| INDIAN
WOMAN TO PLAY KEY ROLE IN DOWNING STREET |
 Shriti
Vadera, currently a central figure in the Treasury presided over by
Chancellor Gordon Brown, is poised for a key role in 10, Downing Street
as Brown takes over as Britain's next Prime Minister today. Vadera
has overseen many of the more technical aspects of Treasury policy.
She managed the sale of government defense-research company Qinetiq
and the partial sale of the London Underground. 
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| WELSH
ASSEMBLY IGNORES HINDU PLEAS TO SAVE SHAMBO |
 With
the full support of the Hindu community throughout the UK, monks at
Skanda Vale Temple have vowed to stop any attempt to kill Shambo,
despite today’s announcement by Jane Davidson, minister for sustainability
and rural development. The Welsh Assembly has confirmed its intention
to destroy the bullock.
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| OFCOM
FINES CHANNEL 5 BUT NOT C4'S 'BIG BROTHER' |
 Ofcom
has fined Channel 5 £300,000 for breaches of the Broadcasting
Code in the transmission of quiz show 'Brainteaser'. This is the largest
financial penalty imposed. In May, Ofcom offered an adjudication on
C4's 'Celebrity Big Brother' racist bullying of Shilpa Shetty, a sanction!
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| INDIAN
LAWYER TOPS LIST OF LEGAL AID EARNERS |
 A
little-known lawyer of Indian origin has emerged as the highest paid
legal aid barrister in Britain, earning £1,116,000 in 2005-06.
Balbir Singh, 48, head of Equity Chambers, Birmingham, tops the list
of 10 highest paid legal aid barristers released by Britain's Ministry
of Justice Monday.
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| MUSLIMS
GROUPS ANGRY AT RUSHDIE'S KNIGHTHOOD |
 Leading
Muslim groups in the UK, from across the political and theological
spectrum, have come together in an unprecedented way to formulate
and issue a statement in response to the decision to confer a knighthood
upon Salman Rushdie. Their statement, describes the knighthood as
a 'deliberate provocation and insult to 1.5 billion Muslims.'
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| AMARTYA
SEN LAUNCHES NEW GCSE QUALIFICATIONS |
 New
Cambridge IGCSEs in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India Studies were launched
on the evening of 22 June 2007 by Nobel Prize winning Indian economist
and philosopher Professor Amartya Sen. The event brought together
Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Indian communities to look at how extremism
can be addressed in South Asian Communities through education.
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| BRITISH
ASIANS WATCH LESS TERRESTRIAL TV |
 Research
published by Ofcom shows that British Asians watch less TV –
especially the biggest traditional channels - and those with internet
are more likely to have broadband than the rest of the population.
Ofcom says 'Britain’s most watched broadcasters need to reflect
on whether they are connecting sufficiently with minority ethnic groups'.
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| MAYOR
BLASTS DISCRIMINATORY BOARD SELECTION |
 Mayor
of London, Ken Livingstone has lambasted the London Fire & Planning
Authority for selecting nine white men for positions on its board.
The Mayor said:“For a long time now I have been asking the groups
to come up with nominations to this important public body that would
at least begin to approximately reflect the composition of London.
They have not nominated even a single black or Asian person.
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| ASIAN
MP, PIARA KHABRA PASSES AWAY |
 Piara
Singh Khabra, 82, who was the oldest member of the House of Commons,
passed away following complications with his liver, at the Hammersmith
Hospital. Khabra, a Labour MP who represented Ealing Southall since
1992, died on Tuesday 19 June 2007. Tony Blair paid tribute to him
and said: "He was a tireless campaigner, particularly on the
issues of racial equality.
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| HINDU
FORUM CONDEMNS ATTACK ON RAMESH KALLIDAI |
 The
Hindu Forum of Britain has condemned the Evening Standard’s article,
written by Andrew Gilligan, which accuses Ramesh Kallidai, the organisation’s
secretary general, for having ‘close associations with violent
extremists’. The HFB states "this is absolutely not the
case and is simply untrue."
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| ASIANS
HONOURED BY THE QUEEN |
 Christopher
Alan Bayly, an India expert at the University of Cambridge, has been
knighted along with noted India-born writer Salman Rushdie and several
Asians honoured in the Queen's birthday honours list. OBEs were conferred
upon Shami Chakrabarti, the 38-year-old director of civil rights organisation
Liberty, for services to human rights, Mayur Keshavji Lakhani, Rashmita
Shukla and Azim Surani.
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| HINDU
FORUM OF EUROPE LAUNCHED |
 National
organisations from all over Europe joined together to launch the Hindu
Forum of Europe on 13 June 2007at the European Parliament in Brussels
and it aims to be a first point of contact for the European Commission,
European Parliament and other EU institutions in dealing with issues
like participation of European Hindus in public policy, interfaith
cooperation and EU legislation.
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| COALITION
TO DEFEND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM LAUNCHED |
 Political
figures, religious leaders, trade unionists and human rights campaigners
are amongst the individuals that have signed up to a new coalition
aimed at defending freedom of religious and cultural expression. The
coalition is being set upto counter claims that faith groups openly
expressing their culture or faith threaten community relations in
Britain.
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