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  • Another Indian stabbed to death in UK in three days

    Another Indian stabbed to death in UK in three days

    London: A 38-year-old Indian-origin man, hailing from Kerala, was stabbed to death in South London. The incident took place just three days after shocking incidents of knife attacks in the UK, which saw the deaths of a British Indian teen and a student from Hyderabad.

    Aravind Sasikumar died after being found with stab injuries on his chest outside a residential property in Southampton Way on Friday, the Metropolitan Police said.

    Detectives investigating Sasikumar’s fatal stabbing have charged his roommate Salman Salim with murder.

    According to media reports, Salim (25) stabbed Sasikumar to death following a quarrel.

    The accused appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on the same day and was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on June 20, police said.

    Police said that they were called at 01:27 hrs on June 16 after a man was found with stab injuries outside a residential address in Southampton Way.

    Officers attended along with the London Ambulance Service. Despite the efforts of emergency services, Sasikumar died at the scene.

    A post-mortem examination carried out on the same day of the murder confirmed that Sasikumar died as a result of stab wounds to the chest.

    Police said Sasikumar’s family has been informed and they are being supported by detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command.

    The gruesome murder adds to the string of knife attacks across the UK, which saw the deaths of British Indian teen Grace O’Malley Kumar and 27-year-old Kontham Tejaswini Reddy from Hyderabad in separate incidents on June 13.

    On Tuesday, O’Malley Kumar from London and fellow student Barnaby Webber, both 19, were on their way back home when they were stabbed to death at 4 am on Ilkeston Road.

    Valdo Calocane, a dual Guinea-Bissau/Portuguese national, has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder.

    On the same day in Wembley, Tejaswini, who had gone to London for higher studies, was fatally stabbed in Neeld Crescent.

    Her 28-year-old flatmate, Akhila was also attacked and admitted to hospital with knife injuries. She is out of danger now.

    Keven Antonio Lourenco De Moraisa, a 23-year-old was taken into custody as a murder suspect and is due to appear at Uxbridge Magistrates Court in London.

    (With inputs from IANS)

  • Indian student seen on CCTV carrying woman to rape her sentenced in UK

    Indian student seen on CCTV carrying woman to rape her sentenced in UK

    London: A 20-year-old Indian student, who was captured on CCTV carrying a woman home to rape her last June, has been sentenced for more than six years, police said.

    Preet Vikal was seen in the footage carrying the “intoxicated” woman in his arms and across his shoulders along King Edward VII Avenue and North Road, the South Wales Police said on Friday.

    He continued to carry the victim to a property in the North Road area where he raped her during the early hours of June 4, 2022.

    Vikal, who had met the woman while she was on a night out with friends in the city on June 3, admitted rape, and was sentenced to six years and nine months in a young offenders’ institution.

    Detective Constable Nick Woodland from South Wales Police said: “Stranger attacks such as these are extremely unusual in Cardiff but in Preet Vikal we had a dangerous individual”.

    “He took advantage of an intoxicated and vulnerable young woman who became separated from her friends,” Woodland said.

    Officers carried out an extensive trawl of CCTV and it was this footage, along with an Instagram message exchange with the victim, that led to Vikal being identified and arrested.

    He will serve two thirds of the sentence in custody and the remainder on licence.

    The victim read a statement at Vikal’s sentencing and said she did not want to go on nights out for five months after the rape.

    “It was really difficult to pretend I was okay when I wasn’t,” the victim was quoted as saying in The Sun.

    He also took a “trophy photograph” of her on his bed, The Sun report said, adding that the victim remembered waking up naked next to Vikal but did not know where she was or that she had been raped.

    She reported about Vikal on the same day to the police and he was arrested.

    “We hope the sentencing brings some sense of closure and allows the woman to regain her confidence and move on with her life,” Detective Constable Woodland said.

