Asian Lite News Archive

Category: World News

  • London police chief triggers racism debate

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    Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the chief of Metropolitan Police Force, said the judiciary, medical profession, media and government are all dominated by the white middle classes…reports Asian Lite News Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Britain’s top police officer, controversially branded all sections of British society ‘institutionally racist’, the Daily Mail reported. Sir Bernard said it is not only…

  • Scent of a Samaritan

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    What prompts us to help others?….explores Asian Lite News Ever wondered why we often help others even without expecting anything in return? That could be thanks to simple biological mechanisms that have evolved to keep a group of individuals cohesive, says a new study. “We would not hesitate about helping an older person trying to…

  • UK seeks G7 help to tame graft

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    Cameron will tell his G7 counterparts that corruption is the arch-enemy of democracy and development…reports Asian Lite News. The prime minister will say: At international summits, leaders meet to talk about aid, economic growth and how to keep our people safe. But we just don’t talk enough about corruption. This has got to change. We have…

  • Teaching is a big headache!

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    Teachers suffer psychosomatic disorders such as exhaustion, fatigue, and headaches more frequently than other occupational groups, Germany-based research has found…reports Asian Lite News It is not an easy job! Researchers found teachers suffer psychosomatic disorders such as exhaustion, fatigue, and headaches more frequently than other occupational groups! The study by Klaus Scheuch, business manager at…

  • Modi Begins Bangladesh Tour

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     Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said his two-day “historic” visit to Bangladesh will “strengthen ties” between the two countries. In a tweet, Modi thanked Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the warm welcome. “Thank you PM Sheikh Hasina for the warm welcome. I look forward to a very good visit that will strengthen…

  • Ronaldo asks media to leave him alone

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    Real Madrid’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo has criticised media through a video posted on social networking sites over interfering in his personal life and asked them to leave him “alone”. “I never speak for the press. I never speak about my private life. But I want this opportunity to say the last couple of weeks…

  • Tariq Azeez dies in prison

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    Former deputy prime minister of Iraq, Tariq Aziz, who served in Saddam Hussein’s regime, died after suffering a heart attack in prison, an Iraqi official said. “The authorities of Nasriyah prison admitted the prisoner Tariq Aziz to al-Hussein hospital in the city of Nasriyah, some 375 km south of Baghdad, after he suffered from heart…

  • ‘Social media ruins relationships’

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    Many young and working couples are now getting hooked on to smartphones and tablets, even in the bedroom, and this is having a paralysing effect on their intimacy…writes  Nishant Arora. Dr Prakash Kothari, world famous sexologist, says digital intimacy has diluted the physical connection between couples Is sending ‘kisses’ on WhatsApp or posting intense love emojis on Facebook…

  • ‘Kidney Priest’ on a mission in Britain

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    Father Davis Chirammel, who revolutionised the organ donation trends in India by donating a kidney to an ailing stranger, took his campaign to Britain with the support of NHS and Delete Blood Cancer…reports Asian Lite News Father Chiramel is a patron of UK charity Upahaar which promotes blood, organ and stem cell donation among South…

  • Israel, Saudi Arabia met secretly in India on Iran threat

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    Israel and Saudi Arabia, countries that have no diplomatic relations, met five times secretly to discuss Iran which both consider a regional threat, especially given the approaching deadline for the nuclear deal with the international community, Israeli daily Jerusalem Post reported. The meetings have been held since the beginning of 2014 in India, Italy and…

  • Blatter was board member of FIFA ‘ghost’ company

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    Sepp Blatter, who recently resigned as FIFA president, served as a board member for a fictitious company founded in Ireland in 2001 in order to profit from its tax benefits and to launder millions of euros to the headquarters in Switzerland, a media report has claimed. The Irish Independent reported that Blatter appeared for seven…

  • Immigrants arrive in container

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    Sixty-eight immigrants, including two pregnant women, have been found locked in a container at a port in Essex, BBC reported. They were discovered during routine checks by the Border Force at Harwich International Port at about 22:00 BST on Thursday. This is the second incident of immigrants using container to sneak into UK.  Last August, one…

