identified a number of emerging opportunities and challenges for UK Companies in India’s Fashion and Beauty sector in a joint report with Cluttons, launched at an event on the Indian consumer with Mark Ashman, former CEO of Marks and Spencer’s India.  The UK India Business Council report ‘Fashion and…

  • Bedford most generous

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    Bedford has been crowned the UK’s most generous town, BBC said citing data gathered by donation site JustGiving. In the year to May 2014, 41,631 people with a Bedford postcode gave a total of £1,145,967 to appeals on the site. JustGiving compiled its list based on the number of givers and the amount donated in relation…

  • Anti-Semitic attacks on the rise

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    In France and Germany, synagogues and Jewish community centres have been firebombed. In Britain, a rabbi was attacked near a Jewish boarding school. And in Australia, a bus carrying Jewish schoolchildren was targeted by teenagers shouting “Heil Hitler” and threatening to slit the children’s throats. But while anti-Semitism is clearly a problem, is it correct…

  • Brits top list of ‘suicide tourists’

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    The numbers of ‘suicide tourists’ going to Switzerland to take their own lives has doubled within the sace of four years, reports a study published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Citizens from Germany and the UK make up the bulk of the numbers, with neurological conditions, such paralysis, motor neurone disease, Parkinson’s, and…

  • John the Jihadi with multicultural accent

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    The English jihadist who beheaded the American journalist James Foley is believed to be the leader of a group of British fighters holding foreign hostages in sources, the Guardian has said quoting sourcing. “As an international manhunt got under way on Wednesday, the English-speaking militant was identified to the Guardian by one of his former…

  • UK: Controlling husbands face jail

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    The British government will introduce new legislation to jail husbands who keep their wives downtrodden, the Teelgraph reported. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, published proposals for a new offence of “domestic abuse” designed to criminalise men who bully, cause psychological harm or deny money to their partners. The law would make the worst cases of…

  • Nazi Noir and more

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    Vikas Datta in his column Bookends focus on Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series  Is it a feasible idea to set a series of noirish detective novels in a totalitarian state like Nazi Germany which itself practised violence intensively against its own citizens, or even in the midst of the viciously bloody conflict that was World…

  • UK unveils organ donor scheme

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    NEW UK STRATEGY TO MATCH WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE IN LIVING DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION  A new strategy to achieve world class performance in living kidney donation – Living Donor Kidney Transplantation 2020 – a UK Strategy – is launched.  It sets the agenda for increasing living donor transplants, from 18 transplants per million population to 26 transplants per million population.. The…

  • BCCI acts tough

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    The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) finally acted tough Tuesday by clipping the wings of chief coach Duncan Fletcher following the team’s humiliating 1-3 Test series loss in England. Fielding coach Trevor Penney and bowling coach Joe Dawes, who were hand-picked by Fletcher, were dropped and former India captain Ravi Shastri was…

  • Don’t import violence: Jewish groups

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    Protest groups targeting supermarkets over the sale of Israeli products risk importing Middle Eastern violence to British high streets, Jewish have leaders insisted. In a joint statement the leaders of Britain’s main Jewish community organisations condemned a series of incidents at shops selling Israeli goods and kosher food accusing the organisers of intimidation and stirring…

  • He tried to wake up his dead dad

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    Police said they believed the man found at Tilbury docks was Meet Singh Kapoor, from Afghanistan, who was 40. Thirteen children aged as young as one were among the Afghan Sikhs rescued from the container on Saturday, a Guardian report said. Members of the 35-strong group found screaming and banging after arriving at the Essex…

  • BSkyB sprouts ethnic wings

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    BSkyB has pledged that by the end of next year at least 20% of the stars and writers of its UK-originated TV shows will come from a black, Asian or other minority ethnic background. The broadcaster spends £600m a year on original UK commissions such as Stella, Moone Boy and Trollied, and said that the…

  • Assange “to leave” embassy

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    Wikileaks founder and whistleblower Julan Assange has sais that he will be leaving Ecuadorean embassy after tow years of stay there, the BBC reported. He gave no more details but said he understood Wikileaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson had “said that he can confirm I am leaving the embassy soon”. Mr Hrafnsson later said Mr Assange…

  • Ganesh takes on Hitler

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    A confrontational piece by the learning-disabled ensemble Back to Back Theatre recounted the Hindu deity’s visit to Hitler’s Germany to reclaim the swastika as a rightful symbol of piece in Edinburgh Festival. Ganesh Versus the Third Reich is poignant, heart-warming, beautiful, disarming, full of vulnerability and sly humour, questioning who has the right to tell…

