Review: The final episode of Lost

Summary: At 0500 BST, about 30 seconds after an on-screen message saying UK viewers were watching Lost: Live from the US - its first and last simultaneous UK/US broadcast - another screen popped up reading Temporary Fault.

By Kev GeogheganEntertainment reporter, BBC News Oops. Luckily the message lasted only a few seconds before normal service was resumed, and so began one of the most anticipated television finales in recent history. Anticipated because in the six years since Lost began, it has had the power to enthral and infuriate in equal measure. It launched with what is still the most expensive pilot episode in TV history. The initial concept was pretty simple - a plane crashed on a mysterious island and the survivors soon found themselves locked in a constant battle against The Others - a hostile group of island residents and some kind of monster that lived in the bushes. In series two, we found out that people had been on the island for some time and we learned all about the Dharma initiative. All good so far but then the series seemed to lose its way when it started flashing forward to a future with a dead John Locke, a bitter drug-addicted Jack and the rest of the Oceanic Six living out their "normal" lives. The island began time-travelling, half the the gang ended up living as part of the Dharma initiative in 1973, we were introduced to the island's almost mythical protector Jacob as he met the so-called "candidates" at points throughout their lives, then there was the return to the island, the Man In Black... The show had become so complex that any rational explanation to the question: "What is it all about?" was always going to be a tough one. The cynics questioned whether writers and head honchos Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse had any idea where it was all heading. So, the final episode. The finish line. The finale. The end. Was it all worth it? Life affirming Honestly, the show ended the only way it could have possibly ended. It was emotionally satisfying while some of the questions were answered and yet others will remain a mystery. All in all, the show was wrapped up rather nicely with a positive affirming kind of message. It all began with Flocke (as in Fake Locke, or the Man In Black) having vowed to destroy the island with the help of Desmond, taking him to the island's life source. Jack, having volunteered to be Jacob's replacement on the island, had the same idea, but rather than using Desmond to destroy the island, he had vowed to kill Flocke. Desmond did not end up destroying the island. He came very close but by unplugging the island's light source, he succeeded in making Flocke human, thus allowing Kate to kill him with a shot to the back. Was this a bit of a disappointing end to the Man In Black, the chief antagonist of the last season? Possibly, and a slightly unfair one as well. The Man In Black (he never even got a name) certainly got a bit of a raw deal when goody-two shoes Jacob threw him into the light source some two thousand years earlier, robbing him both of his body and his humanity. Was he all bad? He certainly was a bit of a trouble-maker who carried out a few terrible deeds. But in the Across the Sea episode of season six - we saw a man who saw the limitations of his life on island and saw his destiny elsewhere. By killing him, there, was no chance of his redemption. Also, surely killing him resulted in a loss of balance on the island. All of Lost's imagery pointed to good and bad co-existing, the black and white stones, the struggle between light and dark. In the struggle that preceded the fatal shooting, Jack was mortally wounded and resolved to stay and repair the island. Hurley went with him and Jack made him his successor as island protector. Meanwhile, Sawyer, Kate, Claire, Miles, Richard and Lapidis managed to get the plane working with the help of some duct tape and flew off the island to safety. Meanwhile, the flashes sideways continued as the survivors were all drawn together at the music concert at the Widmores. Locke had accepted Jack's offer of surgery and was now capable of walking unaided. Hurley took Sayid to a bar where - after stopping a fight - he was reunited with Shannon. Sun and Jin were reminded of their time on the island as they saw the ultrasound of their baby and Sawyer and Juliet met again in a touching scene by a snack machine. Flashes explained As early as the first season, there were suggestions that no-one survived the plane crash and the island was some sort of purgatory. Close but no cigar. The island was real and as Jack's dad Christian Shephard ( ... Kate was the one that spotted it. Really how did we all miss that one?) pointed out "everything that happened, happened". Instead, we learned that rather than being some some kind of alternate-timeline, the flashes sideways were glimpses of a kind of limbo between life and death. In their deaths - some on the island, some much, much later - they were all pulled together to move on to the afterlife. The people that meant most to them during their lives would be there with them as they moved on to the next plane of existence. With various philosophies running throughout the entire series, the final scenes took place in a multi-denominational place of worship. There were some genuinely moving touches, Ben remained outside the gathering, not quite ready to leave his own personal purgatory and forgive himself for his sins. Yet Locke did offer him gratefully accepted forgiveness and Hurley, who invited Ben into the gathering said he was a "good number two", with Ben telling Hurley he was a "great number one". We were left to assume that the two men acted as protectors of the island for some time. It ended as it had begun with Jack lying in the same bamboo forest in which we first met him in episode one. Back then Jack opened his eyes for the first time on the island, this time around he closed them for the last. Yes, the finale could be accused of being a bit melodramatic and certainly there were many issues left unaddressed. Whatever happened to Michael and Walt? What was the significance of the Egyptian statue on the island? What about the temple? Why, at the beginning of this series, was the island underwater? Discussions will likely rage for years to come but if there is any lesson from the final episode, then it is that sometimes you just have to let go.

0500 बी. एस. टी. पर, एक ऑन-स्क्रीन संदेश के लगभग 30 सेकंड बाद, जिसमें कहा गया था कि यू. के. के दर्शक लॉस्टः लाइव फ्रॉम द यू. एस. देख रहे थे-इसका पहला और अंतिम एक साथ यू. के./यू. एस. प्रसारण-एक और स्क्रीन अस्थायी दोष पढ़ने के लिए सामने आई।


Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route

Summary: The Syrian conflict has torn the country apart, leaving thousands dead and driving millions to flee their homes. Many seek refuge in neighbouring countries but others pay traffickers to take them to Europe - risking death, capture and deportation.

If you were fleeing Syria for Europe, what choices would you make for you and your family? Take our journey to understand the real dilemmas the refugees face. Can't see the interactive? Follow this link: Could you make the right choices? The routes, options and outcomes in this Syrian Journey feature were based on real stories uncovered by extensive research as part of a BBC Arabic digital project exploring migration from Syria. Research by Mamdouh Akbiek, Eloise Dicker Illustrations by Gerry Fletcher. Design and production by Charlotte Thornton, Marcelo Zanni, Dominic Bailey, Adipat Virdi YOU CAN VIEW THE JOURNEY IN ARABIC, RUSSIAN AND FARSI Get involved We would like to know what you would take with you if you were forced to flee your country. Use the hashtags #whatwouldyoutake and #Syrianjourney to post your choices, with images and/or video. These may be used in a follow-up report. See what Syrian migrants who made the journey took with them Survivors' stories Real stories from people who risked the journey from Syria. A Syrian refugee tells how he nearly drowned in a lorry of melted chocolate as he tried to enter the UK. Another Syrian, "Mohammed", tells how he walked from Turkey to Italy. The story of how three Syrian asylum seekers reached Italy in a lorry's reserve fuel tank. You can read the full story 24 hours in a fuel tank How a Syrian refugee's long journey to safety was made even longer. The longest detour The special shoes Two years before the start of a the Syrian revolution, a young man bought a pair of shoes and decided not to wear them until reunited with his mother in Rotherham. Read the story here The Facebook smugglers selling the dream of Europe

सीरियाई संघर्ष ने देश को विभाजित कर दिया है, हजारों लोगों की जान ले ली है और लाखों लोगों को अपने घरों से भागने के लिए मजबूर कर दिया है। कई लोग पड़ोसी देशों में शरण लेते हैं लेकिन अन्य लोग उन्हें यूरोप ले जाने के लिए तस्करों को भुगतान करते हैं-मौत, कब्जा और निर्वासन का जोखिम उठाते हुए।


Soleimani: Why huge crowds turned out for Iran commander's funeral

Summary: Some of the biggest crowds ever seen for a funeral in Iran turned out for that of Qasem Soleimani, the top commander killed in a US air strike last week. In scale, it was second only to the funeral in 1989 of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic revolution.

By Kasra NajiBBC Persian These scenes are perhaps surprising to outsiders, and even to some of the country's most senior leaders. Only seven weeks ago, Iran witnessed the most violent anti-government demonstrations in decades. Security forces killed anywhere between 330 and 1,500 protesters in more than 100 cities across the country. Thousands more were injured and arrested. So why have so many people come out to pay homage to Soleimani? There is no doubt that feelings are running high. Arguably the most important man in the country's armed forces has been assassinated by the US, which for many is the arch-enemy of Iran. Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif took to Twitter with a message to President Donald Trump: "Have you seen such a sea of humanity in your life?... Do you still think you can break the will of a great nation and its people?" But it is also clear that the government launched a massive effort to mobilise as many people as possible. The huge turnout sent a strong signal to President Trump that the government enjoys widespread support. It also sent the message that any foreign aggression would rally Iranians behind their leaders and any war could well be long and costly. For years, whenever they were short of answers to big problems facing the country, Iranian leaders have relied on mass shows of popular support. Historically, rallies have been to intimidate and silence opposition. The organisers are now expert in their work. From declaring national holidays to rallying university students or demanding that military personnel and government employees come out with their families, every method of gathering crowds has been used. Buses, trains and trucks are provided to transport people from villages and towns across Iran to rallies that are relentless advertised by state TV. People turn up in large numbers because they feel required to do so. Hardline organisers have powerful supporters, including in the Basij paramilitary force and in the Revolutionary Guards, who can always be relied on to do their duty. Other factors help explain why so many ordinary Iranians closed ranks behind the country's leaders. Some see Soleimani as a hero who devoted his life to defending the country. They feel he was uncorrupted and dedicated to his work, unlike many senior soldiers and officials. He was also a commander of the Revolutionary Guards for much of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, when Iranians - in spite of Western support for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein - managed to stop Iraqi forces from overrunning their country. In recent years, Qasem Soleimani also helped check Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Iraq, who had advanced almost to the Iranian border. For nationalist mourners, Soleimani had projected Iranian power in the Arab world. He was seen as the architect of Iran's presence and reach from Lebanon to Syria, Iraq and Yemen. There are reports that mourners came out of sheer anger at the assassination of an Iranian general abroad. They felt by killing him, the US was starting a war and that it was time to close ranks in defence of the country. Former Tehran university professor Sadegh Zibakalam tweeted from the capital that in spite of efforts by the hardliners to own Soleimani, he was a national figure. Another factor behind the high turnout was loose talk from President Trump. He tweeted that the US had selected 52 targets in Iran for a possible attack if Iran acted to avenge Soleimani's death. He said these included a number of sites of cultural importance to Iran. Attacking cultural centres is a war crime. It was immediately clear that this was not the way for the US to win hearts and minds in a country proud of a history that goes back thousands of years. But many millions did not join the crowds - including those who did not see Soleimani as a force for good. They saw him as a key cog in an oppressive machine. The reformists in Iran have not forgotten that he was one of 12 commanders who wrote to then-President Mohammad Khatami in 1999 threatening a coup unless he put an end to university unrest. Many saw him as the architect of Iran's misguided involvement in the regional wars. He directed Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon in the fighting against Israel in 2006. He involved Iran in the civil war in Syria, where pro-Iranian forces he organised were responsible for thousands of civilian deaths. He established and financed dozens of Shia militias in Iraq that operated outside government control, brought instability to that country, and helped create the condition for IS to rise. In Yemen, he involved Iran in support of Shia Houthis who had overthrown the elected government. Billions of dollars of Iranian money that could have been spent at home to help the millions living in poverty were instead spent on faraway adventures. Most importantly, as it is now clear, in life his activities across the region brought Iran close to a war with the US and the world's most powerful military. Perhaps he has brought Iran even closer to that reality in death.

