Newcastle Islamic school vandalism is 'hate crime'

Summary: A vandal attack at an Islamic school on Tyneside is being treated as a hate crime, police have said.

Graffiti and offensive images were scrawled on walls of the Bahr Academy in the West End of Newcastle. Furniture was overturned, items broken and copies of the Koran thrown on the floor. Northumbria Police has appealed for information about the attack, which happened between Thursday night and Friday morning. The vandalism was condemned by Nick Forbes, the leader of Newcastle City Council, who tweeted that he was "outraged". Related Internet Links Northumbria Police

पुलिस ने कहा है कि टाइनसाइड में एक इस्लामी स्कूल में तोड़फोड़ के हमले को घृणा अपराध के रूप में माना जा रहा है।


Man dies as his BMW overturns in Gloucestershire lane

Summary: A man in his 40s died when the car he was driving in overturned in the Forest of Dean.

The incident happened in Eddys Lane, Ruardean, at about 15:30 BST on Saturday. Emergency services were alerted after members of the public reported a BMW had crashed. The motorist's next-of-kin have been informed and Gloucestershire Police are appealing for witnesses to the collision.

40 वर्षीय एक व्यक्ति की मृत्यु हो गई जब वह जिस कार में गाड़ी चला रहा था वह डीन के जंगल में पलट गई।


Cyclist, 79, dies following West Lothian lorry accident

Summary: A cyclist who died in hospital days after an accident involving a lorry in West Lothian has been named as pensioner Douglas Brown.

Mr Brown, 79, from the Leith area of Edinburgh, was seriously injured in the collision on the B9080 Linlithgow to Kirkliston Road near Winchburgh Bing, at about 10.30 on Thursday 11 July. He died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Sunday. Police are continuing to investigate the cause of the collision. Officers have also appealed for any witnesses to contact them.

वेस्ट लोथियन में एक लॉरी की दुर्घटना के कुछ दिनों बाद अस्पताल में मरने वाले एक साइकिल चालक को पेंशनभोगी डगलस ब्राउन के रूप में नामित किया गया है।


Frank Whittle: The underrated British hero who built a jet engine

Summary: Eighty years ago, a piece of world-changing technology emerged from a semi-derelict garage in Leicestershire - the world's first viable jet engine. But as Frank Whittle's invention took to the skies it prompted a flurry of questions within the British establishment. Had the project been neglected - and was its emergence too late to change the shape of World War Two?

By Jennifer HarbyBBC News An industrial estate on the edge of a market town is an incongruous place to find a Grade II-listed building. Lorries rumble past an ordinary-looking, red brick office, that can be overlooked by passers-by. In many ways, this is only too appropriate. For while this building saw the development of an invention that changed modern travel, some would argue the achievement was sidelined for far too long. Back in the 1930s, before the construction of the nearby M1 motorway, the Ladywood Works in Lutterworth was surrounded by farmland and it was a top-secret location for the development of the world's first production jet engine. Here a team of bright young men and women fine-tuned and tested an engine known as the W1. At their helm was Frank Whittle, a maverick Midlands man who had powered his way through an RAF apprenticeship and a Cambridge University engineering course to design something many found unthinkable at the time - an engine for a plane that would travel faster and higher than any previous aircraft. "I think he's a very underrated British hero," said Duncan Campbell-Smith, historian and author of one of the surprisingly few Whittle biographies, named Jet Man. "It's a bit of a travesty." Mr Campbell-Smith believes the authorities in the 1930s were slow to back Whittle, partly due to his working class roots - the fact he was not part of the British establishment. But, crucially, he said, they failed to recognise they were dealing with a man whose thinking was considerably more advanced than their own. "Whittle's jet engine design was a paradigm shift from the piston engines that were used in aeroplanes until that point," he said. "To understand a jet engine required a different understanding of aerodynamics and thermodynamics. A lot of very distinguished British engineers could not get their heads around that. "In a way, you can understand the civil servants' failure to grasp the seismic importance of this shift." Whittle had originally pitched his idea for a jet engine to the government back in 1929 but it was rejected. Cash-strapped, he allowed the patents to expire in 1933. However Whittle's son Ian, himself a former RAF man, believes the failure to take his father seriously was a missed opportunity. "It's all conjecture, of course," he said. "But had the authorities sat up and taken notice, then we could have had RAF planes with jet engines in operational service and it might have given Hitler something to think about." Whittle did manage to find private backing, setting up a company named Power Jets. Mr Campbell-Smith believes the timing of World War Two proved unfortunate, with the government taking over the reins of a project believed important enough to be given top-secret status, but not enough to prioritise during the emergency of a possible invasion. "To the civil servants, the jet was a distraction from the life-and-death situation of the war," said Mr Campbell-Smith. "The emphasis was on producing more engines for Spitfires and Hurricanes." In 1940, the Air Ministry decided to award all production contracts for Whittle's jet designs not to him and his Power Jets team, but to auto manufacturer Rover. According to Dr Seb Ritchie, deputy head of the air historical branch of the RAF, the government had few options. "Whittle was an outstanding scientist and mathematician and a great engineer but I can't see how he could have managed his own industrial enterprise," he said. However Mr Campbell-Smith said Whittle became increasingly frustrated with the situation. "Every meeting with the government was like wading through treacle, with Whittle trying to persuade them to build the engine the way he wanted it," he said. "Rover were constantly amending [Whittle's] design and failed to fly a single engine." As Whittle and his young family stood outside their Warwickshire home to witness the November 1940 bombing raid on Coventry, he was in despair. "He was born and bred Coventry," said Ian. "It was awful for my father. "I remember standing with the rest of my family in the garden. I was wearing my siren suit - a kind of snuggly, one-piece overall. I could hear the German bombers overhead - they had quite a distinctive sound. The sky lit up with the bombs falling." The stress had a deleterious effect on Whittle's health. "I remember him turning from a very jolly chap into somebody who became rather unwell," said Ian. "Mother used to have to look after him and, of course, he wasn't able to tell her anything [about the jet] due to the secrecy surrounding it." His work was, on occasion, a frightening business, the test jet engines emitting startling noise levels and large pools of fuel that would catch fire. "The strain on the man must have been intense. [Later] it drove him to a breakdown," said Mr Campbell-Smith. "Partly that was the strain of working out how the engine would work. The mathematics he was doing was groundbreaking. And partly it was the fact he was an RAF man through-and-through. "It upset him deeply how many men were losing their lives." To add to the pressure, Whitehall had word from Nazi Germany that a jet programme had got off the ground. In August 1939, a jet engine designed by a young engineer named Hans von Ohain had briefly powered a plane. "People point out the Germans had flown a jet but it never flew again," said Mr Campbell-Smith. "Meanwhile, Whittle had achieved almost the impossible - turned a crude, experimental engine into a prototype, fully ready for flight. "He was practically on his own - it was amazing that he did it. He turned an engine which worked on a bench into an engine that was flight-worthy. "He had to beg, borrow and scrape together the funds against a constant lack of interest, constant discouragement, constant apathy." The design of Whittle's W1 engine is a familiar sight to anybody who has seen a modern jet engine. "The technology is still used today," said Dan Price, engineering director of ITP Engines UK, which owns the Power Jets name and still operates on a former company site in Whetstone, Leicestershire. "We have refined Whittle's original ideas but the fundamentals are still the same." On 15 May 1941, Whittle and a party of interested engineers and RAF colleagues assembled at RAF Cranwell where a short, cigar-shaped plane - known as the "Squirt" - the Gloster E.28/39 - stood on the runway with test pilot Gerry Sayer in the cockpit. As it took to the skies to complete a 17-minute flight before coming back to land, those present were in no doubt about what it signified. During further test flights over the next few days, it reached heights of 25,000ft (7,620m) and a top speed of 370mph. "Technically, it was the proof his engine worked," said Mr Campbell-Smith. "It showed jet engines were going to fly. "The people standing around him on that day were in awe. They knew it was a terrific thing he had done." The success electrified Whitehall. "The shock effect on the British establishment was considerable," said Mr Campbell-Smith. "It drew attention to just how much Whittle had been neglected. One person who got very excited was Winston Churchill. When he heard about the jet, he was galvanised by it and asked, 'Why don't we produce 1,000 of these?" Further delays to the project meant Churchill's vision never happened. By the time the jet was developed sufficiently, the war was drawing to a close. "There is a degree of frustration it took so long to develop," said Dr Ritchie. "But I don't believe the government was in a position to do anything other than hand-to-mouth development. "A lot of our top secrets, including Whittle's jet design, ended up being shared with the Americans. There was an awareness that Britain had nothing extra to put into such projects." After the war, Whittle was knighted and moved to the US, where his design became the basis of a burgeoning industry. Today, some question whether his name has become overshadowed by his invention. "There are an awful lot of different ways in which he is commemorated but, in terms of how widespread the knowledge of him is, it could be generational - we are more distanced from World War Two now," said Dr Ritchie. For some, Whittle's achievement on 15 May was "bittersweet". "Whittle was the hero of the hour but the flight doesn't lead to a [jet engine] production during the war," said Mr Campbell-Smith. "The war, in a way, proved a terrible distraction. The government was genuinely alarmed about an invasion and they couldn't begin to think about such an exciting development as the jet engine. That's the significance of the May 1941 flight. "It's no wonder it shocked people. They were looking the other way, wondering if they had enough traditional aircraft to win the war. They weren't looking at this man with half a dozen cronies in this factory in Leicestershire, building the future." Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk Related Internet Links Royal Air Force

