The billionaire trying to make the world's best Pinot Noir

Summary: Tech entrepreneur TJ Rodgers made billions of dollars founding silicon chip maker Cypress Semiconductors, now he has turned his sights to wine-making, and is on a quest to make the best Pinot Noir in the New World.

By Neil KoenigSeries Producer, The Life of Luxury A collapse in the roof of a gigantic tunnel being driven into a hillside sounds like a pretty dramatic event. But the entrepreneur TJ Rodgers is calm as he recalls what happened. "It's not like you see in the movies with rocks flying, and stuff like that. "It will kill you but it's kind of a slow motion thing, and you can walk [away] and stay in front of it," he explains. He is speaking inside one of three giant caves that house his winery high in the Santa Cruz mountains in California. The construction of the facility was a monumental task, taking years and requiring advice from experts in digging tunnels under the Austrian Alps. Occasional cave-ins were just one of many challenges. The location was so remote that it was impossible for concrete to be driven in without it setting first. Instead, they had to drive in a concrete-making plant which they assembled on site. And the reason for all this intense effort? "Our mission statement is to make the best Pinot Noir [wine] in the New World," says Mr Rodgers. He is certainly not someone to do anything by halves. He founded the huge silicon chip maker Cypress Semiconductors in 1982, and subsequently built it into an enterprise worth billions of dollars. The silicon chips that Cypress makes are found in millions of mobile phones and many other devices. Chips are also found on the bottles produced at the winery, which is called Clos de la Tech. TJ Rodgers, who recently stood down from Cypress, first became interested in wine in his youth. Pinot Noir proved to be his favourite, in particular that made in Burgundy. He wanted to know more, so he travelled to France, visiting vineyard after vineyard in Burgundy. Despite the bemused responses from some vineyard owners, Mr Rodgers says he learnt a lot from his time in France. Back in California, his interest blossomed into a passion. He set about trying to make wine himself, and he enlisted the help of his wife, Valeta Massey, who now spends much of her time on wine-making. Mr Rodgers first experimented with a vineyard at his home. Later, after the purchase of the site in the Santa Cruz mountains, the venture became more ambitious. The plan was to aim for the highest possible quality. The best way to do that, Mr Rodgers decided, was to copy the wine-making process used in Burgundy in the 1830s. This meant using techniques such as foot-crushing the grapes, and being as gentle as possible with the wine at every stage. Pumps are avoided. Instead, the facility is a "gravity winery", explains Mr Rodgers. The three enormous caves are arranged one above the other, so after fermentation in the topmost cave the wine flows through pipes downhill into barrels in the second cave for the next stages of the process. Despite the emphasis on traditional methods, technology also plays a role. For example, many real-time measurements are taken during fermentation, and special devices are used to measure moisture levels in the field, helping to ensure the crops get exactly the right amount of water. But Mr Rodgers is quick to add that modern techniques are only used where appropriate: "the technology is not to supplant the old process, the old guys were pretty smart." TJ Rodgers is far from the only wealthy individual to try his hand at pushing the boundaries of wine-making in California. But are ventures like his little more than the wine-making equivalent of vanity publishing? Not necessarily, says Aaron Pott, a wine-maker and consultant who has worked at the top end of the industry in France and California. With the right vineyard, and skilled staff, he says, it is perfectly possible to make excellent wine. Mr Pott adds it would also be a mistake to assume that only ancient vines can produce good output. "Great wine can be made from young vineyards," he says. But while it may be feasible to make high quality wine, making money in the process is more difficult, according to both Mr Rodgers and Mr Pott. For one thing, there is the high cost of setting up facilities like those built by Mr Rodgers and other wealthy people in California. Quite apart from the cost of the land and buildings, the equipment can be expensive. Take, for instance, the French oak barrels used at Clos de la Tech - these cost $1,000 (£774; 876 euros) each. Then there is the question of yield. The downside of aiming for high quality, says Mr Rodgers, is that output will be small. "Our yield up here is one tonne per acre. If you go to a commercial farm in Napa you see five tonnes per acre, and if you go to Modesto you see 12 tonnes per acre. Ok so right there, the war's over with regard to economics. Your wine's going to be expensive," he explains. Nevertheless, although economics may present a challenge, benefits can flow from what Mr Rodgers and others like him are doing, says Mr Pott. Whilst in some ways it may make it harder for smaller concerns like his own to compete, Mr Pott believes that the emergence of wealthy wine-makers in California has helped "to raise the bar" of quality - and that ultimately is a good thing for the industry. TJ Rodgers and Valeta Massey say they have enjoyed their venture immensely, and that they have learnt a lot about wine in the process. Perhaps the biggest lesson for them has been the prime importance of the starting point - the grape. "The French have a phrase - 'the wine is made in the field'. "The wine has a certain potential defined by the grapes in the field and… the best you can do is take 100 per cent grapes and make 100 per cent wine. And all wine making is downhill from there," he says.

तकनीकी उद्यमी टीजे रॉजर्स ने सिलिकॉन चिप निर्माता साइप्रस सेमीकंडक्टर्स की स्थापना करके अरबों डॉलर कमाए, अब उन्होंने शराब बनाने की ओर रुख किया है, और नई दुनिया में सर्वश्रेष्ठ पिनोट नोयर बनाने की खोज में हैं।


Norwich roads boss in 'emotional' welcome for city's 20mph limit

Summary: What does Norwich have in common with Edinburgh, Bristol, The City of London, Paris and Barcelona? The answer is that by next spring they will all have a blanket speed limit of 20mph (32kph) in their city centres.

Deborah McGurranPolitical editor, East of England Norwich is the first place in the region to slow down the traffic on every road in the centre and there was a sense of history being made as the vote was taken by the city council's highways committee. "This is quite emotional for me," admitted committee chairman, Steve Morphew. "I remember 15 years ago using the phrase '20's plenty' during a campaign in Norwich. These things take time but its moment has finally arrived." The decision to impose the limit on every road within the inner ring road, widen footpaths and install speed bumps across the city centre had cross party support. Conservative county councillor Nigel Shaw said: "I have been pushing for 20 mile an hour limits on these roads since 2002. It is going to make the area much safer for pedestrians and cyclists." Local Green Party councillor Simeon Jackson said: "This will be appreciated by residents who don't want to block access to the city centre but want a better quality of life." At the same time a series of new cycle paths are being put into the city centre. According to Rod King of the campaign group '20's Plenty', 20% of the country now has 20mph speed limits and he says a number of other towns and cities are considering blanket speed limits in their centres. "Our culture is changing," he said. "I think there's a growing acceptance that 20mph is the right limit on residential streets. 70% of drivers support it and it makes such a difference to the general ambience of a town centre." Although Cambridge and Ipswich have significant 20mph zones not all of their centres are covered by the limit, Norwich is to have the first blanket ban. In a consultation carried out by Norwich City Council, 67% of those who responded welcomed the proposals. "I hope it gets even more people out of their cars and cycling responsibly," said one respondent. "As a driver I find it confusing to have a mix of 20mph and 30mph zones. It would be much easier to have the whole centre at 20mph," said another. But those who objected worried that the move, which is costing £400,000, will deter people from entering the city and they questioned if the new limit would be properly enforced. "I cannot see the need for a 20mph limit," complained one resident. "You are spending money for the sake of it." Another added: "What is this fixation with cyclists - there are other users in the city?" The vice chairman of the highways committee, Bert Bremner, accepted not everyone would be happy but he said there would be benefits for drivers. "As a motorist, I have no problem with this," he said. "I can cruise along at 18mph and see my miles per gallon dial go up. This is fantastic news." Rod King from '20's plenty' is currently overseeing 270 campaigns in towns and cities across the country to reduce speed limits. "Attitudes are changing," he said. "It's excellent what's happening in Norwich and I think it won't be long before other places in the east follow suit."

नॉर्विच में एडिनबर्ग, ब्रिस्टल, द सिटी ऑफ लंदन, पेरिस और बार्सिलोना के साथ क्या समानता है? इसका जवाब यह है कि अगले वसंत तक उन सभी के पास अपने शहर के केंद्रों में 20 मील प्रति घंटे (32 किमी प्रति घंटे) की गति सीमा होगी।


Murder probe after man found injured in Birmingham house

Summary: A man has died after being found with serious injuries at a house in Birmingham.

Police said they were called to an injured man at a house in Hunters Road, Lozells in the early hours of Sunday. He died later in hospital. Two men, both aged 43, have been arrested, one on suspicion of assault and the other on suspicion of wounding. Police have launched a murder probe and are appealing for witnesses.

बर्मिंघम में एक घर में गंभीर चोटों के साथ पाए जाने के बाद एक व्यक्ति की मौत हो गई है।


'Let him go!' - Navalny activists defy bitter Russian cold

Summary: "Let him go!", "Russia will be free!", "Lyosha, we are with you!" chanted hundreds of Alexei Navalny's supporters, who turned up outside a Moscow police station on Monday, despite the -20C cold.