  • Yahoo to shut down Maps

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    US internet giant Yahoo has announced that it will shut down Yahoo Maps, eight years after it was launched, and other services in different countries, Efe news agency reported. Yahoo Maps will shut down around the end of June. However, it will continue to be used by the company’s search engine and photo-sharing website Flickr,…

  • FBI investigating award of 2018 and 2022 World Cups

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    The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is examining how world football’s governing body FIFA awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting rights to Russia and Qatar respectively, a United States regulation enforcement official said. FBI is also looking at the relationship between FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke and Ricardo Teixeira, former president…

  • US to press more sanctions against Russia

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    US President Barack Obama is going to urge European Union (EU) leaders to continue sanctions against Russia at the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) meeting, officials said. “We are particularly concerned about the uptick in fighting that we’ve seen over the last 24 to 48 hours in Ukraine,” Charles Kupchan, the National Security Council’s senior…

  • Ghana gas station explosion kills over 200

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    Over 200 people were killed in an explosion at a gas station in Ghana’s capital Accra, even as torrential rains lashed the West African nation, the interior ministry said. The Goil Filling Station at Nkrumah Circle in Accra caught fire after explosion during torrential rains. Most of the dead bodies has been deposited at the…

  • Jeb Bush to formally announce presidential bid

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    Former Florida governor Jeb Bush said that he will officially announce his bid for the Republican Party’s US presidential nomination on June 15 in Miami, Efe news agency reported. In a Twitter post, Bush gave the date for his entry into a primary race that already includes more than a dozen Grand Old Party (GOP)…

  • Tiananmen anniversary marked by China’s silence

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    The 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown that brought a tragic end to student-led pro-democracy protests in 1989 was marked by China’s silence and appeals from abroad to assume responsibility and clarify the incident. For the hundreds of tourists visiting the iconic plaza it was just another day to visit the Forbidden City or…

  • INTERVIEW: Amitav Ghosh

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    Hailed as one of the most accomplished Indian writers, Amitav Ghosh was recently nominated for the Man Booker International Prize. In ‘Flood of Fire’ I feel like I have conquered a mountain, Mr Ghosh told Preetha Nair. Flood of Fire, the last in the Ibis trilogy, where history and fiction interweave and span the years leading…

  • Cameron warned on German EU support

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    British PM David Cameron has been warned by Former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer not to be too sure of German support in his bid to reform the EU. It comes a week after German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to try to find a solution to the UK’s drive for reform. Mr Fischer, an architect of…

  • ? Bribes were paid for 1998, 2010 World Cups

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    A former director of FIFA who was brought to trial by a New York court confessed in 2013 that he had accepted bribes in exchange for selecting the sites of the World Cup in 1998 and 2010, judicial sources have said. The testimony of former sports director Charles Gordon Blazer, which was given in a…

  • British acts account 13.7% albums sold worldwide

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    One Direction, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay helped UK artists account for more than one in seven of the albums sold globally during 2014, the BPI has said. With 13.7% of worldwide sales, it’s the highest British share since the BPI began recording those figures in 2000. Sales of albums by British artists rose in Canada,…

  • Standing ovation for Blatter

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    About 400 FIFA staff gave outgoing president Sepp Blatter a standing ovation after the 79-year-old Swiss announced he would resign, a media report said. A FIFA spokesman said Blatter was emotional when his staff applauded him for several minutes on Wednesday, a day after he announced his resignation, Xinhua news agency reported. The storm started…

  • UNGA adopts resolution on disaster reduction

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    The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution on disaster reduction, endorsing the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, media reported on Thursday. According to the resolution, the assembly decided to establish an open-ended inter-governmental expert working group comprising experts supported by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction,…

  • MH370 search to be called off

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    The search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 led by Australia is expected to be called off early next year, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said. Australia’s JACC, which is leading the arduous and expensive search in the Indian Ocean for the Boeing 777, said it would not be expanded beyond its current area…

