The much-awaited summer release, Kambakkht Ishq is out this week. The film is the first Bollywood production to be shot at Universal Studios and also has a triple Hollywood dose.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/akshay-on-working-with-stallone-in-kambakkht-ishq/96125-8.html
The world's leading green energy awards, the Ashden Awards for this year were given out in London on Thursday evening by His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales. Three Indian initiatives have won the Ashden Awards for sustainable energy for their work in providing renewable energy solutions to local communities.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/3-indian-projects-get-ashden-awards-in-london/94799-2.html
Increasingly expensive and frustrating delaying in trying to have a baby through surrogacy in UK have prompted the Bains from London to come to India. Now, the Bains are a proud parents of Daisy, a 10-month-old daughter, was born through a surrogate mother in Mumbai. The couple from East London, had spent 13 years trying for a baby in the UK.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/despite-ethical-hitches-surrogacy-thrives-in-india/93006-3.html
Open funeral pyres are illegal and impractical a British court said on Friday, rejecting the bid to legalise them according to traditional Hindu rituals.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/britain-refuses-to-legalise-open-funeral-pyres/92171-2.html
Did you ever think there would be a connection between victorian England and modern Bollywood? Well there seems to be one now. Emily Bronte's classic tale of tempstuous love between Heathcliff and Cathy, Wuthering Heights is now a theatrical production with an Indian facelift.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/wuthering-heights-gets-bollywoodstyle-facelift/91795-8.html
Filmmaker Gurinder Chadha is on the studio floor at her favourite Ealing Studios in West London for her latest production It's a Wonderful Afterlife. The film is a supernatural comedy about an Indian mother obsessed with getting her daughter married.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/get-ready-to-laugh-with-its-a-wonderful-afterlife/91706-8.html
In London, the bust of Jawaharlal Nehru outside the Indian High Commission was thrown off its pedestal. This came after protests from the Tamil community against India. The British Police have launched a probe amid reports that Sri Lankan Tamil protestors could be behind the incident.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tamil-anger-boils-over-in-london-nehrus-bust-broken/89988-2.html
In a landmark judgement, the British High Court on Monday ruled that migrants who entered the UK before April 2006 under the original highly skilled migrant programme should be granted permanent residency after four years.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/uk-court-ruling-brings-relief-to-hsmp-visa-holders/89671-2.html
As the world's biggest business show comes to London next week, the city is bracing itself for a series of protests and demonstrations. The first one on Saturday was a curtain raiser of what lies in the days leading up to the G-20 summit.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/g20-summit-london-prepares-itself-for-protests/88970-2.html
The London High Court is currently reviewing a law that prohibits open-air funeral pyres. If it allows open air funeral pyres, the 1.5 million British Hindus in the UK will have a choice of conducting their last rites in the open, instead of in indoor public crematoriums.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/uk-court-to-review-openair-pyre-funeral-law/88703-2.html
Another piece of Indian heritage is up for sale in auction houses abroad. This time around, it is a gold tiger-finial. The finial is one of the three surviving ones from what once adorned the famous octagonal throne of Tipu Sultan of Mysore. The Tipu Sultan finial will come under the hammer in London soon. IIt measures seven cm, is gem-encrusted and cast in gold.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tipu-sultans-gemencrusted-gold-finial-up-for-auction/88490-3.html
Jade Goody is fighting a losing battle with cervical cancer. She's possibly the world's most high-profile victim, and yet every year at least 75,000 Indian women die of the disease that is fully treatable, if detected on time.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/jade-goody-losing-battle-but-leaving-legacy-behind/88182-17.html
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