By Anastasia Golubeva & Sergei GoryashkoBBC Russian They were mostly students, young professionals and NGO activists. "Lyosha" is the familiar short form of Alexei. The Khimki police station, on the northwestern edge of Moscow, was hastily converted into a courtroom to receive Russia's best-known opposition activist. A judge ordered that he stay in custody for at least 30 days. Mr Navalny - survivor of a near-fatal nerve agent attack last August - was detained soon after his plane landed in Moscow on Sunday. Despite the risk, he insisted on returning to Moscow from Berlin, to continue his anti-corruption campaign against President Vladimir Putin. There were chaotic scenes when his plane was diverted from Vnukovo - the airport where his supporters had gathered - to Sheremetyevo, which is near Khimki. His supporters believe his detention shows how worried the authorities are about his potential to change the balance of power in Russia. His anti-corruption network targets a mainly young audience on social media, with videos on YouTube and Instagram watched by tens of millions, rivalling Russian state TV. The protesters in Khimki included local councillor Antonina Stetsenko, holding a poster demanding freedom for Mr Navalny, in a solo picket outside the gates. Solo pickets have become a common form of protest, as the penalties for staging mass protests have got tougher in Russia. Other protesters showing solidarity with Mr Navalny in Khimki on Monday were more dispersed, so better able to flee the police if necessary. Mr Navalny is accused of violating the terms of a suspended sentence he received for embezzlement - a case he rejects as fabricated in order to silence him. The protesters included Tatiana Usmanova from the NGO Open Russia, a pro-democracy group set up by ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who famously fell out with President Putin more than a decade ago. She described how local people came out to ask about Mr Navalny and brought hot tea and sandwiches for those outside in the freezing cold. "Khimki is our new Minsk!" she wrote on Facebook, referring to the months of mass protests in the capital of Belarus. Those protests have not removed President Alexander Lukashenko, a Putin ally, but have brought international condemnation down on him. "It is -20C outside, so it's hard to stay out for more than 20 minutes at a time. Local people are letting us warm up inside their blocks of flats!" Usmanova wrote. Poisoning 'the last straw' On Sunday a prominent film director - Vitaly Mansky, whose Putin's Witnesses was shown at the London Film Festival in 2018 - turned up at Vnukovo to greet Mr Navalny on his return. He said the heavy police presence at the airport showed the authorities' concern about Mr Navalny's popularity. "They can detain him or arrest him, or take him away, but this movement cannot be slowed down or broken. I am here to witness historic moments. The fact that the authorities are so terrified of him is great, I am glad. Their fear is bringing their end closer," he told BBC Russian. Many who support Mr Navalny complain of a lack of respect for the rule of law. His poisoning and the Bellingcat investigation, which pinned the blame on FSB state security agents, proved a turning point for many. "I'm not all that political, but this was the last straw." BBC journalists heard that comment from many people, who said that seeing proof that a Russian citizen could be attacked on Russian soil had forced them to change their opinion. President Putin has dismissed Mr Navalny as an "unimportant blogger" and the Kremlin denies involvement, and rejects the Western conclusion that Novichok - an extremely toxic Russian nerve agent - was used in the attack last August. Pop songs A large crowd of Navalny supporters gathered at Vnukovo to greet him on Sunday, before his plane was diverted. The authorities were taking no chances: about 10 large police vans parked close to the terminal and the international arrivals zone was cordoned off from the rest of the airport. Many people who came to meet friends and relatives were left outside, waiting in the freezing cold. One man had come to meet his girlfriend arriving from Turkey. "This is fascism!" he shouted. Inside, a different crowd appeared - young people who said they were fans of Russian Instagram star and pop singer Olga Buzova. But it was not clear why her fans - singing some of her hits - were there at the same time as Mr Navalny's supporters. According to Buzova's social media, she was spending the day in St Petersburg and had no plans to return to Moscow that evening. About 60 people were reportedly detained at Vnukovo and some complained of rough treatment by the police. By the time his plane had landed at Sheremetyevo about 50 supporters had got there to greet him. But his wife Yulia only managed to snatch a kiss before police led him away. She told the people around her: "Thank you for coming here and earlier to Vnukovo. "They are so afraid of Alexei that they have paralysed all flights into Moscow this evening, inconvenienced so many people. He is just a man who came back home. The most important thing Alexei said this evening is that he is not afraid. And I am not afraid. And I call on you not to be afraid." The BBC's Kateryna Khinkulova contributed to this piece.

"उसे जाने दो!", "रूस मुक्त हो जाएगा!", "लियोशा, हम आपके साथ हैं!" अलेक्सी नवलनी के सैकड़ों समर्थक नारे लगा रहे थे, जो-20 डिग्री ठंड के बावजूद सोमवार को मास्को पुलिस स्टेशन के बाहर आ गए।


10 things about the Common Ridings

Summary: The Borders Common Riding season is under way. But what is it all about? Here are 10 things you need to know. 1. The Borders: It's aye bin

By Sandy NeilReporter A Lowland Scots saying sums up the Scottish Borders: "It's aye bin", meaning "It's always been". The old Border country's Common Riding traditions have evolved over 900 years into one of Europe's biggest equestrian spectacles. Yet the 11 towns' annual festivals are little seen or understood by the outside world, which obliviously drives through - north to Edinburgh or south to England. So we just get on with our own thing, in a land time forgot. Every week from June to August without fail, thousands of Borderers cheer hundreds of horse riders galloping around their towns, and witness curious rituals like snuff thrown from a window in Hawick, or, in Langholm, a salted herring hammered to a barley bannock with a 'twal-penny nail'. Why? Well, it's emotional, and never more so than this year, when townsfolk remember their fallen exactly 500 years after the Battle of Flodden in 1513. 2. Safe oot, safe in The Border Common Ridings, like others in Scotland surviving in Langholm, Biggar, Lanark, Musselburgh and Linlithgow, began early in the 12th century as 'Riding the Marches', when young burgesses on horseback inspected their burgh's common land to check neighbouring landowners had not encroached its boundary. Townsfolk needed this 'commonty' to graze livestock and grow harvests to survive and prosper, so any unlawful houses, walls or crops were destroyed, often by 'the haile community'. Riding the Marches flourished in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Stirling, Dundee, Inverness and Arbroath between the 16th and 18th centuries too, but they endured in the Borders long after they ceased to be essential. The reason why the Scottish Borders continues these 'marches of history', and has became known as the 'home of the ridings', is rooted in the wars between Scotland and England, and the badly-behaved Border reivers. 3. Britain's wild west As a local walking festival advert once put it: '500 years ago visitors didn't walk in the Borders - they ran for their lives'. Sandwiched on the frontier between two battling kingdoms, the lawless Border valleys became our island's bloodiest - our very own 'Wild West'. Border reivers were no more than mafia gangsters on horseback, loyal not to their king but to their 'family' (not 'clan'). Scott, Kerr, Nixon, Armstrong and Elliot were among the hundreds of families who raided, robbed, kidnapped and murdered each other, and their tribal English rivals. This criminal society 'shook loose the border', where national feelings became almost meaningless. The reivers (from the old Scots 'to steal') bequeathed the words 'bereave' and 'blackmail' to the English language, but, more positively, the insecurity of life endowed each Border community with a fiercely independent identity, loyalty, and rivalry, asserted with civic pride every year in their distinct Common Riding traditions. 4. Stoorifits and gutterbluids In Peebles people divided into 'gutterbluids', the town's established natives, and 'stoorifits', the resident incomers. Borderers still feel an intense belonging to their town, thanks to the notorious reivers. The uncertainty and dangers of living in a tribal territory ungovernable by Edinburgh or London, close to a shifting Anglo-Scots border and marauding armies, only worsened the threat to the isolated Border burghs. Townsfolk were forced together for mutual survival and defence, creating close-knit communities with a sense of shared responsibility. Riding the marches, the vigilant cavalcades risked their lives protecting their land and people: Selkirk's first provost John Muthag, plus his bailie James Keyne, were murdered defending the burgh lands in July 1541. The Royal and Ancient Burgh named Muthag Street in his honour during the World War I - a conflict, like Flodden, from which many young 'Souters o' Selkirk' failed to return. Today's common ridings attract thousands of locals and 'exiles' or 'colonials' coming home to pay tribute to the sacrifices and labours of those who have gone before. 5. The Battle of Flodden, 1513 While all Common Ridings share this element of riding round the town boundaries, harking back to the ancient Riding of the Marches, the traumatic defeat at Flodden field on 9 September 1513, when an estimated 10,000 Scots and King James IV lost their lives fighting Henry VIII's English army under the Earl of Surrey, still resonates emotionally in Selkirk and Hawick's traditions, and in the modern Coldstream Civic Week. As Border bard Sir Walter Scott wrote of Flodden in his 1808 poem Marmion: "Tradition, legend, tune, and song / Shall many an age that wail prolong." Coldstream Civic Week stages a spectacular, moving ride out to the battlefield itself, just over the Tweed and the English border at Branxton, where the 'Coldstreamer' lays a wreath at the Flodden Memorial. Selkirk's 'Royal Burgh Standard Bearer' represents Fletcher, the only Selkirk man to return from Flodden alive, while Hawick Common Riding recalls Flodden's aftermath in 1514, when Hawick lay at the mercy of triumphant, pillaging English soldiers. A handful of callants defended the town by slaying an English raiding party at Hornshole, and their captured flag (or a replica) has led the town's marches ever since. But surprisingly, despite the Borders' turbulent history, there is never any anti-English feeling in the Common Ridings. That's not what they're about at all. 6. Jethart's here! The Border Common Ridings are a complex subject, having developed different traditions and meanings over a long time. The oldest festivals in Selkirk, Hawick, Lauder, and Langholm in Dumfries & Galloway, have an uninterrupted history since the original riding of the marches, but inspections of the boundary are now symbolic, often marked by the principal cutting a sod of turf. The newer ride-outs in Galashiels, Jedburgh, Melrose, Kelso, Coldstream, Duns and Peebles, all about 100 years old, are based on proud events in each town's history. Peebles Beltane Festival revives a medieval summer fair, Galashiels' Braw Lad and Lass ride to Gala's first parish church, and the Duns Reiver's cavalcade rides to Duns Law, where General Leslie's Covenanting Army camped in 1639 to resist Charles I's imposing the Church of England on Scotland. Jedburgh (or Jethart) Callants' Festival re-enacts one of the last battles between England and Scotland, the 1575 Raid of Redeswire in the Cheviot Hills, won when notoriously fierce Jed men arrived, shouting their war cry 'Jethart's here!'. In 1523, the terrified younger Earl of Surrey, son of the Flodden hero, called Jed's fighters: "the boldest and hottest men that ever I saw in any nation". 7. Rally roond oor Cornet! Every spring a 'principal' is democratically elected by townsfolk, or nominated by ex-principals, to be the symbolic leader of the year's riding, honoured with carrying the town's flag. In the 'Honest Toun' of Musselburgh, it is said the election of the 'Honest Lad' attracts more votes than a General Election. The principal, usually an unmarried, native lad of admirable character and riding skills, is given a different name in each town: Reiver (Duns), Braw Lad (Galashiels), Cornet (Hawick, Langholm, Peebles, Lauder), Kelsae Laddie (Kelso), Melrosian (Melrose), Royal Burgh Standard Bearer (Selkirk), Whipman (West Linton), Jethart Callant (Jedburgh) and Coldstreamer (Coldstream). Becoming 'king for the day' is the greatest honour a young man can receive from their town, and almost certainly it is the proudest and most memorable day of their young lives: "a dream come true," many report. "Common Ridings are all about emotion," Gala rugby commentator Richie Gray coached Hawick Cornet Chris Ritson this year in 'The Hut', where Hawick horsemen drink rum and milk, and sing Hawick's song 'Teribus' from the burgh's battle cry 'Teribus ye teri odin', which gives local folk their name 'Teries'. Nearing the end of his big day, at the relaxing horse races up the moor, which often follow the riding of the marches, Cornet Ritson described the overwhelming emotion as best he could in Lowland Scots: "It's better felt than telt." 8. Unsullied and untarnished The flag, which symbolises the town and its honour and traditions, is revered like a holy relic. At a 'Colour Bussin' ceremony early on Common Riding morning in Selkirk (or "the nicht afore the morn" in Hawick) the cherished banner is presented to the principal by the provost, who wishes the riders "safe oot, safe in" around the marches, and charges him to return it "unsullied and untarnished". A Lady Busser (or the Cornet's 'Lass' in Hawick) ties ribbons in the principal's chosen hues to the Royal Burgh Flag, recalling the ancient custom of a knight's lady tying colours to his lance before battle. Traditionally principals are unmarried, perhaps because riding the marches was a dangerous business, or it symbolises they are 'married' to the town while in office, like a priest to the church. Some of Selkirk's Royal Burgh Standard Bearers have remained bachelors for more than a dozen years waiting their turn to bear the Royal Burgh Flag. Hawick's swallow-tailed 'Banner Blue', inscribed in yellow '1514' and 'HC' standing for 'Hawick Colour', is a replica of the English original seized by Hawick callants at Hornshole in Flodden's aftermath 500 years ago. Losing your flag to the enemy was a humiliating blow, and many Border legends revolve around captured banners: Jedburgh's guild of weavers claimed to possess an English standard from Bannockburn (1314), and a Highland one from Killiekrankie (1689). To help the principal perform his duties, he is helped on the ride-outs and charging 'chases' by Right- and Left- Hand Men (often aspiring, or ex-principals), and in Hawick by an older married 'Acting Fither', to keep a friendly paternal eye on youthful spirits. 9. This day, we hae done a guid thing! Common Riding day traditionally begins in the very early morning, testifying to the pre-industrial origins of the ridings. Hawick begins with the 'Snuffin'': a curious custom seeing boisterous callants scrum to pinch handfuls of snuff from a ram's horn, harking back to the days when troops were given snuff before going to war. A horse was like a car to a Border reiver: fast transport for a speedy getaway, and a powerful status symbol. The reivers' deep rapport between horse and human remains in the Borders, today called 'Scotland's horse country'. Ridings also survived here thanks to the countryside's accessibility, only a few minutes walk from town centres, which means Borderers can keep horses cheaply and easily, often riding from an early age down quiet lanes and streets, to turn into talented and experienced adult horsemen. "I've been riding since I could walk," says 28-year-old Selkirk's Royal Burgh Standard Bearer Martin Rodgerson, who has so far ridden 21 Common Ridings - the first aged four. Even practice rides, called 'ride outs', require stamina: Hawick's moorland Mosspaul 'ride-oot' measures 24 miles, while Jedburgh's Redeswire ride is a 25-mile return journey to the site of a skirmish on the Anglo-Scottish Border. 10. Huzza! And finally, as Langholm's Fair Cryer says as he nails a fish to a bun: "I'll away hame and hae a bannock and a saut herring to my denner by way o' auld style. Huzza! Huzza! Huzza!" But before I ride hame for ma rum and milk, here's how the Border common riding dates are calculated every year: Hawick (Thursday, Friday and Saturday after the first Monday in June) Selkirk (Friday after the second Monday in June) Melrose (Third full week in June) Peebles (Third full week in June) Galashiels (End of June, sometimes the first weekend in July) Jedburgh (Ends second Saturday in July) Duns (First full week in July) Kelso (Middle of July) Langholm (Last Friday in July) Lauder (Ends first Saturday in August) Coldstream (First full week in August)

