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Western embassies in Bangladesh have restricted their diplomats’ movements amid concern more foreigners would be targeted after an Italian was shot dead in the first attack in the country claimed by Islamic State. Some international schools and clubs in Dhaka were closed on Tuesday and police tightened security, stopping motorists …

A “depraved” Punjabi-origin care worker has been jailed for a decade after she was found guilty of sexually assaulting patients in her care – one of them 101 years old. Christina Sethi, from Devon, filmed herself assaulting three vulnerable patients at a care home in the town of Torquay before …

An Indian public official has been sacked for taking leave 24 years ago and never returning to his desk in the country’s notoriously work-shy bureaucracy, the urban development ministry said. Assistant executive engineer A.K Verma went on leave in 1990 after joining India’s central public works department (CPWD) a decade …

A British-Indian Barclays bank worker attempted to kill her magistrate mother after she prevented her from marrying her boyfriend. Kuntal Patel appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Monday accused of the attempted murder of her mother Meena who was plied with Diet Coke laced with a lethal poison in a …

The Asian community in Rotherham, South Yorkshire were aware that young white girls were being sexually exploited by gangs of Asian men in the city, a community worker claims. There has been widespread shock across the UK to news that nearly 1400 young girls, some as young as 11, were …

A former member of Sri Lanka’s ruling has been jailed for the murder of a British holidaymaker in southern Sri Lanka on Christmas Eve 2011. The High Court in Colombo sentenced Sampath Vidanapathirana to 20 years in prison on Friday for the slaying of Khuram Shaikh, an international Red Cross …

Frenchman Julien Columeau came to Pakistan at the age of 30 as a humanitarian worker – but a knack for languages and love for books have made him one of the country’s most innovative Urdu novelists. Writing mainly historical fiction with a prose described as vivid and forceful, critics say …

An impoverished teenager whose mother works the infamous red-light district of Kolkata has been chosen to train with Premiership giants Manchester United. Rajib Roy, 16, who lives with his sex worker mother in a tiny single room, was spotted by Man U scouts at a local tournament in India.  He …

A British Indian bank worker who murdered his wife to stop her from revealing that he was secretly gay has been jailed for life. Jasvir Ram Ginday, 29,  from Walsall near Birmingham, throttled his 24-year-old wife Varkha Rani with a metal pipe before burning her body in a garden incinerator …

An Indian woman from East London has been arrested as part of an on-going anti-terrorism operation by the Metropolitan Police, according to reports. Kuntal Patel, a Barclays Bank worker, was detained during a raid on a Stratford property reportedly owned by her mother Meena Patel. The elder Mrs Patel is …