अस्सी साल पहले, लीसेस्टरशायर में एक अर्ध-परित्यक्त गैरेज से दुनिया को बदलने वाली तकनीक का एक टुकड़ा उभरा-दुनिया का पहला व्यवहार्य जेट इंजन। लेकिन जैसे ही फ्रैंक व्हिटल के आविष्कार ने आसमान में कदम रखा, इसने ब्रिटिश प्रतिष्ठान के भीतर कई सवाल खड़े कर दिए। क्या इस परियोजना की उपेक्षा की गई थी-और क्या इसका उदय दूसरे विश्व युद्ध के आकार को बदलने के लिए बहुत देर से हुआ था?


Macclesfield murder inquiry after man attacked at house

Summary: A murder inquiry is under way after a man was fatally injured during an attack at a house.

The 62-year-old man was assaulted in Brocklehurst Way, Macclesfield, Cheshire Police said. He was taken to hospital where he died following the attack, at about 21:00 GMT on Friday. A 24-year-old man, who was arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has since been detained under the Mental Health Act, the force said. Det Insp Kate Tomlinson said: "While we have arrested a man in connection with this incident the investigation remains ongoing and I encourage anyone who has information to get in touch."

एक घर पर हमले के दौरान एक व्यक्ति के गंभीर रूप से घायल होने के बाद हत्या की जांच चल रही है।


Pictures from Ullapool's Loopallu music festival

Summary: Ullapool's annual Loopallu music festival took place on Friday and Saturday.

The event had sold out for an 11th year in a row. This year's acts included The Temperance Movement, Reverend & The Makers, Skipinnish, Skerryvore, Little Mammoths and The Supernaturals. Ullapool Pipe Band also be mades its traditional appearance at the music festival. Photographer Paul Campbell captured scenes from the weekend.

उल्लापूल का वार्षिक लूपल्लू संगीत समारोह शुक्रवार और शनिवार को हुआ।


Highland Council to seek food waste collection funding

Summary: Highland Council looks set to apply for £500,000 of funding to help it cover the cost of food waste collections in Inverness.

The local authority will be required by law to have the collections for households and businesses in place before 1 January 2016. About 28,000 households in Inverness, Culloden, Smithton, Balloch and Milton of Leys will be involved. They will be given a small bin to collect waste food. Highland councillors will be asked Thursday to approve an application to the Scottish government's Zero Waste Scotland fund to help it roll out the new collection.

हाईलैंड काउंसिल इनवर्नेस में खाद्य अपशिष्ट संग्रह की लागत को पूरा करने में मदद करने के लिए £500,000 के वित्त पोषण के लिए आवेदन करने के लिए तैयार है।


State opening: How significant was Prince Charles's presence?

Summary: The presence of the Duchess of Cornwall at today's State Opening of Parliament is a reminder of how far the former Camilla Parker-Bowles, and the monarchy, have come since her marriage into the Royal Family eight years ago.

By Luisa BaldiniBBC News Wearing a tiara which once belonged to the Queen Mother and was loaned to her by the Queen, Camilla accompanied Prince Charles from Buckingham Palace, their future home, to the House of Lords in the Glass Coach which transported Princess Diana to her wedding. The duchess was also wearing the sash and brooch of a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order to which she was appointed by the Queen last year, and the brooch of the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II, which was bestowed on her by the monarch after her 60th birthday in 2007. Although Prince Charles has attended the State Opening 16 times, today was his first time since 1996. 'King-in-waiting' Buckingham Palace was underplaying the significance, insisting that it just happened that both the prince and his wife's diaries were clear on this occasion and adding that his role is purely one of support. But some press reports in the run up to the State Opening had suggested it was a sign that Prince Charles was being positioned more as a king-in-waiting. That theory has been compounded by the announcement that he will take the Queen's place at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in Sri Lanka in November and by the fact that the Queen's Speech contained no details about the monarch's future engagements, a day after Buckingham Palace announced a review of her long-haul travel. On previous appearances at the State Opening of Parliament the Queen has set out the highlights of her forthcoming itinerary, including a visit to Canada in the 2010 speech and events to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee last year. The symbolism of the Chogm announcement and Prince Charles's presence sitting alongside the Queen in the House of Lords today will be striking. An octogenarian monarch - who has had time off sick but who aides insist is fit and well - with her eldest son and heir who she will have to rely on more and more as she gets older. With a hereditary system and short of abdication - which the House of Windsor tried once and still bears the scars - there is no alternative. The Queen has just turned 87 and the Duke of Edinburgh is nearly 92. Although Buckingham Palace has stressed that the Queen will not be "slowing down" in her schedule of public engagements, it would appear that it is now seen as the right time for Prince Charles to start taking on more duties - not only to relieve his parents but to give the public the opportunity to start seeing him more as a potential King than merely a Prince and heir apparent.

संसद के आज के राज्य उद्घाटन में डचेस ऑफ कॉर्नवाल की उपस्थिति इस बात की याद दिलाती है कि पूर्व कैमिला पार्कर-बाउल्स और राजशाही, आठ साल पहले शाही परिवार में उनकी शादी के बाद से कितनी दूर आ गई है।


It's A Sin: The woman who inspired Russell T Davies' Aids drama

Summary: Jill Nalder, who lost three friends to Aids in the 1980s, inspired one of the characters in the Channel 4 hit It's A Sin. She remembers how young men who contracted the virus at the time would "disappear".