बॉर्डर्स कॉमन राइडिंग का मौसम चल रहा है। लेकिन यह सब किस बारे में है? यहाँ 10 चीजें हैं जो आपको जानने की आवश्यकता है। 1. द बॉर्डर्सः यह ऐ बिन है।


Murder arrest over woman's death in Doncaster house

Summary: A woman found injured at a house in Doncaster has died, sparking a murder investigation.

The victim was found at a property on Dryden Road in Balby at about 23:30 BST on Friday night. A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police said the woman in her 20s was found with serious injuries and died at the scene a short time later. A 45-year-old man has been arrested and officers are appealing for anyone with information to contact them. The woman's family has been informed and formal identification is expected in the coming days, the force added.

डॉनकास्टर में एक घर में घायल पाई गई एक महिला की मौत हो गई है, जिससे हत्या की जांच शुरू हो गई है।


Leaders from three faiths gather in Cardiff mosque

Summary: Religious leaders from three faiths gathered in Cardiff for the first time on Thursday to "show solidarity of faith".

The Muslim Council of Wales said leaders from Judaism, Christianity and Islam visited Dar Ul-Isra mosque. It aimed to show extremism and religious hatred have "no place" in the city. More than 100 guests from the Jewish and Christian faiths visited the mosque.

"आस्था की एकजुटता दिखाने" के लिए गुरुवार को पहली बार कार्डिफ में तीन धर्मों के धार्मिक नेता एकत्र हुए।


Sea views: Capturing British maritime life

Summary: The Shipwrecked Mariners' Society charity has announced the winners of its seventh annual photography competition.

The competition encourages amateur and professional photographers to enter pictures that capture the essence of Britain's long maritime heritage, with its merchant ships, fishermen, coasts, ports and harbours. Here is a selection of the winning entries. All photographs copyright of the contributors, courtesy of the Shipwrecked Mariners Society and PA Media

शिपव्रेक्ड मेरिनर्स सोसाइटी चैरिटी ने अपनी सातवीं वार्षिक फोटोग्राफी प्रतियोगिता के विजेताओं की घोषणा की है।


Council tax by local authority

Summary: The public will be able to veto council tax increases in England above an agreed limit, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has said.

This is a full table of council tax levels for Band D properties in English local authorities since 2000. The two final columns show the percentage change for the past financial year and since 2000-01. Local authority restructuring in 2008-09 means that some areas do not have consistent data all the way through from 2000-2010. When this is the case, the column has a dash (-).

समुदाय सचिव एरिक पिकल्स ने कहा है कि जनता इंग्लैंड में एक सहमत सीमा से अधिक परिषद कर वृद्धि को वीटो करने में सक्षम होगी।


Sussex RNLI warning over warm weather tombstoning

Summary: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has warned of an increase in people jumping off piers and cliffs into shallow waters in Sussex over the weekend.

They fear the warm weather will seen a rise in so-called "tombstoning". The RNLI said that taking part could lead to serious injury or death if a person misjudged the water depth. In July 2011 a man suffered spinal injuries after jumping off Brighton Pier. Mark Bell, from RNLI Brighton, said: "It's very difficult to judge the depth of the water beneath you. "It's also surprisingly cold in the water, it's only around 10-11C at the moment and that can do all sorts of shocking things to your body when you jump in."

रॉयल नेशनल लाइफबोट इंस्टीट्यूशन (आर. एन. एल. आई.) ने सप्ताहांत में ससेक्स में घाटों और चट्टानों से उथले पानी में कूदने वाले लोगों की संख्या में वृद्धि की चेतावनी दी है।


Coronavirus doctor's diary: How gardening could help in the fight against obesity

Summary: Being overweight puts you at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, experts say - and now new anti-obesity strategies have been launched around the UK. In Bradford, community schemes to promote healthy lifestyles offers a novel approach to the problem. Dr John Wright of the city's Royal Infirmary explains why radical thinking is necessary.

Our complete concentration on Covid-19 has concealed another global pandemic that has been more insidious but much more harmful: obesity. Early in the pandemic, we spotted common patterns in our sickest Covid-19 patients - they were more likely to have diabetes and heart disease and, in particular, to be obese. As the novel coronavirus makes a temporary retreat in the UK, obesity has become a focus of attention not just for the NHS but also the prime minister as he role-models weight loss for the nation. The Covid-19 treatments that we are discovering through our research trials are making important, though small, improvements in survival. However, prevention is far better than cure, and if we are going to protect our citizens then we need to not only strengthen our public health prevention measures to stop transmission in the short term, but also reduce their risk from harm from infection by tackling obesity in the longer term. Front line diary Prof John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio. At the hospital, we have been tracking the lives of 16,000 children from birth as part of the Born in Bradford project to understand how the complex interplay between our genes, lifestyles and environment affects our later risk of physical and mental ill health. It is like a huge Child of Our Time study, but with the best scientists from across the world working together to unravel the clues. The project has shown that our risk of obesity starts very early in life and is particularly high for children of South Asian heritage. The trail of breadcrumbs as to why South Asians have twice to four times the risk of diabetes and heart disease leads back to birth. As these Bradford children grow up, they face very different futures if they live in Ilkley, one of the richest places in the country, or Manningham, one of the poorest. If they are growing up in inner-city Manningham then they will be surrounded by food swamps of fast-food outlets, and food deserts of healthy options. Poor-quality houses lack proper kitchens to prepare healthy meals. The roads are too busy and dangerous to cycle or even walk to school. Lack of parks and gardens hinder active play. Junk food advertising infects young minds and poor-quality food is all that some families can afford. Our efforts to tackle obesity are depressingly futile and the girth of the world's population continues to expand. We focus too often on blaming people for bad choices rather than addressing the wider, interacting and complex conditions that lead to obesity. There is no simple behaviour change advice comparable to hand-washing or social distancing, no simple drugs such as dexamethasone or remdesivir to dispense. Dr Mathew Mathai has worked in the paediatric diabetes clinic at St Luke's Hospital in Bradford for over a decade. When he first started, he says, children with type 2 diabetes were unheard of at the clinic - now there are 18 at any one time. His clinic has been held virtually during the pandemic and he will soon be seeing his patients again, with a proper opportunity to weigh them and find out how social distancing restrictions have affected them. "It will be really interesting to see what lockdown has done: for some it's been a useful period to think about exercise. And others have gone the other way and they've been in all the time, watching TV and eating more," he says. Much of the work his clinic does is about motivation - and Dr Matai is keen to enlist people in the community who can help with that. One such person is Tahira Amin, a registered dietitian, who was on maternity leave when she realised more could be done locally to help improve fitness, health and the whole feel of the inner-city area around Lister Mill in Bradford. "I wanted to enjoy my pregnancy but still needed a challenge and investigated what I could do in the local community," she says. She'd already been involved in a programme to teach fencing to Muslim young women and girls and now she had an idea for another project - to promote good health by taking over allotments and turning derelict land into a community garden. Amin believes that meeting others in an outdoor, active setting is a better way to learn about healthy lifestyles than sitting around in a classroom. "We can grow food, learn about diet and nutrition and get exercise that really helps in the fight against obesity," she says, Sofia Rashid lives nearby and is pleased with the changes, particularly since it's made it so much easier for her seven-year-old disabled daughter to navigate her walker through the greener spaces. "We have all looked after the allotment and helped grow things. All the women here are helping and we've been out walking through lockdown - it was encouraging to have someone thinking about health," she says. Rashid says the response to Amin's project has been amazing. "She's also teaching us about healthy eating and she's set up a cycling group so some of us are planning to ride bikes for the first time," Rashid says. "Last weekend we had a street clean-up where all the ladies of the area got together, it was people of all ages." Dr Mathai is convinced it's local schemes like this which will make a real difference, particularly for children who need help navigating the array of takeaway options on offer in the city. "This isn't a medical problem, it's a social and community issue that needs to be addressed," he says. "It needs to be local parks, government and services taking the lead, with doctors there to support that community-driven approach." In Bradford we are building on our work in Born in Bradford to establish the world's first "City Collaboratory" that recognises that we need a radically different approach to preventing obesity. It brings together policy makers, communities, schools, urban planners, transport experts, and researchers to help develop and test whole system approaches that will act across every aspect of the city to save lives. Our local and national response to Covid-19 has shown what is possible with common purpose and collective endeavour. Let us put the same vigour and commitment to tackling the other pandemic. Follow @docjohnwright and radio producer @SueM1tchell on Twitter You may also be interested in... As a side-effect of the rise in childhood obesity, an increasing number of children are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes - particularly, in some UK cities, in the Asian community. Will the NHS consider an approach now being tried in the US, and offer these children bariatric surgery? Should children with type 2 diabetes be offered a gastric op?