ईरान में अंतिम संस्कार के लिए अब तक की सबसे बड़ी भीड़ में से कुछ कासिम सुलेमानी के लिए निकली, जो पिछले सप्ताह अमेरिकी हवाई हमले में मारे गए शीर्ष कमांडर थे। बड़े पैमाने पर, यह 1989 में इस्लामी क्रांति के संस्थापक अयातुल्ला खोमैनी के अंतिम संस्कार के बाद दूसरे स्थान पर था।


Retro gaming: Why players are returning to the classics

Summary: Whether you enjoyed curling up with Tetris on a Gameboy, rolling around as Sonic on a Sega, or were just trying to ignore the loud beeping sounds coming from the next room... if you were around in the 1980s and 1990s, you will remember the arrival of home gaming.

By Jennifer ScottBBC News Computers had made it into our living rooms, and although fans had their favourites - the thrust of Street Fighter, the platforms of Super Mario or the simplicity of Pacman - children and adults alike were hooked. The market for consoles has continued to grow over the decades as technology companies across the globe try to get their bite out of the gaming pie. But almost 20 years into the new millennium, passionate players are still looking back in time to find their fix. "While there's definitely an element of nostalgia, it's important to recognise how well designed many of those classic games are," said technology journalist and retro game collector KG Orphanides. "The developers had so little space to work with - your average Sega Mega Drive or SNES cartridge had a maximum capacity of just 4MB - and limited graphics and sound capabilities." The average game now weighs in at 40GB. Cheap but cheerful But these limitations did not stop them from making some memorable games. Gemma Wood, from Basingstoke, has never put her Nintendo GameCube in the loft - despite having it for more than 15 years. "I love it, in fact I was playing Mario Sunshine and Mario Kart Double Dash yesterday," she said. "I really could not get on with the controls on the Wii [a more recent Nintendo console] and, with retro consoles, most of the games are cheap because they are second hand. "Newer consoles and their games are incredibly expensive. I understand that a lot of hard work has gone into the design etc, but how can anyone justify £50 to £60 for a game that you might not even enjoy?" For others, it is a chance to show their children the computer games they grew up with. Howard Gardner, from south London, has revived his love of the Amstrad CPC and cannot wait to see the faces of his sons and daughter. "Five years ago, when clearing out my uncle's house, I found another CPC, restored it to working order and re-acquired some of my old favourite games from eBay - and a laughably outdated 3D modelling package," he said. "I don't get a whole lot of time to use it, but I plan to show the children the games I used to play and film a reaction video!" Gaming for all Whatever your reason for picking up an old joypad, you are not alone, and it is not just an activity to take part in on your own or with the family at home. There is now a huge community of retro gamers across the country who love to share their passion. The National Videogame Arcade, which opened in Nottingham in 2015, is a centre of all things gaming. It welcomes thousands of visitors every year and runs huge events to make the point that gaming is for everyone. "It's one of the things we talk about a lot at the NVA," said its director Iain Simons. "You don't know where you are unless you know where you've been. It's important that just because technology has moved forward, it doesn't necessarily mean that new games are better than old ones." But he warned new gamers not to be complacent. "One of the things we do notice is that a lot of home computer games from the 80s were much harder than the games that kids are playing these days," said Iain. "Kids on school trips get very upset to discover that they can't even beat level one of Donkey Kong!" 'Feeling of nostalgia' The retro aspect has even spread to the way people buy their games. Kevin Cornwall manages retro games shop Playnation Games in Croydon and says the physical store adds to the feel. "It is what people want," he said. "It is that feeling of nostalgia, being able to look through the games, see and feel the boxes. "Modern gaming has had its pitfalls so now people are looking to the past to relive some real gaming memories." If you want to try before you buy, there has also been a resurgence in arcades or gaming cafes. These were something more common in the US or Japan when the games took off, but now the UK is getting in on the action. Konbo Arcade Cafe in Edinburgh offers classic arcade machines and believes a good game never goes out of style. Owner Michael Cox said: "Konbo is influenced by the Japanese arcade scene and, over there, old games weren't removed and brought back in response to a trend - they never went away. "They were simply accepted as good games - no level of gimmickry or nostalgia involved, no more than we would treat a 20-year-old film or piece of music as a novelty. "A good game doesn't stop being a good game, and there's no reason a new generation of people can't rediscover and enjoy it all over again." A modern twist One of the household names of the gaming revolution, Nintendo, has always been a big draw - so much so, it has revived some of its older consoles in brand new casings, offering a collection of games in one handy machine. Last year's NES Classic was the must-have Christmas gift, but left fans disappointed when demand outstripped supply and the device was discontinued in April. Now, the company is bringing its SNES back in the same format and promising not to make the same error. Atari has also announced it will be bringing out a new console - 40 years after its original Video Computer System. CEO Fred Chesnais told GamesBeat: "We're back in the hardware business." "Those games are very approachable," added KG. "You can sit down and play for 10 or 20 minutes and feel that you've had a genuinely rewarding experience." Retro gaming fans have welcomed the new devices - though it will not stop them collecting the original machines and cartridges. Take Andy Aldred, who has 19 consoles, alongside his PC, eight hand-held devices and over 1,000 games in a dedicated room. "They are a really decent way of getting a nice collection of classic games for a reasonable price," he said. "Buying the original hardware and all those games would cost a small fortune." He still takes advantage of the newer technology on offer, but there is something special about the older genre. "For a lot of people there is an element of nostalgia and being able to own all the games they wanted to play growing up," he said. You may reminisce about these games in a fun way - the fighting with your siblings over the next turn or the shouts of "hadouken" as you battled. You may recall a general feeling of confusion from the whole hubbub and noisy soundtrack. Or you may be dedicated to your modern Xbox, PlayStations and Switches. But in 2017, there is no denying the old school technology is well and truly back, and far from Game Over.

चाहे आप गेमबॉय पर टेट्रिस के साथ घुमने का आनंद लेते हों, सेगा पर सोनिक के रूप में घूमते हों, या बस अगले कमरे से आने वाली तेज बीपिंग आवाज़ों को नजरअंदाज करने की कोशिश कर रहे हों... अगर आप 1980 और 1990 के दशक में थे, तो आपको घरेलू खेल का आगमन याद होगा।


President Trump's Syria strike statement in full

Summary: The US has launched a major missile strike against an airfield in Syria from where it believes a suspected chemical weapons attack was launched earlier this week. President Trump gave a televised statement explaining why he had ordered the US Navy into action:

"My fellow Americans, On Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. Using a deadly nerve agent, Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror. Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the UN Security Council. Years of previous attempts at changing Assad's behaviour have all failed and failed very dramatically. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilise, threatening the United States and its allies. Tonight I call on all civilised nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria, and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types. We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who have passed. And we hope that as long as America stands for justice, then peace and harmony will, in the end, prevail. Goodnight. And God bless America and the entire world. Thank you."

अमेरिका ने सीरिया में एक हवाई क्षेत्र के खिलाफ एक बड़ा मिसाइल हमला किया है जहाँ से उसका मानना है कि इस सप्ताह की शुरुआत में एक संदिग्ध रासायनिक हथियार हमला किया गया था। राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्प ने एक टेलीविजन बयान दिया जिसमें बताया गया कि उन्होंने अमेरिकी नौसेना को कार्रवाई करने का आदेश क्यों दिया थाः


Donald Trump gets Sarah Palin power

Summary: Sarah Palin's endorsement of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Tuesday night was billed as a surprise, but in hindsight it is surprising only that it took so long for this natural political partnership to be forged.

