| Asian Women of Achievement
Award Winners 2013 |
 Sue
Kukadia (pictured left), director of
global immigration at Ernst & Young and
a new culinary "rock star" were
among 13 women recognised for their outstanding
careers at the Asian Women of Achievement
Awards on Wednesday 15th May 2013. The gala
awards ceremony at London's Hilton Hotel was
attended by guests including awards patron
Cherie Blair, Princess Badiya bint El Hassan,
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and
Sport, Maria Miller MP and the Duchess of
York Sarah Ferguson. 
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| Asian Women
of Achievement Awards 2013 |
 A
pioneering immigration lawyer and a new culinary
"rock star" shone were among 13
women recognised for their outstanding careers
at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards on
Wednesday 15th May 2013. The awards ceremony
was attended by guests including awards patron
Cherie Blair, Princess Badiya bint El Hassan,
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and
Sport, Maria Miller MP and the Duchess of
York Sarah Ferguson.
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| Tata Vice-Chairman
receives the Global Empowerment Award 2013 |
 Subramanian
Ramadorai CBE, Vice-Chairman of Tata Consultancy
Services, received the Global Empowerment
Award at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards
on Wednesday 15th May 2013 at the Hilton Hotel
in London. Previous winners of the award include
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; Indra
Nooyi, Global Chief Executive of PepsiCo;
Farah Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim
Communities at the US Department of State
and Susan Davies, Chair of the Board of Vital
Voices.
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| University
of Manchester leads Health Sciences debate |
 On
the day that actress Angelina Jolie announced
that she had undergone a double mastectomy
to avoid the high risk of developing breast
cancer, scientists from the University of
Manchester were debating whether new health
science discoveries can lead to greater innovation
in healthcare. Prof. Rod Coombs (pictured),
Deputy President and Vice Chancellor outlined
the University's unrivalled academic breadth
and depth in health and life sciences research.
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| Puja Gupta
dons veggie dress for PETA India Advert |
 Former
Miss Universe India winner and Bollywood beauty
Puja Gupta donned a sexy dress made of vegetables
for a new PETA India advertisement. In direct
contrast to Lady Gaga's famous dress made
of meat, Ms Gupta's dress is made entirely
of lettuce leaves and other vegetables next
to the caption "Let Vegetarianism Grow
on You".
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| Pressure
on Primark grows over Bangladesh tragedy |
 Primark
today faces unprecedented pressure to ensure
that the tragedy witnessed in Bangladesh a
week ago today never happens again. The call
- issued on International Workers Day, one
week on since the tragedy - also goes to Matalan
and Mango, and the other retailers who bought
clothes made by workers in the block. The
eight-storey building collapsed on Wednesday
(24th April 2013) 18 miles from the Bangladeshi
capital Dhaka killing more than 400 people.
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| Protest
targets Primark over Bangladesh workplace
disaster |
 As
rescuers continue to search for survivors
from the collapsed Bangladeshi block where
workers made Primark clothes, campaigners
today (27th April 2013) protested outside
its flagship store tomorrow in support of
victims and their families. The demonstration
at the store in London’s Marble Arch
demanded the retailer pays full compensation
to the injured workers and the families.
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| Global Volunteering
Initiative Sewa Day Appoints Deputy Chair |
 Redhotcurry.com
Founder Lopa Patel MBE has been appointed
Deputy Chair of global volunteering initiative
Sewa Day to help spearhead the project's marketing
strategy and primary schools programme. Sewa
is the Sanskrit word for "selfless service"
and since its launch in 2010 Sewa Day has
exceeded all expectations with tens of thousands
of people rendering their service to others.
Last year, an estimated 50,000 people took
part.
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| Peers want
caste discrimination to be outlawed in Britain |
 Peers
are celebrating victory after they won a vote
on 22nd April 2013 to
include caste alongside other forms of discrimination
in equalities law. This comes despite the
House of Commons having rejected the proposal
twice with Members of Parliament preferring
an education programme over legislation.