विशेषज्ञों का कहना है कि अधिक वजन होने से आपको कोविड-19 से गंभीर बीमारी या मृत्यु का अधिक खतरा होता है-और अब पूरे ब्रिटेन में मोटापे के खिलाफ नई रणनीतियाँ शुरू की गई हैं। ब्रैडफोर्ड में, स्वस्थ जीवन शैली को बढ़ावा देने के लिए सामुदायिक योजनाएं समस्या के लिए एक नया दृष्टिकोण प्रदान करती हैं। शहर के रॉयल इन्फर्मरी के डॉ. जॉन राइट बताते हैं कि कट्टरपंथी सोच क्यों आवश्यक है।


Doctor Who actor Matt Smith auctions Vauxhall Corsa

Summary: Doctor Who actor Matt Smith has decided to auction his pre-Tardis vehicle - a Vauxhall Corsa he has owned since he was 18 - to help a charity which grants wishes to terminally ill children.

Smith, from Northampton, has donated his car to the Starlight Children's Foundation to auction on eBay. University of East Anglia graduate Smith, 30, who is an ambassador for the charity, nicknamed the car "The Shed". The silver-coloured car is parked at his parents' home in Northampton. 'Great little car' The eBay auction of the car, first registered on 30 November 2000 and with about 60,000 miles on the clock, runs until 18 July. Smith said: "While I have been travelling the universe in my Tardis, my much-loved Vauxhall Corsa, also known as The Shed, has been parked outside my parents' house. As my first ever car, it has seen lots of adventures, not to mention a fair few mishaps - hence the dents. "I got the car and then got into the National Youth Theatre - both life changers. I'll be very sad to see it go but I understand my parents want their driveway back. "I'd love to find a new owner for this great little car, particularly as all the profits will go to Starlight, which is an amazing charity that brightens the lives of seriously and terminally ill children." Smith, who has announced he is stepping down from his role of Doctor Who, will appear alongside Norfolk actor John Hurt - introduced as The Doctor at the end of the last series - in November's 50th anniversary episode.

डॉक्टर हू अभिनेता मैट स्मिथ ने अपने पूर्व-टार्डिस वाहन की नीलामी करने का फैसला किया है-एक वॉक्सहॉल कोर्सा जो उनके पास 18 साल की उम्र से है-एक दान की मदद करने के लिए जो घातक रूप से बीमार बच्चों को इच्छाएं प्रदान करता है।


Will a mental health champion make a difference in Northern Ireland?

Summary: Northern Ireland has the highest suicide rate in the UK.

By Niall McCrackenBBC News NI Successive Stormont governments have grappled with concerns about mental health provision. Health Minister Robin Swann announced last month he would appoint a mental health champion, to act as both a "government advocate" and "challenger of decisions". Some groups support the creation of the new post; others questioned whether its holder will have sufficient powers and be independent. What is the background to this? Northern Ireland's mental health problem has been well-documented in recent years. One Ulster University study said that almost 30% of the NI population suffer mental health problems, nearly half of which are directly related to the Troubles. Statistics suggest that proportionally more people take their own lives in Northern Ireland than elsewhere in the UK: The suicide rate for men is about twice the level of that in England. In January, dozens of high-profile figures signed a letter calling for Stormont to declare a public mental health emergency. Speaking before the coronavirus crisis, Health Minister Robin Swann said suicide prevention was his top priority. He says a mental health champion would be "a strong, effective and independent voice to advocate for mental health". The champion will also have a role to play in highlighting the importance of emotional wellbeing and mental health in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, says the health minister. On Wednesday, he published a Mental Health Action Plan for Northern Ireland. It contains 38 actions, including a commitment to produce a mental health strategy with which Mr Swann said the the mental health champion would play "an integral part". What powers will the champion have? The mental health champion will not be a formal public appointment, so will not have any powers based in legislation, instead making recommendations or lobbying for change. "We didn't get the full extent of going to a commissioner for the post and that's because of the time it would take to get to legislation to create that post," said Mr Swann this week. "What I wanted to do was move very quickly to get someone in post that would sit outside government, but could still hold us to account while we were still developing and working to a strategy." How have people reacted? Some local mental health groups have welcomed the creation of the post. David Babington from Action Mental Health said that while details about the role were unclear, its creation was a positive step. "There are acute, mental health needs in our communities requiring a unique solution and a champion with a dedicated focus will help achieve this," he said. "The announcement heralds a much needed and long overdue investment to drive change and achieve parity with physical services." Dr Gerry Lynch, chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists NI, said: "We welcome with caution, the plans released for the appointment of a mental health champion. "Such a champion could play a valuable role in ensuring that all areas of public life recognise the importance of taking effective steps to promote better mental health and inclusivity for those with mental illness." But others have voiced concerns. Sara Boyce, of the community group Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR), said the role's creation was "misguided and a misdirection of previous public resources". "PPR works with families bereaved by suicide and with people who struggle with their mental health," she said. "Our society already has mental health champions in all of these people. "Listening to their ideas to ensure timely and effective access to services - and urgently implementing these - should be the first port of call for the minister during this period." Michael and Marjorie Cawdery, from County Armagh, were killed in their home in April 2017 by a man with severe mental health issues. Their son-in-law, Charles Little, was the first person to arrive at the scene of their deaths. He said: "There are days you just wanted to sit down and cry because it had a tremendous impact on my family's mental health. "But we had to fight to get help and so, if there is going to be a mental health champion they need to be given powers and most importantly be independent, but that doesn't seem to be what the health minister is proposing." Mr Little added: "The minister has said the champion will be a public advocate for mental health and government advocate to support the department, how can you be both? It's a conflict of interest." Philip McTaggart's son died in 2003 and he has spent years working with bereaved families, through the organisation Prevention of Suicide and Self-Harm (PIPS). He said: "I understand the pressure the department of health and the minister is under at the minute, but my concern is that this role of mental health champion is more about the optics than actually making changes. "On the face of it, this champion will be able to offer advice without any real powers to change policy. "The money would be better spent in bolstering mental health services already in place." What about similar roles? In recent weeks, there have been announcements about a recruitment campaign for a Northern Ireland Veterans' Commissioner as well as a walking and cycling champion. But the creation of these roles are still in the early stages. Examples of positions in Northern Ireland that are public appointments and have statutory powers include the Children's Commissioner and the Northern Ireland Public Service Ombudsman. The Children's Commissioner has voiced concerns about the mental health champion role. "I'm not convinced we need a mental health champion, goodness knows there have been countless reports outlining where the gaps in our mental health services are," Koulla Yiasouma told BBC News NI, "I'm not sure what more that role could add to the conversation right now." She added: "I don't feel this is me being protectionist about the work of my office, but I think there is the danger of crossover and duplication with a mental champion role and there are already areas identified where we could be investing that money to make a difference." What happens now? The Department of Health says further details on the scope of the role and the appointment process will be made available within weeks. The department estimates it will cost up to £500,000 a year to run the champion's office, with the cost being share by all Stormont departments. The champion is expected to be in post by February.

ब्रिटेन में उत्तरी आयरलैंड में आत्महत्या की दर सबसे अधिक है।


How might one brush up on British history's Christian bits?

Summary: A survey has suggested that many people believe the children need to learn about Christianity to understand English history. But which bits of religious education do people need to brush up on to make sense of English, and indeed British, history, asks Stephen Tomkins.

