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India Star Energy plc
07 February 2007


India Star Energy Plc ("India Star" or the "Company")

7 February 2007


Marshall Lake Drilling Programme Update

India Star (AIM: INDY) is pleased to note that its investee company, East West
Resource Corporation ("East West"), has undertaken a substantial drill campaign
at its 50 per cent. owned Marshall Lake Property in Thunder Bay, Ontario which
started in December 2006. This property has a substantial historical resource of
copper, zinc, gold and silver mineralisation which is detailed below.

East West has acquired, and presently controls, a 50 per cent. interest in the
large 13 by 7 kilometre area consisting of 690 claim units (over 11,000
hectares) and is roughly the size of the central part of the Noranda base-metal
camp which contained 31 former-producing copper-zinc-gold-silver mines with 80
years of production.

East West commenced drilling at the Marshall Lake Property in December 2006 and
the 1,200 metre drilling campaign to explore and develop the mineralised area
identified by previous holders who include Kendon, Teck, Imperial and Billiton.

The most recent grab sample results, from February 2007, delivered grades of up
to 18 per cent. copper and up to 15.35 grams per tonne of gold . East West's
announcement which was released to the Toronto Venture Exchange ("TSX-V") on 5
February 2007 is reproduced in full below.

Additional work is progressing and shareholders will be provided with an update
in due course.


Paul Mc Groary, commented:

"We are pleased to announce the commencement of our East West's drilling
programme. This is a series of targets which have been explored all of which we
believe offer excellent potential. Historically, the mineralised areas were
shown to have contained considerable copper, zinc, gold and silver. Work in this
area ceased in the 1970's when the spot price of these metals fell. However with
current prices, East West has a substantial opportunity to create significant
value for shareholders in the current metals market."



Contact:


Paul Mc Groary                                         07930 568 160
India Star Energy PLC



The TSX-V announcement released on 5 February 2007 by East West Resource
Corporation is reproduced below:


East West samples 18% Cu, 15.35 g/t Au at Marshall Lake


2007-02-05 12:02 ET - News Release


Mr. Blake Colvin reports



EAST WEST RESOURCE CORPORATION: NEW COPPER DISCOVERY WITH GOLD EAST OF TECK HILL
MARSHALL LAKE PROPERTY, THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO


East West Resource Corp. has made a new copper discovery with gold, east of the
Teck Hill, Marshall Lake property in Thunder Bay, Ontario.


Highlights include:

   *      copper values of 0.51 per cent to 18 per cent;
   *      gold values of 1.06 grams per tonne to 15.35 grams per tonne; and
   *      silver values of 86.3 grams per tonne to 408 grams per tonne.


"This new copper find is particularly important since it supports a model that
the stringer system on the Teck Hill claim links to an upper-phase massive
sulphide that is more zinc rich and this phase could occur within the southward
projection of the Marshall Lake mineralized tuff sequence in a relatively
unexplored part of the property. This increases the chances of a new discovery"
comments Paul Mc Groary, director.

East West Resource and Eyeconomy Holdings PLC's backhoe trenching on an outcrop
550 metres east of the Teck Hill, the original copper discovery on the Marshall
Lake property, has exposed a new copper showing on line 9E that represents a
major phase change from the stringer copper zone on an upper massive sulphide
phase. Massive pyrite becomes massive chalcopyrite in this new exposure.

The zinc phase of this system was found in December (see Stockwatch news Dec.
13, 2006) with zinc values ranging from 3 per cent to 12 per cent exposed by
trenching, 350 m east of this new copper discovery. Therefore an important
component of a VMS (volcanogenic massive sulphide) has been located.

The gold values are highly elevated ranging from 1.06 grams per tonne to 15.35
grams per tonne, where the majority of gold values on the Teck Hill and Gazooma
showings were one gram per tonne. Silver values are also elevated ranging from
86 grams per tonne to 408 grams per tonne.

The five samples were taken along a 30-metre strike length in the trench at
roughly a six-metre interval with the pyrite-rich phase occurring on the
northwest end of the trench. The assays may indicate a high-temperature phase of
the system.

                                    NEW COPPER DISCOVERY GRAB SAMPLES

Ticket No.                   Cu (%)               Zn (%)              Ag (g/t)             Au (g/t)


364845                       16.50                 0.32                 381                  4.12
364847                        8.72                 0.25                 229                 15.35
364848                       18.00                 0.46                 408                  5.19
364849                        0.51                 0.01                  86                  1.06
364850                        4.18                 0.13                 173                  3.21



When analyzing for base metal and silver values (copper, zinc and silver), they
were determined by ICP (inductively coupled plasma) after an aqua regia acid
digestion. Assays exceeding 100 grams silver and 10,000 parts per million (ppm)
copper were repeated using multiacid digestion and atomic absorption (AA). Check
assays were run on high values. Gold values were determined by fire assay
extraction on 30-gram samples followed by an AA finish.

ALS Chemex in Thunder Bay carried out preparations of the samples outlined in
this news release and ALS Chemex in North Vancouver carried out assaying.

The project set out above is being supervised by R. Middleton, PEng, who is the
qualified person and responsible for quality control of the assaying and
reporting.


About the Marshall Lake project

East West Resource holds a 50-per-cent interest in the Marshall Lake copper-zinc
VMS project located 310 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont.

The Marshall Lake area was explored between 1954 and 1996 and resulted in the
discovery of a series of high-grade near-surface copper-zinc deposits.

The partner's long-term strategy is to define and develop near-surface base
metal resources on the property while considering the deeper potential of the
property as the database is developed.

The property became accessible after 2000 following the completion of
all-weather roads by logging operators. Road access now permits the deployment
of heavy digging equipment, modern geophysical tools and significantly reduces
exploration costs. During the second half of 2006 the joint venture partners
built a network of drill access trails focusing on exposing the existing
showings.

East West and its 50-per-cent partner, Eyeconomy Holdings, now consider that
they have control over the whole Marshall Lake base metal camp with an
exploration area of more than 43 square miles under option.

Two historical inferred mineral resource estimates are available from previous
work based on an area within the property called the Main zone located four
kilometres northeast of the Gazooma copper zone:


   *   K zone (Main zone) -- 240,000 tonnes of 1.45 per cent copper, 4.76 per
       cent zinc, 2.8 ounces silver, 152 m long to 96 m in depth, D.W. Sullivan
       (1969), based on 15 holes; and

  *    103 zone (Main zone) -- eastern extension of the K zone, estimated to
       contain 1,174,810 tonnes (delineated from 57 drill holes) grading 
       0.82 per cent copper, 2.71 per cent zinc, 1.77 ounces silver, 
       0.006 ounce gold, A.S. Bayne (1970).


Both the work by Sullivan and the work from A.S. Bayne were completed prior to
National Instrument 43-101. All of the exploration results disclosed as mineral
resource estimate immediately above are historic in nature and do not presently
conform to National Instrument 43-101, standards of disclosure for mineral
projects. They have been reviewed, but not verified, by Mr. Middleton, PEng, who
is the company's designated qualified person and responsible for the
verification and quality assurance of its exploration data and analytical
results. In the opinion of the qualified person, based on the information
available, the mineralization on the Main or K zone would be classified as an
inferred mineral resource based on the definition by the Canadian Institute of
Mining, since it will be required to do further infill drilling to establish
grades. Therefore, the historic figures should not be relied on.

The joint venture partners will each contribute 50 per cent to continuing
exploration expenditure.


We seek Safe Harbor.




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