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| Lakshmi
Mittal topples off the top of the Asian Rich
List 2013 |
 Steel
magnate Lakshmi Mittal has toppled off the
top of The Sunday Times Rich List published
on 21st April 2013, after securing the richest
man in Britain spot for eight consecutive
years between 2005 and 2012. The UK's richest
Asians this year are Sri and Gopi Hinduja
with an estimated £10.6 billion.
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| Top 100
Most Influential Asians List Unveiled at The
Asian Awards |
 Actor
Sir Ben Kingsley, singer Nicole Scherzinger,
Japanese race car driver Kamui Kobayashi,
industrialist Adi Godrej, businessman Jiang
Jinquing, author Hanif Khureishi and Hollywood
legend Bruce Lee were among those honoured
at The Asian Awards on Tuesday 16th April
2013 at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
The world's first Top 100 Most Influential
Asians list was also launched on the evening.
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| Vidyut Jammwal
encourages vegetarianism in a new PETA India
advert |
 Bollywood
action star Vidyut Jammwal encourages vegetarianism
in a new PETA Indian advert saying that his
high level of physical and mental energy Is
a direct result of kicking the meat habit
15 years ago. The actor is pictured flexing
the muscles of his bare and chiselled upper
body and wearing low-slung jeans next to the
caption "Powered by Veggies! Go Vegetarian"
in the brand-new ad.
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| Google puts
Pakistan on the map! |
 US
Search giant Google has helped citizen cartographers
build useful street maps in Pakistan and it
is now hoping to do same globally. Google
today (11th April 2013) announced that anyone
can help to provide detailed local information
to Google Maps to transform a simple map into
a more detailed and accurate representation
of an area's local treasures. Once approved,
improvements appear within a matter of minutes.
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| Tagore Centre
for Global Thought opens at King’s India
Institute in London |
 The
Tagore Centre for Global Thought has been
officially inaugurated at King’s College
London, in a ceremony attended by Smt. Chandresh
Kumari Katoch, Honourable Minister of Culture,
Government of India, and Dr Virander K Paul,
Deputy High Commissioner of India in London.
The Centre, housed in the prestigious King’s
India Institute, has been established to engage
audiences with India’s intellectual traditions.
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| Asian Women
of Achievement Awards 2013: Shortlist Announced |
 The
shortlist for the Asian Women of Achievement
Awards 2013 was announced today (24th March
2013). Among the 55 nominees shortlisted are
Roma Agrawal, a young engineer who has been
involved with the development of 'The Shard'
and three (unrelated) Chakrabartis including
actress and writer Lolita Chakrabarti; Founder
of Nameless Media Group, Jaya Chakrabarti
and BBC education and social affairs correspondent,
Reeta Chakrabarti.
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| Bhaktivedanta
Manor Hare Krishna Temple's 40th Anniversary |
 On
24th March 2013, Bhaktivedanta Manor celebrated
Holi, the festival of colours, and its 40th
Anniversary as “Home of Lord Krishna”.
Marking this event was a grand havan with
over 100 priests and 500 invited guests. Dhananjaya
Das, one of the first devotees to have met
George Harrison of the Beatles who gifted
the manor to the charity, “that this
is a time of reflection, a handful of devotees
struggling against all odds to secure a Temple
for Krishna".
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| Dhruv Patel
elected as a City of London Common Councilman |
 Dhruv
Patel, 29, was last night elected to the Court
of the Common Council at the City of London
Corporation as an Independent in the ward
of Aldgate, making him the first ever person
from a black and minority ethnic background
(BME) to be elected to a business ward. This
role is equivalent to that of a local councillor
but has the additional responsibilitiesof
representing the UK's financial services industries
abroad.
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| Voluntary
Groups honoured as Sewa Pioneers Award Winners
2013 |
 A
range of voluntary projects including feeding
a thousand underprivileged people in Hong
Kong; clearing 80 sacks of litter from the
Grand Union Canal towpath in Southall and
sprucing up a hospice in Luton were among
those honoured with a Sewa Pioneers Award
on 20th March 2013 at the House of Commons.
The awards recognised those with the spirit
of selflessness who devoted time to the service
of others through global volunteering initiative
Sewa Day.