  • Coalition making progress against ISIS

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    The US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) is making progress on the ground and destroying the group’s military capabilities, Jordan’s minister of state for media affairs has said, media reported . Jordan is training Syrian people and several Syrian tribes to empower them to stand up to the IS in certain areas in Syria,…

  • India-US ink defence framework pact

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    India and the US signed a new framework agreement for closer cooperation in defence as visiting US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and conveyed India was an important strategic partner. The agreement was signed by India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Carter. Carter earlier…

  • Coulson cleared of perjury

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    Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been cleared of committing perjury while giving evidence in the 2010 trial of ex-MSP Tommy Sheridan. The Crown alleged that Mr Coulson, 47, lied about his knowledge of phone hacking at the now-defunct tabloid reports BBC. The case against him collapsed after his defence team successfully…

  • Nobel laureate Irwin Rose passes away

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    American biochemist and Nobel laureate Irwin Rose has died at the age of 88, said the University of California, Irvine (UCI), where Rose had been a researcher. According to his family members, Rose passed away in his sleep on Tuesday in Deerfield , Massachusetts. Rose was the winner of the 2004 Noble Prize in Chemistry,…

  • Roadblocks remain in resolving Iran n-issue

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    By Aadil Mir   As the June 30 deadline to resolve the contentious Iran nuclear issue between Tehran and six world powers nears, there still remain several roadblocks which could hamper the progress made so far. The insistence by the five veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council and Germany for inspecting Iran’s military sites and…

  • Zico considering FIFA presidential bid

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    Former Brazil midfielder Zico said he is considering running for the soon-to-be vacant position of FIFA presidency. Incumbent Sepp Blatter dramatically resigned from the post after pressure steadily mounted on him following a series of corruption allegations against top FIFA officials, including its secretary general Jerome Valcke. Zico, 62, is currently the coach of Indian…

  • Benitez signs with Real Madrid

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    Spanish football giants Real Madrid signed Rafael Benitez as their new coach for next three seasons, replacing the sacked Carlo Ancelotti. The 55-year-old Spaniard was the overwhelming favourite to be handed the role, and he announced last week that he was to end his two-year stint with Napoli after Sunday’s final Serie A game against…

  • Obama signs NSA surveillance reform bill

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      US President Barack Obama signed the reform bill of the National Security Agency (NSA) on surveillance, hours after the Senate’s approval, leading to the enactment of the measure, Efe news agency reported on . In a statement, the White House reported the instructions of Obama, who rushed to enact the USA Freedom Act, amending…

  • Qatar lauds US role in global peace

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      Qatari prime minister says common interests between Islamic World and US contribute to international peace  Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani said on Monday that common interests between Islamic World and the United States have contributed to achieving international peace, WAM reported. “Mutual interests and…

  • US requests Cuba to open its markets

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    The US Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade Stefan Selig has invited Cuba to open its market and make reforms as part of the process of normalisation with the US at the inauguration of a conference on the island’s economic future. Selig said if Cuba opens its economy and begins the necessary reforms it will…

  • Kerry’s surgery successful

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    US Secretary of State John Kerry underwent a successful surgery to have a fracture in his right leg repaired, an official said. The surgery was done at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, State Department spokesman John Kirby said. Before the surgery, Kerry spoke over phone to a meeting of allies in Paris, discussing the…

  • South Sudan crisis worrying: India

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     With the Indian peacekeepers in South Sudan, the world’s newest country, hunkered down protecting refugees as intense fighting rages around them, the UN Security Council is monitoring the situation there and hoped targeted sanctions would help resolve the conflict, Council President Ramlan Bin Ibrahim said . Speaking to reporters, Ibrahim said, “We are closely monitoring”…

  • India reiterates support for Palestine state

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     Following External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s reiteration that New Delhi’s policy towards Palestine is unchanged, India pledged Tuesday support for an independent Palestine nation “at peace with Israel” and urged them to resume the peace process for a comprehensive solution. “We firmly believe that dialogue is the only viable option in the search for a…