  • Policies to pass family test

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    All policies should pass “family test”, Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to say in a speech. He will argue that parents and children are too often overlooked and can be left worse off by reforms, according to a BBC report. From October, every new domestic policy “will be examined for its impact on the…

  • 13 children among Sikh stowaways

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    The stowaway Afghan Sikhs include 13 children aged between one and 12. The group arrived on Saturday on a ship from Belgium and were said by police to be victims of “people trafficking”. Police said they are “being spoken to about their ordeal” before they are passed on to the UK Border Force. Essex Police…

  • Cricket: Humiliating defeat – 1-3

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    The Indian cricket team underwent a dramatic collapse to be bowled out for merely 94 runs in their second innings, suffering a humiliating consecutive innings defeat in only three days and lose the five-match Test series 1-3 to England at The Oval in London. The hosts put on 101 runs in the morning to take…

  • Stowaways are Afghan Sikhs

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    A group of 35 men, women and children found inside a shipping container at a UK port are understood to be Sikhs from Afghanistan who are victims of “people trafficking”, British police said. The police had described them as people believed to be from the Indian subcontinent and questioned some of them. “They were treated…

  • Church raps PM’s Mideast policy

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    The Church of England has attcked Prime Minister David Cameron’s Middle East policy, describing the government’s approach as incoherent, ill-thought-out and determined by “the loudest media voice at any particular time”. The criticisms are made in an extraordinary letter to the prime minister signed by the bishop of Leeds, Nicholas Baines, and written with the…

  • Container tragedy: ‘Victims from Punjab’

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    Police launched a homicide investigation on Saturday after the death of one of 35 suspected illegal migrants who were found in a shipping container on board a cargo ferry at the port of Tilbury on the Thames estuary. The stowaways, believed to be 28 adults and seven children, were discovered on board the P&O-owned vessel that…

  • Tesco attcked for selling Israeli products

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    Police officers were attacked and stock was thrown around during a protest against the Gaza conflict at a Tesco store on Saturday. Demonstrators, who want the supermarket to stop selling Israeli food, entered Tesco in Hodge Hill, Birmingham, threw produce to the floor and shouted at staff and shoppers,” the Telegraph said. Pictures show a…

  • PM wants to stop Isis reaching UK streets

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    The West is embroiled in a generational struggle against a poisonous brand of Islamic extremism that will bring terror to the streets of Britain unless urgent action is taken to defeat it, David Cameron warned. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, the Prime Minister says the world cannot turn a blind eye to the creation of…

  • UK toughens stance on IS jihadists

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    Islamic State jihadist militants could grow strong enough to target people “on the streets of Britain” unless action is taken, Prime Minister David Cameron has warned, BBC reported. He said a “humanitarian response” to the rebel group was not enough and a “firm security response” was needed. The prime minister was writing in the Sunday…

  • CRICKET: Tourists losing their way

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    What can bowlers do if batsmen don’t deliver?  India’s campaign in the current series can, without fear of contradiction, be summarised as the tourists losing their way after the second Test, especially after the third. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) need to seriously ponder: why? Was a five-test series beyond the…

  • Asian migrants in UK container mishap

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    A man has died after 35 people – including children – were found in a shipping container at Tilbury Docks. The survivors – believed to be illegal migrants from the Indian subcontinent and suffering from severe dehydration and hypothermia – are being treated at nearby hospitals,” the BBC said. The group were found when dockyard…

  • Ritz to get £ 1m from Omani gambler

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    The Ritz casino has won a court battle to recover £1m from a wealthy gambling addict who failed to pay money she owed. Noora Abdullah Mahawish Al-Daher, who is married to the foreign minister of Oman, lost £2m in the London casino during an evening of gambling but only paid half of the debt, leading to the…

  • Dhoni helps India to clock 148

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    Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni led the fightback with a gritty 82 before India were bowled out for 148 by England shortly after tea on the first day of the fifth and the final cricket Test at The Oval in London. Earlier, Indian batsmen cut a sorry figure again after they were put in by England captain Alastair…

  • Britons joining IDF may soon beome illegal

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    By Shafi Rahman The Government may review the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 filled with loopholes which prevents effective prosecution of people joining the armed forces of foreign country in the wake of many British citizens joining conflicts abroad. Responding to a question at a press meet about Britons travelling to join the Israeli forces, a…