World News

Poignant tales of young British Asian women committing suicide have cast a sad reflection on the state of the Asian, in particular, UK's Indian community. This has been highlighted by a dramatic rise in women killing themselves on the railways in Southall, one of Britain's most famous South Asian areas.

WHEN TERRORISTS crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, civil engineer Ram Prakash Singhal was at his desk on the 64th floor. 'I was looking at my computer screen when we heard this big thud,' he says.