Anthony ZurcherNorth America reporter@awzurcheron Twitter Ms Palin is the only Republican in recent history to demonstrate the kind of star power that has elevated Mr Trump to the top in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Mr Trump regularly draws crowds numbering in the thousands - just as Ms Palin did after Senator John McCain chose her to be his vice-presidential running mate in 2008. Both Mr Trump and Ms Palin also have complementary political outlooks and appeal to the same segment of the Republican primary electorate - non-college educated, largely working class whites who are disillusioned with professional politicians and Washington politics in general. These voters view the scorn of the establishment elite - which has been heaped, at times, on both Ms Palin and Mr Trump - as a badge of honour rather than a weakness. For some Republican candidates, an endorsement from Ms Palin could alienate their support among party leaders who question Ms Palin's intellect and interest in governing. In Mr Trump's case, however, these Republican elders and Washington pundits have long since turned against his campaign. Even the speaking styles of Mr Trump and Ms Palin - unvarnished and informal, relying on rhetoric and not policy details - are similar. Last January Ms Palin - who was then reportedly mulling her own bid for the 2016 Republican nomination - delivered a much-derided speech during a Republican forum in Iowa that drew many other presidential aspirants. It's worth another listen. Her presentation was dismissed as unfocused and at times incoherent, more akin to a stream of consciousness rather than the traditional set-pieces delivered by others on the stage. In hindsight, however, it was exactly the kind of monologue that Donald Trump has given day after day since he launched his campaign - and his supporters love him for it. The two even have drawn from the same pool of political staff. Michael Glassner, the Trump campaign's national political director, served as chief of staff for Ms Palin's political action committee. But how valuable is Ms Palin's support for Trump? While the former Alaska governor's reputation has been diminished since the heady days of 2008 - thanks to her absence from public office and involvement in series of questionable reality television shows - she is still well-liked by conservative Republicans and nearly universally known. Her backing could help insulate Mr Trump against charges that he's not a true believer in the cause due to his support for liberal political issues and candidates in the past. At the very least, she could had have even more crowd-drawing power to a Trump campaign that already fill entire sports arenas. To best understand the potentially ground-shifting implications of the Trump-Palin entente, however, observe how the campaign of Ted Cruz, the candidate closest to Mr Trump in the polls, has reacted. "Sarah Palin has been a champion for the conservative cause, and if she was going to endorse Donald Trump, sadly, she would be endorsing someone who's held progressive views all their life on the sanctity of life, on marriage, on partial-birth abortion," Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler told a television interviewer on Tuesday when rumours of a Palin endorsement first surfaced. "Donald Trump claims he's changed all those views. But I think if it was Sarah Palin - let me just say, I'd be deeply disappointed." Leon Wolf, a blogger on the conservative RedState blog was even more dismayed. "There is literally no excuse for Sarah Palin not to endorse Ted Cruz, if she believes even half the things she's been saying over the years about mavericks and people who have taken on entrenched Republican interests," he writes. "Donald Trump has done none of this." He ascribes the endorsement to Ms Palin's desire to profit from Mr Trump's recent popularity. Dismissing Ms Palin's support as irrelevant or misguided could prove a tricky line of attack for Mr Cruz and his supporters, however. Texas Senator Ted Cruz surged to national prominence due in large part to the grassroots conservative Tea Party movement that Ms Palin helped inspire. In his book, he credits her endorsement as contributing to his upset Senate win in 2012 over a better-known, better-financed establishment Republican candidate. "In a Republican primary, everyone claims to be conservative and voters are pretty cynical," Mr Cruz told Mike Allen of Politico in August 2012. "I think conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is a real deal." Ted Cruz believed that about Ms Palin in 2012. Will Republican voters who might otherwise support Mr Cruz - in Iowa and elsewhere - follow her into Trump's ranks today? Republican candidates in, and out, of the 2016 presidential race

मंगलवार की रात को सारा पॉलिन द्वारा रिपब्लिकन राष्ट्रपति पद के उम्मीदवार डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प का समर्थन एक आश्चर्य के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया गया था, लेकिन बाद में यह केवल आश्चर्य की बात है कि इस स्वाभाविक राजनीतिक साझेदारी को जाली बनाने में इतना समय लगा।


Jersey's coldest August night temperature recorded

Summary: Monday was the coldest August night since records began in Jersey.

The temperature fell to 7.7C (45.86F) at Jersey Airport, John Searson from the Jersey Meteorological Department said "Last night clear skies and next to no wind allowed the temperatures to drop to 7.7C at the airport, which is the coldest August temperature recorded... since the records began in 1951." He also said it was a sign that autumn was on its way.

जर्सी में रिकॉर्ड शुरू होने के बाद से सोमवार अगस्त की सबसे ठंडी रात थी।


Man held over 'Rockstar' drug illness in Lanarkshire

Summary: An 18-year-old man has been arrested over incidents in Lanarkshire at the weekend which saw people hospitalised after taking a drug called "Rockstar".

Seven people suffered adverse reactions to taking the pills but were later released from hospital. Police described the red or yellow-coloured tablets, with a star impression on them, as a potentially deadly substance. The man arrested is expected to appear at Airdrie Sheriff Court on Tuesday. The police appeal at the weekend said the tablets had been sold as ecstasy. They contained a cocktail of substances which were "unreliable, unpredictable and potentially very dangerous". Those affected after taking the pills are understood to have suffered symptoms such as increased heart rate, elevated core temperature and seizures.

सप्ताहांत में लनार्कशायर में हुई घटनाओं के लिए एक 18 वर्षीय व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है, जिसमें लोगों को "रॉकस्टार" नामक दवा लेने के बाद अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया गया था।


Highland shed with 'house sheep' in TV contest

Summary: A wooden building in the Highlands with its own "house sheep" has been entered into Channel 4's Shed of the Year competition.

The property at Inshriach House, an Edwardian country house on an estate near Aviemore, will feature on the programme next month. The winner is decided by a public vote. Inshriach House's owner Walter Micklethwait hopes Dash, a lamb who shares a bed with a dog called Monty, will win them some extra support. Mr Micklethwait, who built the shed with help from his girlfriend Lizzy Westman, has dubbed the lamb a "house sheep". He said: "Dash was rejected by her mother so has been living in our house. "She is 12 days old and thinks she is a dog."

हाइलैंड्स में एक लकड़ी की इमारत को अपनी "हाउस शीप" के साथ चैनल 4 की शेड ऑफ द ईयर प्रतियोगिता में प्रवेश दिया गया है।


Amazon Alexa-NHS partnership splits expert opinion

Summary: Worried about a lump? Got a nasty cough that won't budge? Many people Google queries about such symptoms daily - but now they can get NHS advice instantly by asking Amazon's Alexa.

The voice-activated assistant is now automatically searching NHS web pages to find answers to medical questions. And the government hopes it will reduce the demand on human doctors. But the move has split opinion among artificial intelligence (AI) experts and data ethicists. "The sensitive data holdings of a national healthcare provider like the NHS are a form of 'critical social infrastructure'," said Berlin-based tech expert Mathana Stender. "Yet they've been handed to a foreign company that's both a defence contractor and targeted advertiser," NHS GP David Wrigley asked, among other things, whether the questions asked via Alexa would be encrypted and who would store any data relating to patient queries. Amazon has said all data would be kept confidential. The NHS has increasingly partnered with private companies to offer access to its services. Notably, Babylon Health, Push Doctor and Now GP all allow video appointments with GPs to be made remotely. Babylon Health, for example, says only patients and staff involved in service provision have access to patient medical records. It adds that all data is encrypted and held in English data centres. Amazon said multiple layers of authentication would protect the data from UK customers and that all information would be encrypted. Some commentators felt that the service did not present obvious risks to users' privacy. Areeq Chowdhury, at the Future Advocacy think tank, pointed out that Alexa already responded to health queries from users. "Now the advice (which will be better and more accurate) will come from the NHS website," he tweeted. New Scientist's deputy news editor Jacob Aron said the "fuss" over the partnership was "ridiculous". "It's just a Google search you talk to, and at least people will get NHS [information]." There was another issue at stake, however. Some pointed out that Amazon is known to have major ambitions in the healthcare industry. During 2018 the firm took a number of steps in this direction - including pairing up with Omron Healthcare to allow a blood pressure monitor to be controlled via Alexa. It also announced software that could automatically analyse electronic health records for information that could be useful to doctors. The tool will use AI to pick out important details from medical documents - including "hospital admission notes and a patient's medical history". Some have asked whether the NHS-Alexa partnership will allow Amazon to gather yet more data on how patients raise medical concerns. "Is Amazon training its algorithm... on NHS patients' queries?" asked data privacy campaigner Phil Booth. Amazon said that it would not sell products or make product recommendations based on the data collected as part of the NHS partnership. The firm also confirmed that it would not build a health profile of users who asked Alexa health-related questions.

गांठ के बारे में चिंतित? एक खराब खाँसी है जो हिलती नहीं है? कई लोग रोजाना ऐसे लक्षणों के बारे में गूगल पर सवाल करते हैं-लेकिन अब वे अमेज़ॅन के एलेक्सा से पूछकर तुरंत एन. एच. एस. की सलाह ले सकते हैं।


Almost £3m recovered in Guernsey unpaid tax

Summary: Almost £3m is recovered in unpaid taxes in Guernsey, making it the largest amount collected in a single year, the States says.

The money, which included unpaid income tax and the resulting penalties, was recovered after 162 enquiries were followed up by officials in 2012. Rob Gray, director of income tax, said it would be more difficult for the same people to evade tax again. He said that there had been six successful prosecutions since 2009. Residents are being urged to contact the States if they suspect other islanders of underpaying.

राज्यों का कहना है कि ग्वेर्नसे में अवैतनिक करों में लगभग 3 मिलियन पाउंड की वसूली की जाती है, जिससे यह एक वर्ष में एकत्र की गई सबसे बड़ी राशि बन जाती है।


Diego Rivera painting beats Frida Kahlo's record

Summary: A painting by Mexican artist Diego Rivera has been sold by Christie's in New York for a record $9.76m (£7.17m), the highest price paid for a Latin American artwork at auction.

The record had previously been set by a work by Frida Kahlo, with whom Rivera had a decades-long tumultuous relationship. Her Two Nudes in the Forest sold for $8m in 2016. The Rivals was bought by an unnamed collector bidding over the phone. It is part of the record-breaking sale of late US billionaire David Rockefeller's private art collection, which has become the highest-grossing sale of a single-owner art collection at auction. The colourful painting depicts two men in conical hats attending a traditional Mexican celebration. It was commissioned by Abby Rockefeller, David Rockefeller's mother, for her own private collection. In 1941, she gifted the painting to David and his wife Peggy, who hung it prominently in their living room at their home in Seal Harbor, Maine. Another work by Rivera, Dance in Tehuantepec holds the record for the Latin American painting to fetch the highest sum ever, not just at auction. You may also be interested in:

मैक्सिकन कलाकार डिएगो रिवेरा की एक पेंटिंग को न्यूयॉर्क में क्रिस्टीज द्वारा रिकॉर्ड $9.76m (£ 7.17m) में बेचा गया है, जो नीलामी में लैटिन अमेरिकी कलाकृति के लिए भुगतान की गई सबसे अधिक कीमत है।


Jersey's French power lines reconnected after power cut

Summary: Jersey's links to French power lines have been reconnected.

The island experienced a major power failure on Sunday night after problems with submarine cables to France. Local back-up generators had to be used. Jersey Electricity said the island's power was now coming from both the local generators and France. Chris Ambler, from the firm, said on Monday engineers in Jersey and France had been working to find the cause of the power cut.

