Review finds UK police and councils covered up ethnicity of grooming gangs for fear of being called racist

LONDON: A rapid national audit of grooming gangs ordered by UK PM Keir Starmer in February 2025, following pressure from Elon Musk and published late Monday, has found that UK police and councils deliberately concealed the Asian ethnicity of the perpetrators to avoid “appearing racist” and to avoid “raising community tensions”.In two-thirds of cases of…

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Railways to introduce 100 next-gen MEMU trains, 50 Namo Bharat trains, says Vaishnaw | India News

GURGAON/NEW DELHI: Short- and medium-distance rail travel will become smoother in the near future with the introduction of 100 next-generation Mainline Electric Multiple Unit (MEMU) trains and 50 Namo Bharat trains, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday.Announcing the move, Vaishnaw said: “Yesterday (Monday) we made a major decision to manufacture 100 new MEMU trains….

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IND vs ENG: Pataudi medal for India-England series’ winning captain | Cricket News

The name of the Pataudi Trophy was initially planned to be changed to the Tendulkar-Anderson trophy (Image via X/@cricketmoodcom & WisdenCricket) The England and Wales Cricket Board has decided to maintain the Pataudi legacy in India-England cricket by introducing a new Pataudi Medal for the winning captain of the upcoming five-Test series, following the renaming…

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Trump abruptly leaves G-7 amid speculation US will bust Iranian bomb-making facility with bunker-buster | World News

TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump abruptly left the G-7 summit in Calgary on Monday night and returned to Washington DC to attend to security-related issues in the middle east, scuppering among others a bilateral engagement with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived for the meeting even as Trump was winding down. In…

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Watch: Starmer scrambles to pick up Trump’s papers as UK-US trade deal signed at G7 Summit; ‘Had no choice,’ UK PM explains

In an unexpected moment of political choreography, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was seen crouching on the floor to retrieve documents spilled by US President Donald Trump during a joint announcement of a new UK-US trade deal at the G7 summit in Canada.The two leaders had just declared the official signing of the much-anticipated…

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‘Remains intact’: Akhilesh Yadav claims INDIA bloc unity; says Samajwadi Party will fight 2027 UP polls within alliance | India News

Akhilesh Yadav (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday reaffirmed that the opposition INDIA bloc “remains united” and announced that his party would contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections as part of the anti-BJP bloc.Speaking to reporters, Yadav dismissed recent remarks that questioned the cohesion of the INDIA bloc.“I…

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Cash-at-home case: Kapil Sibal calls Yashwant Varma ‘one of the finest judges’; condemns impeachment move | India News

Kapil Sibal (PTI photo/ file) NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP and senior advocate Kapil Sibal on Tuesday called Justice Yashwant Varma “one of the finest judges” and criticised the central government for initiating impeachment proceedings against Varma, in whose storeroom a huge amount of cash was found.Saibal alleged that the government’s “real motive” behind the…

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