By Jared LawthomBBC Wales In the 1980s, when Jill Nalder was studying in London, she noticed young men were leaving and not coming back. They would go home and "sort of disappear". Her friends were dying, often in secret, of Aids. She was aware of HIV from the start because of rumours "about this 'gay flu' coming from the States". "Nobody really knew anything but we heard it was killing young, fit, healthy gay men," the 60-year-old said. "Then it started to creep into our lives. The first one I remember was someone I knew in college." He went home. Jill and her friends didn't know why. "After that we heard he'd died," said Jill, from Neath in south Wales, who performs in West End musicals. "We didn't even know he'd died of Aids, it was just rumours. That happened a lot in the beginning. Boys would go home and sort of disappear. I lost three of my best friends in 18 months." Her story is the inspiration behind hit TV show It's A Sin, penned by friend Russell T Davies. Jill can remember her first friend telling her he was HIV positive. "He wrote me a letter and told me," she said. "When he came back to London he said his parents could never find out because they didn't know he was gay. I had to keep it a secret." One friend kept his illness secret until six weeks before he died. "He probably knew he was HIV positive for four years," said Jill. "He told nobody. But there came a point where he couldn't hide it anymore." HIV left untreated develops into Aids and no effective treatment was available in the UK until 1997. Until then it was a death sentence. "It was a devastating time," Jill says. She visited one friend in hospital a week before he died: "He never got another visitor after that. I didn't know his family well enough to contact them, but I know that he had no other visitors." With shame and guilt surrounding Aids, Jill's life was a "minefield of secrecy". She would make hospital visits to friends who had the virus, without telling anybody. "One night I was waiting for a friend at the stage door after a show because we were going out," she said. "He didn't turn up. An hour later there was still no sign. I knew there was something wrong." She started dialling numbers from a call box near the West End's Palace Theatre. "I had to start ringing hospitals trying to find him when I didn't even have a name to give - because the boys with HIV never used their real names when they were admitted," Jill said. "I must have sounded mad." It took three hours to find him. "He had had a seizure," Jill said. "The hospital didn't know why - they probably thought he was drunk." Some parents never found out their sons had died from Aids. "The parents just weren't aware," she added. "They thought it was something like cancer. They didn't understand that Aids even existed and their sons were too afraid to tell them. "The boys didn't want to worry their mums and dads. They just wanted their parents to be proud of them. They didn't want to let them down." In Channel 4's It's A Sin, Lydia West plays a version of Jill, called Jill Baxter, while Jill herself plays the mother of the character she inspired. The show has already had more than 6.5 million streams. Every Friday when an episode is aired on Channel 4 #bemorejill starts trending. Writer Russell T Davies is one of Jill's childhood friends from Neath. He told her she inspired him to write the series. "I knew Russell from when we were at the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre in the '70s," she said. "It was such a joyous time." On moving to London at 18 to study musical theatre at Mountview Academy she and three friends lived in a flat they dubbed "The Pink Palace". "It was so exciting," said Jill. "I was young, carefree and studying the thing I love." They paid £80 a week for the apartment after seeing an advert in the paper. "It was fantastic," she said. "Most of it was pink. Pink curtains, a big pink dralon sofa and even a massive pink drain. It had three big chandeliers and silver service cutlery everywhere. "We thought 'oh my word, it's like a palace'. So we called it the Pink Palace. It was a real fun time." Jill can relate to her It's A Sin character. "The two things I relate to the most is frantically searching for information about the virus," she said. "I became like a dictionary of Aids-related infections. "And the hospital visits. Walking down the corridors and looking into the rooms and in each one seeing people around my age dying with Aids. Seeing people with the kaposi sarcoma, the black marks on the skin, for the first time." Kaposi's sarcoma is a rare cancer caused by a virus. It's often associated with HIV. "Those images of the devastation that Aids causes the body will always stay with me," Jill added. But she remembers the good times too. In the late 1980s she helped set up a charity called West End Cares, which raised over £2m in its first few years. "We'd do cabaret nights in West End pubs, and even put on late night performances of full West End shows. It was a great laugh," she said. Now called Theatre MAD - which stands for Make a Difference - the charity has raised about £14m. This week is National HIV Testing week. A lot has changed since the first case of HIV was recorded in the UK in 1981. Today, people with HIV can live long and healthy lives with the help of medication. They can also achieve an "undetectable" status, which means they cannot pass the virus on. The prescription drug PrEP - pre-exposure prophylaxis - also stops people from catching HIV. "We have come so far since those days," said Jill. "But what we see here in the UK is not a reflection of the entire global pandemic. "There are still Aids orphans in Africa, and countries that still criminalize homosexual men. But I think in this country, we think - it's okay, we got over it, and haven't thought about it for a very long time." Jill said It's A Sin will make people realise how much times have changed. "It is for them," said Jill. "For the brave boys we lost. "They were trailblazers fighting on the frontline. And we should never forget them."

जिल नाल्डर, जिन्होंने 1980 के दशक में एड्स से तीन दोस्तों को खो दिया था, ने चैनल 4 के हिट इट्स ए सिन के पात्रों में से एक को प्रेरित किया। उन्हें याद है कि कैसे उस समय वायरस से संक्रमित युवा पुरुष "गायब" हो जाते थे।


Llandaff homes plan concern for BBC HQ site

Summary: Concerns have been raised by plans to develop hundreds of homes on the site of BBC Wales' Cardiff headquarters.

Llandaff Society said the character of the area "will be very difficult to sustain" as the sale has been agreed on the condition Taylor Wimpey gets permission to build up to 500 homes. The broadcaster plans to move to a new centre by Cardiff Central rail station. The sale of the current sites will help fund the new development and staff are expected to move in 2018.

बीबीसी वेल्स के कार्डिफ मुख्यालय की साइट पर सैकड़ों घरों को विकसित करने की योजना से चिंता जताई गई है।


Coronavirus: Date for delayed Aberdeen by-election confirmed

Summary: A date for a by-election to replace a councillor who became an Aberdeen MP has been confirmed for November.

The SNP's Stephen Flynn won the vote for Aberdeen South in the 2019 General Election. The by-election is to fill his vacant seat in the Kincorth, Nigg and Cove ward. Aberdeen City Council said the vote - postponed from May due to the coronavirus pandemic - will be held on 5 November. It will bring Kincorth, Nigg and Cove's quoted of elected members back up to four. Nominations will open on Friday.

एबरडीन के सांसद बने पार्षद को बदलने के लिए नवंबर के लिए उपचुनाव की तारीख की पुष्टि की गई है।


Kansas election: Republicans mull narrow win in deep red state

Summary: On Tuesday people in Kansas' fourth congressional district, an area that includes the city of Wichita, voted in a special election for a new congressman. They chose the state treasurer, Ron Estes, a Republican, over James Thompson, a Democrat and a civil rights lawyer.

By Tara McKelveyBBC News, Kansas City It was a victory for Estes and for other Republicans in the state. As it happened, he had support from influential people - and from one in particular - who lived outside of his congressional district. "A wonderful guy," Trump tweeted about Estes on Tuesday. "I need his help on Healthcare & Tax Cuts (Reform)." Trump was interested in the race - in part because he was responsible for it. The special election was called because Trump had asked the district's previous representative, Mike Pompeo, a Republican, to become CIA director. After Pompeo was confirmed in his new post, Kansans went back to the polls so they could choose a new representative. People in Kansas and elsewhere saw the election as a referendum on the Trump administration: a victory for Estes meant that people in Kansas and other parts of the Midwest still supported the president. A defeat for Estes, however, would have meant that the people who lived in the district - and perhaps in other parts of the Midwest, too - were unhappy with the president and with Republicans in the state. The fourth congressional district - like most of the surrounding area in south central Kansas - is rock-solid Republican. The state itself is located in the heart of Flyover Country, a Midwest region that many people see only from planes when traveling from one coast to the other. People in Kansas and other states in the Midwest may be invisible to some of those who live on the coasts, yet the Midwesterners have power: they propelled Trump to victory in November. For this and other reasons, it's a good idea to watch the voters in Kansas. Located in the middle of the country, they often act as a signpost, revealing how people in the US feel about politics and where the country is heading. Victoria Snitsar, a student at the University of Kansas who lives in Lawrence, supported Estes' message of fiscal conservatism and knocked on doors for him in Wichita during the campaign. She said she believed his victory meant "people are holding on to the president's message". Estes was elected by a smaller margin than many Republicans would have liked, however. While Trump won with the distrcit overwhelmingly, Estes received 53% of the vote, while Thompson won 46%, and another candidate, Chris Rockhold, who was running as a libertarian, won less than 2%. It was a narrow victory, and it hinted at a darker mood. "Estes underperformed Trump's margin by 20.3 points," wrote FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver on Twitter. "If every district behaved like that, Dems would gain 122 (!) House seats next November." Not everybody in Kansas has been thrilled with the Trump administration and the way they've been running the government. In addition many Kansans have been unhappy with Gov Sam Brownback, a Republican, and his drastic cuts in education spending and social services. "There's some discontent," said Mike O'Neal, a Republican consultant who used to work for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce. Whether that blows over or becomes a problem for Republicans remains to be seen. In the meantime political operatives will continue to watch people in Kansas, hoping to gauge the nation's mood.

मंगलवार को कान्सास के चौथे कांग्रेसनल जिले, एक क्षेत्र जिसमें विचिता शहर शामिल है, में लोगों ने एक नए कांग्रेसी के लिए एक विशेष चुनाव में मतदान किया। उन्होंने राज्य के खजांची, रॉन एस्टेस, एक रिपब्लिकन, को जेम्स थॉम्पसन, एक डेमोक्रेट और एक नागरिक अधिकार वकील पर चुना।


WW1 bomb removed after being taken to Pontardawe pub

Summary: A World War One bomb which was taken into a Neath Port Talbot pub has been removed and people allowed back home.