फ्रांसीसी बिजली लाइनों से जर्सी के लिंक को फिर से जोड़ा गया है।


Pembrokeshire schools consultation 'may be scrapped'

Summary: A consultation over reorganising two Pembrokeshire schools may be scrapped and restarted for a third time.

Councillor Huw George confirmed an extraordinary meeting has been called for 26 November. The BBC understands the consultation on Tasker Milward and Sir Thomas Picton schools in Haverfordwest may be stopped due to fears of a legal challenge. The council's director for children and schools will offer to restart the consultation for both separately. The charity that owns the Tasker Milward site had been unhappy with plans to merge the schools. There were plans to open a new Welsh-medium comprehensive on the Sir Thomas Picton site.

दो पेम्ब्रोकेशायर स्कूलों के पुनर्गठन पर एक परामर्श को रद्द कर दिया जा सकता है और तीसरी बार फिर से शुरू किया जा सकता है।


Barry Christopher Cavan in court charged with murder

Summary: A 24-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a man at a flat in north Belfast.

Barry Christopher Cavan was charged with murdering David Corr, 24, on Thursday. The body of Mr Corr, who was from the New Lodge area of Belfast, was discovered at the flat in Victoria Parade. It is believed he had suffered stab wounds. The accused was remanded in custody. Detective Sergeant McDowell told Belfast Magistrates Court he believed he could connect Mr Cavan, from Cuchullain House, also in the New Lodge area, to the charge.

उत्तरी बेलफास्ट में एक फ्लैट में एक व्यक्ति की हत्या के आरोप में एक 24 वर्षीय व्यक्ति अदालत में पेश हुआ है।


Halloween: Meet England's most interesting ghosts

Summary: It's Halloween - and tonight's the night ghosts come out to play. Wherever you are in England there could be a local wraith, ghoul or phantom waiting in the shadows. And they are not all generic spooks or mysterious grey ladies. Here are a few of the ghosts to whom we can give a name - and to some, even a face.

By Bethan BellBBC News So you know exactly who to blame when that chilly miasma descends. William Terriss William Terriss was a dashing 19th Century actor, who was murdered at the stage door of the Adelphi theatre in London. The matinee idol had drawn thousands to his performances in popular melodrama. At the time of his death he was portraying Captain Thorne in "Secret Service". He spent the afternoon of Thursday 16th December 1897 playing whist at his West End club before taking a taxi to the theatre at about 19:00. As he entered the building, a man rushed across the street and stabbed him. The killer was Richard Prince, a fellow actor who had appeared in several plays alongside him. Prince was mentally unstable and believed Terriss had prevented him from getting roles. Convicted of murder, Prince was sent to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Terriss, meanwhile, was not at rest. He is said to haunt the theatre and the site of a bakery he used to visit. The bakery was demolished when Covent Garden underground station was built, and according to 1950s ticket inspector Jack Hayden, Terriss, wearing a top hat, frock coat and grey suit, would rattle the door of the office. He's also been spotted in the tunnels and the staff room. When approached, he disappears into thin air. Richard Prince, too, lingers on - not as a ghost (as far as we know) but as a role in a play called The Murder Club, one of the Lullabies of Broadmoor. Dame Armine The widowed Armine Le Strange Styleman inherited Hunstanton Hall in Norfolk after her brother Henry died childless. The wealthy family owned many treasures - but above all, Armine loved a carpet she had been given by the Shah of Persia. Her obsession for the floor-covering was such that on her deathbed she issued a threat - if the carpet was removed from the ancestral home, she would come back and haunt the hall. Her son agreed and when she died, he put it in a trunk and stored it safely. Nearly a century later, a new mistress - Emmeline - arrived at the family pile and opened the trunk. Seeing a tatty old carpet, she chopped it into pieces to distribute to the local poor. Returning home after handing out the bounty to the grateful needy, Emmeline saw a ferocious grey face at the window and later recognised Armine - both from a family portrait and because the ghoul looked strikingly similar to her new husband, Armine's descendant Hamon Le Strange. The couple reported that candles would blow out and ghostly footsteps plodded the corridors until Hamon remembered the family legend about the carpet. Despite the couple eventually retrieving the pieces of rug and stitching them together again, Armine's angry soul did not rest. Generation after generation claimed to have seen the apparition or felt its effects. Armine is said to still haunt the hall, which has now been converted into flats. All for a carpet. Isambard Kingdom Brunel In life, Isambard Kingdom Brunel kept himself busy with the design and construction of a network of tunnels, bridges and viaducts for the Great Western Railway. According to some, he has kept himself equally busy in death. Since dying of a stroke in 1859, he is alleged to have stalked around the now permanently-closed British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol, where he once had an office. Staff reported the smell of tobacco smoke and "steady footsteps" as the top-hat-wearing engineer paced the halls. He has also been reported lurking at the site of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which he designed but never saw completed. Count Louis Zborowski Count Louis Zborowski, the wealthy son of a Polish Count and an American mother, was an English racing driver and car engineer who built a number of racing motors called Chitty Bang Bang. These were the inspiration for a certain Ian Fleming and his tale of a magical car. Aged just 16, he inherited a vast fortune, including Higham Park House - a country pile near Canterbury in Kent - and dedicated his life to the pursuit of speed. Wearing a variety of brightly-coloured golfing caps, the dashing count raced for Aston Martin at Brooklands, in Surrey, as well as at the French and Italian grand prix and at the Indianapolis 500. He joined the Mercedes team in 1924 but died aged 29 when his car hit a tree during the Italian Grand Prix. His ghost is now said to haunt his ancestral home. Guests at Higham Park House have reported hearing the phantom sounds of a car tearing up the drive, stopping to let someone out, and roaring off again to race along the A2. When the engine stops, the doors of one of the house's rooms apparently bursts open and the count has also been spotted striding across his land, sporting one of his distinctive golfing caps. Jean Baptiste du Barre The Vicomte du Barre visited Bath in the summer of 1778 with his wife and sister, and a friend called Captain Rice. They took a lease at a fashionable address and arranged lavish card parties in the house, hoping to profit from the gambling mania that gripped the city at that time. One night the count and his friend quarrelled over the sharing of £600 they had won. Capt Rice threw down his glove. The challenge was accepted. They headed off to Claverton Down. Du Barre fired his pistol first, and wounded his friend in the thigh. Capt Rice's aim, though, was more deadly. Du Barre was hit in the chest. He was taken to the nearby George Inn in Bathampton where he died. Rice was tried for murder and acquitted, after which he went to Spain. Du Barre was buried in Bathampton churchyard, but several landlords have said they saw his spirit propping up the bar at the George. He's said to be "of friendly countenance". Just don't play cards with him. Brainy Dobbs Aircraftman "Brainy" Dobbs was a fan of "balloon hopping" - a largely-forgotten sport of the 1920s which involved the participant being harnessed to a gas balloon before bouncing across the landscape. Dobbs, a parachutist in the RAF, was a trailblazer for the pastime. This came to an abrupt halt in 1927, when he was at Stag Lane aerodrome in Hendon, north London. Dobbs was making gigantic leaps across the field, rising to over 100 ft and then settling back to earth before propelling himself once more into the air. Unfortunately he sailed into electric power cables and died. Now the airman, who got his nickname because of his many eccentric flying experiments, is said to haunt his former barracks at RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire. On cold and windy nights he can be heard walking through the hangars. Some witnesses have said they have been shoved in the back by a rush of chilly air, and at least one has reported poltergeist-style activity when his room - formerly Dobbs' - was trashed. Spooky.

यह हैलोवीन है-और आज रात भूत खेलने के लिए बाहर आते हैं। आप इंग्लैंड में जहाँ भी हों, वहाँ एक स्थानीय आवरण, भूत या प्रेत छाया में इंतजार कर रहा हो सकता है। और वे सभी सामान्य स्पूक या रहस्यमय ग्रे महिलाएँ नहीं हैं। यहाँ कुछ भूत हैं जिन्हें हम एक नाम दे सकते हैं-और कुछ को, यहाँ तक कि एक चेहरा भी।


E-waste mining could be big business - and good for the planet

Summary: Many millions of tonnes of televisions, phones and other electronic equipment are discarded each year, despite them being a rich source of metals. But now e-waste mining has the potential to become big business.

