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26 year-old Bharat Soma has testified that black magic made him attack his former fiancee and her lover at East Park Road, Spinney Hills.

Father Kishor Chauhan, explained how remembrance day was a time of recent grief for him and his family: “We’re just going to use the day to remember our son” he said. His 29 year-old boy Flight Lieutenant Rakesh Chauhan was an intelligence officer in the RAF who died in April of this year when the Lynx helicopter in which he was being transported came down in Afghanistan.

A protest was held in Centenary Square after a Christian couple were murdered by fanatics in a village near Lahore.

Channel 4's much anticipated cultural documentary 'Make Leicester British' took 8 denizens of different backgrounds and asked them to spend a week in a group setting, but the show has sparked controversy as it asserted 'the city was divided' from its findings.

A celebration of Diwali, the festival of lights, provided the ideal opportunity to launch the Armed Forces Hindu Network. The festival is the highlight of the Hindu religious calendar, and marks the New Year. Serving personnel, Lord Astor and other invited guests gathered in MOD’s Whitehall headquarters for the Armed Forces Diwali Celebration on Wednesday.

Last week, Asian Voice had the pleasure of previewing the National Theatre’s production of Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Based on the National Book Award-winning novel by Katherine Boo, the play presents globalisation from the perspective of the Mumbai slum dweller, particularly, as director Rufus Norris expressed, with the thinking that “these people have every strand of complexity that” we possess as westerners. Indeed, the assortment of dynamic characters that drives the story forwards originates from Boo’s three years of intimate research in the poverty-stricken area of Annawadi, behind Mumbai airport. In this way, Behind the Beautiful Forevers does not so much tell of economic inequality as actually show it.