South Wales Police evacuated residents in Herbert Street, Pontardawe, at about 19:30 GMT on Wednesday after the device was brought into the Pink Geranium pub before being taken outside. The Army's ordnance disposal team was called to remove it. Just after midnight on Thursday, police said the bomb had been taken away and the area declared safe.

एक विश्व युद्ध एक बम जिसे नीथ पोर्ट टैलबोट पब में ले जाया गया था, उसे हटा दिया गया है और लोगों को घर वापस जाने की अनुमति दी गई है।


Erdington shooting: Man found injured in street

Summary: A man has been found with head injuries after a gun was fired in a Birmingham street.

A weapon was fired in Tedbury Crescent, Erdington, at just before 20:50 GMT on Saturday, said West Midlands Police. A man in his 50s was found injured in the road. The injury is said to be minor, but there are no more details. The road was cordoned off for investigations and inquiries into what happened are being carried out, a force spokesman said.

बर्मिंघम की सड़क पर बंदूक चलाने से एक व्यक्ति के सिर पर चोटें आई हैं।


Jersey Care Inquiry to cost £23m

Summary: An inquiry into historical child abuse in Jersey's care system will spend the full £23m set aside for the work, including contingency funds.

Inquiry Chairwoman Francis Oldham QC asked for the £1.58m due to a number of unavoidable matters. These included calling more witnesses, a significant document disclosure and preparation time. Chief Minister Senator Ian Gorst said the inquiry would be keeping the government informed of what it spends. He told the States: "These unavoidable matters have knock-on associated costs for States Departments in potential legal costs. "This means the total spending forecast for the Inquiry will use the full budget and contingency." The inquiry is expected to report by the end of December 2016. Launched in July 2014, it is investigating claims of child abuse in Jersey's care system dating back to 1945.

जर्सी की देखभाल प्रणाली में ऐतिहासिक बाल शोषण की जांच आकस्मिक निधि सहित काम के लिए अलग रखे गए पूरे 23 मिलियन पाउंड खर्च करेगी।


Brithdir care home inquest: Resident "looked like prisoner of war"

Summary: An elderly man "looked like something out of a prisoner of war camp" when he was taken to hospital from a care home in Caerphilly where alleged neglect took place, an inquest has heard.

Gaynor Evans said she was "physically sick" when she saw how thin her father had become in August 2005. Stanley Bradford, 76, had only been at Brithdir care home in New Tredegar for three months when he died. A Newport inquest is hearing evidence into the deaths of seven residents. The former miner and grandfather to 14 grandchildren was described as a "cheerful man with a very wicked sense of humour", but his health deteriorated when he had a stroke in 2001. Mrs Evans explained how her father had previously been cared for in another home but needed to be moved for full nursing care. She said she was "shocked" at her father's frail appearance after a few months at the home and that she "ran out of the room and was sick". The inquest heard his weight had been good before he moved to Brithdir and there was no evidence of pressure sores. Mrs Evans said they chose the home because it was close to where they lived, but they quickly became worried. "We used to go everyday between three and four and stayed until about seven or eight," she said. "On those occasions we were there, it was very rare we'd see any carers." She said it was "very rare" to see anyone come in to feed her father. She added that her father "was very quiet and withdrawn" and "didn't look happy at all". "He didn't took very clean a lot of the time. He deteriorated over the weeks that he was there. I used to come home and cry and say 'I think he's starving to death'," she told the inquest. During his stay in hospital in August 2005, it also became clear that Mr Bradford had pressure sores to his heels - something Mrs Evans told the inquest the family had previously known nothing about. Mr Bradford eventually returned to Brithdir care home, until he died in September 2005. Mrs Evans said when she told her father he would be going back to the home, he looked at her and said "please don't take me back there". Evidence from Stanley Bradford's former wife Hazel was also read to the inquest court. She visited him every day despite their separation. "Never once do I remember anyone swabbing Stanley's mouth," she said. "Sometimes I would get a swab and put some water or squash on it. He would suck on it as if his life depended on it. His mouth would be as dry as a bone. I really believe they forgot all about him. The door to his room was always closed." The inquest heard the family checked fluid records, which appeared to show Mr Bradford had been given a drink at times when relatives were visiting and no staff member had entered the room. The coroner's court heard Mr Bradford's cause of death in 2005 was given as bronchopneumonia. The inquest is hearing evidence into the deaths of a seven former residents, including Stanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, William Hickman, 71, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and Matthew Higgins. The hearings are expected to last until March. Related Internet Links Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

एक पूछताछ में पता चला है कि एक बुजुर्ग व्यक्ति को जब कैर्फिली के एक देखभाल गृह से अस्पताल ले जाया गया, जहां कथित रूप से उपेक्षा की गई थी, तो वह "युद्ध शिविर के कैदी की तरह लग रहा था"।


Overturned lorry near Sanquhar shuts A76 for hours

Summary: A lengthy diversion had to be put in place after a lorry overturned in a crash on the A76 near Sanquhar.

Emergency services were called out to the incident at about 08:50 and the road was closed in both directions. A 50-mile diversion was put in place and the route was shut for about seven hours before reopening shortly after 16:00. Police said the female driver of the lorry had been taken to Dumfries Infirmary for treatment. Drivers were advised to avoid the area if possible while the clean-up operation took place.

संकुहार के पास ए76 पर एक दुर्घटना में एक लॉरी के पलट जाने के बाद एक लंबा मोड़ लगाना पड़ा।


Are humans still evolving by Darwin's natural selection?

Summary: In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, a book which transformed our understanding of how life on Earth developed - but ever since then, scientists have wondered whether humans were resourceful enough to remove themselves from the grip of natural selection.

By Olly BootleProducer, Horizon There is no question that humans are unique in the animal world. We have developed technologies that shelter us from the harshness of the environment in a way that no other creatures have managed. While polar bears evolved thick coats of blubber to insulate them from the Arctic cold, humans could skin that polar bear, and use the pelt as clothing to keep warm. Does this mean that, at some point, technological advances have stopped us evolving? Much of the story is in our genes and the sequencing of the human genome has helped unlock the answers. By comparing the genes of people from all around the world, scientists can see how different we all are, and therefore how much we have evolved apart from each other since our species first appeared. Skin colour is the most obvious way we have evolved apart, but there are other examples. "We are living records of our past," says Dr Pardis Sabeti, a geneticist at Harvard University. "And so we can look at the DNA of individuals from today and get a sense of how they all came to be this way." Another area of recent evolution is how our metabolism has changed to allow us to digest some things that we could not in the past. The most obvious example of this is lactose, the sugar in milk. Some 10,000 years ago, before humans started farming, no one could digest this beyond a few years of age. But today, the rate of lactose tolerance in different parts of the world is a clue to the different histories of farming across the globe. While 99% of Irish people are lactose tolerant, in South East Asia, where there is very little tradition of dairy farming, the figure is less than 5%. So clearly our technology and inventions didn't stop us evolving in the past. But what about today? Professor Steve Jones, a geneticist at University College London, said: "In Shakespeare's time, only about one English baby in three made it to be 21." "All those deaths were raw material for natural selection, many of those kids died because of the genes they carried. But now, about 99% of all the babies born make it to that age." The bulk of medical and other technological developments which protect us from our environment have come in just the past century. So in the developed world today, what is there left for natural selection to act on? "Natural selection, if it hasn't stopped, has at least slowed down," says Jones. But although in the developed world today, almost everyone lives long enough to pass on their genes, many of us choose not to. Some people have three children, and some people have none, so natural selection may be working in a different way. Getting fatter The realisation that people in the developed world are in effect choosing to prevent their genes from surviving beyond them has led evolutionary biologist Stephen Stearns to look at evolution in the current generations in a radical way. A long-term medical study of a small town in Massachusetts, called Framingham, allowed him to look at the medical history of thousands of women going back to the middle of the 20th Century, and to calculate how the people that are having children differ from the population as a whole. It has left him in no doubt that people - at least in Framingham - are still evolving and in a surprising direction. "What we have found with height and weight basically is that natural selection appears to be operating to reduce the height and to slightly increase their weight." This was not just a case of people eating more and there was no evidence to suggest the trend of people putting on weight and losing height would continue indefinitely. In any case, the changes were very small and very slow, similar to those at work in Darwin's evolutionary studies. Interestingly, Stearns believes that rather than sheltering us from natural selection, the changes that we've made to the world may actually be driving our evolution. "We see rapid evolution when there's rapid environmental change and the biggest part of our environment is culture, and culture is exploding," says Prof Stearns. "That's I really think the take-home message of the Framingham study, that we are continuing to evolve, that biology is going to change with the culture and it's just a matter of not being able to see it because we're stuck right in the middle of the process right now." Technology may have limited the impact of evolutionary forces such as predation and disease, but that does not mean humans have stopped evolving. Far from it, in a world of globalisation, rapidly advancing medical and genetic science and the increasing power of individuals to determine their own life choices, more powerful forces may come into play. The direction of our future evolution is likely to be driven as much by us as by nature. It may be less dependent on how the world changes us, but ever more so on our growing ability to change the world. Horizon: Are We Still Evolving? will be on BBC Two at 2100 on Tuesday 1 March 2011 or watch online afterwards via BBC iPlayer