  • New IVF procedure helps birth of baby with three people’s DNA in UK

    New IVF procedure helps birth of baby with three people’s DNA in UK

    London: A novel IVF procedure that aims to prevent children from inheriting incurable diseases has helped the birth of a baby with DNA from three people. While this is the first time in the UK, the first baby born via this technique was to a Jordanian family having treatment in the US in 2016.

    The baby’s DNA is majorly from the two parents and — about 37 genes — from a third, a donor woman. The procedure, known as mitochondrial donation treatment (MDT), was approved by the UK parliament in 2015 and a regulatory body, the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). MDT uses tissue from the eggs of healthy female donors to create IVF embryos that are free from harmful mutations their mothers carry and are likely to pass on to their children, the Guardian reported.

    The embryos combine sperm and egg from the biological parents with tiny battery-like structures called mitochondria from the donor’s egg. The donor DNA is only relevant for making effective mitochondria, does not affect other traits such as appearance and does not constitute a “third parent”, the BBC reported.

    MDT aims to help prevent children from being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases — incurable and fatal within days or even hours of birth.

    The technique pioneered by researchers at Newcastle University has led to the birth of nearly five babies to date in the UK, but no further details have been released, the reports said.

    The Newcastle team aim to offer treatment for up to 25 women a year affected by mitochondrial disease but the treatment could be held back if they don’t have enough healthy donated eggs.

    “Egg donation for mitochondrial donation treatment differs from other forms of egg donation in that the donor’s nuclear genetic material will not be used for treatment,” said Dr Meenakshi Choudhary, a Consultant Gynaecologist at the Newcastle Fertility Centre.

    Mitochondrial diseases are caused by inherited mutations in the DNA contained in mitochondria — tiny structures present in every cell that generate energy.

    Known as ‘mitochondrial donation’ the IVF technique involves replacing faulty mitochondria inherited from the mother with the healthy mitochondria of another woman. Mitochondrial diseases are genetic conditions affecting the batteries of the cell, with around one in 4,300 affected children born every year.

    Symptoms include muscle weakness, blindness, deafness, seizures, learning disabilities, diabetes, heart and liver failure. There is no cure for mitochondrial DNA disease and affected children often sadly die in early infancy.

    –IANS

  • Indian-origin teen charged over online banking scam in UK

    Indian-origin teen charged over online banking scam in UK

    London: An Indian-origin teen in the UK has been charged with fraud offences as part of an investigation into a website, which enabled criminals to subvert banking anti-fraud measures.

    Vijayasidhurshan Vijayanathan, 19, from Buckinghamshire, was recently charged along with two others with conspiracy to make and supply articles for use in fraud, and was arrested last month, UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said.

    Cybercrime investigators from NCA began probing the paid for subscription website www.OTP.Agency in June 2020.

    The site provided a service to criminals by helping them socially engineer bank account holders into disclosing genuine one-time-passcodes, or give other personally identifiable information, allowing multi-factor authentication to be bypassed.

    This granted access to a victim’s online banking or other accounts, enabling criminals to complete fraudulent online transactions.

    “This website was essentially a one-stop-shop which provided tools that made it easy for criminals to access bank accounts of members of the public and steal from them,” Anna Smith, Operations Manager from the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit, said.

    Investigators believe over 12,500 members of the public were targeted between September 2019 and March 2021, when the alleged website controllers were arrested and it was taken offline.

    “Criminals may pretend to be a trusted person or company when they call, email or message you. If something seems suspicious or unexpected, such as requests for personal information, contact the organisation directly to check using details published on their official website,” Smith said, urging those using online banking services to be vigilant.

  • UK High Court rules upcoming nurses strike unlawful

    UK High Court rules upcoming nurses strike unlawful

    LONDON: A 48-hour strike by nurses in England called on May 2 over the Bank Holiday weekend will be cut short by a day following a High Court decision that the walkout would be illegal.

    The strike organised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) over pay and working conditions will begin as planned at 8 p.m. on April 30, but will now end at midnight on May 1, reports Xinhua news agency.

    According to the court ruling, the mandate an earlier RCN’s ballot gave the organisation for calling the strike will expire on May 2.