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| Vikas Pota
selected as World Economic Forum Young Global
Leader |
 Vikas
Pota, CEO of the Varkey GEMS Foundation, was
selected as Young Global Leader by the World
Economic Forum on Tuesday 12th March 2013.
The honour is bestowed each year to recognize
the most distinguished leaders under the age
of 40, nominated from around the world, who
represent the future of leadership in business,
government, civil society, arts & culture,
academia and media, as well as social entrepreneurs.
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| Labour celebrates
IWD with a 'Women in Business' reception |
 Shadow
Home Secretary and Shadow Women and Equalities
Minister, The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, Chair
of Parliamentary Labour Party BIS Group and
Seema Malhotra MP, Member of Parliament for
Feltham and Heston Constituency, celebrated
International Women's Day by hosting a 'Women
in Business' reception for a hundred businesswomen
and entrepreneurs on 12th February 2013 at
the House of Commons.
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| Charity
Ball raises £300,000 for Indian NGO
Akshaya Patra Foundation |
 Indian
cinema stars Waheeda Rehman, Javed Akhtar
and Shabana Azmi attended The Sparkle Ball
on 2nd March 2013 in London to raise funds
for The Akshaya Patra Foundation UK, the world’s
largest NGO-run school meal programme, which
feeds and educates some of India’s underprivileged
children. The night of haute couture fashion
from Anamika Khanna was organised by the Foundation's
UK President, Dipika Khaitan (left).
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| Pratibha
Gai named L'Oréal Women In Science
European Laureate 2013 |
 Professor
Pratibha Gai, Chair of Electron Microscopy
at York Uiversity, is to receive the world's
most prestigious science prize for women as
she is named the L'Oréal - UNESCO Women
In Science European Laureate for 2013. Pratibha
is being commended for her invention of a
new type of microscope which is unlocking
the mysteries of the atomic world of living
materials.
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| Educational
Researcher Sugata Mitra wins the TED Prize
2013 |
 Educational
researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the
$1 million TED Prize 2013. His wish is to
build a 'School in the Cloud', where children
can explore and learn from one another. At
TED2013, Sugata Mitra said "my wish is
to help design the future of learning by supporting
children all over the world to tap into their
innate sense of wonder and work together."
As a part of this year's historic TED Prize,
Sugata Mitra receive $1,000,000 seed funding
for this initiative.
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| Rockstar
Scientists |
 Does
the world really need "rockstar"
scientists to explain evolution, gravity and
the theory of "The Big Bang" to
us I wondered ? This random thought occurred
on Monday 25th February 2013 as I drove up
from London to The University of Manchester
for a special screening of the BBC's 'Wonders
of Life' documentary presented Professor Brian
Cox, arguably the biggest 'rockstar' in the
science field currently.
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| Prime Minister
David Cameron in India |
 David
Cameron led a British trade delegation to
India, his second since becoming Prime Minister
in 2010. During the three-day visit the Prime
Minister visited a women's university, met
with Sonia Gandhi and laid a wreath at the
memorial to the 1919 Amritsar massacre. Writing
in the memorial book of condolence, Mr Cameron
described the massacre as "a deeply shameful
event in British history", adding "we
must never forget what happened here".
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| '1 Billion
Rising' celebrates day of mass action to stop
violence against women |
 V-Day,
the global activist movement to end violence
against women and girls, celebrated the final
escalation of its year-long 'One Billion Rising'
campaign on Thursday, 14th February, when
women and men in 203 countries came together
in the largest day of mass action ever to
stop violence against women and girls. The
campaign began as a call to action based on
the statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet
will be beaten or raped during her lifetime.
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| 'Girls do
Science too' with more chic and less geek! |
 The
Stemettes initiative - a collection of women
and organisations from the UK's STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) sector
- launched at Google Campus in London on Tuesday
12th February 2013 with Lopa Patel MBE, Founder
of Redhotcurry.com as one of the key speakers.
With the number of women in the UK's STEM
workforce dropping by 4% to 13% in 2012, the
project hopes to reverse this trend.
