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Bollywood star dismisses industry rivalryBOLLYWOOD star Salman Khan has dismissed suggestions of an industry rivalry with some of his fellow stars. Khan, one of Bollywood biggest actors, told the BBC Asian Networks ‘Love Bollywood’ show he has never competed...

A NEW DVD to help Asian families with deaf children is being launched in Birmingham later this week. The ‘Communication Matters’ DVD features thirteen young people and their families, illustrating the different communication options available to deaf children and how...

POLICE are re-appealing for witnesses to contact them following a fatal car crash in which a Leicester man died. 23-year-old Nilesh Raja, of Hamilton, Leicester, died after the Toyota Corolla car he was driving hit a white Vauxhall van...

A PEOPLE smuggling gang which charged as much as £30,000 to smuggle Indian nationals into the UK from South Africa has been smashed by police. Details of the massive criminal network were revealed yesterday by the Serious Organised Crime Agency...

A MAN who faked his own death to avoid a number of speeding fines has been jailed for 12 months. Father-to-be Shafqat Munir ordered a fake death certificate from Pakistan to avoid paying for his crimes, after fearing he...

MUSLIM military personnel and recruits have been put on high alert after it emerged their personal details are included on a Ministry of Defence laptop stolen in Birmingham. The details of more than 600,000 are stored on the laptop...

THE GOVERNMENT is being pressed for answers over the killing of Gangotri – a protected cow who was slaughtered by RSPCA officials at a Hindu temple in Watford last year. The Hindu Forum of Britain has written to Prime...

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in Delhi for the India-UK summit, today faces pressure to regulate his country’s retailers after new revelations that Indian workers receive poverty wages making clothes for British stores. The pressure, from the anti-poverty charity War...

MUSLIMS are not terrorists – that is the message behind a new music CD compiled by a Birmingham music supremo. 50-year-old Barry Tomes from Birmingham is not a Muslim, nor does he have any connections with Muslim groups. But...

A NEW radio show for the Asian community in Stoke is gearing up for its first broadcast next week. BBC Radio Stoke will air the ‘Anisha’ show on Monday between 7pm and 9pm with one of the stations hottest Asian...

POLICE are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a 21-year-old woman who has gone missing from her home in West Bromwich. Korona Begum has not been seen since December 10, 2007 when she left her home address in...

A WEST Bromwich man has denied a hit-and-run attack on a female police officer. Rashpal Singh, 42, accused of injuring West Midlands Police officer Det Con Catherine Corbett near Heathrow Airport, on 2 November. Mr Singh, of Gladstone Street,...