By Emma WoollacottTechnology of Business reporter Professor Veena Sahajwalla's mine in Australia produces gold, silver and copper - and there isn't a pick-axe in sight. Her "urban mine" at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) is extracting these materials not from rock, but from electronic gadgets. The Sydney-based expert in materials science reckons her operation will become efficient enough to be making a profit within a couple of years. "Economic modelling shows the cost of around $500,000 Australian dollars (£280,000) for a micro-factory pays off in two to three years, and can generate revenue and create jobs," she says. "That means there are environmental, social and economic benefits." In fact, research indicates that such facilities can actually be far more profitable than traditional mining. According to a study published recently in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, a typical cathode-ray tube TV contains about 450g of copper and 227g of aluminium, as well as around 5.6g of gold. While a gold mine can generate five or six grammes of the metal per tonne of raw material, that figure rises to as much as 350g per tonne when the source is discarded electronics. The figures emerged in a joint study from Beijing's Tsinghua University and Macquarie University, in Sydney, where academics examined data from eight recycling companies in China to work out the cost for extracting these metals from electronic waste. Expenses included the costs of waste collection, labour, energy, material and transportation, as well as capital costs for the recyclers' equipment and buildings. And when these costs - and the effects of Chinese government subsidies for recycling - were taken into account, the team found that mining from ore was 13 times more expensive than e-waste mining. "The mining of e-waste, and production of pure metal ingots from it of copper or gold, promises to be a very profitable business," said Macquarie's Prof John Mathews. "The earliest practitioners are likely to be metals specialists, particularly small entrepreneurial firms who are aware of the scale of the e-waste problem." The amount of e-waste being generated certainly suggests that the business opportunities for recycling will increase. The International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency, estimates that about 45 millions tonnes of e-waste was generated in 2016, and is expected to top 50 million tonnes by 2021. In 2016 alone, 435,000 tonnes of phones were discarded, despite containing as much as €9.4bn (£8.3bn) worth of raw materials. With China now cracking down on imports of e-waste for recycling, there's increasing pressure on the EU, the US, Australia and Japan to find solutions of their own. And an EU-funded project called ProSUM - Prospecting Secondary Raw Materials in the Urban Mine and Mining Wastes - is designed to help by allowing commercial companies to track the materials available for mining from scrap vehicles, dead batteries and waste electronic and electrical equipment. "We are now at the experimenting phase in Europe," says Dr Kees Baldé, of the United Nations University. "There are many new entrepreneurs starting new businesses based on new 'urban mining' business models - for instance, bringing supply and demand for recyclables closer to each other by novel technologies and virtual market places. "They use it for planning purposes, for instance to know the fractions that they currently do not receive in their recycling plants, but also for long term strategy of their business." While traditional mining is labour-intensive, e-waste mining can be highly automated. At Prof Sahajwalla's micro-factory, for example, robots are used to identify and separate useful parts. She says e-waste passes through a sort of production line. "The discarded-waste devices are first placed into a module to break them down. The next module involves a special robot to extract useful parts. "Another module uses a small furnace to separate the metallic parts into valuable materials, while another one reforms the plastic into a high-grade filament suitable for 3D printing," she says. Apple, meanwhile, is trying to counter criticisms that its phones are difficult to recycle with the recent demonstration of a robot - called Daisy - that can disassemble up to 200 iPhones an hour. Daisy can handle nine different models of the phone, separating parts and removing useful components. Prof Mathews says more manufacturers should be making an effort to ensure their products can be mined at the end of their useful life. "One of the best policy supports for e-waste will be payment of a deposit to consumers who return their e-products like cell phones to central collection points," he says. "There could also be incentives paid to manufacturers to make their products more easily disassembled." More Technology of Business Currently most attention is focused on mining TV sets, as there's a massive backlog of these products, yet in the future the most common source for e-waste will be cell phones. "That is where the focus should be," says Prof Mathews. In a study released last year, Greenpeace calculated that e-waste from smartphone production reached 3.3 million tonnes in 2014. Phones typically contain as many as 60 elements, including rare metals such as iridium, which is used in touch screen technology. Mined mainly in China, iridium has been in short supply, with the price rising steadily for months. However, some e-waste mining projects, such as the RecEOL initiative recently announced in Ireland, can recover iridium from scrap products, along with other rare metals such as tantalum. All these opportunities are likely to make e-waste mining even more profitable in future. But the boom may be limited. Adam Read, a director at one of Britain's biggest waste and recycling companies, Suez UK, points out the electronics firms are finding ways to use less valuable materials in their products. The real value for e-miners is in older products, so "it might be more expensive to treat the next generation of electrical items, since they will have less inherent value to recover," says Mr Read.

धातुओं का एक समृद्ध स्रोत होने के बावजूद, हर साल लाखों टन टेलीविजन, फोन और अन्य इलेक्ट्रॉनिक उपकरण त्याग दिए जाते हैं। लेकिन अब ई-कचरा खनन में बड़ा व्यवसाय बनने की क्षमता है।


Finland has second thoughts about its women soldiers

Summary: "I decided long ago I would do military service," says Saara Piitulainen, a 22-year-old voluntary servicewoman. "My father was a peacekeeper, and that is what I want to do myself."

By Maija UnkuriSakyla, Finland She has come to the right place. The Huovinrinne garrison in Sakyla in western Finland is where Finnish peacekeeping forces train before they leave for crisis areas around the world. Now she is training to be a non-commissioned officer. Finnish women have been doing voluntary military service since before Saara Piitulainen was born and this year a record 1,500 applied. In a few days' time she will be promoted to corporal. But for the first time since the military was opened up to women in 1995, the idea has been floated of temporarily excluding them as a way of cutting costs. "We have to find savings somewhere," said Defence Minister Jussi Niinisto. A couple of days later, after a heated debate, he rejected the idea and said he didn't even back it himself. Should women serve and if so how? But his short-lived proposal has shone a light on the separate roles of men and women, in a country where men have to serve up to a year of military or civilian (community) service from the age of 18 while women can choose. Finns are now asking if voluntary service is good for women and whether or not it is the right model for their armed forces. "One of the best things about women in the forces is their strong motivation," says Alexiana Gaudiat, 21. "I think also that female leaders in the army are very capable". Alexiana Gaudiat is in the same group as Saara Piitulainen and both are opposed to the defence minister's recent idea of excluding women from the army. "I had leadership training in mind when I came to the army," says Alexiana Gaudiat. Both women are restaurant chefs in their civilian lives. Working under pressure and discipline are required in both fields. "There is a tough hierarchy in the restaurant world, so I knew how it might be in the army," says Saara Piitulainen. Five facts about women in the Finnish military Has #MeToo changed Finland? As elsewhere, in Finland the #MeToo campaign has exposed an undercurrent of sexual harassment in society. More than half of women under 35 have experienced some form of sexual harassment, a survey by the health ministry suggests. In Finland's military that proportion is a quarter, although half of all women have suffered discrimination, according to research from the Finnish Conscripts' Union. However, both those polls were conducted before the campaign against harassment went global, and in Finland it has had a visible effect. "I was a bit nervous before joining the army, because I had read a lot online about attitudes towards women in the forces," says Alexiana Gaudiat. "My thoughts radically changed when I came here. I have not experienced any discrimination at all." "Sometimes we march long distances with very heavy packs on the back. [Men] always help. Of course, you shouldn't just give up and lie down in tears in a heap of snow." Different ideas for women in the military Saara Piitulainen believes that being a volunteer accentuates the divide between the sexes, and after the Conscripts' Union revealed the rates of discrimination in the forces it called for conscription to be extended to women as well as men. Not only would the number of women be increased, the union argued, but it would gradually force a change in how Finnish society sees its armed forces. Another proposal entirely has come from a think tank led by Elisabeth Rehn, a former defence minister. The idea would be for a universal community service for both men and women. A set number of conscripts would join the armed forces, another group would do community service in different places in society, while a third group would not be involved at all. The first two groups would pay no tax for some years after service, while the third group would pay tax throughout. 'Training for war' Whatever the future holds for women in Finland's military, it is clear that the defence minister has kick-started a national debate in a country that has a partnership with Nato, but like its neighbour Sweden is not a member. Mr Niinisto believes there should be no voluntary option for military recruits, because he fears it jeopardises the number of conscripts Finland needs. "We have to have a universal military service, so that we are able to train for war a military of 280,000 people," he told Finnish public TV. He is keen for Finland's political parties to come up with policies on the future of the armed forces and their budget ahead of elections next year. The two student NCOs from the Huovinrinne garrison do not believe military service is right for every woman. "You need a certain toughness to cope sometimes, like when you start a 20km march on skis when you really don't feel like doing it," says Alexiana Gaudiat. She would rather the system did not change at all.

22 वर्षीय स्वैच्छिक सेविका सारा पिटुलाइनेन कहती हैं, "मैंने बहुत पहले ही तय कर लिया था कि मैं सैन्य सेवा करूंगी।" "मेरे पिता एक शांतिदूत थे और मैं खुद भी यही करना चाहती हूं।"


Artes Mundi winner to be announced at Cardiff ceremony

Summary: The winner of a £40,000 arts prize will be revealed at a ceremony in Cardiff later.

Six contemporary artists are on the Artes Mundi shortlist, including Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams. The winner will be announced at the National Museum of Wales on Thursday evening. This is the seventh time the prize has been awarded - in 2015, winner Theaster Gates shared his £40,000 prize with the nine other shortlisted artists. Entrants this year represent countries including Lebanon, Angola and the USA. The final six were chosen from a field of more than 700 nominations from 90 countries.

40, 000 पाउंड के कला पुरस्कार के विजेता का खुलासा बाद में कार्डिफ में एक समारोह में किया जाएगा।


How common were Maoist groups in 1970s Britain?

Summary: The couple accused of holding three women as slaves for more than 30 years were activists in a Maoist group in London. It was a period when the UK had a plethora of small left-wing collectives and communes.

By Lucy TownsendBBC News Magazine Aravindan Balakrishnan, known as Comrade Bala, and his wife Chanda ran a bookshop and commune from a large building in Brixton. Balakrishnan had been a member of the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) in the early 1970s but split and formed his own collective in 1974 - the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought. It comprised about 25 people. The group was not unusual. There were about 20 Maoist groups active in the UK in the 1970s, says Michel Hockx, director of the SOAS China Institute at SOAS, University of London. All followed the ideology of Chinese communist leader, Mao Zedong, who put industry under state ownership, collectivised farming and ruthlessly suppressed opposition. "All [the UK groups] considered themselves Maoists, but they fought against each other about who was in possession of the right ideology," he says. "Some were fairly militant, they would actively promote overthrowing the capitalist systems and class systems. Others practised communal living, equality as a group." In some of the groups work would be collectively organised, people took meals together, shared possessions and would take part in political planning together. "Whatever they produced would be divided among each other according to how much work they did, or more ideologically, by how much they needed it," adds Hockx. It wasn't just Maoists, there was a great deal of other radical activism at the time. "There was general ferment in society. In terms of radical politics people were very engaged by the war in Vietnam, significant numbers of young people were protesting about that," says Prof Dennis Tourish, author of The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership. "It was also the three-day week, the collapse of Franco in Spain, the 1968 Paris riots, there had been the assassination of Kennedy and Martin Luther King. There was a mood of radicalisation. Many people were drawn to far left causes at one time or another." Robert Griffiths, general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain, has described Balakrishnan's Maoist sect as the "breakaway of a breakaway of a breakaway". The term used was "splittist". Groups would part company and suspend members who did not toe the party line or presented a different view of the same ideology. Fringe groups would then form, often creating angry rivalries with their former comrades. "Each spilt had its own pope, its divine leader, but they were all trying to colonise the same belief systems," adds Tourish. Left-wing groups were active across the UK, but in Brixton in south London, there was a ready supply of short-term empty houses in neighbourhoods that Lambeth Council was gradually clearing for its housing programmes. It provided ample choice for people looking to set up squats and communes. "There were also plenty of empty or under-used small shop premises, like that at Acre Lane, which has been linked with the Mao Zedong Memorial Trust," says Alan Piper, of the Brixton Society. "Some of these groups took a closer interest in local affairs, and went on to organise squats or housing co-ops or print workshops, or even to contest local council elections. "Others were more oriented to national or international causes, so had a lower profile in the immediate area," he adds. Not all of the fringe groups were based around communes. The Workers' Revolutionary Party encouraged their members to share accommodation, according to Tourish, but it was not mandatory. "They had a number of other techniques to draw in members and reinforce their commitment," he says. "It was only a small party - at its peak it had around 1,000 people - but for example they put huge effort into producing a daily newspaper which they would then spend their days trying to sell, and being ignored and ridiculed for it. "That effort raised their commitment, and gave the members a very powerful group identity." Nick Cohen, author of What's Left?, has written that hard work reinforced loyalty. "They have committed all that time, all that hope and enthusiasm, how can they admit it has all been for nothing?" There were some people at the time that worried that some of the groups that advocated communal living had echoes of cults. "People were starting to worry about young people who had joined a group or who had quite extreme beliefs or sought out alternative ways of living," says Dr Suzanne Newcombe of the charity Inform. "It wasn't just political - there were religious cults, utopian groups. "There was also a deep mistrust in our society's traditional authority figures, and in response some blindly trusted alternative authority figures." Follow @BBCNewsMagazine on Twitter and on Facebook

