Police search for missing Indian dancer
POLICE are appealing for help in tracing a 38-year-old woman who has been missing from an address she was staying in Wolverhampton since the beginning of March.
Kanchan Bala, 38, was staying at an address in Vicarage Road, All Saints,...
Man wanted for failing to appear at court
A MANHUNT is underway after a man wanted in connection with physicallly abusing his former partner failed to turn up in court.
Mohammed Akram, 37, is on the run after failing to turn up for his sentencing hearing at Leicester...
Life sentence for wife killer
A MAN who admitted stabbing his wife to death has been jailed for life.
Zameer Ahmed, 27, was sentenced by a judge at Manchester Crown Court after pleading guilty to the murder of his wife Nazia Ahmed in Blackburn...
Brum graffiti artist to showcase work in America
A BIRMINGHAM graffiti artist whose take on modern Islamic art has made him one of the most recognizable Muslim artists in the world is to showcase his work in America next month.
Birmingham-born Mohammed Ali will take his work to...
Police hunt Asian gold theft gang
POLICE are hunting three Asian men after a city jeweller’s was targeted in a terrifying raid in broad daylight.
The incident happened at the Gold City store in Sparkbrook yesterday afternoon. Three men armed with hammers and a shotgun...
Schools’ right to ban veil ‘shocking’
NEW proposals allowing headteachers the right to ban its Muslim pupils from wearing full-faced veils have been described as “shocking” by one prominent British Muslim leader.
Massoud Shadjareh, chair of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), made the comment just...
UK Asians ‘silent’ over child abuse
OVER two-thirds of British Asians will not report child abuse because of the negative impact it would have on the ‘honour’ of a child’s family, shock statistics by the NSPCC have revealed.
The survey undertaken by the children’s charity...
‘I can’t believe this has happened to me’
A BIRMINGHAM woman has admitted she is still shaking two weeks after slicing open an aubergine to find the Arabic word for ‘Allah’ inscribed within the seeds of the vegetable.
Mother-of-two Najma Mahmood told The Asian Today she was...
Honour Killing victim accuses father and uncle
A WOMAN who was killed and buried in a suitcase in a garden in Birmingham accused her father and uncle of trying to kill her in a chilling video recorded on her mobile phone, the Old Bailey heard.
Banaz...
‘We may never know his reasons for brutal murder’
THE DETECTIVE who led the investigation that convicted a taxi driver for the brutal murder of his wife and three children admitted the reasons for the horrendous crime may never be known.
Detective Supt Martin Bottomley spoke just moments...
