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Lord Loomba participated in a debate on poverty and caste discrimination in India, which was initiated by Lord Harries of Pentregarth, at the House of Lords on Thursday, 26th November, 2015. He emphasised that both poverty and class system exist not only in India but everywhere in the world. The unfortunate fact is that human beings have always remained unequal; some are born with a silver spoon, others have to make do with misfortunes all their life. Poverty defines their destiny and their caste.

Hillel Awaskar, an Indian-origin international umpire and former captain of Israel's cricket team, has died after being hit in the neck by a ball during a league match at Ashdod, just two days after tragic death of an Australian player in similar circumstances.

Two men held a gun to the head of a brave Northfield shopkeeper as they demanded money from the till. But the staff member refused to hand over any cash in the raid which happened just after 10pm on Saturday November 1 at the Nisa store in Egghill Lane.

The Supreme Court of India asked the beleaguered Indian cricket board president N Srinivasan to show he was not in conflict of interest over the betting allegations against his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, an official of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings that Srinivasan's firm owns

A leading Birmingham criminologist was bombarded with vicious hate mail and violent threats just days after publishing his research into online Islamophobia.

The first cricket Test between Australia and India will now take place in Adelaide after a major reshuffling of the series following the death last week of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes

The University of Salford’s Institute for Dementia has found that more needs to be done to support people from diverse communities living with dementia, including Black Minority Ethnic (BME) and deaf people.