तीन महिलाओं को 30 साल से अधिक समय तक गुलाम के रूप में रखने का आरोप लगाने वाले दंपति लंदन में एक माओवादी समूह के कार्यकर्ता थे। यह एक ऐसा समय था जब ब्रिटेन में छोटे वामपंथी समूहों और कम्यूनों की भरमार थी।


Do India's 'fast track' courts work?

Summary: A significant consequence of the horrific rape and death of a 23-year-old student in Delhi has been the decision to set up six "fast track" courts in the capital to deal specifically with cases relating to sexual assaults of women.

Soutik BiswasDelhi correspondent Fast track courts are not new in India - have they worked? Going by numbers, yes. Ever since they were set up by the federal government in 2001 to help tackle the case backlog, more than 1,000 fast track courts have disposed of more than three million cases. Many lawyers believe this is a considerable achievement given the fact that more than 30 million cases are pending in high and district courts in India. To add to litigants' woes, there's also a shortage of judges as vacancies are not filled: high courts have 32% fewer judges than they should and district courts have a 21% shortfall. No wonder the ratio of judges is as low as 14 per one million people, compared with over 100 judges per million citizens in the US. Some years ago, a Delhi High Court judge reckoned it would take more than 450 years to clear the backlog given then judge numbers. All this prodded the government to launch a scheme under which more than 1,700 fast track courts would tackle long-pending cases at a cost of $90m (£56.18m). An average of five such courts were to be established in each district of the country. The judges were to be a mix of retired high court judges and promoted judicial officers. But funding has been an issue. The central government said it could no longer fund the new courts after March 2011, leaving future funding decisions to individual states. The result - some states have done away with the courts after finding them too expensive to run. Former Supreme Court chief justice KG Balakrishnan has said the fast track courts were quite successful in reducing the backlog of cases. "If you go by numbers, the record of these courts has been good. But we still don't have any evidence on the quality of the judgements these courts have delivered," says Dr V Nagaraj who teaches law at the Bangalore-based National Law School of India University. Hasty trials raise fears of possible miscarriages of justice. India's Law Commission sums up the paradox: "Justice delayed is justice denied and at the same time justice hurried is justice buried." Leading lawyer and rights activist Colin Gonsalves says fast-track courts have not turned out to be a "very satisfactory system of delivering justice". He told Voice of America recently that people are "generally very upset by the declining standards of these courts and have defined it as 'fast-track injustice.'" "These courts are given unrealistic targets of cases to finish. They have been told they ought not get involved in too much technicality, and that broadly if they get a feeling that a person is guilty, then declare him guilty and if he is innocent, then declare him innocent." "But that's not how the criminal justice system works. It requires care and attention. Decisions are not made on the basis of hunches and guess work, which is what the fast-track courts turned out to be. Judges [were] cutting down on evidence, not allowing full cross-examinations, proceeding in the absence of lawyers in many cases." Dr Nagaraj echoes a similar sentiment, saying there's "some scepticism" about how these courts work. He is mainly concerned with the fact that many of the judges are retirees who are on contracts "and not really accountable to the high court for any miscarriage of justice". Eventually, experts say, India may have to bite the bullet if it wants to speed up justice - to achieve the government's target of 50 judges for every million people more judges will need to be appointed in regular courts.

दिल्ली में एक 23 वर्षीय छात्रा के साथ हुए भयानक बलात्कार और मौत का एक महत्वपूर्ण परिणाम राजधानी में महिलाओं के यौन उत्पीड़न से संबंधित मामलों से निपटने के लिए छह "फास्ट ट्रैक" अदालतें स्थापित करने का निर्णय है।


Coronavirus: Bus journeys will be first challenge of new school year

Summary: Teachers in England and Wales have been preparing to welcome back children for the autumn term, putting in place coronavirus-safe measures. But with 17% of school journeys in England made by bus last year and public transport capacity limited by social distancing, is transport a weak link in plans for a safe return to the classrooms?

By Becky MortonBBC News Children are at extremely low risk of becoming ill from Covid-19 but evidence on how likely they are to spread the virus is less certain. Prof Jonathan Ball, a virologist at the University of Nottingham, says the main worry is that pupils could potentially transmit the virus back into the community or to teachers. And public transport carries risks because it can be difficult to socially distance, there are lots of touch points like handrails, and it's a relatively enclosed space, making it easier for the virus to spread. Government guidance for England states that social distancing will not be required on dedicated school buses, which often carry the same group of children daily, although it should be in place wherever possible. Schools have also been told to minimise mixing of pupils on transport, by creating "bubbles" or groups of children who stay together throughout the course of the day. However, the guidance notes this may not always be possible, due to limited vehicle space and complex travel arrangements. Prof Ball agrees that maintaining "bubbles" will be difficult on school buses, as different classes and year groups often travel together, and therefore the risks of wider transmission are greater. The social aspect of travelling to school also poses problems, he says. "You're out of the confines and the constraints of the classroom. People will want to talk to others and it's going to be very difficult to control that." Safety measures recommended by the government to lessen these risks include more frequent cleaning of buses, maximising ventilation through opening windows and ceiling vents and wearing face coverings, as well as staggering school start times. Face coverings are now compulsory on public transport for children 11 and over. This does not apply to dedicated school transport - except in Scotland where the rules change on Monday - although they are recommended in the rest of the UK. But some families still have concerns. Rosalind Searle, who lives near Glasgow, where schools have reopened already, says her 15-year-old daughter is anxious about catching the school bus that she would normally take. So is being driven instead. While Ms Searle says teachers have done a great job implementing social distancing and "bubbles" in the classroom, the journey to school has been a different story. "They literally can't do it because the bus is rammed," she tells the BBC, adding that it isn't realistic to maintain "bubbles" on the school commute. "In school they've made changes to timetables and staggered lunch breaks but I think [my daughter] just feels there's a bit of a disconnect between that and the transport situation," she adds. Trips to and from school in England by main mode of transport 43%Walk 37%Car/van 13%Local bus 4%Private bus 2%Bicycle 2%Other The difficulty of keeping pupils in bubbles while on a bus was highlighted by the Education Policy Institute in July. It warned there was currently "no credible solution" to the problem of pupils mixing with other year groups and schools on the bus home. Then, earlier this month, the government gave £40m to local transport authorities in England to create extra capacity on school transport for the autumn term. Similarly, ministers in Wales as well as Scotland and Northern Ireland, where pupils have already begun returning to school, have also pledged extra funding to manage the increased demand. It's down to local transport authorities to decide how they spend the money. In London, where, pre-pandemic, 250,000 school children used public buses daily to get to and from school, dedicated extra services will be put on. More than 220 high-frequency routes that serve schools will have designated "school services", which, unlike normal buses, can fill to capacity. Other authorities, such as Transport for Greater Manchester and Transport for West Midlands, are still in the process of allocating funding. Pupils are also being encouraged to walk, cycle or use a scooter to get to school where possible. At least 50% of school journeys of two miles or less are taken by public bus, according to the government, which wants more people to switch to walking or cycling to free up space. In cities including London and Manchester, "school streets" schemes have been introduced, which limit car access outside schools at drop-off and pick-up times to make walking and cycling safer. For those who live too far to walk, Rosalind Searle says the decision in Scotland to make face coverings compulsory, provides some reassurance. "I think it will definitely make my daughter more confident about going on the bus," she says. "She hasn't been in school for about five months so she just needs a bit of help with that transition."

इंग्लैंड और वेल्स में शिक्षक शरद ऋतु के लिए बच्चों का स्वागत करने की तैयारी कर रहे हैं, कोरोनावायरस-सुरक्षित उपायों को लागू कर रहे हैं। लेकिन इंग्लैंड में पिछले साल बस द्वारा की गई 17 प्रतिशत स्कूल यात्राओं और सामाजिक दूरी द्वारा सीमित सार्वजनिक परिवहन क्षमता के साथ, क्या कक्षाओं में सुरक्षित वापसी की योजनाओं में परिवहन एक कमजोर कड़ी है?


Passenger who died in crash on A9 at Ralia named

Summary: The third victim of a two-vehicle crash that claimed the lives of a mother and daughter has been named by police.

Dr Mohammad Ali Hayajneh, 62, was from Duisburg in Germany. He was a passenger in a Jeep Cherokee involved in a collision with an Audi A4 close to Ralia, near Kingussie, on 9 July. Abigail Houston, 42, and seven-year-old Mia, from the Trinity area of Edinburgh, were travelling in the Audi and also died in the accident. Tributes to them were paid by their family last week.

दो वाहनों की दुर्घटना में एक मां और बेटी की जान लेने वाले तीसरे पीड़ित का नाम पुलिस ने लिया है।


The Tibetans serving in ‘secretive’ Indian force

Summary: For decades, India has recruited Tibetan refugees to a covert unit dedicated to high-altitude combat. But the recent death of a soldier in the force has put the spotlight on this unit, reports the BBC's Aamir Peerzada.

