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Pramukh Swami Maharaj honoured on his centennial birth anniversary

Image courtesy: Hindu Matters in Britain On the occasion of the centennial birth anniversary of Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the Westminster City Council on Wednesday, 7 December paid a special tribute to the revered spiritual guru (master). A plaque was unveiled at Victoria Tower Gardens, in Westminster, Central London, with the message: “In blessed memory of […]

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Southampton Sikh Toy Appeal to make Christmas special for hundreds of children

Image by Southampton Toy Appeal The Southampton Sikh Toy Appeal is going to make this year’s Christmas special for numerous children with hundreds of toys. Families, who cannot provide their children with gifts can get them from toy appeal volunteers at the Gurdwara Khalsa Darbar, Southampton’s Sikh Resource Centre in Burgess Road. In the last

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Birmingham mosque continues efforts to help the people of Pakistan affected by the floods

 Image by Green Lane Masjid & Community Centre “The devastation left by the floods in Pakistan is still very much raw and the desperation is apparent. The latest estimates place around 2,000 people dead, thousands injured and more than 2 million homes damaged or destroyed. Millions of people remain displaced in make-shift tents, as flood

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Oldham school children and the ‘running man’ raise £3500 for charity

Image by Asian Image The ‘running man’ of Oldham provided help to school children in raising an amount of £3,500 towards Pakistan flood relief efforts recently. Afruz Miah, who ran from Oldham to London while on a fast during Ramadan, came to be popularly known as the ‘running man’. His daughter studies at St Thomas

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Manchester drug dealer jailed for four years after police raid his property

 Image by Greater Manchester Police A drug dealer is now behind bars after police raided his property in Longsight and recovered cocaine and cash. Yasir Ali, of Meade Grove, attempted to use his phone after officers burst in and found him alone in the bedroom. The 25-year-old was swiftly arrested when a large amount of

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Indian PhD student solves a Sanskrit grammatical puzzle which had remained a mystery since the 5th century BC

Image by Rishi Rajpopat LinkedIn account An Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge received a lot of praises after solving a grammatical problem which had left even the most learned Sanskrit scholars confused since the 5th Century BC. Rishi Rajpopat, 27, from St John’s College successfully decoded a rule taught by “the father

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Distressing video footage of the Babbs Mill Lake tragedy released online, leaving many ‘mortified’

 Saqib Bhatti near the location where the tragedy occurred (Image by Josh Sandiford / Birmingham Live) After the Babbs Mill Lake tragedy that claimed the lives of four young boys in Kinghurst, Solihull on 11 December, videos of the incident were released online and left many “mortified”. Meriden MP Saqib Bhatti, whose constituency includes Kinghurst, visited

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TikTok influencer and her five co-conspirators accused of murdering two men, released on bail

 Image by LeicestershireLive/BirminghamLive After the collapse of their trial, TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari, her mother Ansreen and four others, who are facing murder charges, have been released from custody pending a retrial which will take place in the new year, BirminghamLive reports. An appeal for the bail of the six defendants was made by their

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Murderer of Zara Aleena sentenced to a minimum of 38 years in jail

Image by Family Handout/PA Wire/MyLondon The man who pleaded guilty to murdering Zara Aleena in a frenzied and sexually motivated attack will serve a minimum of 38 years behind bars, Metropolitan Police said in a statement. Jordan McSweeney, 29, of no fixed address, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, 14 December having pleaded guilty

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Young Dewsbury man transforms his lifestyle to become a boxer

Yaseen Patel before and after his transformation (Image by UWCB/Ultra White Collar Boxing/YorkshireLive) A man has gone against all odds to prove that anything can be achieved if one dreams big and works towards achieving it. Yaseen Patel from Dewsbury has lost over 15 stone in two years and said that he would be “dead if

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