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When Girls Use Pins for Safety

Davinder Kumar | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Girls, India, Women's Rights, Plan International, Human Rights, UK Impact, Egypt, Children, International Women's Day, Gender-Based Violence, Women's Issues, UK Lifestyle News

Kamla navigates the ruthless suburbs of Delhi carrying a safety pin concealed in her hand. This is the only way the 15-year-old can survive the journey to her computer coaching centre using public transport buses.

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Life in the Fast Lane

Leena Gade | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Sport

Read More: India, Women's Rights, Delhi, Women's Issues, Le Mans, Internation Women's Day, Leena Gade, Motorsports, UK Sport News

I am not treated differently to anyone else on the team and I was given an opportunity to take on a role that would be tough whether you are male or female. I am very lucky to work in such a technical field that is truly challenging and I hope that what both Teena and I do can open up the world of engineering and high performance to a wider audience.

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War Crimes and Curry

Frances Harrison | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK

Read More: War Crimes, India, Sri Lanka Civil War, Tamil, Books, Still Counting the Dead, Sri Lanka, UK Books, UK News

Publishing a book about a highly charged ethnic conflict in which tens of thousands have died is no path to a peaceful life. You only need to look at the racial abuse and filthy language in the comments sections of online sites frequented by Sri Lankans to see how intense the emotions still are.

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Adolf Hitler Squares Off Against Frankenstein..

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 28.02.2013 | UK

Read More: India Politics, India, Adolf-Lu-Hitler-R-Marak, Frankenstein, Adolf Hitler, UK News, Indian Elections, UK News

Eighty years since his election to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler is having another pop at power - this time, in India. The unfortunately named Adolf ...

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A Great Relationship?

Sujatha Santhanakrishnan | Posted 29.04.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: India, UK News, Economist Intelligence Unit, David Cameron, UK Politics, UK Conservative Party, Asia, Trade, UK Politics News

On the surface, Britain and India have much in common, including a language, a legal system, and cultural links. However, all this potential is yet to be translated into the unique relationship that Britain says it desires.

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Failed Politics Lead to National Tragedy

Muhammad Abdul Bari | Posted 28.04.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: South Asia, Sectarian Violence, India, Asian Politics, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Kashmir, UK Politics News

South Asia is the home to about a quarter of humanity. It occupies a strategic geopolitical location. Yet from Pakistan to Burma, Bangladesh to Sri Lanka, it is - in parts - succumbing to chaos.

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Enjoy MS Dhoni, India

Andrew Bloxham | Posted 26.04.2013 | UK Sport

Read More: Australia, Virender Sehwag, Cricket, India, Alastair Cook, Cricket World Cup, Chennai, Bcci, MS Dhoni, UK Sport News

This is a man that plays more international cricket than any other. Leader of his nation in all three formats of the game, he also keeps wicket. That, in addition to the demands of an assertive board in the BCCI, public expectation and the obligation of marshalling a host of cricketers almost of demi-God status within India is an almighty task.

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Hazara Massacres

Lord Avebury | Posted 27.04.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: Nick Clegg, India, Islam, Salmaan Taseer, Pakistan, Terrorism, Sunni, Terrorist, Quetta, UK Religion, Balochistan, Saudi Arabia, Lib Dems, Hazara, Kashmir, UK Politics News

A meeting in the House of Lords today will consider the latest in a series of massacres of the Hazara people in the Pakistan province of Balochistan, and its connection with the wider sectarian attacks on Shi'as throughout Pakistan.

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Indian Businesses Are Revelling in 'Unreasonable Goals'

Green Futures | Posted 23.04.2013 | UK

Read More: Efficiency, Social Innovation, Sustainable Business, UK Business, UK, India, World, UK News

It's all a far cry from what could be described as the comparatively sober, 'traditional' Indian corporate approach to sustainability, rooted in a long tradition of philanthropy. It's a tradition which has been absorbed smoothly into the relatively recent concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR).

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Female Infanticide - India's Unspoken Evil

Namrata Poddar | Posted 26.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Abortion, India, Sex Selective Abortions, UK Impact, One Young World, Crime, Female Infanticide, Foeticide, Parenting, Parenthood, Women, Women's Issues, UK Lifestyle News

People in Britain have had to face the uncomfortable truth that South Asia remains stuck firmly in the past in how women are treated, and with regard to their role in society. Not many in the UK, for instance, would realize that 2.8million girls in India have gone missing in the last 20 years.

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Round Up the Usual Suspects

David Fearnhead | Posted 21.04.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: India, Immigration, Prime Minister David Cameron, Romania, UK Conservative Party, David Cameron, Immigrants, Tory Party, UK Politics News

Racism is an ugly and abhorrent trait. So ugly and abhorrent is it that we bend over backwards and avert our gaze from anything which might lead to being accused of being racist. You see it all the time with journalists doing their upmost not to link terrorism or the subjugation of women to Islam. Any attempt at a serious debate is stifled in the current climate.

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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Caroline Argyropulo-Palmer | Posted 23.04.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: Amritsar, Magdalene Laundries, Ireland, India, Apology, Enda Kenny, David Cameron, UK Conservative Party, UK Politics News

Sometimes sorry seems to be the hardest word - at least, it was for one Prime Minister this week as David Cameron refused to apologise to for the Amritsar Massacre.