A photograph of Nyima Tenzin was kept in the corner of his house, surrounded by warm light spilling from oil lamps. The hum of prayers continued in the next room, where family members, relatives and Buddhist monks were chanting. Days earlier, the 51-year-old soldier had died in a landmine blast near Pangong Tso Lake in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, where Indian and Chinese troops have been facing off in recent months. Sources in the Indian army told the BBC that he was killed by an old mine left from the 1962 war the two countries fought. "On 30 August, around 10:30 in the night, I got a call, saying he was injured," Tenzin's brother, Namdakh, recalled. "They did not tell me that he had died. A friend confirmed the news to me later." Tenzin, his family told the BBC, had been a member of the Special Frontier Force (SFF), a covert military unit largely comprising Tibetan refugees. It reportedly has about 3,500 soldiers. Tenzin was a refugee too and he had served in the force for more than 30 years, his family said. Little is known about the SFF, whose existence has never been officially acknowledged by Indian officials. But it's also a well-known secret, familiar to military and foreign policy experts as well as journalists who cover the region. Yet, Tenzin's death - in the last weekend of August amid rising tensions between India and China - prompted the first public acknowledgement of Tibetans' role in the Indian military. The people of Leh, the capital of Ladakh where Tenzin lived, and the Tibetan community came together to bid him farewell in a grand funeral, complete with military honours, including a 21-gun salute. Senior BJP leader Ram Madhav attended the funeral and placed a wreath on Tenzin's coffin, which was draped in the flags of India and Tibet and was carried to his home in an army truck. Mr Madhav even tweeted, describing Tenzin as a member of the SFF and "a Tibetan who laid down his life protecting" India's borders in Ladakh. He later deleted the tweet in which he also referred to an Indo-Tibet border rather than an Indo-China border. Although the government and the army made no official statement, the funeral was widely reported in national media, which interpreted it as a "sharp signal" and a "strong message" to Beijing. "Till now this [the SFF] was a secret, but it has been acknowledged now and I am very happy," said Namdakh Tenzin. "Anyone who serves should be named and supported. "We fought in 1971, which was kept a secret, then in 1999 we fought Pakistan in Kargil, that was also kept a secret. But now for the first time it has been acknowledged. This makes me so happy." The SFF, experts say, was created after the 1962 war between India and China. "The aim was to recruit Tibetans who had fled to India, and had high altitude guerrilla warfare experience, or were part of Chushi Gandruk, a guerrilla Tibetan force, which fought China till the early 1960s," said Kalsang Rinchen, a Tibetan journalist and filmmaker, whose documentary Phantoms of Chittagong is based on extensive interviews with former SFF troops. In 1959, after a failed anti-Chinese uprising, the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet and set up a government in exile in India, where he continues to live. Tens of thousands of Tibetans followed him into exile and sought asylum in India. India's support f the Dalai Lama, and the refugees who came with him, quickly became a source of friction between the two countries. India's humiliating defeat in 1962 added to the tension. BN Mullik, the then chief of Indian intelligence, is reported to have set up the SFF with the help of the CIA. The extent of Washington's role is disputed - while some sources say it was a purely Indian initiative with "full endorsement" from the US, others say that some 12,000 Tibetans were trained by US special forces and partly funded by the US. "Most of the training was given by Americans," Jampa, a Tibetan refugee, who joined the SFF in 1962, told the BBC. "There was one guy from the CIA who spoke in broken Hindi - he trained four of our men who understood Hindi as most of us didn't know Hindi. Then those four men trained others." The force only recruited Tibetans initially but later expanded to include non-Tibetans. Throughout, experts say, the force has reported directly to the federal cabinet and is always headed by a high-ranking official from the army. "The primary motive was to fight China covertly and gather intelligence," Mr Rinchen said. The Chinese deny any knowledge of the SFF. "I'm not aware of Tibetans in exile in the Indian armed forces. You may ask the Indian side for this," Chinese spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a recent press conference. "China's position is very clear. We firmly oppose any country providing convenience in any form for Tibet independence forces' separatist activities," she added. Beijing still governs Tibet as an autonomous region of China. And its relations with India have worsened since June when border clashes between the two sides left 20 Indian soldiers dead. India said Chinese soldiers also died in the clash but Beijing has not commented on this. The cause of the decades-long tension is the poorly demarcated border between the two countries - it cuts through miles of inhospitable terrain. "It's an odd situation for India," says professor Dibyesh Anand, head of the School of Social Science at the University of Westminster. "India has essentially indicated to China that it will use Tibetans against them, but officially they will not say that." "We did everything the Indian army does, but we never got the usual military honours or acknowledgement - it still makes me sad," Mr Jampa, the former SFF fighter, said. It's hard to say what impact India's recent subtle acknowledgement of the SFF will have on its relations with China. But the tensions between the neighbours certainly worry more than 90,000 Tibetans in India, many of whom still hope to return to Tibet some day. But India feels like home too. "We all feel proud that Tenzin gave his life for two of our countries - India and Tibet," said his brother-in-law, Tudup Tashi. You may also be interested in:

दशकों से, भारत ने तिब्बती शरणार्थियों को उच्च ऊंचाई वाले युद्ध के लिए समर्पित एक गुप्त इकाई में भर्ती किया है। लेकिन हाल ही में बल में एक सैनिक की मौत ने इस इकाई पर ध्यान आकर्षित किया है, बीबीसी के आमिर पीरज़ादा की रिपोर्ट।


Vine - a year in six seconds

Summary: Is six seconds enough to say anything interesting?

Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent@BBCRoryCJon Twitter Yes, according to Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the video app Vine, which lets users share clips lasting no longer than that. So, in a phone call to New York, I challenge him to define his company's mission in just six seconds. His response is this: "The future of Vine is everyone being able to create short looping videos from their mobile phone in the language that they speak and discover great content." Well, I make that 27 words, and with the average person speaking at three words to the second that's nine seconds, but maybe Colin is faster than average. Things have certainly moved at warp speed for him and his co-founders. They started their company in June 2012. Three months later it was acquired by Twitter and a year ago today the Vine app was launched amidst much hoopla. Since then, others have moved into the short social video market - most notably the Facebook empire. Its hugely popular photo-sharing app Instagram now also allows you to post videos. What's more, users can luxuriate in clips lasting a full 15 seconds and can upload something they've shot earlier rather than having to capture them through the app. And when I used Vine to ask Twitter what I should ask Mr Kroll (yes, I know, a bit too "meta") users wanted to know whether that time limit and the restrictions on how you shoot and edit video would change. He tells me he and his colleagues are convinced that brevity worked: "People create very elaborate stories in six seconds. It enables a level of creativity that was untapped before Vine." And while they are thinking about providing different editing mechanisms, the emphasis will remain on keeping it simple. The other question people want answering is how the app might make money - and here Colin Kroll seems in no more of a hurry than Vine's parent, Twitter, which for years considered it vulgar to to talk about revenues or a business model. "Vine is focused on serving the users," he says, "making it easier to capture moments of your live and share them and discover new content - our focus is not on monetisation." After a while our conversation begins to feel like a Vine video, the same phrases about "the easiest way to create and share great videos...making it easier to capture and share moments of your life" looping endlessly on. But then we turn to his favourite Vines, and it seems he is talking from the heart rather than a corporate script. He mentions his own contributions: "I do a series of Vines where I meet famous Viners, and they meet their death - with the hashtag #wemeetatlast. It's a creative outlet that I really enjoy doing!" And he picks out a Vine by Harry Styles from One Direction as one of his favourites. No surprise there, as the teenage heartthrob has been a great boost to the platform, his Vines topping the chart of most viewed. As to whether Vine or any form of short social video is ever going to be the future of communication, the jury is still out on whether everyone wants to share short clips. It may be that this is just a short-lived craze amongst users in their teens and 20s, who are already moving on to Snapchat. But Colin Kroll tells me that people's adoption of video is "still in its infancy" and points out that turning everyone into social photographers had taken more than a decade, so we shouldn't be too impatient. We have very little data on how the contest between Vine and Instagram for this market is going. All we know is that there are 40 million Vine users, and about four times as many on Instagram, although how many use its video capabilities isn't clear. But both have the luxury of corporate parents with very deep pockets and ambitions to develop video advertising. So don't expect either Vine or Instagram to give up on their battle to give you the world in six or 15 seconds.

क्या कुछ दिलचस्प कहने के लिए छह सेकंड पर्याप्त हैं?


Stranraer harbour wall repairs package agreed

Summary: An investment package has been announced to fund repairs to a partially-collapsed wall on the West Quay at Stranraer harbour.

It follows emergency work carried out earlier this year when part of the quayside had to be cordoned off. Tonnes of rock were used to limit further movement in the area. Now £350,000 will be drawn from a coastal infrastructure programme and underspends on other projects to carry out further works.

स्ट्रैनरेयर बंदरगाह पर वेस्ट क्वे पर आंशिक रूप से ढही दीवार की मरम्मत के लिए एक निवेश पैकेज की घोषणा की गई है।


Raman Raghav: When India's 'Jack the Ripper' terrorised Mumbai

Summary: Nearly 50 years after Raman Raghav terrorised Mumbai (then Bombay) by murdering 41 people, there's renewed interest in the serial killer - a film made for television in 1991 had its first public screening a fortnight ago and Raghav is also the subject of a feature film being made by indie director Anurag Kashyap. The BBC's Geeta Pandey travels to Mumbai to piece together the story of the man described as India's "Jack the Ripper".