Here is a brief revision guide for the uninitiated. 1. The Papacy The differences between Catholics and Protestants are many and complex, but the vital one for British history is that the Pope has absolute authority over the Catholic Church, while Protestant churches are free to work things out for themselves. Before the Reformation, the church was a central part of British society governed by a foreign ruler, so many conflicts revolved around papal authority, including the one which culminated in the murder of Thomas Becket. Come the Reformation, it was the chance to increase his own power at the expense of the Pope's that persuaded the ardently Catholic Henry VIII to break with Rome. After this break with papal absolutism, civil liberties such as freedom of speech were developed and marketed as "protestant freedoms". Opponents of Catholics regarded them as answerable to a foreign ruler, which led to ingrained hostility in the UK for centuries. They were viewed by some as being politically as well as spiritually suspect. Extra tip: Impress the examiners by mentioning that for two centuries it was the Pope rather than Guy Fawkes who was burned on Bonfire Night. 2. Divine rule It seems obvious to us today that we should choose our own leaders and laws. But in the Bible, God chose kings for Israel and wrote the law of the land, and political thinkers throughout much of British history believed their rulers and rules were also given by God. This helps to explain why it was such a long struggle for parliamentary democracy to develop, and the righteous fervour of defenders of royal power such as Charles I and the cavaliers. Extra tip: For full marks, note that this was - originally at least - a progressive idea. In the Middle Ages, the belief that the law is from God led to the principle, enshrined in Magna Carta, that the king is subject to it. The king does not impose his law on his people, God imposes his law on his people, which includes the king as much as anyone. 3. Uniformity Living in today's pluralistic society, it is hard to grasp how obvious it was to most British people until 300 years ago that the country should be united in one religion - as obvious as it is to us that we must all be subject to the same laws. Religious dissent threatened the whole fabric of society. This accounts for assaults on unsanctioned religions, from state executions of Protestants under Queen Mary, to mob attacks on Quakers and Baptists in the Restoration. Extra tip: Dazzle the examiners by using the phrase "cuius regio, eius religio" - whoever's realm, his religion. 4. Image of God Perhaps the most influential passage of the Bible in political history is one which could hardly sound less political - the creation. Genesis says that man and women were made "in the image of God". Ever since this idea made Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, outlaw facial branding, it has made the value of every individual a recurrent feature of political debates. It informed medieval restrictions on royal power, the Peasants' Revolt, the British enlightenment, the anti-slavery movement and the Labour movement. 5. Heaven and hell Again it's hard to grasp what a solid reality the afterlife was to most British people before the 20th Century. But without this, the sheer amount of time devoted religious debates, conflicts and movements throughout history is baffling and inexplicable. It mattered whether or not your religious pursuits were going to save your soul. Hence the passion of the debate between puritans and Arminians over such issues as whether vicars should wear robes, which helped feed the flames of the civil war that led to the execution of the King. Hence also the self-sacrificial drive of British missionaries in Africa, who inadvertently laid the foundation for imperial expansion there. It explains why Queen Mary was willing to burn 300 people who promoted the wrong faith, and why John Wesley rode over 250,000 miles round Britain in the evangelical revival. Extra tip: Why not round off your essay with a quote from Charles I - "I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown". Stephen Tomkins is the author of A Short History of Christianity

एक सर्वेक्षण ने सुझाव दिया है कि कई लोगों का मानना है कि बच्चों को अंग्रेजी इतिहास को समझने के लिए ईसाई धर्म के बारे में जानने की आवश्यकता है। लेकिन लोगों को अंग्रेजी और वास्तव में ब्रिटिश इतिहास को समझने के लिए धार्मिक शिक्षा के किन हिस्सों पर ध्यान देने की आवश्यकता है, स्टीफन टॉमकिन्स पूछते हैं।


Viewpoint: Why the Kashmir government fall is a tragedy

Summary: The break-up of the three-year-old coalition government in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is a setback for peace hopes in the region. The so-called "unnatural" alliance between the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the only way forward, writes Sumantra Bose.

How, it was asked, could the PDP, a pro-autonomy party formed in 1999, and the BJP, a Hindu nationalist party which has advocated a disciplinarian approach to Kashmir since the early 1950s, cohabit and co-operate? Their arrangement prompted puzzlement and derision but this missed a vital point. The constructive potential of the coalition lay precisely in its "unnatural" quality, because it signalled engagement between very different perspectives on the Kashmir conflict. There is international precedence for this kind of path based on engagement and negotiation between sworn adversaries professing incompatible objectives. It ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland after 1998, and eventually induced Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionists, both hardline parties, to jointly lead a power-sharing government for almost a decade from 2007 - a once unthinkable scenario. The great Nelson Mandela justified his engagement with the apartheid regime in order to craft a transition pact in South Africa thus: "You negotiate with your enemies, not your friends." Five things to know about Kashmir The coalition in Jammu and Kashmir was formed in March 2015 after elections produced a hung legislature. The two largest parties were the PDP, which won most of the seats from the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, and the BJP, which won most of the seats from the Hindu-majority Jammu region. The fractured result - the PDP won 28 seats in the 87-member legislature, while the BJP took 25 - threw up the intriguing possibility of partnership. Narendra Modi had led to his party to a parliamentary majority in India's general elections just seven months earlier. Mr Modi flew over from Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony in Jammu in person, after two months of behind-the-scenes negotiations. The defining image was of him clasping PDP leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the new head of the state government, in a bear-hug. Behind them was a table adorned with equal-sized versions of India's national tricolour and the state flag of Jammu and Kashmir. Hindu nationalists object to the state flag, as Indian states do not usually have their own flags. In an article on this website just after the PDP-BJP government took office, I noted that the coalition offered the prospect of ameliorating two of the three major dimensions of the Kashmir conflict: The other dimension - the India-Pakistan antagonism which has its focal point in the common fixation on Kashmir - was another matter. India and Pakistan both claim Kashmir in its entirety but control only parts of it. The coalition was based on a detailed written agreement called the "Agenda of Alliance". This was a joint statement which undertook to preserve the article of India's constitution that nominally grants special autonomous status and to review the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (Afspa), under which the Indian army has carte blanche power. The document's ambition went much further. "The purpose of this alliance", it stated, "is to catalyse reconciliation and confidence-building within and across the Line of Control [with Pakistani-administered Kashmir]" and "to [help] normalise the relationship with Pakistan". In order "to widen the ambit of democracy through inclusive politics", the agenda stated, "the coalition government will facilitate and help initiate a sustained and meaningful dialogue with all internal stakeholders irrespective of their ideological views" - a reference to the significant pro-independence and pro-Pakistan groups and their leaders in Indian-administered Kashmir. Moreover, the agreement promised to work towards "enhancing people-to-people contact across the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the disputed territory, by encouraging civil society exchanges and taking travel, commerce, trade and business across the line of control to the next level". On paper, the charter of the PDP-BJP coalition government represented both a vision and a roadmap for resolving the Kashmir conflict. But it remained just that - on paper. When I referred to the document as the political equivalent of toilet paper during interactions with students and youth in the Kashmir valley in mid-2017, no one laughed at the black humour. In hindsight, any prospect of advancing the vision-cum-roadmap ended with the death of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed at the start of 2016. Sayeed, a wily veteran of both Kashmiri and Indian politics over six decades, may have tried in due course to hold the BJP to the letter and spirit of the alliance charter, and pulled the plug if it did not. His daughter Mehbooba Mufti, who succeeded him, proved to be an unmitigated disaster as chief minister. She passively continued with the paralysed, dysfunctional coalition government after renewed turmoil gripped the valley from July 2016, until the BJP pulled the plug in June 2018. The timing of the BJP's move may be explained by a decision to project an untrammelled mailed-fist in the restive and recalcitrant valley in the countdown to India's general election in April-May 2019. But that still leaves the question of why, three years ago, Mr Modi's party made a pact with an "unnatural partner". The explanation that the BJP simply wanted to get into government in yet another state - and India's only Muslim-majority state, at that - has merit, but is not fully convincing. What is clear is that Mr Modi decided not to emulate the diplomacy-based and healing-touch strategy that Atal Behari Vajpayee, India's first Hindu nationalist prime minister, doggedly pursued vis-à-vis Kashmir (and Pakistan) in the very difficult period between 1999 and 2004. In August 2016, a month after mass protests gripped the valley for the first time since the summer of 2010, Mr Modi framed the problem, in an address to an all-party meeting in Delhi convened by his government, as simply one of "cross-border terrorism". In April 2017, in a speech to a large political rally in the Jammu region, he called on the valley's angry youth to abjure "terrorism" and instead seek "progress through tourism", citing "every Indian's dream of visiting Kashmir [at least] once". The PDP-BJP coalition government of 2015-2018 is the newest addition to the overflowing dustbin of the Kashmir conflict's 70-year history. But - and this is the irony - the vision and the roadmap articulated in the 2015 Agenda of Alliance represents the only feasible path to a better future. Such a future will need to bring together many unnatural partners in a pragmatic compromise. Sumantra Bose is Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His latest book, Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism has just been published by Cambridge University Press.

भारतीय राज्य जम्मू और कश्मीर में तीन साल पुरानी गठबंधन सरकार का टूटना इस क्षेत्र में शांति की उम्मीदों के लिए एक झटका है। सुमंत्र बोस लिखते हैं कि पीपुल्स डेमोक्रेटिक पार्टी (पीडीपी) और भारत की सत्तारूढ़ भारतीय जनता पार्टी (भाजपा) के बीच तथाकथित "अप्राकृतिक" गठबंधन ही आगे बढ़ने का एकमात्र रास्ता था।


Police stand-off as man pours petrol inside Blackpool bank

Summary: A man on a mobility scooter is in a stand-off with police after he went into a bank in Blackpool and poured petrol inside.

Emergency services were called at about 14:10 BST to the Halifax Bank on Church Street in the resort. There are no members of staff in the bank building and a negotiator was on scene, Lancashire Police said. Nearby buildings have been evacuated and people are being asked to avoid the area. Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk

ब्लैकपूल में एक बैंक में जाकर पेट्रोल डालने के बाद मोबिलिटी स्कूटर पर सवार एक व्यक्ति पुलिस के साथ गतिरोध में है।


Panama Papers Q&A: What is the scandal about?

Summary: A huge leak of documents has lifted the lid on how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth. The files were leaked from one of the world's most secretive companies, a Panamanian law firm called Mossack Fonseca.

