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July 2011
The last picture that Yash Lakhotia's family have of him was taken at the shopping mall, the most middle-class of Indian destinations. It shows him smiling, with his arm around his big sister, Neha. Both are wearing smart western clothes, looking the epitome of the country's new, upwardly mobile generation.
Thousands of followers around the world believed the Indian guru Sai Baba was a god, but since his death it has emerged that the fortunes people donated to him were not all invested in good works.
One family's anguish amid India's child abduction epidemic The silence grows heavier before Anil tugs at a handkerchief and dabs at his eyes. "I used to try to scare him, to make him laugh," he says, struggling to find the words. He looks around, a grown man helpless, and the tears roll down his face. It seems a long time before he speaks again.
Were Kate's favourite dresses made in 6p an hour sweatshop? 17 July 2011 THE harrowing human cost of clothes that workers claim are made for one of Kate Middleton's favourite high street shops is today exposed by The People. In an investigation with the War on Want charity, we found a Bangladesh factory where hundreds of women - some only teenagers - claim they slave into the night stitching clothes for stores including Zara. The girls say they toil up to 16 hours a day six days a week for wages as low as 6p an hour - a breach of international labour laws and codes of conduct.
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