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| Sadi Khan
is named Trainer of the Year 2013 |
 Sadi
Khan from cultural Training Company Noble
Khan won the 'Trainer of the Year 2013' accolade
at The Learning and Performance Institute
Awards on 7th February 2013. The awards recognise
outstanding examples of high standards, best
practice, innovation and excellence in Learning
and Development.
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| Winners
announced at the inaugural British Muslim
Awards |
 On
Tuesday 29th January 2013, the first British
Muslim Awards 2013 were held at the Sheridan
Suite in Manchester. The event honoured the
success and achievements of Britain's Muslim
individuals, groups and business people inlcuding
entrepreneur James Caan and double Olympic
Gold Medal winner Mo Farah, among others.
The Awards were co-hotsed by Tasmina Ahmed
Sheikh and Zulfi Hussain.
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| Women Empowered
network encourages more women into politics |
 Reena
Ahuja and Mona Remtulla, co-founders of the
Women Empowered network, held their first
event of the year on 24th January 2013 to
encourage more women into national and local
politics. Speakers Priti Patel MP, Cllr Mimi
Harker OBE and Cllr Lurline Champagnie spoke
of their own careers and experiences in standing
for election. Traditionally regarded as male
dominated or controlled profession; they encouraged
debate on the issue of "Is it still a
man's world"?
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| Scottish
Asian Women's Association Awards launched |
 Nominations
have opened for the inaugural Scottish Asian
Women's Association (SAWA) Awards for achievement
and excellence, recognising the contribution
made to the Asian community, and Scotland
as a whole, by Asian women. SAWA was launched
in April last year by The First Minister,
Alex Salmond and is supported by HRH Princess
Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan. Closing date
for nominations is , 18th February 2013.
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| Southall
Black Sisters Protest Against Sexual Violence
in India |
 Southall
Black Sisters (SBS) held a Protest Against
Sexual Violence in India outside the Indian
High Commission in London on Monday 7th January
2012 highlighting the many acts of horrific
sexual violence that take place every day
in India. "The world's largest democracy
was named the worst country in the G20 countries
for violence against women in the recent Trust
Law Survey." By drawing attention to
this horror SBS hope to shame the Indian government
into acting now by making public spaces safe
for women.
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| SOS: Save
Our Sisters - Candlelight Vigil in memory
of Damini |
 Mahatma
Gandhi once said "The day a woman can
walk freely on the roads of India, that day
we can say India has achieved Independence."
Unfortunately, in his eyes India is yet to
achieve independence. The Care Education Trust
and Big Hug Foundation held a Candlelight
Vigil called 'Save Our Sisters' on Saturday
5th January 2013 in Tavistock Square, London,
for the Delhi gang rape victim and for women
in India who are assaulted on a daily basis.
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| India's
growth story unravelling in the face of sexual
violence |
 Arup
Ganguly, a former Delhi resident, founder
of KNG Securities and Chairman of international
volunteering initiative Sewa Day, argues that
India's growth story is rapidly unravelling
in the face of the Delhi gang-rape protests.
He asserts that social change is about more
than obtaining swift justice and believes
that Indians need a new cultural identity,
one built-up from grassroots: one which values
men and women equally.
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| 'Aiding
& Abetting' report calls for £8bn
UK aid to be transferred to the military |
 A
new book by Jonathan Foreman, senior research
fellow at think-tank Civitas, urges the Government
to revolutionise its approach to overseas
aid. Among its recommendations is a shift
of one third of the UK's £8 billion
overseas aid budget to the military to ensure
that Britain is capable of mounting swift
and effective emergency relief operations
in the wake of disasters such as earthquakes,
tsunamis and famines. The book also adds that
the pledge to increase UK aid spending to
0.7 per cent of GDP by 2015 (spending an extra
£3 billion over the next three years)
should be scrapped.
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| Fewer ethnic
minority individuals recognised in The New
Year Honours List 2013 |
 Fewer
ethnic minority individuals were recognised
in The New Year Honours List 2013 despite
a demographic increase showing that 14%* of
the UK is now from an ethnic minority community.