What are the Panama Papers? The files show how Mossack Fonseca clients were able to launder money, dodge sanctions and avoid tax. In one case, the company offered an American millionaire fake ownership records to hide money from the authorities. This is in direct breach of international regulations designed to stop money laundering and tax evasion. It is the biggest leak in history, dwarfing the data released by the Wikileaks organisation in 2010. For context, if the amount of data released by Wikileaks was equivalent to the population of San Francisco, the amount of data released in the Panama Papers is the equivalent to that of India. You can find our special report on the revelations here. Who is in the papers? There are links to 12 current or former heads of state and government in the data, including dictators accused of looting their own countries. More than 60 relatives and associates of heads of state and other politicians are also implicated. The files also reveal a suspected billion-dollar money laundering ring involving close associates of Russia's President, Vladimir Putin. Also mentioned are the brother-in-law of China's President Xi Jinping; Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko; Argentina President Mauricio Macri; the late father of UK Prime Minister David Cameron and three of the four children of Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The documents show that Iceland's Prime Minister, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, had an undeclared interest linked to his wife's wealth. He has now resigned. The scandal also touches football's world governing body, Fifa. Part of the documents suggest that a key member of Fifa's ethics committee, Uruguayan lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani, and his firm provided legal assistance for at least seven offshore companies linked to a former Fifa vice-president arrested last May as part of the US inquiry into football corruption. The leak has also revealed that more than 500 banks, including their subsidiaries and branches, registered nearly 15,600 shell companies with Mossack Fonseca. Lenders have denied allegations that they are helping clients to avoid tax by using complicated offshore arrangements. How do tax havens work? Although there are legitimate ways of using tax havens, most of what has been going on is about hiding the true owners of money, the origin of the money and avoiding paying tax on the money. You can read more on how tax havens work here. Some of the main allegations centre on the creation of shell companies, that have the outward appearance of being legitimate businesses, but are just empty shells. They do nothing but manage money, while hiding who owns it. One of the media partners involved in the investigation, McClatchy, has more on how shell companies work in this video. What do those involved have to say? Mossack Fonseca says it has operated beyond reproach for 40 years and never been accused or charged with criminal wrong-doing. Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the reports were down to "journalists and members of other organisations actively trying to discredit Putin and this country's leadership". Publication of the leaks may be down to "former employees of the State Department, the CIA, other security services," he said. In an interview with a Swedish television channel, Mr Gunnlaugsson said his business affairs were above board and broke off the interview. Fifa said it is now investigating Mr Damiani, who told Reuters on Sunday that he broke off relations with the Fifa member under investigation as soon as the latter had been accused of corruption. Who leaked the Panama Papers? The 11.5m documents were obtained by the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The ICIJ then worked with journalists from 107 media organisations in 76 countries, including UK newspaper the Guardian, to analyse the documents over a year. The BBC does not know the identity of the source but the firm says it has been the victim of a hack from servers based abroad. In all, the details of 214,000 entities, including companies, trusts and foundations, were leaked. The information in the documents dates back to 1977, and goes up to December last year. Emails make up the largest type of document leaked, but images of contracts and passports were also released. How can I read the papers? So far, a searchable archive is not available at the moment. There is a huge amount of data, and much of it reportedly includes personal information (including passport details), and does not necessarily include those suspected of criminal activity. Having said that, there is plenty of information out there. The ICIJ has put together a comprehensive list of the main figures implicated here - you can also search by country. You can sign up on the ICIJ's website for any major updates on the Panama Papers here. Panama Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #PanamaPapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag "Panama Papers"

दस्तावेजों के एक बड़े रिसाव ने इस बात पर पर्दा डाल दिया है कि कैसे अमीर और शक्तिशाली लोग अपनी संपत्ति को छिपाने के लिए कर पनाहगाहों का उपयोग करते हैं। ये फाइलें दुनिया की सबसे गुप्त कंपनियों में से एक, मोसैक फोंसेका नामक पनामा की एक कानूनी फर्म से लीक हुई थीं।


Are these the worst examples of business jargon?

Summary: Earlier this year, when we set about to demystify some of the worst business jargon at the World Economic Forum in Davos , we could not have imagined it would hit so many of our readers' raw nerves.

By Joe MillerBBC News Hundreds felt compelled to get in touch with their own submissions, some unprintable, but the best of which we have "outlined" below. There was, of course, plenty of criticism of our selections, with many objecting to the singling out of "benchmarking" - a term that has been in use in many disciplines for several decades - and a passionate debate about the precise meaning of "negative feedback loops", more of which later. But perhaps the wittiest critique came from Charles Crowe, who maintains that "all these explanations lack granularity and do not contain metrics sufficient to let us know if we need a new paradigm". We have taken that on board, Charles. Agile Alec Finney vented his frustration: "Everything HAS to be AGILE now. Managing projects, building computer systems, having lunch." There was no shortage of agility at Davos, come to think of it. Indeed, shaping the "agile governance of technology" was one of the key themes of 2018's World Economic Forum. As of yet Hugo Pettingell emailed: "When I was a lad 'as yet' was considered sufficient to indicate 'until now'. Or am I being picky? Bit like the unnecessary 'per' in 'as per usual'." We think you are being a tad picky with the last one, Hugo. "As per usual" was used as far back as 1923, by none other than acclaimed writer Katherine Mansfield. Bafflegab? Pete S wondered what we should call this jargon: "When my father worked in the Pentagon in the '60s this claptrap was called 'bafflegab'," he emailed. "What is the term now? Perhaps, 'globaloney'?" Bandwidth "I don't have the bandwidth for this" - meaning "I don't have the time or capacity". Adrian Watt added: "probably destined to become interchangeable with headspace". Centre around This one irked David Burns. It's widely used, but pedants, or "careful writers" as the Routledge Student Guide to English Usage calls us, would do best to avoid the phrase, as strictly speaking, a "central point cannot go around something else". De-risk "I think it means to reduce the risk of something happening or to dump risky stuff (it's always stuff) somewhere," said Richard Nash. Your guess is as good as ours, Richard. Forward planning Robert Webb joined many in submitting this hideous phrase for consideration. "Planning is always for the future so the addition of "FORWARD" is totally irrelevant," he fumed. High net worth individuals (or HNWIs) David Burns again. "Of course," he wrote, "Davos is not for rich people, it is for 'high net worth individuals'." Well, and for low net worth journalists, David. Learning receptor units A gem courtesy of Michael Rosenthal, of Warwick University. "Take a look at the language university administrators use," he emailed. "Some time around 2000 I wrote 'our principal aim must be to maximise the cost-effective throughput of learning receptor units' in a document that went through two or three meetings before someone suggested we might substitute 'students' for 'learning receptor units'." Negative Feedback Loop - THE BACKLASH Such was the level of feedback to this entry (irony alert), that it almost took the BBC email servers offline. "Sorry to have to correct you but your explanation of negative feedback loop is totally the opposite of its true meaning," wrote Airbus spacecraft engineer Ian Walters, joining a chorus of condemnation. "A negative feedback loop, as used in every control system on the planet, provides stability by feeding back a control signal that is opposite to, or negative, to the measured error." "You perfectly describe a system having positive feedback from one economy onto others." Steve D, who works for the UK government, had similar expertise to impart. "You're incorrect about the negative feedback loop, also known as balancing loop. This is a term from systems dynamics. It happens when an increase in something feeds into a loop of interactions that ultimately tends to dampen down the increase." Helpfully, he provided an example: "In predator-prey modelling, suppose the number of rabbits increases because more grass is available. This leads, because of the ready availability in wolf food, i.e. rabbits, to an increase in the number of wolves. However they eat more rabbits, decreasing the overall number of rabbits. Less food is available for wolves so their numbers decrease, which means more rabbits survive. The populations eventually stabilise, based around the new amount of food available for rabbits." Jim from Warrington joined dozens of others in suggesting "negative feedback loop" - in business jargon - is used to connote what is actually a positive feedback loop. That, he explained, "is what happens when an output is fed back into the input, making things spiral out of control - for example, bringing a microphone close to a loudspeaker - a small sound picked up by the mic gets amplified, output by the speaker, picked up by the mic - pretty soon your ears are hurting." Thank you all. You can stop emailing now. Onboarding Adrian Watt again: "Variously applied to people (recruiting, signing up or otherwise involving) and things, such as software (acquiring or implementing). All of which still sound like better words than onboarding." Paradigm shift How on earth did we miss this one? Clearly by not pivoting quickly enough. Quarterbacking (as a verb) This one, according to Oliver Cann, the long-suffering head of media content at the World Economic Forum, is "moving up the rankings". Its origins, of course, are from American Football, in which the quarterback plays a leading role. Hence the transitive verb, meaning, to "direct or organise something". Becomes less offensive (excuse the pun), as the NFL becomes more popular worldwide. Variable geometry UK diplomat John Derrick, via Twitter, recalled this being used in Brussels: "GCSE maths was a long time ago but I'm fairly sure geometry wasn't variable," he says. It does, apparently, have an official, and timely, definition. According to an EU glossary, the term is used "to describe a method of differentiated integration in the European Union." You might also like: "It acknowledges that, particularly since the EU's membership almost doubled in under a decade, there may be irreconcilable differences among countries and that there should be a means to resolve such stalemates." While geometry may or may not be variable, one thing remains stubbornly enduring - business people's abuse of the English language.

इस साल की शुरुआत में, जब हम दावोस में विश्व आर्थिक मंच में कुछ सबसे खराब व्यावसायिक शब्दजाल का खंडन करने के बारे में थे, तो हम कल्पना भी नहीं कर सकते थे कि यह हमारे कई पाठकों की नसों को प्रभावित करेगा।


Viewpoint: A day to celebrate the pale blue dot

Summary: More than 50 years of travelling invisible interplanetary highways around our Solar System, and nearly a decade of orbiting Saturn, have brought us to a keen awareness of the celestial bodies in motion around the Sun, and the series of events responsible for their birth and development.

