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| Met
Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair resigns |
 London
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has resigned today
following months of controversy surrounding the shooting of Jean Charles
De Menezes and allegations of racial discrimination brought against
the Met by Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur. The resignation
comes as the new London Mayor, Boris Johnson, chaired his first Metropolitan
Police Authority (MPA) meeting. 
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| 'British
airport officers harassing legal migrants' |
 Overly
zealous British home ministry officials are “humiliating, harassing
and abusing” legal Indian and other migrants at airports across
the country, the Highly Skilled Migrants Programme (HSMP) Forum said
in a statement Thursday. It said immigration officers not only lecture
migrants, and offer unsolicited advice, but have also detained and
threatened to deport without reason.
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| Indian
Goverment must halt violence against Christians |
 India
should match its words with its actions and ensure that members of
the Christian minority community in the eastern state of Orissa are
protected against renewed communal violence, Amnesty International
said today. Despite the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s
statement in Paris on 30 September tha his Government had taken a
“firm stand” to halt it, violence against the Christians
has continued.
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| Sarkozy
has an 'open mind' on turban issue |
 French
President Nicolas Sarkozy has assured Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh that he has "an open mind" and will have a "re-look"
into the contentious issue of Sikh students wearing turbans in state-funded
schools in France. A day after Sarkozy made it clear that rules apply
to everyone without exception when he addressed the press after the
the India-EU summit in Marseille Monday.
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| 175
years after death, Rammohun Roy's tomb restored in Britain |
 After
decades of neglect, the newly restored tomb of Indian visionary thinker
and social reformer Raja Rammohun Roy was unveiled Sunday in his resting
place in Bristol. India's High Commissioner Shiv Shankar Mukherjee
cut a ribbon to mark the completion of the restoration work on the
tomb, which is located prominently in the Arnos Vale cemetery in this
English City.
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| Indian
Charity SEWA Raises £10,000 to help the blind |
 Indian
charity, SEWA UK, has raised approximately £10,000 to help the
blind through a nightwalk held in Harrow on Saturday, 13 September.
SEWA attracted almost 700 participants, mainly from London’s
Indian community, for the event to raise money for the Middlesex Association
for the Blind (MAB) and the Mamta Welfare Trust (UK), who provide
funds to a special needs school for blind children in India.
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| New
campaign to end discrimination by faith schools launched |
 Accord,
a new coalition, is calling on Children, Schools and Families Secretary
Ed Balls to stop state-funded faith schools discriminating against
students and teachers on the grounds of their beliefs. The launch
comes on the day that a law has been brought in allowing religious
schools further to restrict employment.
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| Asian
Women of Achievement Award Winners 2008 |
 Wasfi
Kani, who founded Grange Park Opera in 1998 was last night named 'Asian
Woman of the Year' 2008. She was among nine other winners at the annual
Asian Women of Achievement Awards event where guests included Her
Royal Highness Princess Badiya of Jordan, and actress Elizabeth Hurley
and Awards patron Cherie Blair.
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| Asian
Rich List 2008: Mittal tops Britain's rich list
again |
 Indian
steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal has once again topped the Sunday
Times Rich List - the definitive rundown of Britain's wealthiest people.
Mittal and the Hinduja brothers Srichand and Gopichand are the two
Indian business conglomerates that dominated the list for 2008 in
the midst of a global credit crunch.
