Masalas, a Leicester Indian restaurant and takeaway has won the prize at the English Curry Awards 2015, naming it the best curry takeaway in the country. Abdul Khaled, Rafique Miah and Shafiq Miah run Masalas express their joy at the good news. Abdul...

Faruk Patel, aged 39 from Leicester, appeared in Leicester Crown Court charged with alleged gross negligence and manslaughter following the death of a worker on a building site. The victim Tasadaq Ur-Rehman, age 40 who also lived in Leicester...

A Birmingham delivery driver is to stand trial after his parked-up van rolled across a pub car park and onto a pavement, killing a passing pensioner.

A man who tried to meet an under-age girl in Hinckley for sex after overstaying his student visa has been jailed. In fact the girl did not exist, and her online profile had been created by a Leicestershire-based vigilante group which snared...

Unrest in Gujarat is a big blow to P.M.Modi, C.M. Anandiben Patel and BJP. It is sad that angry, frustrated youths of Gujarat supported by their elders are engaged into caste related issue in order to gain economic and other kind of benefits....

It’s really disappointing to read 'A Stain on India' in The Times (page 23) of the 29th August, as well as on page 5, which only reflects the mean and hateful mentality against India!

The BBC recently relayed programs titled as above, following the deaths of two young individuals resulted from taking only the few doses of medicine ordered on line.

Thank you, Dhiraj R. Radia, for praising my short letters. A literary sage once said: “Writing gets more interesting as it acquires precision, not length.” Alas, I, a retired journalist aged 80, shall be absent for many years from this splendid...