1859 में, चार्ल्स डार्विन ने ऑन द ओरिजिन ऑफ स्पीशीज प्रकाशित की, एक ऐसी पुस्तक जिसने पृथ्वी पर जीवन के विकास के बारे में हमारी समझ को बदल दिया-लेकिन तब से, वैज्ञानिकों ने सोचा है कि क्या मनुष्य प्राकृतिक चयन की पकड़ से खुद को हटाने के लिए पर्याप्त संसाधन थे।


Emeli Sande to replace Jess Glynne at TRNSMT

Summary: Singer Emeli Sande will join the line-up at next weekend's TRNSMT music festival after Jess Glynne was forced to pull out on health grounds.

The R&B star will be among acts including George Ezra and Lewis Capaldi performing on the main stage at Glasgow Green on Sunday 14 July. Glynne announced on 26 June that she would not be able to perform because of vocal cord damage. It came after Snow Patrol also pulled out of their Sunday night slot. Festival director Geoff Ellis comments: "We are pleased to reveal that the incredible Emeli Sande will join the Sunday bill for TRNSMT. "She is an outstanding live performer and we're looking forward to seeing her back on stage - perhaps with a preview of her forthcoming album Real Life." TRNSMT will be staged over three nights from Friday to Sunday.

जेस ग्लाइन के स्वास्थ्य के आधार पर बाहर निकलने के लिए मजबूर होने के बाद गायिका एमेली सांडे अगले सप्ताहांत के टीआरएनएसएमटी संगीत समारोह में लाइन-अप में शामिल होंगी।


Pakistan floods push food prices higher

Summary: The UN's agriculture body, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), says food prices in Pakistan have risen 10% since floods hit the country in August and wiped out much of its produce. Jill McGivering visited Sukkur in Sindh province, one of the areas worst affected by the floods, to see how rapidly rising prices are affecting local shopkeepers and customers.

The main market in Sukkur is known by locals as Clock Market. Its stalls run down a maze of alleyways which lead away from a central roundabout with an elaborate clock tower. At the end of the afternoon, just before dusk, the whole area is hectic with traffic, from motorised rickshaws and motorbikes to donkey carts. It is also busy with shoppers. Rotting food Shafiq-ur Rehman is a young man wearing a round tribal hat. His fruit stall is well-positioned, close to the clock tower, and laden with produce: coconuts, pomegranates, several kinds of oranges, bananas and apples. But although the fruit looks delicious, no-one is buying. He has had to put his prices up dramatically, he told me. The roads into Sukkur have been badly damaged by the floods. His fruit comes by lorry from other parts of Pakistan, including Punjab, Baluchistan and Rawalpindi. But now, since the floods, those journeys take four or five days. Some of the fruit rots before it even reaches him. The extra petrol also makes the extended journeys very expensive. They are additional costs which he has to pass on to the shopper. He gave me some examples. Oranges which normally cost 40 rupees (46 cents; 30p) a kilo are now 50 rupees. Pomegranates have more than doubled in price, from 60 or 70 rupees a kilo to 150 rupees ($1.75; £1.13). Basically most people can't afford to buy fruit any more, he told me - business has plummeted. Farther down, I met Hajji Yaqoob, a middle-aged man with a large stomach and long white beard. He was sitting cross-legged behind his vast array of vegetables - cabbages, tomatoes, onions, okra, aubergines and many other kinds. Washed away As I arrived, a woman, dressed all in black and with her face covered, was buying a small bag of okra from him. As he weighed them out on old metal scales, she told me that the new prices made most items unaffordable. Before the floods, she used to buy lots of different kinds of vegetables, she said. Now she was buying a little of only one. Even her okra cost 80 rupees a kilo, compared with 50 rupees before the flood. Hajji Yaqoob said that, before the floods, he sold vegetables which were grown around Sukkur. But because the local crops had been washed away, he had to look farther afield, from other provinces. That was one of the main reasons for the high prices. Agriculture is the backbone of Pakistan's economy. The damage to crops caused by the floods is already having a serious effect on the cost of living. Many families here are hit twice. They have suffered because their own produce and possessions have been lost. And now they are being hit a second time, by escalating prices which mean that the little money they still have in their pockets is buying significantly less.

संयुक्त राष्ट्र के कृषि निकाय, खाद्य और कृषि संगठन (एफ. ए. ओ.) का कहना है कि अगस्त में देश में बाढ़ आने के बाद से पाकिस्तान में खाद्य पदार्थों की कीमतों में 10 प्रतिशत की वृद्धि हुई है और इसकी अधिकांश उपज समाप्त हो गई है। जिल मैकगिवरिंग ने सिंध प्रांत के सुक्कुर का दौरा किया, जो बाढ़ से सबसे अधिक प्रभावित क्षेत्रों में से एक है, यह देखने के लिए कि कितनी तेजी से बढ़ती कीमतें स्थानीय दुकानदारों और ग्राहकों को प्रभावित कर रही हैं।


Man accused of abusing boy, 7, in Burnley supermarket toilet

Summary: A man has been charged after a seven-year-old boy was sexually assaulted in a supermarket toilet.

Lancashire Constabulary said the child reported being abused in a cubicle at Sainsbury's on Active Way in Burnley, Lancashire, on Sunday. Dennis Walsh, 38, of Albert Street, Burnley has been charged with sexual assault of a child under 13, false imprisonment and breach of a sexual harm prevention order. He appeared before magistrates earlier. Related Internet Links Lancashire Constabulary

सुपरमार्केट के शौचालय में सात साल के लड़के के यौन उत्पीड़न के बाद एक व्यक्ति पर आरोप लगाया गया है।


Rubbish job: Why don't we just pick up litter?

Summary: We threaten litter louts with fines and demand councils install extra bins and clean the streets more often. But what if, instead, every person who saw a discarded crisp bag, can or cigarette packet just picked it up? Would that be the end of the world?

