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Five men have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to bring heroin worth up to £280,000 into Leicester. The men worked together to bring consignments totalling 3.5kg of the class. A drug from Sheffield to the city. However, they were tracked down by detectives from Leicestershire Police and the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (Emsou). All five – four from Leicester and one, Habeeb Yaqoob, from Sheffield – appeared at court at various times last year to plead guilty to drug crimes and other related offences. They were given lengthy prison sentences at Leicester Crown Court on Friday last week.

A 26-year-old man has appeared in court charged with killing a pedestrian who was knocked down by a car outside a Sikh temple.

I extol Smita Sarkar and Anand Pillai for their exhaustive and excellent article on the above in the AV of the 21st Jan. In 1916 Annie Basent started it in London for India Home Rule against British Colonialism but it was for Dominion Status. Yet in late 20's V K Krishna Menon made it for full Independence which was later joined by many Patriots like Prof. MIshra, Dr. Anuradha Ray, Savarkar, Sri Shyamji Varma, Dada Navrojaji, Lokmanya Tilak who all mobilised the compaign in many cities in Britain among Indians, Labour Paety and others.

PM Narendra Modi’s demonetisation gets “Thumbs Up” response in national opinion poll carried out by “Mood of the Nation” (MOTN) survey, giving PM messiah Modi 65% approval rate, up 15% against his arch rival, masquerading politician Rahul Gandhi’s 28%. This is highest ranking by any leader since introduction of the survey.

SC Handa has made an excellent proposal that "the NRIs should donate their old notes of RSM 500 and RS 1,000 towards the projects, Construction of toilets and Swatch India" [His letter AV, 7 Jan, p10 and his two projects].

Twenty years after her sudden death, on 31st August 1997, two princes will commission her statue to be installed in the public grounds of “Kensington Palace” where Prince William and Harry live. This will be fitting memorial for “People’s Princess” rather than the hastily constructed “Fountain” in Hyde Park Corner.