Raman Raghav went on a killing spree over three years in the 1960s, casting a spell of fear over the city. His victims were all poor people who either slept on the pavements or lived in ramshackle huts and temporary shanties in the northern suburbs of the city. They included men, women and children - even infants. They were attacked at night while they slept, and all of them died after their heads were smashed with "a hard and blunt instrument", writes Ramakant Kulkarni, the young police officer who took over as the head of the crime branch in 1968 and whose team eventually captured Raghav on 27 August 1968. Mr Kulkarni, who retired in 1990 as the head of Maharashtra police and died in 2005, wrote detailed accounts of the case in two books: "Footprints on the Sands of Crimes" and "Crimes, Criminals and Cops". "The murders were motiveless... if any petty gain had been achieved in the process, the violence inflicted on the victims was totally disproportionate to any such gain," he wrote. As new murders were reported almost daily, rumours began circulating about "a mysterious assailant... gifted with supernatural powers" who could "assume the shape of a parrot or a cat" and the press dubbed him "India's Jack the Ripper", according to Lily Kulkarni, Mr Kulkarni's wife. More than 2,000 policemen patrolled the streets at the time, but the city was in the grip of panic, especially in the suburban areas, Mrs Kulkarni says. Parks and streets emptied out at dusk and in many areas, nervous residents carrying sticks patrolled the streets. There were several incidents in which beggars and homeless men were badly assaulted by panicky crowds. The murders took place in two lots - the first between 1965 and 1966 when 19 people were attacked. Raghav, who was found loitering in the area, was picked up then as well, but let off because police couldn't find any evidence against him. The second round of killings took place in 1968, and on 27 August, a sub-inspector from Mr Kulkarni's team recognised him from photographs and descriptions given by those who had survived his attacks. "As the news of the arrest spread, a large crowd gathered outside my husband's office. People celebrated," Mrs Kulkarni remembers. There is little known about Raghav's childhood or early life. Reports from the time describe him as a Tamilian, who was tall and well-built, had little school education and was homeless. During interrogation, he proved to be "a tough nut" who refused to say anything for two days, but the police had a breakthrough on day three. Mr Kulkarni's book describes how one of Raghav's interrogators casually asked him if there was something which he really wanted and "without a moment's thought", he said "murgi" - chicken. After he was fed a dish of chicken, he was asked if he wanted something else. He asked for more chicken. Next, he said he would "like to have a prostitute, but I guess the law does not permit that while one is in custody" - so he settled for hair oil, a comb and a mirror instead. "He massaged his whole body with the coconut oil, appreciating its fragrance, combed his hair and looked admiringly at his own face in the mirror." Then, he asked the police what they wanted from him. "We want to know about the murders," one officer said. "Well I shall tell you all about them," he said, and led the policemen to the bushes in Aarey Colony where he had hidden his tools - an iron crowbar, knives and other weapons. During his confession before the magistrate, Raghav admitted to killing 41 people, though police say they believe the numbers to be higher. In his confession, he said he had done it voluntarily and that he had been instructed by "God" to do so. Other Indian serial killers 'Auto' Shankar: Convicted of killing six people in the late 1980s in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. His real name was Gowri Shankar, but he was called Auto Shankar because he drove an autorickshaw. He and his group were found guilty of transporting illicit liquor, abducting women and running a prostitution racket, besides brutal murders. He was hanged in 1995. 'Cyanide' Mohan: Convicted in the southern state of Karnataka of killing 20 women. Born in 1963, Mohan Kumar preyed on women looking to get married - he would give them cyanide pills claiming they were contraceptives and rob them of their jewellery. He was arrested in 2009 and given the death sentence in December 2013. Surinder Koli: Worked as the servant for businessman Moninder Singh Pandher in Nithari village in the Delhi suburb of Noida. The servant and the master were accused of killing, raping and dismembering at least 19 young women and children. Koli was accused even of cannibalism. The deaths were discovered in December 2006 after body parts and children's clothing were found blocking the sewer running in front of the house. While Mr Pandher was later freed on bail for lack of evidence, Koli has been found guilty of five murders. He is on death row. The Stoneman: Nine people were killed in Mumbai in 1989 and each victim was found with their head bludgeoned by a stone or a heavy blunt object. The case remains one of the most famous unsolved murders in India as the killer was never caught. The Beerman: Six people were killed in Mumbai between October 2006 and January 2007 and in each case, a bottle of beer was found beside the body. Police arrested Ravindra Kantrole and accused him of being the Beerman, but he was freed due to lack of evidence. During his trial, Raghav's lawyers pleaded insanity - they said he did not know that killing people "was wrong or contrary to law". But the "police surgeon" certified him as "neither suffering from psychosis nor mentally retarded", and the court gave him the death penalty. In his order, Judge CT Dighe described him as a "psychopath, extremely wicked man with depraved or brutal mentality" and said his crimes were "unparalleled and unsurpassed in brutality". Media reports at the time said a large crowd outside the court greeted Raghav with "shouts, whistles and jeers" - and he "replied with equal energy". Despite the ruthlessness of his crimes, and the fact that Raghav did not appeal, he escaped the gallows. The high court, which had to confirm his death sentence, ordered a re-evaluation of his sanity and put his sentence on hold after a panel of three psychiatrists said he was schizophrenic and suffered from delusions and hence was "incurably mentally ill". "We got lots of calls from the public, mostly women, asking my husband why he was not being hanged," Mrs Kulkarni said. Raghav was lodged in Yerwada jail in the city of Pune. In 1987, after he had spent 18 years in solitary confinement, the high court commuted his death sentence to life in jail, and he died from a kidney ailment the same year. Today, nearly 50 years later, not many in Mumbai know about Raman Raghav. Perhaps the two films will help revive the interest in the psychopath who once terrorised the city.

रमन राघव द्वारा 41 लोगों की हत्या करके मुंबई (तत्कालीन बॉम्बे) को आतंकित करने के लगभग 50 साल बाद, सीरियल किलर में नए सिरे से रुचि पैदा हुई-1991 में टेलीविजन के लिए बनाई गई एक फिल्म की पहली सार्वजनिक स्क्रीनिंग एक पखवाड़े पहले हुई थी और राघव इंडी निर्देशक अनुराग कश्यप द्वारा बनाई जा रही एक फीचर फिल्म का विषय भी है। बीबीसी की गीता पांडे भारत के "जैक द रिपर" के रूप में वर्णित व्यक्ति की कहानी को एक साथ रखने के लिए मुंबई की यात्रा करती है।


Council set to write off Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre loans

Summary: Loans of £26.2m owed by Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) are set to be written off by the city council.

The local authority's new Labour-led administration said it was its intention to "pay off" the debts owed to the council. Council leader Barney Crockett said it would give the AECC a "firmer financial footing". He said it would be "a major public exhibition space unencumbered by debt". The AECC has been bailed out by Aberdeen City Council several times in recent years. The centre brings in tens of millions of pounds annually for the local economy, and is seen as vital to Aberdeen's status as an energy capital and host of the Offshore Europe events.

एबरडीन प्रदर्शनी और सम्मेलन केंद्र (ए. ई. सी. सी.) द्वारा देय £ 26.2m के ऋण को नगर परिषद द्वारा बट्टे खाते में डाला जाना तय है।


China's president Xi Jinping in Manchester as part of UK visit

Summary: China's president Xi Jinping will be in Manchester as he comes to the end of his UK visit. A mixture of excitement and protest is expected for what is believed to be the first time the city has hosted a state visit.

By Arif AnsariPolitical editor, BBC North West Tonight It comes as the government is trying to persuade the Chinese to invest in the region's economy. About 230 people will sit down for lunch in Manchester Town Hall to watch civic history in the making. Local dignitaries and business people will break bread with President Xi and David Cameron, and witness the state visit. He will also visit Manchester City's stadium and Manchester University. It is not a coincidence the city is being placed on the diplomatic map. The Chancellor and MP for nearby Tatton, George Osborne, has been ambitious in marketing the "Northern Powerhouse" - his strategy to strengthen the economy in the north of England. 'Sales pitch' Last month Mr Osborne visited China to build economic and political links, and he took local government leaders from northern England with him - a sales pitch for the "Northern Powerhouse". On the final day in Chengdu, Mr Osborne even published a catalogue offering the Chinese a range of investment opportunities. Part of the Chancellor's problem is that he is ambitious. Creating a "Northern Powerhouse" would reverse a historic economic decline. An important part of the strategy rests on creating new transport infrastructure. None of this is cheap. But at the same time, George Osborne has pledged to eliminate the budget deficit. That's why he's turning to others for the finance. And China has plenty of spare cash. Capital investments But while the Chinese have shown a willingness to invest in property schemes such as Manchester Airport City or Middlewood Locks in Salford, there does not appear to be as much enthusiasm to put cash into infrastructure. Will that change? It would be odd if President Xi did not come bearing gifts. But the main announcement expected is new direct flights between Manchester and Beijing. That will be a welcome boost, calculated to be worth about £50m per year to the regional economy. But it does not feel like a breakthrough announcement. The reality is that George Osborne has spent a lot of political capital building links with China. And he will need a fair bit of Chinese financial capital in return to convince critics that it was worth it. China and the UK What does China own in the UK? Banquets and tiaras: China reacts to Xi UK visit China and 'the Osborne Doctrine' How China guards the Xi creation myth Can UK be China's best partner in the West? Who is President Xi Jinping?

चीन के राष्ट्रपति शी जिनपिंग अपनी ब्रिटेन यात्रा के अंत में मैनचेस्टर में होंगे। माना जाता है कि पहली बार इस शहर ने राजकीय यात्रा की मेजबानी की है, जिसके लिए उत्साह और विरोध के मिश्रण की उम्मीद है।


Princess Charlotte christening fans warned of 'limited facilities'

Summary: Well-wishers planning to go to Princess Charlotte's christening have been warned by Norfolk Police they face a long wait "in the heat with minimal facilities in the area".

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's daughter will be baptised at St Mary Magdalene church on the Sandringham estate at 16:30 GMT on Sunday. The service is private but "large numbers" of fans are expected. Norfolk Police has advised people not to arrive before 15:00 GMT. Anyone arriving early has been told they will have to queue "in warm temperatures with limited refreshments and facilities" to enter a paddock next to the church. The paddock's gates will not be opened until 15:00 GMT. Norfolk Police has advised royal well-wishers to bring sunscreen, hats and drinks - but are asked to "please avoid bringing large bags or coolers". Parking will be provided on car parks on the Sandringham estate,. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are currently living at the estate.

राजकुमारी शार्लोट के नामकरण में जाने की योजना बनाने वाले शुभचिंतकों को नॉरफ़ॉक पुलिस द्वारा चेतावनी दी गई है कि उन्हें "क्षेत्र में न्यूनतम सुविधाओं के साथ गर्मी में" लंबे इंतजार का सामना करना पड़ता है।