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The Hindu Council of Birmingham’s annual Diwali celebration last Sunday attracted scores of people of all ages, race and faith backgrounds. But, sadly, this may have been the last such celebration according to Jo Thanki, HCB’s President who announced that Birmingham City Council would no longer be able to provide a grant.

The Madurai bench of the Madras high court sought the response of Tamil Nadu chief secretary to a public interest litigation that prayed for the court's direction to remove the portraits of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa from government offices and her name and photos from welfare schemes

Telangana finance minister Etela Rajender presented the maiden budget of the new state in the assembly with an outlay of Rs 1,006.38 billion

MP for Leicester East Keith Vaz has opened a new Diabetes Outpatients Centre at Leicester General Hospital. A type 2 Diabetic himself, Vaz has campaigned for the some 50,000 fellow sufferers in the city.

What I wrote in Asian Voice and Gujarat Samachar on 11th October was with a heavy heart. For ten weeks I observed that CB’s pleas were falling on deaf ears. I persuaded CB that if SPMS, which claims to spread the message of that great Son of India, should maintain certain mimimum standards of decency and decorum. The values of Sardar were so meticulously maintained by him that increasingly more and more Indians admire his permanent legacy to India. If SPMS can behave in such an unconstitutional and cavalier manner to someone like CB then what would happen to an ordinary member of the community or organisation.

62 year-old Khadham Hussain, who served as a Conservative councillor for City Ward, received nine years in jail for leading a visa forgery business with his family.

A group of youth from Chandigarh region lit up a remote Ladakhi village of Sumda Chenmo, which had not seen a light bulb ever.