By Francesca WilliamsBBC News American writer and humorist David Sedaris admits to being "obsessed" with picking up rubbish - sometimes for whole afternoons at a time. He does it so much the council in Horsham, West Sussex, where he now lives, has named a refuse truck after him. "People will pull their children close when I pass," he laughs. His litter-picking exploits make entertaining radio and, in January last year, led to him being invited before a parliamentary select committee to give evidence. Sedaris told MPs he had once walked past a house with so much rubbish in its front yard he thought it was abandoned. "So, I pick it up and then this woman comes from behind a hedge and said, 'What are you doing?'," he said. "I said, I'm picking up your rubbish. "'Thank God,' she said, 'I was going to call the council'. "I see this all the time - people won't do anything to help," he said. "Their attitude is, 'I didn't drop it, why would I pick it up?'" Getting your hands dirty - when would you pick up? A small and unscientific sampling of people gleaned the insight that the fear a dog may have urinated on the litter was a significant deterrent. Dirty litter, too, was a less attractive proposition, even for the community minded. Some admitted to picking up more litter on their own street than others. The proximity of a bin was also a deciding factor with "I'm not carting around somebody's rubbish for 300 yards" offered as a consideration. One litter vigilante used to challenge culprits but he stopped, he says, when he was threatened with violence. Maybe it is easier to ignore than address - unless something forces you to reconsider your approach. Like a three-year-old, for example. Matilda Rusby sparked a mass local clean-up in her hometown of North Shields after her mother tweeted pictures of her picking up litter. People who had walked past the same rubbish were inspired - or embarrassed - into doing something about it themselves. If a best-selling, award-winning author and a little girl can pick up other people's rubbish, why can't the rest of us? Former councillor David Hardman has always "gone round picking up litter" wherever he goes, "much to the annoyance" of his family. He would fill a black bin bag every day, walking his daughter to school. "Everywhere I went I had to wash my hands because I'd picked up something horrible," he says. Discovering hand-held litter grabbers "revolutionised" his activities. In Jesmond, the suburb of Newcastle where he lives, "quite a few people" make concerted efforts to deal with rubbish but some residents, he says, "are completely oblivious to it". Dr Joan Harvey, a chartered psychologist at Newcastle University, believes there is a "group effect" at play here. "If somebody else starts picking up litter, you'll start picking up litter - if nobody does and they all walk past it, you'll walk past it," she says. Since 80-90% of us are followers, we need someone to take the lead, she says. "Once somebody starts to do something, others start to do it." According to the "bystander effect" theory, not only are we reluctant to be the first to act but, the greater the number of people not doing something, the more we feel we do not have to either. Some also say it is the council's job anyway, though Dr Harvey suggests this "excuse" can be an example of "post hoc attribution". We walk past the litter and "look afterwards for reasons why... whether they're true or not", she says. In Newcastle's German twin city of Gelsenkirchen it is generally the other way around, says the German Honorary Consul for the North East and Cumbria. "In general Germans feel responsible for looking after pathways themselves, not the council," Jo Chexal says. "I have seen people in Germany pick up litter which someone has dropped and go up to them and say politely that they think they have dropped something and give it back to them. "It is about pride in the city and its surroundings and not leaving the responsibility with someone else [or] the council." In some parts of Germany official requirement backs up natural inclination, with shops forced to keep their frontages clear and residents required to clean their own streets. Mr Hardman has argued unsuccessfully for such rules to be adopted in Newcastle. "It requires a change of national legislation which there doesn't seem to be any appetite for," he says. But Germany has another trick up its sleeve. There you can still return empty bottles and cans to shops in return for the "pfand", or deposit. This incentive to pick up - or not drop - was consigned to UK history when drinks producer Barr announced it would no longer be paying 30p for returned bottles. Like Matilda Rusby, children were once the answer, at least where bottles were concerned, as the BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley's tale of youthful bottle collecting shows. He would turn up at his local Edinburgh newsagent's with as many empty pop bottles as he could find. "The bottles would come from a variety of sources - my dad, neighbours, the park where teenagers used to drink on a Friday and Saturday night," he said. Roll forward a few decades and sometimes modern rules make it hard to be a Good Litter Samaritan. Colin Shadbolt from Faversham in Kent reportedly spent a day picking up litter only to be told he could not leave it at his local tip because it was not his rubbish. Kent County Council said it "applauded the initiative" but the potential for waste to be hazardous meant it must make sure it was "disposed of in the most appropriate way". It advised litter pickers to contact the council beforehand. And there is another problem. "There is a limit to how much the council can afford to put into landfill or through its system," Mr Hardman says. "The more weight it puts through its system, even though a lot of it is recycled, they pay." So, if every person in Newcastle suddenly became very community-minded and started picking up every piece of rubbish they saw and put it into the nearest bin, would the council have a problem? The council would only say it welcomed the "involvement of organised groups in keeping their neighbourhoods tidy". There have been efforts over the years to encourage people not to drop litter, though the Keep Britain Tidy campaign to persuade people to Clean for the Queen was not entirely well received. Why, people asked, should they do what they pay their council to do. But, as local authorities facing budget cuts make choices between departments and reduce street cleaning budgets by millions, some would argue it is churlish to step over litter and say it is someone else's job to pick it up. Keep Britain Tidy points out that Clean for the Queen was the first national litter-picking campaign for 10 years. Chief executive Allison Ogden-Newton said it had "been quite a while, really, since the message about anti-littering has got out there to any audience". Maybe we need Dr Harvey's "group response", then the solo pickers will not have to worry about being looked at sideways. David Hardman says he takes "the mick out of" himself for constantly collecting litter because otherwise "people do think you are weird". But is that fair? David Sedaris thinks not. "How is it fair that the person who rips a lottery ticket into 16 pieces and throws it on the ground isn't crazy, but the guy who picks it up is?"

हम कूड़ा फेंकने वालों को जुर्माने की धमकी देते हैं और परिषद से अतिरिक्त डिब्बे लगाने और सड़कों को अधिक बार साफ करने की मांग करते हैं। लेकिन क्या होगा अगर, इसके बजाय, हर व्यक्ति जिसने एक फेंका हुआ कुरकुरा थैला देखा, क्या या सिगरेट का पैकेट उसे उठा सकता है? क्या यह दुनिया का अंत होगा?


Asifa Bano: The child rape and murder that has Kashmir on edge

Summary: The brutal gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Indian-administered Kashmir has put the restive state on edge. Sameer Yasir, an independent journalist based in Srinagar, reports on how the investigation has split the region along religious lines.

On the morning of 17 January, Muhammad Yusuf Pujwala was sitting outside his home in Kathua when one of his neighbours came running towards him. He stopped in front of Mr Pujwala and broke the news: they had found his eight-year-old daughter, Asifa Bano. Her body lay in bushes in the forest, a few hundred metres away. "I knew something horrible had happened to my girl," Mr Pujwala, a 52-year-old with deep sunken eyes, told the BBC in an interview recently. His wife, Naseema Bibi, sat beside him, faintly crying while repeatedly murmuring "Asifa". Mr Pujwala belongs to a community of Muslim nomadic shepherds called Gujjars who crisscross the Himalayas with their goats and buffaloes. The crime has shocked the community, exposing the fault lines between Hindu-majority Jammu and the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley in a sharply divided state. The Kashmir valley has a tumultuous relationship with India - there has been an armed revolt in the region against Indian rule since 1989. Police have arrested eight men, including a retired government official, four police officers and a juvenile in connection with Asifa's death. However, the arrests sparked protests in Jammu - lawyers tried to stop police entering the court to file a charge sheet and two ministers from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attended a rally in support of the accused. The BJP rules the state in a coalition with the regional People's Democratic Party (PDP). How did Asifa disappear? When she went missing on 10 January, her family was living in a village around 72km (45 miles) east of Jammu city. On that afternoon, her mother recalls, Asifa went to the forest to bring home the horses. The horses returned but Asifa did not. Ms Naseema informed her husband. He and some neighbours started looking for her. Armed with flash lights, lanterns and axes, they went deep into the forest and searched through the night. But they could not find her. Two days later, on 12 January, the family filed a police complaint. But, according to Mr Pujwala, the police were not helpful. One of the police officers, he alleges, said Asifa must have "eloped" with a boy. As news of the crime spread, Gujjar staged protests and blocked a highway, forcing police to assign two officers for the search. One of those who was assigned, Deepak Khajuria, was himself arrested in connection with the crime. Five days later, Asifa's body was found. "She had been tortured. Her legs were broken," recalled Ms Naseema, who had rushed to the forest along with her husband to see the body. "Her nails had turned black and there were blue and red marks on her arm and fingers." What do investigators believe happened? On 23 January, six days after Asifa's body was found, the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, ordered a investigation by the crime branch, a special unit of the state police. According to the investigators, Asifa was confined in a local temple for several days and given sedatives that kept her unconscious. The charge sheet alleges that she was "raped for days, tortured and then finally murdered". She was strangled to death and then hit on the head twice with a stone. Sanji Ram, a 60-year-old retired government officer, allegedly planned the crime with the help of police officers Surender Verma, Anand Dutta, Tilak Raj and Mr Khajuria. Mr Ram's son, Vishal, his nephew, a juvenile, and his friend, Parvesh Kumar, are also accused over the rape and murder. Investigators allege that Mr Khajuria and the other police officers - some of whom lodged the complaint and accompanied the family in the search - washed Asifa's bloodied and mud-spattered clothes before sending them to a forensic lab. They believe that the accused men wished to terrorise the Gujjar community into leaving Jammu. The shepherds use public and forest land in Jammu for grazing, which has recently brought them into conflict with some Hindu residents in the region. "It was about land," said Talib Hussain, a tribal rights activist and lawyer. Mr Hussain, who led a protest in support of Asifa's family, alleges he was arrested and threatened by local police. Ankur Sharma, one of the lawyers who protested on behalf of the accused, alleged that the Muslim nomads were trying to alter the demographics of Jammu, where Hindus are currently the majority. "They are encroaching our forests and water resources," he told the BBC. He said the accused had been falsely implicated while the real culprits were still free. While the crime did not receive much attention in Jammu, newspapers in Srinagar, the capital city located in the Kashmir valley, carried the story on their front pages. In Jammu and Kashmir state assembly, Mian Altaf, an influential Gujjar leader and an opposition legislator, waved the newspapers with photographs of Asifa while demanding an inquiry. Rajiv Jasrotia, a BJP lawmaker, said the incident was a "family matter" and blamed Mr Altaf for politicising the crime. What happened at Asifa's funeral? The Gujjars wanted to bury Asifa in a graveyard where they had purchased some land a few years ago and had already buried five people. But when they arrived there, Mr Pujwala said, they were surrounded by Hindu right-wing activists who threatened them with violence if they were to continue with the burial. "We had to walk seven miles to bury her in another village," Mr Pujwala said. Two of his daughters were killed in an accident some years ago. On his wife's insistence, he adopted Asifa, the daughter of his brother-in-law. His wife described Asifa as a "chirping bird" who ran like a "deer". When they travelled, she looked after the herd. "That made her the darling of the community," Ms Bibi said. "She was the centre of our universe."

