Saregamapa … Lil’ Champs is back

Popular Zee TV show returns to our screensSAREGAMAPA Lil Champs, Zee TV’s popular reality show is back this June. Saregamapa Lil Champs encourages and brings out the best in musical talent among kids will be airing every Saturday and...

Bollywood Strike Over: Get ready for New York

Back to buisness for Indian film industryBOLLYWOOD fans can dance around the trees -  the stand-off between producers and multiplex owners is over. With only B-grade flicks, reruns of old hits, and regional cinema on offer for the past few...

Memories Revisited

Why British Sikh’s will never forget the horrors of 1984BRITISH Sikhs have vowed never to forget, never to forget those who were killed, and never forget the moment the Indian government turned on its own people. Twenty-five years ago...

Indian Premier League heads to Lords

Rajasthan Royals to play UK Twenty20 champs Middlesex Panthers in showpiece gameLAST season’s Indian Premier League champions the Rajasthan Royals will play UK champions Middlesex Panthers in the battle of the Twenty20 hitters in a special showpiece match at...

Slumdog star brings Bollywood to Bolton

City chosen as backdrop to Bollywood filmBOLTON is set to provide the backdrop for Slumdog Millionaire star Mahesh Manjrekar’s next production. Film director Mahesh, who played gangster Javed Khan in the multi-Oscar winning movie, came to the Northern town...

Desi Down Low

Funny man Kulvinder Ghir heads new BBC Desi PodcastEVER downloaded a Podcast? Chances are you have, so here’s another to add to your list. The BBC has got all technologically savvy and has introduced their very own Desi Download...

“I’m realising my dreams”

Navin Kundra talks to The Asian TodayCOVENTRY'S Navin Kundra is living his dream. The singer-songwriter-composer is one of the hottest talents around on the Asian music scene and he’s loving every minute of it. With fans from Southall to South...

Indian trio jailed over multi-million pound visa scam

Gang jailed for total of 19 yearsTHREE people have been jailed for a total of 19 years following the largest ever immigration crime investigation by the UK Border Agency and police. Jatinder Sharma, 44, and two women who both claimed to...

Swat Valley: The People’s Disaster

Oxfam’s Jonaid Jilani reports from PakistanJonaid Jilani from Oxfam has just returned from the Swat Valley in Pakistan where a humanitarian disaster is playing out. It is estimated nearly 1 million people have fled the war zone following fighting...

Kaminey

What’s On Bollywood with BBC’s Manish GajjarKaminey Directed by: Vishal Bhardwaj Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Amol Gupte   Twin brothers, Guddu and Charlie are in their early twenties. They were born and bred in Dharavi, the world's largest slum dwelling in...

Teen sentenced to life for murder

Victim lay undiscovered in flat for almost a monthA TEENAGER who brutally murdered his friend has been jailed for life. Ziarab Nawaz, 18, pleaded guilty at Bradford Crown Court to murdering Mohammed Ali. The 23-year-old was knifed to death...

Trio guilty of record £36m cannabis haul

Leicester men aided international drugs ringTHREE Leicester men who helped to smuggle cannabis worth more than £36m into the UK have been convicted. Baljinder Singh Rai, 41, of Huntsman Way in Leicester, Mohinder Singh Rai, 45, of Portsdown Road...