By Dr Carolyn PorcoCassini Imaging Team Leader We could hardly claim to know the complexity of the planetary systems that lie beyond the asteroid belt, the chronology of the early Solar System, or the wide range of extraterrestrial environments where biological processes might be at work, were it not for the many exploratory expeditions that we have mounted to these far-flung worlds. But perhaps, above all, the greatest, most profound legacy of the quest we have undertaken to understand our origins is perspective... that crystalline, uncorrupted view of our cosmic place that erodes all delusion and confronts us with a powerful recognition of ourselves - a recognition that never fails to move us. It is surely for this reason that of all the millions of images taken of the worlds in our Solar System since the beginning of the space age, those that reach deeper into the human heart than any other, are those of our own home, as it might be seen in the skies of other worlds: small, alone in the blackness of never-ending space and awash in the blue of its blue, blue oceans. Cassini's first offering to this collection, taken in September 2006 when the spacecraft was placed, for scientific purposes, at significant remove in the shadow of Saturn, has become one of our most beloved images. This is an image that draws gasps from anyone seeing it for the first time. Small wonder: in it, we behold something human eyes had never before seen - a backlit view of the full resplendent glory of Saturn's rings during an eclipse of the Sun, the smoky blue ring created by the exhalations of the small moon, Enceladus, and - best of all - a sight of our planet, Earth, a billion miles in the distance. This is an image without peer, an image that can make one weep with joy, love, concern, an abiding sense of fellowship, and unspeakable awe. As I have contemplated the inevitable and approaching end of our history-making travels through the Saturn system, I have longed to repeat that remarkable image, make it even better, and turn it into something very special. I imagined making it an opportunity for all of us to appreciate how far we have come in the exploration of our cosmic neighbourhood and to celebrate the uniqueness of our lush, life-sustaining world and the preciousness of the life on it. I wanted to repeat that image, only this time, tell all the world about it in advance. Proclaim it to everyone everywhere: "On this day, at this time, you, the Earth and everybody on it will have their picture taken ... from a billion miles away!" This could be a day, I thought, when all the inhabitants of Earth, in unison, could issue a full-throated, cosmic shout-out and smile a big one for the cameras far, far away. And so it will be. On 19 July 2013, the Cassini cameras will be turned to image Saturn and its entire ring system during the planet's eclipse of the Sun. In the lower right, among the outer diffuse rings that encircle Saturn, will be a small speck of blue light with all of us on it. A mosaic of images covering the rings from one end to the other, some taken in those filters that are used to make a natural colour scene - that looks like what human eyes would see - will be taken at this time. Also to be recorded: an image of the highest resolution that we are capable of taking, in which we will find Earth and its Moon. One will be a colourless, star-like point of light. The other, of course, will be a pale blue dot. So, at the appointed time, straighten up, brush your hair, go outside, gather with friends and family, think a thought or two about the starkness of our whereabouts, the beauty of our home planet, the marvel of our existence, and the magnificence of our accomplishments. And then, look up and smile. For updates on the activities taking place on 19 July, follow @carolynporco on Twitter and visit http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/193/ Carolyn Porco is the leader of the imaging team on the Cassini mission at Saturn and a veteran imaging scientist on the 1980s Voyager mission. She participated in the taking of the famous 1990 Pale Blue Dot image of Earth taken from beyond the orbit of Neptune by Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft.

हमारे सौर मंडल के चारों ओर 50 से अधिक वर्षों की अदृश्य अंतरग्रहीय राजमार्गों की यात्रा और शनि की परिक्रमा करने के लगभग एक दशक ने हमें सूर्य के चारों ओर गति में खगोलीय पिंडों और उनके जन्म और विकास के लिए जिम्मेदार घटनाओं की श्रृंखला के बारे में गहरी जागरूकता प्रदान की है।


The rapper's track that sparked a wave of killings

Summary: When a video of an attack on one of the UK's biggest rap stars went viral, three young people were murdered in the London borough of Haringey over the next 10 weeks. Tensions have long existed between rival gangs in Wood Green and Tottenham, but they rapidly escalated two years ago as tit-for-tat attacks were filmed and posted on Snapchat and YouTube.

Ken (youth worker in North London): There's a dispute between Tottenham and Wood Green. This has been going on for a number of years. It's a postcode war - N17 versus N22. I'm hesitant to call them "gangs" but the violence is specifically around their lifestyle, the music and the disrespect that they've shown to each other - all played out on social media. Three deaths in 10 weeks Johnny (young man from Tottenham - not his real name): I don't believe a truce will ever be made between the two sides, cos it's always just tit for tat, d'ya know what I'm saying? They're at war cos they've lost friends, they've lost family members. It's just like the Bloods versus the Crips man! Nelson (young man from Wood Green - also an alias): They call it a "beef war". Headie One is a rapper from Tottenham. They [attacked him] at a university [in Luton] and they filmed it. If you're from Wood Green it's, "Yeah, we've got one up." They're scoring points. Then there's a chain reaction. The other side is going to retaliate. Ken: A short space of time after what happened at the university, we're looking at [posts of] another violent incident. A young man has been shot in the neck. This is all done to humiliate, it's done to intimidate. It's to say, "You touch one of us, we'll come back and touch you." The shooting took place in Wood Green on Saturday 27 January - the day after the video of Headie One being attacked in Luton was put online. The man who was shot in the neck survived, as did a second shooting victim. A video taunting Wood Green was posted immediately. And the day after that - Sunday 28 January - Headie One uploaded a track, Know Better, to YouTube. It was later released by Sony imprint Relentless Records. Ken: That song is disturbing to me, because it's quite clear that what he's actually pushing out in the song is what apparently took place: a "loss" in Luton, a "win" in Wood Green. There's such a close connection between what's happening and how they put it into verse. That track now has nearly nine million views on YouTube. Nelson: Headie One, he's come out of nowhere, he's made this song. Now it's all over Radio One but they're not understanding the lyrics in that song. A loss in Luton, a win in Wood Green. He's referring to that person that got shot in his neck. What's being said are facts relating to real people, what he is saying is real. That person that got shot in his neck, his parents got to listen to that. Everyone from Wood Green knew exactly what he was referring to. Everyone was upset. Even if you wasn't exactly a gang member but maybe an affiliate or just someone from the area, you was upset. I don't want to knock anyone's hustle or way of getting legit and bettering their life. Music is a way for a lot of people. But everyone was tense. On Saturday 3 February, 22-year-old Kwabena "Kobi" Nelson was murdered in Tottenham. Ama (cousin of Kwabena "Kobi" Nelson): I essentially found out on Snapchat. I started seeing posts - broken heart, broken heart, broken heart. And then people were DM-ing me "Sorry for your loss. Sorry for your loss. Sorry for your loss." And I'm like, "Sorry for what loss?" Then I got the call. I was like, "What do you mean Kobi's been stabbed?" Kobi was my younger cousin. He was all about bringing communities together. He was a youth worker. He passed away on 3 February 2018. I know this happened [because] of what's been going on in the community - the knife crime and stabbings. Why it's happened to Kobi is what I don't understand. Kobi wasn't involved in any gangs. But living in Tottenham does make you more susceptible to certain situations, and this is one of them. Ken: I did know Kobi. He was doing a lot of work with young people who were caught up in that lifestyle, trying to get them to turn their life around. But Kobi became, by association, a high-value target and happened to be in the wrong place. It's unforgivable what was done to Kobi, he was a man of peace. He wasn't involved in violence but you don't have to be involved to get caught up. Ama: When they told me Kobi was dead, I was just in shock. It was right by our childhood park, so where we had a lot of memories. To know that's also the place where he lost his life, it really cut deep. Every day is still a hard day. It's just that you get better at dealing with it. Nelson: I honestly don't know but I can say wholeheartedly I kind of feel like if those posts and that song didn't go out, the tension, or the intention, wouldn't have been this situation for Kobi. There is a very strong chance that it might not have happened, because there wouldn't have really been no fuel added to the fire. Find out more Listen to Oliver Newlan's File on 4 documentary, Taking the Rap, presented by Livvy Haydock, on BBC Sounds Ama: Drill has never been my kind of music because I can't really relate. I can't stand listening to songs where people are just saying: "I'm gonna kill this person, I'm gonna kill this person." When I learned about the Headie One thing I knew there could be retaliation. I don't want to solely say it's because of that song. I believe that it had a huge bearing on the fate of Kobi, but it's not the only factor. The young people in our community are traumatised. On 8 March 2018, five weeks after the murder of Kobi Nelson in Tottenham, 19-year-old rapper Kelvin Odunuyi was shot dead outside the Vue cinema in Wood Green. Police believe the second murder was a direct response to the first. Kai (Kelvin's brother): Kelvin was pretty cool - he was calm, peaceful. He was a nice little loving brother of mine. Unfortunately with all the gangs and everything that came in after we moved to Wood Green, it went sideways very quickly and he changed - he changed for the worse, in my personal opinion. Ken: He put a post on social media outside where he was standing, you know, which also gave the location where he was at. And within 15 minutes of him posting that last post, then the guys ride up on him. They came up on a moped, you know, on to the actual paved area, and they actually did what they did. Kai: A mate of mine texts me saying that something happened to my brother. I was like, "What do you mean something happened to my brother?" I realised my mum and nobody was in the house. I was like, "What happened?" Then I found out, when they come back, that my brother had passed away. I couldn't think straight always, I was completely depressed around that time, like completely - especially because of all the people bad-mouthing him on social media. People were cussing him out on his deathbed, all of that, saying, "Come threaten the family. Come do us in." It's just not right. On 2 April, 17-year-old Tanesha Melbourne-Blake was shot dead in Tottenham. Police believe her death was linked to the gang feud. Hakeem (Tanesha's brother): I literally just got back from university. I just put my bags down and then I got a phone call from my brother saying that she got shot, but I didn't really believe it. I went straight down to where she got shot. We ended up pushing past the police, jumping over the walls, and then we realised it was her. She was on the floor. Even just picturing it now, I still don't believe it. Ken: A young lady with all her future ahead of her lost her life, only because she was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. And she wasn't the intended target, I'm quite convinced of that. Hakeem: She was spontaneous. She was just a bubble of life, really. She was always singing, always wanted to make something of herself. Ken: I have been out there for almost 15 years, and that time resonates with me, because of the intensity and the regularity of the violence. It was senseless, it was savage, it was uncalled for, and I really don't want to see a period like that ever again in my lifetime. I don't believe that social media was the only factor but I believe that social media ignited the actual explosion that was experienced around that time. Drill artists that make money from producing lyrics that glorify someone losing their life - it inflames the situation. It gives out the wrong impression that this is what we do in the black community. This is not what we do. We're fed up seeing this type of violence in our community. Hakeem: I'm basically trying to do a [TV drama] series which shows how a person's life can change - and how to break the cycle of violence. It's a matter of who's willing to break the cycle, cos people can't themselves - literally, they need a pioneer. Ama: I always felt as if, at some point, I was going to give back to my community or work with my community. But when you lose a family member in this kind of way, it creates an urgency, you know, it's not something that can now wait. This is something that needs to be addressed. I deliver mental health first aid training. I developed a capacity-building programme in schools, in church, in Haringey, to empower young people to have positive aspirations. When I wake up in the morning and I see the young people on the streets, I see the young people getting on the bus going to school, that is my hope. The BBC asked Headie One to comment, but he declined. Snapchat says it takes swift action when offenders are reported and that it works closely with the police. YouTube told the BBC it was working with the Met Police and the Home Office to tackle gang-related content. Neron Quartey from Wood Green is serving a life sentence for the murder of Kobi Nelson - but the investigations into Kobi's death, and the deaths of Kelvin Odunuyi and Tanesha Melbourne-Blake remain active. Interviews by Livvy Haydock, additional reporting by Alys Harte

जब ब्रिटेन के सबसे बड़े रैप सितारों में से एक पर हमले का एक वीडियो वायरल हुआ, तो अगले 10 हफ्तों में लंदन के हेरिंगे में तीन युवाओं की हत्या कर दी गई। वुड ग्रीन और टोटेनहम में प्रतिद्वंद्वी गिरोहों के बीच तनाव लंबे समय से मौजूद है, लेकिन वे तेजी से बढ़ गए क्योंकि दो साल पहले स्नैपचैट और यूट्यूब पर टाइट-फॉर-टेट हमलों को फिल्माया और पोस्ट किया गया था।


Summary of Budget 2020: Key points at-a-glance

Summary: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his first Budget in the House of Commons, announcing the government's tax and spending plans for the year ahead.

