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01/12/2008 Schoolboy killed by bus
A SCHOOLBOY has died after he was hit by a bus during the morning rush hour.
01/12/2008 Shop owner pulls gas blast survivors to safety
A SHOP owner has told how he helped to pull blood-soaked survivors from a building after it was rocked by a massive explosion.
01/12/2008 Used car motoring makes more money sense
CHOOSING between a new and used car is often a difficult decision.
01/12/2008 CCTV images released to catch fraudster
IMAGES of a fraudster who drained more than £263,000 from a bank account have been released in a fresh bid to catch him.
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.
19/11/2008 Bengali music inspires Zoe Rahman's new album
DRAWN to the Bengali heritage of their father, Mercury Music Prize nominee, jazz pianist Zoe Rahman and clarinet musician Idris Rahman have created their album Where Rivers Meet.
17/11/2008 Playing it gay: On the sets of DOSTANA
I AM in the Miami office of style and fashion publication Verve. The interior, a palette of flamingo colors, is populated by sleek staffers clutching design sketches. It is a typical day on a busy magazine.
17/11/2008 Theatre director’s colourful UK tour
Barbara Vijayakumar, the Rochdale-born visual artist and theatre company director, is on a UK tour of ‘Kathakali’.
17/11/2008 'Kidnap' out on DVD
FOLLOWING the success of Jab We Met, Welcome and Singh is Kinng, Indian Films - Studio 18 has released Kidnap on DVD for audiences in the UK, North America & Canada, UAE and other international countries.
01/12/2008 England may not return for Tests
ENGLAND today began their journey home from India with captain Kevin Pietersen admitting he does not know whether they will return for the Test series.
01/12/2008 Don't let terror acts divide community
THE Ramadhan Foundation once again offers its total condemnation and sadness at the Mumbai terrorist attacks; these attacks have been indiscriminate and have killed people of many different faiths including Muslims.
29/11/2008 Disney Channel writing competition reveals modern day Enid Blyton
A YOUNG Bolton writer has been hailed as the next Enid Blyton after winning a national Disney Channel writing competition.
29/11/2008 Festive first for Manchester
CHRISTIANS, Jews and Muslims are getting together for the first time ever to celebrate the season of goodwill next month.
29/11/2008 Taxi driver killed in crash
A TAXI driver was killed after his car hit a tree while driving along the A56 Edenfield bypass.
28/11/2008 Doc talks of Mumbai anguish
A STOCKPORT-based doctor from Mumbai has told of his fear for his family and home city in the wake of the terror attacks.




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01/12/2008 Sri Lanka - Another food convoy to leave for K’nochchi
COLOMBO: Seventy lorry loads of food items received from India for civilians held virtually hostage by the LTTE will leave Vavuniya today, the Ministry of Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services said.
01/12/2008 Sri Lanka - Flood horror
COLOMBO: Torrential rains during the past few days which wreaked havoc in several parts of the country mainly due to flooding left at least seven dead with more than 350,000 others affected in eight districts, with Jaffna being the worst hit.
01/12/2008 Sri Lanka - President to meet Pope Benedict XVI today
President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to meet Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican today during a brief visit to Italy.
01/12/2008 India - Shivraj Patil should have resigned earlier: Lalu
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Sunday said Shivraj Patil’s resignation as home minister over the Mumbai terrorist attack came "very late".
01/12/2008 South Asia - Pakistan briefs Turkey over ties with India
Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi Sunday briefed Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan about relations with India following the terror attacks in Mumbai.
01/12/2008 South Asia - Terrorists boarded boat near Karachi, killed five fishermen
The group of 11 terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks had boarded a fishing boat near Karachi in Pakistan five days earlier, a senior investigating official revealed Sunday.
01/12/2008 South Asia - Agro Tech in Chandigarh attracts more city folks than farmers
Agriculture technology and business fair, ’Agro Tech 2008’, underway in Chandigarh seems to have caught the fancy of the urban population and entrepreneurs more than that of farmers.
01/12/2008 South Asia - At Taj, 10 staffers killed, 11 injured in terror strike
Ten employees of the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel lost their lives and 11 were injured in the terrorist attack on the heritage building beginning Wednesday night, its management said Sunday.
01/12/2008 India - Home ministry not a new portfolio for Chidambaram
Palaniappan Chidambaram, who was named India’s home minister Sunday, has had prior experience with the portfolio when he was minister of state for internal security in Rajiv Gandhi’s government between 1986 and 1989.
01/12/2008 India - Terrorists knew Taj hotel layout too well: NSG chief
The terrorists who attacked Mumbai knew the layout of the Taj Mahal Hotel "too well" and tricked commandos, stretching the gunbattles for nearly 60 hours, National Security Guard (NSG) chief J.K. Dutt said Sunday.
01/12/2008 India - Pakistan PM calls security conference to discuss tensions with India
Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has summoned a security conference to be held Dec 2 to review the situation arising out of the attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, an official here said Sunday.
01/12/2008 Many Sri Lankan women are harassed in public transport
Many Sri Lankan women travelling in public transport face some form of "sexual harassment" mainly in the cosmopolitan areas, a media report quoting a research study said Sunday.
30/11/2008 India - Mumbai’s Taj hotel was warned of terrorist attack
The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel in Mumbai had been warned of a possible terrorist attack and had temporarily beefed up security, but nothing could have stopped the gunmen, Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group that owns the hotel, said in an interview to be broadcast Sunday.
30/11/2008 South Asia - Pakistan envoy blames ’non-state actors’ for Mumbai attacks
Asserting that "no element of Pakistan’s state or government" was involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, its ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani said he wanted New Delhi and Islamabad to unite in the war against terror.
30/11/2008 Global spotlight on intelligence failure, politics of terror in India
The ’India Rising’ story, a favourite of papers around the world, may have taken a knock after the Nov 26 terror strike paralysed business capital Mumbai and killed more than 150 people as the international media turned a critical gaze on India’s partisan politics and intelligence failure in dealing with terrorism.