  • Will not sign nuclear NPT: Pakistan

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    Pakistan said it will not sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) because it considers it discriminatory. “It is a discriminatory treaty. Pakistan has the right to defend itself, so Pakistan will not sign the NPT. Why should we?” said Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry on being asked whether Islamabad would sign the NPT if Washington…

  • Blatter being probed by US on corruption scandal

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    Sepp Blatter, who has announced his resignation as FIFA president, is being investigated by American authorities in the corruption scandal tainting football’s world governing body, media outlets said. “Now that people are going to want to save themselves, there’s probably a race to see who will flip on (Blatter) first,” a source familiar with the…

  • Blatter stands down as FIFA president

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      FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced he will step down from world football’s governing body amid a corruption scandal, and also called for an extraordinary congress “as early as possible” at which a successor will be elected. The Swiss announced his decision at a hastily-arranged press conference after his secretary-general Jerome Valcke was earlier implicated…

  • US jet evacuated over bomb threat

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    An American Airlines passenger liner was evacuated in the US city of Philadelphia, media reported. A bomb squad from the Philadelphia Police Department investigated the airplane at Philadelphia International Airport, CBS reported. “A plane on the runway was searched by police and then cleared. It’s not currently known what circumstances caused the police response to…

  • Qatar Airways plans route to USA

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    Qatar Airways, the Global Launch Customer of the A350 XWB, has announced that Philadelphia will be the first destination served with the world’s newest aircraft from 1st January 2016, reports Asian Lite, a leading newspaper in UK for British Asians. It will fly to the USA using the state-of-the-art aircraft. The airlines plans to begin operating an…

  • Indo-Pak friendship film bags award

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    ‘Trading for Peace,’ a film produced by London-based Conciliation Resources, an organisation working to bring peace to Kashmir through trade between India and Pakistan, bagged ‘Positive Collaboration’ award…reports Asian Lite, Best newspaper for the Asian diaspora An initiative to encourage greater interaction and confidence across the Line of Control in Kashmir has been recognised with an industry…

  • London V&A Museum to showcase Tripe’s rare photographs

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    London’s prestigious Victoria & Albert Museum will showcase the rare photographs of Captain Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902) from his India-Burma series as part of the ongoing India Festival. The FREE exhibition will open on 24th June and lasts till 11th October 2015…reports Asian Lite, best newspaper for the Asian diaspora Captain Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902) was a…

  • Oxford Union sorry over racism

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    When the whole world is moving forward, the students union which produced world leaders like Benazir Bhutto,  Tony Blair and Boris Johnson is embroiled in a racist row. The Oxford Union has apologised for its action but the wounds it created will take time to heal…writes Asian Lite, Best newspaper for British Asians The Oxford Union…

  • Death of a Decent Man

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    British Muslims join other communities and politicians to mourn the death of polite and gentle Charles Kennedy, the first Leader to oppose the Iraq War. He was the man behind the Lib Dem success in the 2010 elections after winning by-election after by-election during the Blair-Brown era Former Liberal Democrat Party leader Charles Kennedy has…

  • Chinese ship capsize with 458 on board

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    A total of 20 people have been rescued so far off a passenger ship carrying 458 people, which capsized in China’s Yangtze River due to a storm, authorities said. The vessel — Dongfangzhixing or The Eastern Star — was heading to Chongqing city from Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province. It sank around 9:28 p.m. in…

  • Pele backs Blatter amid graft probe

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    Pele has lent his support to re-elected FIFA president Sepp Blatter amid a corruption scandal engulfing world football’s governing body. Blatter won a fifth straight four-year term in charge of FIFA during a vote in Zurich last Friday. The result came two days after seven FIFA officials were arrested on corruption charges as part of…

  • New vaccine may prevent Type 2 diabetes

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    In an important research that could lead to the development of vaccine to prevent one of the most prevalent diseases of our time – Type-2 diabetes, US researchers have found that toxins produced by a bacterium may cause the disease. The researchers found that prolonged exposure to a toxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria…