Tuesday, February 18

Day: August 23, 2017

Guinness World record of Muslim Aid by making 150 kilograms of weight biggest samosa
ENGLISH, London

Guinness World record of Muslim Aid by making 150 kilograms of weight biggest samosa

    East London based biggest Charity organisation Muslim Aid has broken the record for the world’s biggest samosa and then fed it to homeless people. The enormous snack, weighing in at 153kg, was made by a team of Muslim Aid volunteers at the East London Mosque on Tuesday. After claiming their official Guinness World Record, the team distributed the gigantic samosa to homeless people around Whitechapel. Residents from the nearby Booth House - the largest men’s hostel in London – were invited to enjoy a piece of the treat. Members of the mosque said they decided to make the samosa to highlight the “generosity of Muslim people during religious festivals like Eid”. Muslim Aid’s Zac Hussain, explained: “We wanted to make a larger-than-ever version of this popular food to demonstr...
Deportation letters sent to EU citizens in error
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Deportation letters sent to EU citizens in error

    The Home Office is investigating after 100 deportation letters were sent in error to EU citizens living in the UK. A Home Office spokesperson said a limited number of letters were sent by mistake and the department is urgently looking into why this happened. They added: We are contacting everyone who received this letter to clarify that they can disregard it. We are absolutely clear that the rights of EU nationals living in the UK remain unchanged. Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg One of those who received a letter was Finnish academic Eva Johanna Holmberg, who tweeted: "Home Office wants to deport a Finnish academic who is married to a Brit and pays taxes in Britain, i.e. me. She wrote in a Facebook post that the absurd nonsense has aged me at least five years and added the ordeal...
British PM accused of U-turn over EU court’s role after Brexit
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

British PM accused of U-turn over EU court’s role after Brexit

    Theresa May was accused of a climbdown over the future sovereignty of British courts after a newly published government paper appeared to leave open the possibility that the European court of justice would influence UK law after Brexit. The latest of a flurry of Brexit policy papers, due to be published on Wednesday, will repeat the government’s insistence that the direct jurisdiction of the Luxembourg-based ECJ must end when Britain leaves the EU in March 2019. But it will set out a range of options for resolving future disputes between Britain and the EU over the rules of any new trade deal, for example – some of which are likely to involve European judges, or the application of ECJ case law. A UK government spokesperson said: We have long been clear that, in leaving the...
Indian woman granted divorce over lack of toilet
Asia, ENGLISH

Indian woman granted divorce over lack of toilet

    A new toilet installed at Marora village, in Haryana, India. Narendra Modi’s government launched a campaign in 2014 to end open defecation by 2019. The drive to build more toilets in India has been given an unusual twist with a Rajasthan judge granting a woman a divorce because her husband’s failure to provide her with one amounted to cruelty. Sangeeta Mali, 23, told the court in Bhilwara district that her husband, Chotu Lal Mali, had agreed to build her a toilet when they married in 2011, but never did. Mali told the judge that she was ashamed of having to defecate in the fields around her home in Pur village with no privacy or comfort. He kept saying he would build it but it was just talk. In the end, he refused point blank. My in-laws also refused. Every day was agony w...
10 year old girl fights off sex attacker in Surrey woodland
ENGLISH, London

10 year old girl fights off sex attacker in Surrey woodland

    A manhunt is underway after a 10-year-old girl fought off a sex attacker who assaulted her as she walked in woodland. The youngster managed to kick the man after he grabbed her in Claygate, Surrey, causing him to run off, police said. Detectives have released an e-fit of the attacker after the incident, which happened at about 6pm last Thursday. A Surrey Police spokesman said: "The girl managed to kick the man and he ran off. He was seen by witnesses running along Stevens Lane in Claygate in the direction of Woodstock Lane towards Chessington. The attacker is described as an Asian male of 40 to 45 years old, 6ft 1in tall with a stocky build. He had collar-length black hair, a full black beard and was wearing blue jogging bottoms, possibly with a Chelsea football club logo ...