    Calling it “the darkest day of this dispute”, Pat Cullen, RCN’s general secretary and chief executive, said the government had won the legal battle but had lost nursing and the public.

    “The full weight of government gave ministers this victory over nursing staff. It is the darkest day of this dispute so far – the government taking its own nurses through the courts in bitterness at their simple expectation of a better pay deal.

    “Nursing staff will be angered but not crushed by today’s interim order. It may even make them more determined to vote in next month’s reballot for a further six months of strike action. Nobody wants strikes until Christmas — we should be in the negotiating room, not the courtroom today.

    “The government has won this legal battle. But they have lost the support of nursing staff and the public. The most trusted profession has been taken through the courts, by the least trusted people,” Cullen was quoted as saying in an official statement.

    Responding to the court ruling, Steve Barclay, the country’s health and social care secretary, said the government welcomed the decision and called on the RCN members to “do the right thing by patients and agree derogations for their strike action”

    –IANS

  • Uk: Rishi and Akshata expressed pride on Sudha Murthy being honored with Padma Bhushan, said this on social media – Uk Pm Sunak First Lady Akshata Speak Of Pride After Padma Bhushan For Sudha Murty

    Uk: Rishi and Akshata expressed pride on Sudha Murthy being honored with Padma Bhushan, said this on social media – Uk Pm Sunak First Lady Akshata Speak Of Pride After Padma Bhushan For Sudha Murty

    Expansion British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy have expressed pride at the award of Padma Bhushan to author Sudha Murthy at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Akshata, the first lady of 10 Downing Street, was present at the ceremony and later took to social media to express her feelings towards her mother Sudha Murthy and father Narayana Murthy (co-founder of Infosys). Her husband Rishi Sunak replied to his wife’s post saying that it is a proud day. Sunak is the first Indian-origin Prime Minister of Britain. After her mother received the award, Akshata Murthy said in a post on Twitter on Thursday, “Yesterday I saw with pride that my mother received the Padma Bhushan from the President of India, which cannot be expressed in words.” Last month on International Women’s Day, I reflected on my mother’s extraordinary journey from science, technology, engineering and maths to storytelling, but her charitable and volunteer efforts have served as my biggest inspiration to me,” Akshata wrote. Have done Akshata further said that she emphasized on the many ways in which her mother has supported people, including organizing various programs to increase literacy and providing immediate relief to those living in remote areas of the country after natural calamities. Including relief and help. His example has instilled in us to volunteer, learn and listen, he added. That’s how I hope to live in 10 Downing Street. Akshata said that my mother does not live for recognition. On the same her husband British Prime Minister commented reacting with emoji, a proud day. Her brother Rohan Murthy also praised his mother in his social media post, describing her as a positive force in his life. In her speech at the ceremony held in the presence of her family, Sudha Murthy thanked the people of India for their unconditional support. I give the credit of this award to the people of the country. I hope that the recognition I get today will inspire the younger generation to take up social welfare as a profession. It is needed for the continuous development of our great nation. I always feel that the generosity of a few gives hope to millions.

  • 15 government degree students leave for UK for study tour

    15 government degree students leave for UK for study tour

    Hyderabad: About fifteen girl students of government run degree colleges were given an opportunity to fly to United Kingdom to take part in the Scholarships for Outstanding Undergraduate Talent (SCOUT), a two-week study tour.

    The girls belonging from underprivileged backgrounds has got this chance as part operational alliance agreement between Telangana government and British Council.

    Five students from Government Degree Colleges, six from Social Welfare Residential Degree Colleges and four from Tribal Welfare Residential Degree Colleges were selected for the tour on merit basis and has left for the UK on Sunday.

    As part of the tour, girl students will visit the University of Glasgow, Scotland, for a short-term course on skilling besides they will be visiting research facilities in the university. Students are being accompanied by two faculty members. They thanked Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Commissioner of Collegiate and Technical Education Navin Mittal for the opportunity.