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Engaging in the trend of remaking films, Srikanth Velagaleti of “Utt Pataang” will now direct the remake of the critically acclaimed and successful Marathi movie, “Balak Palak.”

Watching BBC series on dirty Britain, I was shocked, even ashamed as to how unbelievably filthy, dirty this country is. While Germany, Switzerland along with Scandinavian countries top the “Cleanliness Chart” we are languishing at the bottom, kith and kin with Romania.

Once former British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone was on a visit to Oxford University, where he proudly asked a Kutchi-born Gujarati student if the Indians were very happy under the British Empire.

When the British came to realise that sooner or later their rule of India had to end and there had to be a decision on what they should do to retain some influence over their former colony. The obvious answer was partition of India and creation of Pakistan. The political philosophy to rule India was ‘Divide and Rule’. It was this policy that led to the demand of a separate homeland for Muslims.

I refer to the letter from Mr Ramesh Jhalla in your issue of 22 November 2014 concerning Jawaharlal Nehru. I have never come across a more inaccurate and scurrilous letter arising, I believe, from his own ignorance and also prejudice against Pandit Nehru. He says “Nehru was born a Hindu, raised a Muslim and practicing Christianity.” This statement is totally inaccurate. Nehru remained a Hindu all his life, though he was not a religious person.

ગુજરાતની અંદર ધબકતું એક અલગ ગુજરાત એટલે કચ્છ. કચ્છની સંસ્કૃતિ, કલા અને રિવાજો બધાથી અનોખા છે. ભારતના સૌથી મોટા કચ્છ જિલ્લામાં મુખ્ય ૧૨ મેળાઓ વર્ષ દરમિયાન યોજાય છે.

The shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, has been reported to say that a Labour government will strip private schools of valuable tax breaks worth hundreds of millions of pounds.According to his proposals, private schools in England will lose business rates relief - worth an estimated £700 million unless they are prepared to meet minimum standards of partnership with their state counterparts.

The 70% turnout at recent Assembly elections in J & K, is fitting reply to our meddling British MPs who interfere in India’s internal affairs to cultivate their vote banks among ill-informed Pakistani Kashmiris.