Here is a summary of the main points. Coronavirus and public services Personal taxation, wages and pensions Alcohol, tobacco and fuel Business, digital and science Environment and energy Transport, infrastructure and housing The state of the economy and public finances Nations and regions

चांसलर ऋषि सुनक ने आगामी वर्ष के लिए सरकार की कर और व्यय योजनाओं की घोषणा करते हुए हाउस ऑफ कॉमन्स में अपना पहला बजट पेश किया है।


Brit Awards 2018: The winners and nominees

Summary: The Brit Awards have been handed out to the best music acts from the UK and beyond at the O2 Arena in London. The winners and nominees are:

British male solo artist British female solo artist British group British breakthrough act Critics' choice British single British album of the year British artist video of the year International male solo artist International female solo artist International group Brits Global Success Award British producer of the year Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

ब्रिट पुरस्कार लंदन के ओ2 एरिना में यू. के. और उससे आगे के सर्वश्रेष्ठ संगीत कृत्यों को दिए गए हैं। विजेता और नामांकित व्यक्ति हैंः


George Floyd death: Five key moments from the Derek Chauvin trial

Summary: The death of George Floyd, a 48-year-old black man, while he was being restrained by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, during an arrest in Minneapolis in May 2020, shocked the world and sparked global protests about racism and police brutality.

Chauvin's three-week trial - on charges of murder and manslaughter - has now resulted in his conviction. Here are five key moments from the trial which heard from 45 witnesses and saw hours of video footage filmed by bystanders. 1. Impact of arrest on witnesses Some of the most powerful testimony came in the first days of the trial when witnesses spoke of what they saw that day. Darnella, who was 17 at the time of Mr Floyd's death, filmed the video that went viral around the world. She told the jury there were nights when she stayed up "apologising to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life". "When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad. I look at my brothers, I look at my cousins, my uncles. Because they are all black," she said. Emotional testimony also came from Charles McMillian, 61, who had been among the first on the scene and had tried to persuade Mr Floyd to get in the police car. He broke down in tears watching graphic footage of the arrest in court, saying he had felt "helpless" as events unfolded and explained that he had confronted Chauvin after Mr Floyd was taken away in an ambulance because "what I watched was wrong". The defence has argued that the presence of bystanders influenced Chauvin's actions that day. The court heard from one Minneapolis police officer, Peter Chang, that the crowd had been "very aggressive to the officers", while Nicole McKenzie, who trains the city's police on providing medical care, said the presence of bystanders at an arrest could make it harder for officers to see signs of distress in those they detained. 2. Emotional testimony from girlfriend Another powerful moment came when Mr Floyd's girlfriend of three years, Courteney Ross, took the stand. She described their first meeting, in the lobby of a Salvation Army homeless shelter, where Mr Floyd worked as a security guard, and how he had been devastated by his mother's death in 2018. Ms Ross also told the court they both suffered from chronic pain, which led to an off-and-on struggle with opioid addiction. "We got addicted and tried really hard to break that addiction many times," she testified. One of the defence's arguments has been that Mr Floyd died largely because of complications from the opioids and methamphetamine he had in his system at the time of his arrest. 3. Was force justified? Another key issue at the heart of this trial has been whether Derek Chauvin violated policies on restraint when he kneeled on George Floyd's neck for nine and a half minutes. The head of Minneapolis police, Chief Medaria Arradondo, was one of the prosecution's most high-profile witnesses and had fired Chauvin a day after the arrest. He told the court that the police officer should have stopped applying "that level of force" the moment Mr Floyd stopped resisting. "It's not part of our training and it's certainly not part of our ethics or values" to continue with such force, he said. Defence witness Barry Brodd, a use-of-force expert, said Chauvin had been "justified" and acted "with objective reasonableness" because of the "imminent threat" Mr Floyd posed in resisting arrest. However, he did concede under cross-examination that the dangers of positional asphyxia - not being able to breathe in a certain position - were well-known among law enforcers. 4. Cause of death The cause of Mr Floyd's death was arguably central to this trial, with the prosecution maintaining he died from asphyxia while the defence pointed to Mr Floyd's drug use and general poor health. Dr Martin Tobin, an expert in pulmonary medicine, used video footage to explain what was happening to Mr Floyd's breathing during the nine and a half minutes he lay under Chauvin's knee. Even "a healthy person, subjected to what Mr Floyd was subjected to, would have died," he said. A key witness for the defence, forensic pathologist David Fowler, said Mr Floyd's death should have been classified as "undetermined" rather than as a homicide, because there were "so many conflicting different potential mechanisms". Complicating factors included Mr Floyd's drug use and possible exposure to carbon monoxide poisoning from the police car's exhaust, said Dr Fowler, who was chief medical examiner for the state of Maryland until his retirement in 2019. However, under cross-examination he agreed that Mr Floyd should have been given immediate medical attention when he went into cardiac arrest, as there still was a chance to save his life. 5. Taking the Fifth Amendment Just before the defence rested its case, the man on trial - Derek Chauvin - confirmed to the judge that he would not testify. "I will invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege today," he said, referring to the constitutional right to remain silent in fear of self-incrimination. Asked by the judge whether this was his decision alone, and whether anyone else had unfairly influenced his decision, Chauvin responded: "No promises or threats, your honour." Chauvin pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree unintentional murder - for which he could be jailed for up to 40 years - third-degree murder, and manslaughter. The jury took under a day to return a unanimous verdict convicting him of all charges.

मई 2020 में मिनियापोलिस में एक गिरफ्तारी के दौरान एक श्वेत पुलिस अधिकारी, डेरेक चाउविन द्वारा रोके जाने के दौरान एक 48 वर्षीय अश्वेत व्यक्ति, जॉर्ज फ्लॉयड की मौत ने दुनिया को चौंका दिया और नस्लवाद और पुलिस की क्रूरता के बारे में वैश्विक विरोध प्रदर्शनों को जन्म दिया।


Five Afghan policemen killed in Uruzgan bomb blast

Summary: Five Afghan policemen have been killed by a roadside bomb in central Uruzgan province, officials say.

They say another person - reportedly a civilian - was injured when the bomb hit a police patrol vehicle. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack late on Friday. Taliban insurgents frequently use roadside bombs against Afghan security forces and also Nato-led troops in the country. Afghan police are particular targets for the Taliban - as Kabul prepares to take over security responsibilities from the Nato-led coalition in 2014.

अधिकारियों का कहना है कि मध्य उरुजगन प्रांत में सड़क किनारे हुए बम विस्फोट में पांच अफगान पुलिसकर्मी मारे गए हैं।


Iranian campaigners debate gender ruling

Summary: Iran's mainstream media have applauded a recent Supreme Court ruling on equal compensation for men and women in cases such as death or bodily harm. But this ostensibly radical ruling has not impressed everyone in Iran.

By News from Elsewhere......as found by BBC Monitoring State-run IRINN TV was profuse in its coverage of the new ruling which introduces "uniform practice" and removes the ambiguities of a 2013 law that has been interpreted differently by different courts. The basis for the ruling is the complex and often controversial Islamic law known as Deyah (or blood money) which awards damages for injury or death in accidents and other circumstances. In murder cases, the family of the murderer pays Deyah to the victim's family. The amount given to male victims is twice as much as female victims in compliance with Sharia law as practised in the Shia Muslim country. "All courts are now bound to respect the equality of men and women in Islamic restitution," Massoumeh Ebtekar, the vice-president for women and family affairs, tweeted in praise of the decision. Sections of the media, including the Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) media, have described it as the final step in ending gender inequality in this area. Seeking 'genuine equality' Campaigns against inequality in Deyah have increased over the years as Iranian women have become more vocal about their rights. When a fire killed two girls and injured 30 at a primary school in Shinabad village in 2012, not only were the girls and their families entitled to only half of what school boys would have received but they also spent years chasing the compensation promised by the government. "Imagine how different it could have been for the Shinabadi girls" if the ruling had been in place then, Twitter user @amindlv wondered. You might also like: Iranian singer gets summons over solo performance Altered Images: Why some media in Iran doctor photos of women Iranian women threw off the hijab - what happened next? Campaigners want the ruling to cover all aspects of the law relating to gender equality. Activist and journalist, Niloufar Hamedi, likened the ruling to "hush money being paid to keep women from demanding genuine equality". She was speaking in a video published on Twitter and on the website of reformist newspaper, Etemad. There is also some discontent on social media about taxpayers footing the bill. "If for example a woman is murdered, the murderer still pays half of a man's restitution money and the other half is paid out of the pocket of the rest of the nation," prominent Iranian journalist Saba Azarpeik tweeted. Interestingly, this legal development was kept under wraps for six weeks. It was reported in state media on 2 July and commented on by President Hassan Rouhani the following day. But the ruling had been made on 21 May. Reporting by Nel Hodge and Arash Momenianesfahani Next story: North Korea develops software to teach ideology Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.

ईरान के मुख्यधारा के मीडिया ने मौत या शारीरिक नुकसान जैसे मामलों में पुरुषों और महिलाओं के लिए समान मुआवजे पर हाल ही में सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फैसले की सराहना की है। लेकिन इस स्पष्ट रूप से कट्टरपंथी फैसले ने ईरान में सभी को प्रभावित नहीं किया है।