भारत प्रशासित कश्मीर में एक आठ वर्षीय लड़की के क्रूर सामूहिक बलात्कार और हत्या ने अशांत राज्य को किनारे कर दिया है। श्रीनगर में स्थित एक स्वतंत्र पत्रकार समीर यासिर बताते हैं कि कैसे जांच ने इस क्षेत्र को धार्मिक आधार पर विभाजित किया है।


Murder investigation after man's death in Coventry

Summary: A murder investigation has begun after a man died following a disturbance in Coventry.

Officers were called to Copland Place, Tile Hill, at 23:15 BST on Sunday, where the man in his 30s was found with serious chest injuries. He died at the scene and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course. The area remains sealed off for investigations and West Midlands Police is appealing for information.

कोवेंट्री में अशांति के बाद एक व्यक्ति की मौत के बाद हत्या की जांच शुरू हो गई है।


Johnstons of Elgin's Hawick mills expansion opens

Summary: Johnstons of Elgin has completed a major investment in its Hawick site with the opening of a £1m visitor centre, cafe and retail outlet.

Director James Sugden said it would initially create 15 new jobs but also safeguard the 250 staff at the site. The company set up its Hawick operation 28 years ago with just eight employees. Its mill shop and visitor centre in Elgin attracts more than 200,000 visitors a year and it hopes for similar numbers in the Borders. Mr Sugden said he saw a "bright future" for the manufacturing of luxury textiles in Scotland. He said he hoped the latest investment along with plans for new advanced knitting machines would mark a "new period of progress" for the business and the textiles industry in Hawick.

एल्गिन के जॉन्सटन्स ने 1 मिलियन पाउंड के आगंतुक केंद्र, कैफे और खुदरा आउटलेट के उद्घाटन के साथ अपने हॉविक साइट में एक बड़ा निवेश पूरा किया है।


Pensioner killed in Highland crash with lorry is named

Summary: An 86-year-old man who died in a crash with a lorry in the Highlands has been named as Matthew Donnell.

He was driving a black Peugeot 2008 when it was in collision with a DAF articulated lorry on the A939 near Grantown-on-Spey on Wednesday. Mr Donnell, who was from the town, was pronounced dead at the scene. His 81-year-old female passenger is in a serious condition in hospital. Police have appealed for witnesses to the crash and dashcam footage.

हाइलैंड्स में एक लॉरी के साथ दुर्घटना में मारे गए एक 86 वर्षीय व्यक्ति का नाम मैथ्यू डोनेल है।


Ways Comey could hurt Trump - or himself

Summary: Get ready for Comey week, the sequel. The former FBI director's book - A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership - will be released to the public on Tuesday, and he has his first of a series of major television interviews airing Sunday night.

Anthony ZurcherNorth America reporter@awzurcheron Twitter Ten months ago Mr Comey held much of the US in rapt attention as he testified before Congress after being fired by Donald Trump weeks before. The former director was questioned about the ongoing investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia and the circumstances of the director's dismissal, and accused the president of lying and defamation. Can the 2018 book release and media blitz possibly live up to last year's event? Much depends on any new revelations, some of which have already emerged as US media pore over advance copies of the book. The president has already tweeted that Mr Comey is a liar, a leaker and an "untruthful slime ball" - and he may just be getting warmed up. Republican countermeasures include a website, lyincomey.com, online advertising, television surrogates and a quick-reaction team. The real bombshells may emerge when the former director is pressed by interviewers. Here's a look at some of the topics they may cover. The Kelly call One new episode detailed in the book is a phone call the director received minutes after he was fired from John Kelly, then secretary of homeland security and currently White House chief of staff. Mr Kelly, according to the Daily Beast, was "sick" over Mr Comey's dismissal and said he would resign in protest because he didn't want to work for "dishonourable people" - that is, Mr Trump. Mr Comey writes that he convinced the former general to stay on the job to serve as a moral guide for the president. The chief of staff's relations with Mr Trump have been strained as of late, and Mr Comey's account of the phone conversation could cause further friction. Back in January, Mr Trump dramatically turned on his top political adviser, Steve Bannon, after comments he made to Michael Wolff in the book Fire and Fury that were critical of the president and his family. In other words, books can have consequences. The source of the Russia investigation Since Mr Comey last commanded the national stage, a pitched political battle has been fought over the FBI's July 2016 decision to open an investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign. Government intelligence officials have said that a collection of foreign intelligence and reports about Mr Trump's campaign aides and associates prompted the inquiry. Many Republicans have countered that there were undue influences from Mr Trump's political opponents behind the probe's initiation. Mr Comey was at the centre of the action. The dossier and the surveillance Going hand-in-hand with the genesis of the Russia investigation is the swirling controversy over the Steele dossier - the collection of largely unsubstantiated Russia-related allegations about Mr Trump and his associates complied by British ex-spy Christopher Steele. Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee have alleged that the FBI built its investigation, including a request for surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, on the dossier, which was the result of investigations funded by Democrats and conservative opponents of candidate Trump. Mr Comey could shed light on the role the dossier played in FBI investigations and his views on the validity of its allegations. It was Mr Comey, after all, who was responsible for informing President-elect Trump about the dossier's existence in December 2016. FBI bias Mr Comey also hasn't had an opportunity to comment on allegations of Democratic and anti-Trump bias within the FBI. A Justice Department investigation revealed that two senior employees, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, exchanged text messages that were critical of candidate Trump. Strzok - the FBI's top Russia expert - had a key role in the initial FBI investigation into the Trump campaign and worked on Mr Mueller's special counsel team until he was reassigned in July 2017. Mr Trump has also accused Andrew McCabe, Mr Comey's second-in-command at the FBI, of bias because the then-deputy FBI director's wife ran for a Virginia legislative seat as a Democrat in 2015 and accepted campaign donations from a group associated with the state's governor, who had close ties to the Clinton family. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Mr McCabe shortly before he was due to retire, after a Justice Department review found he had misled investigators looking into leaks about the department's Clinton Foundation investigation. Mr Comey had previously defended Mr McCabe, tweeting that he "stood tall… when small people were trying to tear down an institution we all depend on". Will he have anything to say about his former deputy - and other embattled FBI employees - now? Media leaks Speaking of leaks, Mr Trump has accused Mr Comey of lying under oath when he testified to a Senate committee in May 2017 that he had never been an "anonymous source" for a media story. Mr Comey in his blockbuster testimony last June revealed he provided copies of memos recounting his interactions with the president to a friend, who then passed them along to the New York Times. Was that perjury, as Mr Trump has since implied? Has Mr Comey had other, undisclosed interactions with the press? One of the ways Mr Trump and his supporters are trying to undermine Mr Comey's character is by suggesting that he's a media-loving showboat who can't be trusted. The former director will have more than ample opportunity to respond. The Clinton investigation Another constant source of presidential displeasure is the way Mr Comey handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server while she was secretary of state. It may seem a lifetime ago, but in the days after the 2016 election it was Democrats who were furious about Mr Comey's actions. In particular, they viewed his October letter to Congress announcing he was reopening the email investigation as tilting the election to Mr Trump. In the book Mr Comey apologises - sort of - by saying he needed to do a better job explaining his choices during the investigation. He also relates a story about how President Barack Obama spoke to him after the election and said that nothing he did in the preceding months made him doubt the director's "integrity and ability" Since then, however, Mr Trump and his fellow Republicans have sought to shift focus to Mr Comey's July 2016 decision not to pursue criminal charges against the former secretary of state. "Wow," Mr Trump tweeted in September 2017, "looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over…and so much more. A rigged system!" Strzok's name comes up here as well, as he was reportedly involved in drafting Mr Comey's statement that Mrs Clinton was "extremely careless" in handling classified information but cleared her of criminal wrongdoing. Mr Comey has explained his decisions on the Clinton investigation multiple times before, but he'll likely have to take that trip down memory lane once again. Obstruction of justice During his June 2017 Senate testimony, Mr Comey was questioned repeatedly about his allegations that the president had asked him to pledge his loyalty to him and had requested that he back off the FBI investigation into Michael Flynn, his then-national security adviser, as well as events leading up to Mr Trump's decision to fire him. Mr Comey is shedding new details on this and other alleged presidential actions that critics have said constitute criminal obstruction of justice. In one clip released by ABC, Stephanopoulos asks Mr Comey if he thinks Mr Trump should be impeached. The video cuts away before the former director answers. Last month, after the president questioned Mr Comey's truthfulness, the former director tweeted his reply. "Mr. President, the American people will hear my story very soon," he wrote. "And they can judge for themselves who is honourable and who is not." That day of reckoning is almost at hand. More from Anthony:

