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Romanians fleeing Northern Ireland after racial attack

Hindu priest faces racial attacks in Northern Ireland
In Northern Ireland the racial attacks took a nasty turn, when last week a Hindu priest and his family who live at the Indian Community Centre in north Belfast have been allegedly attacked on their Clifton Street property. They are moving out of the Centre to avoid further attacks. more...

Gandhi statue unveiled in Leicester
History for the world wide Indians was created when a large statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled on Friday, 26th June by the British home minister amid tight security in fear of protests. more...

Girl 15 dies in an arson attack at Tooting
A 15-year-old girl has died following an arson attack which left four family members critically ill.
Maleha Masud died last week, four days after the attack in Tooting, south London. more...

Family claims £147,000 a year in housing benefit
A family living on benefits is being housed in a seven-bedroom home at a cost to taxpayers of £147,000 a year. more...

High Court barrister burned in courtroom acid
A furious litigant allegedly hurled hydrochloric acid over three lawyers after a High Court ruling went against him, a jury heard last week. more...

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson wanted to visit India again
He considered India his special love, had plans to team up with A R Rahman. Michael Jackson, the pop sensation also had another Indian connection – in his last days, he was reading poetry of Rabindra Nath Tagore, a Nobel laureate. more...

Law panels ok with gays, but govt prefers ban
Two years after the gay rights movement kicked off around the world, India did the first review in 1971 of its colonial-vintage law criminalising "carnal intercourse against the order of nature." more...

Govt on alert as India’s swine flu tally crosses 100
The government of India is on alert as the swine flu cases in the country has crossed 104 with 11 people testing positive on Monday.
India is now further strengthening its screening and testing facilities to contain the spread of the influenza A (H1N1) virus that has created havoc globally. more...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Guardian Council stamps Ahmadinejad victory
Tehran: Guardian Council, Iran's top legislative body, has confirmed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in a disputed election after a partial recount on Monday, official media reported. more...

Manmohan, Gilani likely to meet in Egypt
Islamabad: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani are likely to meet July 13 on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian tourist city of Sharm-el-Sheikh, according to a report on Monday. more...

Sarabjit plea rejected; Zardari to decide his fate
slamabad: The fate of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh hung by a slender thread as Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed his review petition challenging the death sentence handed out to him in 1991, leaving him at the mercy of a presidential pardon by Asif Ali Zardari. Sarabjit's conviction for alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in 1990 that killed 14 people in Pakistan by an anti-terrorism court in 1991 was upheld by a three-member Supreme Court bench led by Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed. more...

RIL not to sign pact with RNRL on gas supply
Rejecting offer for talks, Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries on Tuesday told Anil Ambani group firm RNRL that it would not sign any agreement on the gas supply issue without approval of the government. more...

Lloyds bank prefers Indians for IT jobs
Even as protectionism gains ground among political hardliners in the UK and US, UK-based Lloyds Bank has initiated the process of replacing most its British IT workers with Indian nationals. Many of the Indian recruits will be from top-rung Indian IT majors like Wipro and TCS, who are also the bank’s vendors, said two industry officials familiar with the development. more...

The quickie to marry girl friend in Vadodara
The sultan of swing is hooked! Straight out of the boundry into the realms of marriage.
A million hearts of aspiring girls may break. A maiden from Australia has bowled over the sultan of swing. Baroda Bomber Irfan Pathan has finally decided to marry his long-time friend Shivangi Dev. Pathan, who has known Dev for the past six years, told a newspaper in India that their parents have finally given a nod to the wedding. more...

MS Dhoni Fightback in vain
If the scores of 339 and 319 in the first match at Sabina Park two days ago gave an indication of the mediocrity of bowling attack on both the sides, a poor total of 188 runs by India in the second game showed that the trouble for Indian batsman – bouncers being effectively used by the West Indies bowlers has been a traditional weakness for quite a few generations of Indian team, particularly in the Caribbean. more...

Paes-Black beat Bhupathi-Sania at Wimbledon
It was a contest between three Indians and a Zimbabwean. The Indian pair lost to the combination of India – Zimbabwe players on Monday at Wimbledon. Leander Paes, playing in partnership with Cara Black beat the all Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza in the third round. more...

Bollywood

Rani ben gaya ‘Sardar’
After Akshay, Salman, Saif and Ranbir, it is the turn of Rani Mukerji to act as a Sardar in her forthcoming film “Dil Bole Hadippa.”
Even though not much is known about this film as yet, the first image that comes to the mind on its mention is that of Rani in a Sardarji's attire along with Shahid Kapoor. more...

I have never been to college: Katrina
Katrina Kaif said that during the shooting of the film “New York” her co-stars Neil Mukesh and John Abraham bullied her. In an interview she talks about her film “ New York,” John Abraham was Salman Khan. more...

Bips skips John’s most important film
Yashraj Films has organized a special screening of “New York,” by far John Abraham’s most important film to date. more...