IMAGES from the Premier League matches played on Tuesday.
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.'
According to Derby World, the event on Sunday brought together expert players from around the UK for the England Kabaddi Federation's tournament made up of a series of fixtures. The local Derby team is known as Guru Arjan Dev Gurdwara Kabaddi Club and have been playing the sport for over 30 years.
Leicestershire police said a 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon during clashes in the city.
The number of people living in England and Wales identifying as Christian has fallen below half the population for the first time, while those identifying as Muslim or Hindu have registered a small rise, according to the latest census figures released on Tuesday.
Chelsea have topped the spending list with Manchester United not far behind, but West Ham United's business epitomises the TV riches which give all Premier League clubs spending power that only the elite teams in Spain or Germany can dream of.
A round-up of Saturday's action in the Premier League.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who landed in Ahmedabad on Thursday morning on a two-day India visit, was accorded a grand welcome at the airport in Ahmedabad. Soon after, he visited Sabarmati Ashram in the company of Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupesh Patel.
Britain's Prince William threw on his biker's helmet and proved he's the king of cool as he took the latest Triumph Tiger 1200 bike for a spin around a track on Tuesday. The royal, who in the past has owned and ridden powerful bikes, was on a visit to the Triumph Motorcycles in Leicestershire, East Midlands when he took the bike for a spin.
Shiv Thakor, an all-rounder with the Derbyshire County Cricket Club and a former England captain of the Under-19 team, was labelled as "Shifty Shiv" by one of the victims after he exposed himself through a "gap" in his jogging pants.
Ranieri left the Midlands club in February, just nine months after winning the Premier League title, with Leicester 17th in the standings and battling relegation. Vardy has since faced accusations of influencing the decision to sack the Italian.
A UK government-funded organization British Midland, dedicated to attracting international businesses to the region comprising East Midlands and West Midlands, is eyeing around 40 investors from India across various sectors in the next three years.
"I just have to ride out the storm," Vijay Mallya said.
Leicester City's England striker Jamie Vardy has been named Premier League Player of the Season after his pivotal role in the club's remarkable title-winning campaign.
Claudio Ranieri re-named himself The Thinkerman on Thursday as he reflected on masterminding Leicester City's improbable rise from relegation candidates to Premier League champions.
LeicesterCity's unexpected Premier League title triumph has helped Claudio Ranieri rediscover himself as a manager after his failed spell at AS Roma, the Italian's mother, Renata Ranieri has said.
'If the chairman is happy then I'm happy'
Marlon James made literary history by becoming the first Jamaican author to win the prestigious 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his book A Brief History of Seven Killings.
Farsan, an Indian food company based in the east Midlands town of Leicester, has opened a new factory in Gujarat to produce snacks such as samosas and bhajis.
A protest march by a UK-based pro-Pakistan group on the Kashmir issue in the heart of London on Sunday fizzled out as barely a few hundred protesters gathered to wave placards and flags.
It is important for Indian security agencies to pay attention to likely threats from Al Qaeda elements outside the Af-Pak region, cautions B Raman.
Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar was lucky to escape unhurt in a car crash while travelling from Manchester to London on Sunday after the completion of the third Test between India and England.
England striker Jamie Vardy says Leicester City have no intention of treating the Champions League as some sort of belated Premier League victory parade, and are ready to add another chapter to last season's stunning success story.
Embattled Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya on Friday made a rare public appearance in the United Kingdom as he attended the free practice sessions ahead of Sunday's British Grand Prix, in Silverstone.
Chelsea's 2-1 defeat at surprise league leaders Leicester City on Monday, their ninth loss in 16 league games since the start of a season that has gone spectacularly wrong, proved to be the final straw.
Bilic took over the reins at West Brom in 2019 and was tasked with gaining promotion from the Championship to the top flight.
Leicester City has a chance to go top of the English Premier League table with a maximum nine points.
Unable to do so in tribal tracts in Pakistan, US and Saudi intelligence agencies have successfully penetrated Al Qaeda network in the Arabian Peninsula and this helped American agencies to disrupt three major terror plots to explode passenger planes.
Even by the standards of modern soccer management mayhem, the vertiginous rise and equally stunning fall of Leicester City coach Claudio Ranieri takes the breath away.
American intelligence officials had intercepted suspicious parcels containing books, papers and compact discs from Yemen to Chicago in September, and they now suspect those packages could have been a dry run for planning the route for the mail bombs last week.
The target of an explosive device found on a cargo plane in the United Kingdom while in transit to the United States may have been the aircraft itself, the British home secretary said on Saturday.
Airports across the United States were put on high alert on Friday after suspicious packages originating from Yemen were found, on a plane in UK, even as the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether it is a part of a terror group's rehearsal for a mail bomb attack.
A rise in the fee for cremation in Leicester has raised the hackles of Hindu, Sikh and Jain communities in the east Midlands town with a large minority of Indian origin.
The Hollywood heartthrob learns authentic East Midlands accent for his summer release Robin Hood.
An Indian-origin taxi driver in east Midland town of Leicester has suffered injuries and lost his vehicle during an unprovoked attack by two passengers while he was dropping them at night.
Amidst recession and job losses, Britons of Indian origin and others have been flocking to jewellery shops to cash in on rising price of gold, selling their rings, chains and even dental braces made of gold.
The police have discovered several cases of professionals who have suffered major salary cuts begging on the streets at night to supplement their falling incomes from day jobs. One woman in the east Midlands town of Leicester admitted that she begged at night after her office job, so that she could pay for a new kitchen in her flat.
Nine Indians were arrested recently in the east Midlands town of Leicester, where the three companies were based. The UK Border Agency released details of the raids and warned other companies that it would continue to carry out unannounced checks. During the raid on Fashion Fair, officers sealed all the exits and questioned the workers. Two Indians, aged 33 and 46 were arrested. One had come to the UK illegally, while the other was working in breach of his visa conditions.
East Midlands neighbours Derby County and Nottingham Forest fought out a lively 1-1 draw in an all-Championship (second division) fourth round FA Cup tie at Pride Park on Friday.
Brighton & Hove Albion scored three times in the second half to fight back from two goals down and beat Manchester City
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