Of the 1,223 people recognised, only 5% were
from an ethnic miority community - this compares
to 7.6% of ethnic minority recipients in 2011
and 12% ethnic minority recipients in 2012.
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| UK NEWS
2013 |
|
Women
Empowered to 'Make an Impression' (05/13)
Asian
Women of Achievement Award Winners 2013
(05/13)
Asian Women
of Achievement Awards 2013 (05/13)
Tata
Vice-Chairman receives the Global Empowerment
Award 2013 (05/13)
University
of Manchester leads Health Sciences debate
(05/13)
Puja
Gupta dons veggie dress for PETA India Advert
(05/13)
Pressure
on Primark grows over Bangladesh tragedy
(05/13)
Protest
targets Primark over Bangladesh workplace
disaster (04/13)
Global
Volunteering Initiative Sewa Day Appoints
Deputy Chair (04/13)
Plans
to axe a key element of The Equalities Act
2010 are dropped (04/13)
Peers
want caste discrimination to be outlawed
in Britain (04/13)
Lakshmi
Mittal topples off the top of the Asian
Rich List 2013 (04/13)
Top
100 Most Influential Asians List Unveiled
at The Asian Awards (04/13)
Vidyut
Jammwal encourages vegetarianism in a new
PETA India advert (04/13)
Sir
Ben Kingsley to be celebrated with a Fellowship
Award (04/13)
Google
puts Pakistan on the map! (04/13)
Tagore
Centre for Global Thought opens at King’s
India Institute in London (04/13)
Dell
donates $2M to 'Powering the Possible' youth
learning initiative (03/13)
Asian
Women of Achievement Awards 2013: Shortlist
Announced (03/13)
Bhaktivedanta
Manor Hare Krishna Temple's 40th Anniversary
(03/13)
Dhruv
Patel elected as a City of London Common
Councilman (03/13)
Voluntary
Groups honoured as Sewa Pioneers Award Winners
2013 (03/13)
Leicester
hosts a delegation of education leaders
from Pakistan (03/13)
BME
Charities in the North East of England form
a consortium (03/13)
Vikas
Pota selected as World Economic Forum Young
Global Leader (03/13)
Labour
celebrates International Women's Day with
a 'Women in Business' reception (03/13)
EU
publishes data on Women & Work on International
Women's Day (03/13)
National
Indian Students Union UK bestows Honorary
Fellowship on Shabana Azmi (03/13)
Charity
Ball raises £300,000 for Indian NGO
Akshaya Patra Foundation (03/13)
Pratibha
Gai named L'Oréal - UNESCO Women
In Science European Laureate 2013 (03/13)
Educational
Researcher Sugata Mitra wins the TED Prize
2013 (02/13)
Rockstar
Scientists (02/13)
Prime
Minister David Cameron in India (02/13)
'1
Billion Rising' celebrates largest day of
mass action to stop violence against women
(02/13)
'Girls
do Science too' with more chic and less
geek! (02/13)
Sadi
Khan is named Trainer of the Year 2013
(02/13)
Tribute
to the first Sikh peer: Lord Tarsem King
of West Bromwich (1937 - 2013) (02/13)
Winners
announced at the inaugural British Muslim
Awards (01/13)
Women
Empowered network encourages more women
into politics (01/13)
Labour
Party to host an Indian Women's Community
Engagement Forum (01/13)
Scottish
Asian Women's Association Awards launched
(01/13)
British
Future launches 'State of the Nation 2013'
report (01/13)
Asian
Women of Achievement Awards 2013 nominations
open (01/13)
Asian
Actress Sophiya Haque passes away (01/13)
Education
Minister accused of "whitewashing"
British History (01/13)
Southall
Black Sisters Protest Against Sexual Violence
in India (01/13)
SOS
- Save Our Sisters Candlelight Vigil
(01/13)
India's
growth story unravelling in the face of
sexual violence (01/13)
'Aiding
& Abetting' report calls for £8bn
UK aid to be transferred to the military
(01/13)
Fewer
ethnic minority individuals recognised in
The New Year Honours List 2013 (01/13)
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