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Charities Blast 'Morally Wrong' Changes To Foreign Aid Budget

The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 21.02.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: India, Overseas Aid, UK News, Ministry of Defence, Spending Cuts, David Cameron, UK Politics, Peacekeeping, UK Politics News

Charities have rounded on David Cameron after he suggested aid cash could be spent by the military. The "morally wrong" proposals could put aid wor...

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'Aid Cash Could Be Diverted To MoD': Cameron

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 21.02.2013 | UK

Read More: India, Overseas Aid, UK News, Ministry of Defence, Spending Cuts, David Cameron, UK Politics, Peacekeeping, UK News

David Cameron has said the government would be prepared to use hundreds of millions of pounds of overseas aid cash to bail out the defence budget. ...

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A Sorry Apology: David Cameron at Jallianwala Bagh

Sandip Roy | Posted 22.04.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: India, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, David Cameron, UK Politics News

David Cameron thinks that the massacre that happened at Jallianwala Bagh in India was a "deeply shameful event in British history." In my condolence ...

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PICTURES: Cameron Pays Tribute To Amritsar Massacre Site

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.02.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: David Cameron Apology, David Cameron Trade Visit, India, UK News, David Cameron, Amritsar Massacre, UK Politics, David Cameron Amritsar, David Cameron India, UK Politics News

David Cameron on Wednesday laid a wreath at the memorial to the 1919 Amritsar massacre in India, bowing his head and standing in silence to pay respec...

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Bright Indian Future, Driven By Social Enterprise and Technology

Preetam Kaushik | Posted 19.04.2013 | UK

Read More: Social Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise, Technology, India, Microfinance, Indian Government, UK Business, UK News

Every top Indian business company, across sectors, whether it is Tata, Reliance or Kotak, is immersed in offering value through their CSR activities. Dedicating resources to social causes is seen as a profitable move either in terms of enhancing one's image or helping to attract a customer base, while also making a difference.

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'I Like My Curries Pretty Hot': David Cameron Heads For India

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 13.02.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: India, UK News, Business, Curry, Trade, David Cameron, UK Politics, UK Politics News

David Cameron will head for India next week, Downing Street has announced. The Prime Minister will lead a delegation of British business leaders as...

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Petty BCCI Missing a Trick

Andrew Bloxham | Posted 09.04.2013 | UK Sport

Read More: England, Joe Root, India, Global Cricket School, Yorkshire, Sachin Bahaj, Sachin Tendulkar, Test Cricket, Bcci, Cricket, UK Sport News

The role of the BCCI as pantomime villain of world cricket continues. Just as news of a Test series involving India neglecting the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) had begun to induce a mere sigh of resignation in place of erstwhile outright consternation, they have upped the stakes.

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New Prospects for India's Castor Bean Farmers

Green Futures | Posted 07.04.2013 | UK

Read More: Intelligent Design, Carpet Tiles, Castor Oil, Science, India, New Markets, Business, India Business, Sustainable, UK News

From castor oil to carpet tiles, Martin Wright explores an innovative approach that promises new markets for one of India's most resilient crops.

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Delhi Women Speak Out About Their Rights

Melanie Ward | Posted 02.04.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Post-2015, India, Justine Greening, Delhi, David Cameron, Ivan Lewis, Gender Equality, UK Impact, Women's Issues, UK Politics News

From grassroots to international level NGOs; to the UN, the World Bank and the OECD, the message is repeated time and time again: gender inequality is a brake on development.

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Street Photography While Travelling

Stuart Forster | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Photography, Fotografie, Street Photography, Travel Photography, People Photography, Documentary Photography, Social Documentary Photography, Travel, India, UK Travel, UK Lifestyle News

Street photography can be enjoyable way of exploring a destination while you travel. It can also help you get away from touristy attractions to experience 'real life' in the places you visit.

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Working to End Discrimination

Yohei Sasakawa | Posted 26.03.2013 | UK

Read More: Law, Human Rights, Unhrc, Discrimination, India, Un, Brazil, Japan, Leprosy, Inequality, The Law Society, UK Impact, Impact, UK News

Discrimination comes in many different forms - but the discrimination we are addressing in London today concerns a disease, leprosy, which goes back to biblical times and, until the early 1980s, was - like HIV AIDs - thought to be incurable.

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Got Time for Wellness?

Rodney Collins | Posted 24.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: UK, Turkey, South Africa, Peru, Mexico, India, Technology, Thailand, China, Brazil, Japan, UK Impact, World, Video, UK Lifestyle News

This week, we at McCann Truth Central released our latest study, 'The Truth About Wellness.' The study consists of a survey of 7,000 respondents in th...

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Why Is This Stamp Worth An Eye-Watering £69,000?

Posted 25.03.2013 | Home

Read More: Stamp, 1854 Inverted Head Hour Annas of India, Auctioneers Spink, India, Calcutta, Rare Stamps, Culture, Home News

Stamp collecting is a hobby that has always been unfairly associated with 'anorak' types. On some occasions it can also be associated with the uber...

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