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UK cops to meet Anuj Bidve's family in India
Two officials of the Greater Manchester Police are scheduled to fly to India to meet the family of Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was killed in an unprovoked attack on Boxing Day in Salford.
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UK Muslim MPs upset after eating non-halal meat unwittingly
Britain's Muslim MPs and peers are infuriated after it was disclosed that the meat they were eating in the restaurants of the Parliament was not halal, a media report said on Sunday.
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Nobel winner Dr Venki receives knighthood
Indian-born American scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, was on Saturday honoured with a knighthood in the 2012 New Year Honours list. The list is issued annually by Queen Elizabeth II to recognise outstanding achievement and service across the whole of the United Kingdom.
CBE for Bonham Carter, KBE for Apple designer
Manchester Unive-rsity’s Nobel Prize-winning physicists, Prof. Andre Geim and Prof. Konstantin Novoselov were honoured with knighthoods for “services to science” in the New Year Honours List on Saturday.
Photo on toilet roll upsets Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliffe, the star of the Harry Potter movies, is upset to find out his face is making an appearance on rolls of toilet paper in Thailand.
TN-born nobel laureate becomes Sir Venki
Indian-born American scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, was on Saturday honoured with a knighthood
Prince Harry 'to climb Mount Everest'
Prince Harry, the third-in-line to the British throne, is all set to realise his long-held ambition of conquering Mount Everest this year, a report said.
The 27-year-old Prince had dropped a broad hi
Admissibility of CBI evidence: No decision yet
The extradition of Ravi Shankaran, the main accused in the Naval war-room leak case, is still bogged down in procedural details as district judge Nicholas Evans on Friday decided delay his formal ruling on admissibility of evidence and start the extradition case.
Cruise, auction to mark tragedy
British cities of Southampton, Belfast and Liverpool, French city of Cherbourg, Cobh in Ireland and New York in the United States will mark the centenary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic with auction
The odds are on the ape
Apes are more clever than you thought. The animals are capable of gambling like humans by calculating odds, say researchers.
