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The student victims of a brazen, half-million pound scam. They are the words that any first generation migrant dreads: “Your application for further leave to remain in the UK has been refused under paragraph…”, the Home Office letter, dated 16 October, states. Despite being just words on a piece of …

Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in the Indian city of Mumbai will soon be able to drive private taxis in a sign of increasing acceptance of marginalized groups in the country’s commercial capital. A project launched by Wings Travels and the community organization Humsafar Trust …

Indian star Sania Mirza and her Swiss doubles partner Martina Hingis are continuing their amazing run. The duo broke a 22-year-old world record on Thursday winning their 29th women’s doubles match in a row en route to their entry into the women’s doubles final of the WTA Sydney International. The …

An Indian squash player has backtracked on a threat to sell his kidney to raise funds ahead of next month’s South Asian Games, saying it was a “spur of the moment” decision that he was now regretting. Ravi Dixit, 22, is part of the home squad for the event in …

In a tiny flat in a rundown alley in New Delhi, Rakesh Kumar Misra is working against the odds to bring India’s ancient Sanskrit language to the country’s millions. The 4,000-year-old classical language was traditionally used by Brahmin intellectuals and Hindu priests.  Rarely spoken as a mother tongue in India, …

Google’s new India-born CEO Sundar Pichai promised on Wednesday to use India as a testing ground for its products as the U.S. tech giant targets hundreds of millions of consumers in the developing world who are set to move online in the next few years. “We think that what we …

A technician working for Air India has died after being sucked into a jet engine as the plane pushed back for take-off at Mumbai airport. The freak accident happened on Wednesday evening when the co-pilot of flight AI 619 to Hyderabad mistook a signal from ground staff and started the …

India and China are “happy” with a planned 195-nation agreement to rein in global warming, a spokesman for a developing country bloc long at odds with the West says. “We’re happy with the agreement.  We think it is balanced and we feel they’ve taken into account our interests,” Gurdial Singh …

  The recent exploits of the Afghan cricket team have been some of the few pieces of good news to emerge out of the country in years. Now it appears that the world’s most powerful cricketing nation has stepped forward to help the Afghans along in their journey. The Afghanistan …

Welhite Naro proudly proffers his fried spiders and grilled crickets along with a somewhat less exotic dish of millet and squash — a small sample of the disappearing delicacies of India’s remote northeast. Naro is a farmer from Nagaland, one of the eight states that make up northeast India — …