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| NEWS
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Met
Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair Resigns
(10/08)
'British
airport officers harassing legal migrants' (10/08)
Indian Goverment must halt
violence against Christians (10/08)
France's President Sarkozy
has an 'open mind' on turban issue (10/08)
Asian police officer Ali
Dizaei suspended (09/08)
Indian Charity SEWA
Raises £10,000 to help the blind (09/08)
Foreign students' fees prop
up UK universities (09/08)
Minorities lead digital take-up
in Britain, but scared of internet banking
Britain's first Hindu school
begins term (09/08)
Bose - the Indian behind
the Big Bang experiment (09/08)
More brickbats than bouquets
for Pachauri after meat eating remark
Asian policewoman in Britain
complains of racism (09/08)
Asian race row police
officer suspended (09/08)
Indian seeks ruling on open-air
cremations in UK (09/08)
New campaign to end discrimination
by faith schools launched (01/08)
British fund launched for Gujarat
terror victims (08/08)
British court
scraps ban on sham marriages by immigrants (07/08)
Southall Black Sisters wins dramatic
victory against Ealing Council (07/08)
Crackdown on Foreign Student Visas
& Bogus Colleges (07/08)
British Sikh girl wins right to
wear kada in school (07/08)
New Provocation Law
for Battered Asian Wives (07/08)
Disabled Asians in
Britain being forced into marriages (07/08)
British charity donations
funding Islamic terrorism (07/08)
Indian PM lauds people of
Gujarat, vows to defeat terrorists (07/08)
Terrorists' 'war against India'
will not succeed: Modi (07/08)
Third deadly strike by little
known Indian Mujahideen (07/08)
Ahmedabad rocked by serial
bomb blasts: death toll nearly 40 (07/08)
Marriage visa age raised
to prevent forced marriages (07/08)
Baroness Uddin: 'We Need
More Asian Women Councillors' (07/08)
Popular British
TV programmes 'too white', feel ethnic Asians (07/08)
'Punjab doing little to
root out illegal immigration' (07/08)
'India and Britain need
to stem illegal migration' (07/08)
BBC sting exposes massive
illegal Indian immigrant network in London
New strategy to
promote diversity in the civil service (07/08)
Tariq Ahmad appointed as Conservatives'
Vice Chairman for Cities (07/08)
Harman and Miliband:
more diversity in public appointments (07/08)
Women should have half share
of top arts board posts says Hodge
Arts
Council's shoddy treatment of Watermans
(07/08)
Advertisers can now target nearly
1 million British Asians online (07/08)
Top Asian police officer threatens
suit on racism grounds (06/08)
'BBC controlled by white cultural
elite' (06/08)
Vaz launches probe into
Britain's proposed migration system (06/08)
Caste discrimination
does not exist in Britain (06/08)
Watermans wins judicial review of
Arts Council decision (06/08)
IT to improve literacy rates in rural
India (06/08)
Bhumi Puja for Britain's first
state funded Hindu School (06/08)
Asian Women of Achievement Award
Winners 2008 (05/08)
Harman announces taskforce
to increase asian women councillors (05/08)
Asian charity AFP shares in
Government funding boost (05/08)
Asian woman to be London Mayor's
New Cultural Director (05/08)
British Sikh is London's new
Director for Transport (05/08)
Asian Women of Achievement
Awards 2008 Shortlist Announced (05/08)
Inspirational Bangladeshi visits
UK's carbon-neutral housing project
Monty
launches volunteering scheme specifically for UK Indians (05/08)
Watermans applies for
judicial review of the Arts Council's decision (04/08)
Nazia
Hassan Foundation Birthday Celebration 2008 (04/08)
Asian Rich List: Mittal
tops Britain's rich list again, Hindujas are fourth
Prime Minister attends Labour
Friends of India Annual Luncheon 2008
Stop
immigration raids on curry houses, says Keith Vaz (04/08)
Maria Fernandes Supports
Ethnic Restaurants on Immigration Changes
Female Foeticide: Indian
women cry just to be born (03/08)
Indian migrants challenge Britain
on visa rules (03/08)
Desperate Asian women faking
virginity in Britain (03/08)
It's Gandhi vs. Gary (or Gower)
in Britain's Little India (03/08)
Indian doctors' visa case reaches
House of Lords (02/08)
Shopkeeper Tony Singh not to face
murder charge (02/08)
Cameron: Extremism,
individual rights and the rule of law in Britain (20/08)
Conservatives'
to clamp down on forced marriages (02/08)
New rules for foreigners
seeking British Citizenship (02/08)
New Pakistan Parliament must
honour will of the people (02/08)
Mayor threatens legal challenge
to Post Office closures (02/08)
Hindu Council refutes caste
discrimination in the UK (02/08)
Indian leaders slam PM's lack
of engagement with British Hindus (02/08)
Chef shortage crippling curry
industry in Britain (02/08)
The push and pull of being an NRI
(02/08)
Hindus to stage mock cow slaughter
outside Parliament (02/08)
Access to post-graduate medical
training restricted for immigrants (02/08)
New immigration points-based
system begins (02/08)
Arts Council axe falls
heavily on Asian Arts (02/08)
Community tells PM: Government has
failed British Hindus (02/08)
Immigration Minister
starts community consultation in India (02/08)
National Muslim Women's Advisory
Group Launched (01/08)
India announces Padma Awards
Winners 2008 (01/08)
Pakistan on the brink of 'Political
Catastrophe' (01/08)
UK introduces new Counter
Terrorism Bill (01/08)
More British jobs moving to Mumbai
& Bangalore (01/08)
Government failing on racism
and cohesion say tories (01/08)
PETA India celebrates star-studded
8th birthday (01/08)
Indian doctors in UK often face
physical abuse on duty (01/08)
British honour killng inquiry
following Asian girl's murder (01/08)
Bilimoria honoured with Pravasi
Bharatiya Samman (01/08)
Asian Arts to suffer from funding
withdrawal (01/08)
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