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05/12/2008 14 years for gun man
A DRUG dealer has been jailed for 14 years after four guns were found in his flat.
05/12/2008 Jury told of murder confession letters
TWO apparent confessions to a brutal love-triangle murder in Pakistan are genuine, a jury has been told.
01/12/2008 Used car motoring makes more money sense
CHOOSING between a new and used car is often a difficult decision.
05/12/2008 TV ad pulled
AN alternative therapist who posed with a stethoscope around his neck in a television advert has been forced to withdraw it.
04/12/2008 Satire needs your votes
SCREEN writer Shai Hussain’s romantic comedy Til Jihad Do Us Part has made it as one of four finalists in the running to scoop the largest feature film production prize in the UK.
02/12/2008 New Tiffinbeats events
EVERY Friday, Tiffinbeats plays host to some of the best up-and-coming British Asian music acts in the City, with an established headline act taking the stage once a month.
01/12/2008 Bollywood director starts campaign to rebuild Mumbai’s Taj Hotel
FOLLOWING the recent terror attacks in Mumbai, leading Bollywood film maker Vikram Bhatt is launching a campaign to raise funds to rebuild the city’s iconic Taj Hotel, which was severely damaged during last week's atrocities.
26/11/2008 Silinder Pardesi's new video is 'hot'
CHECK out the exclusive video premiere of Silinder Pardesi's 'Mahi Vey' featuring Rishi Rich.
25/11/2008 The Beauty of Abstraction @ Touchstones, Rochdale
ARTIST Zarah Hussian’s The Beauty of Abstraction exhibition will soon be on display in the art gallery at Touchstones Rochdale, promising a new and exciting body of work which brings a contemporary slant to the traditional Islamic art of geometry.
25/11/2008 Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
HAVE you ever stopped to think if the most ordinary, uninteresting, unobtrusive man you might see on the road or around you might have a love story to tell?
25/11/2008 Hip hop theatre with a difference
COMMUNITY Arts North West in association with Zion Arts Centre and Sunshine Studios will be hosting the new Urban Music Theatre 2008 performance ‘Street Dreams’.
25/11/2008 A different style of Indian dance
DON'T miss this a rare chance to see Bharatanatyam presented in a completely new way with Sampradaya Dance Creations. 
20/11/2008 A funny whacky Indian gay film... at last!
I WENT to see Dostana with loads of apprehension: two reasons – just the other day I had seen the film Fashion, which was so shabby in its portrayal of homosexual characters who are once again stereotyped, emotionally abused and abjectly pushed into a heterosexual marriage option (eek, really), I was thinking can't Indian filmmakers ever come out with one decent gay portrayal?
20/11/2008 Adil Ray moves to breakfast show
POPULAR radio presenter Adil Ray takes over the reins of the BBC Asian Network breakfast show (6-9am) in the New Year.
05/12/2008 Taxi Academy motors into a hi-tech future
TWO entrepreneurs who set up an academy to teach would-be cabbies to pass the Manchester equivalent of `The Knowledge' in London are motoring ahead with hi-tech expansion plans.
05/12/2008 CPS report on 'honour' crime will help prosecutors
PROSECUTORS will be better able to tackle cases of so-called ‘honour’ crime following a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) study.
05/12/2008 Uni wins £20m to build skills
A £20M grant to train scientists and engineers to tackle major issues facing Britain has been won by Manchester University.
05/12/2008 Man threatened with sword
A MAN was threatened with a sword in Oldham.
05/12/2008 Ads banned by TV watchdog
THE advertising watchdog has banned two commercials airing on Bangla TV, MATV and Zee TV.
05/12/2008 Safety project is completed
A MAJOR project to improve the safety of one of Rochdale town centre’s busiest roads has been completed.




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05/12/2008 Sri Lanka child recruitment deal
The government of Sri Lanka and the UN children’s fund (Unicef) have reached agreement with a breakaway faction of the Tamil Tigers on child recruitment.
05/12/2008 Sri Lanka - I can do well without local media-Ranil
UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe launched a strong attack on media institutions and rights groups yesterday and blamed them for ’falsely accusing’ him of harassing media and insisted that he could do well without local media as he has the backing of international media groups.
05/12/2008 Sri Lanka - Our Forces among the best - MP Muralitharan
MP Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan told Parliament yesterday that the Sri Lankan Armed Forces could not defeat LTTE terrorism earlier as they did not have a strong political leadership.
05/12/2008 Sri Lanka - Defence budget passed with 105 vote majority
The vote on the Defence, Public Security, Law and Order Ministry was passed with a majority of 105 votes. There were 19 votes in favour.
05/12/2008 South Asia - Shooting reported at Delhi airport
The Indira Gandhi International airport here was shut down for nearly 20 minutes following reports of gunshots near the arrival terminal early Friday.
05/12/2008 India - Teacher beaten for hitting students in Kolkata
A primary school teacher here was beaten up by locals and handed over to the police after he thrashed his students, three of whom were hospitalised with serious injuries Thursday, police said.
05/12/2008 India - Kolkata Police ask schools to step up security, frisk parents
Kolkata Police have instructed leading schools here to install closed-circuit TV cameras and metal detectors besides arranging for special training for the students and staff as part of a drive to step up security and tackle emergency situations like the Mumbai terror strikes.
05/12/2008 South Asia - LTTE’s break-away group agrees to end child enrollment
The break-away group of the Tamil Tiger rebels has entered into "an action plan" with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to completely end the enrollment and use of children in armed conflict, an official statement here said.
05/12/2008 South Asia - UN pledges $3 mn to help Nepal’s rural communities
The UN has allocated $3 million to assist rural communities in Nepal, the global organisation announced Thursday.
05/12/2008 South Asia - Bangladesh’s left-wing veteran dies in suspcious fire
A veteran of Bangladesh’s left-wing political scene, Nurul Islam, 68, died at Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital Thursday, a day after he sustained critical burns in a mysterious fire at his apartment in the capital, officials at the hospital said.
05/12/2008 India - Mumbai attacks: Rice expects ’robust’ Pakistan response
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she expected a "robust" response from Islamabad to the Mumbai terror attacks, while Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari promised to assist in the investigation into the strikes.
05/12/2008 India - Poor in India, China have limited access to cardio-treatment
Cardiovascular epidemic is making inroads in many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) like India and China, but the poor have limited or no access to treatment facilities.
04/12/2008 India - No discussion on Mumbai attack in cabinet meet
The Indian cabinet which met here Thursday did not discuss the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said.
04/12/2008 India - Achuthanandan’s offensive remark continues to rock Kerala assembly
The Kerala assembly was Thursday adjourned amidst chaos as opposition members shouted slogans against Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, who had accused opposition leader Oommen Chandy of having lied to the media about his apology for offending a martyred army officer’s family.
04/12/2008 South Asia - US presses Pakistan over Mumbai
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that Pakistan must act "fully and transparently" in efforts to bring the Mumbai attackers to justice.