कॉमी सप्ताह की अगली कड़ी के लिए तैयार हो जाएँ। एफ. बी. आई. के पूर्व निदेशक की पुस्तक-ए हायर लॉयल्टीः ट्रुथ, लाइज़ एंड लीडरशिप-मंगलवार को जनता के लिए जारी की जाएगी, और रविवार रात प्रसारित होने वाले प्रमुख टेलीविजन साक्षात्कारों की श्रृंखला में उनका पहला कार्यक्रम है।


Police name man in Worcester 'unexplained' death

Summary: Police have named a man who died after being found lying unresponsive in a Worcester street as Keith Paul.

Mr Paul, 58, of Gheluvelt Park, Worcester, was found in Lavender Road in the early hours of Thursday. West Mercia Police said inquiries are still ongoing to establish the exact cause of his death, which is still being treated as unexplained. Officers have appealed for information from anyone who may have seen Mr Paul in the hours before his death. West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to the scene at 04:00 BST to find a man in cardiac arrest. Mr Paul's next of kin have been informed.

पुलिस ने एक व्यक्ति का नाम कीथ पॉल रखा है जिसकी मृत्यु वॉर्सेस्टर की सड़क पर अनुत्तरदायी अवस्था में पड़े होने के कारण हुई थी।


New exhibition on Aberdeen FC stadium plans for Kingsford

Summary: A new exhibition about Aberdeen FC's proposals for a new stadium on the outskirts of the city is to be held.

The stadium and training facilities would be built at Kingsford, close to the Aberdeen bypass, near Westhill. The Yes to Kingsford Stadium group believes it would be a vital step forward, but there has been opposition. The exhibition will be held at Pittodrie on Thursday 24 November from 15:00 to 21:00, at the AAM Suite in the Richard Donald Stand. It will also provide feedback on the public consultation events staged in Aberdeen, Kingswells and Westhill in July and August.

शहर के बाहरी इलाके में एक नए स्टेडियम के लिए एबरडीन एफसी के प्रस्तावों के बारे में एक नई प्रदर्शनी आयोजित की जानी है।


Is steel still important to the Welsh economy?

Summary: What a year it has been for steel. Twelve months ago the future for Tata in Wales looked very gloomy and had the worst happened - the Port Talbot site closed and mothballed - the whole Welsh economy would have contracted significantly.

By Sarah DickinsBBC Wales economics correspondent Why is what Tata does still important here? WHAT IT PAYS IN RATES Tata pays massive amounts in business rates. While its plant at Llanwern in Newport is not as important as it was decades ago, Tata still pays more than £3m a year in business rates. Those for the giant Port Talbot works will of course be much higher. What is interesting is that all that revenue from the five Tata sites in Wales is pooled and then shared out across all Welsh local authorities, benefiting all parts of the country. SUPPORTING JOBS Tata's workforce may well have fallen to 6,300 in Wales but it is calculated to inject about £200m a year in wages to its employees alone. On top of that there are thousands of other jobs in Wales, dependent on Tata - calculated in a report from the Cardiff-based Wales Economy Research Unit (WERU) in 2012 to be around 18,000. Professor Calvin Jones, one of the authors of the report, said the messages from that detailed analysis still stands. The salaries of those thousands of workers are relatively high - they tend to be twice the minimum wage and are largely spent in the wider economy. TATA AS A SUPPLIER - AND CONSUMER Welsh steel goes into a wide range of goods like washing machines and food tins but there is the potential to supply bigger markets - the proposed tidal lagoons and big road and rail projects. Tata is also a big consumer. Union Unite said the plant in Port Talbot alone uses as much energy as the whole of the city of Swansea. In 2011 its spending on water, gas and electricity was £150m a year, money that would be sorely missed by utility firms. Dwr Cymru said Tata is one of its biggest private customers in Wales. WHAT VALUE DOES IT BRING TO WALES? The calculations, by WERU suggest Tata and its supply chain is worth £3.3bn a year to Wales - and on site it generates about 3% of the entire Welsh economy. Prof Calvin Jones said Tata has "heft" and is unique in the Welsh economy. "It's important in a strict number sense - several thousand jobs over different operations, all of which are well paid, when we looked at it in 2012 no-one was paid less than double the minimum wage, the workers are well trained, good career progression - those sorts of jobs are very hard to find in somewhere like Wales. "It also has an iconic status. Wales still prides itself on its industry, even in the times when that has been reduced. When the last of that goes, then what is left is a lot of low value added, back office stuff, which doesn't feel like a distinctive economy." Tata employees have much to think about with this proposal, when the consultation starts next week. The promise of a jobs pact equivalent to the Dutch plant will be welcomed as will the £1bn 10-year investment plan in Port Talbot. However the proposal to close the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) will no doubt raise many questions among the workforce. The proposed new pension scheme would see employers paying in 10% and employees 6% - much higher than the 3% and 3% opening offer earlier in the year. But the average length of service with Tata in Wales is 16 years and we can expect many more detailed questions from the workforce as they dissect the proposal from the management.

स्टील के लिए यह कितना अच्छा साल रहा है। बारह महीने पहले वेल्स में टाटा के लिए भविष्य बहुत निराशाजनक लग रहा था और अगर सबसे बुरा होता-पोर्ट टैलबोट साइट बंद हो जाती और खराब हो जाती-तो पूरी वेल्श अर्थव्यवस्था में काफी संकुचन हो जाता।


How damaging is blackface scandal to Trudeau?

Summary: Three instances of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wearing blackface or brownface - widely accepted as racist caricatures - have landed like a bombshell in the Canadian election campaign. What does this mean for his chances of winning?

By Jessica MurphyBBC, Toronto A contrite Justin Trudeau admitted that he never told anyone about his history of dressing in blackface or brownface - not even the Liberal party members first vetting his candidacy. In his lengthy second mea culpa since the scandal broke, he said he was too embarrassed about the incidents to raise them with anyone. He also conceded that he couldn't rule out more instances coming to light, noting he had no recollection of one of the occasions now in the public domain. Mr Trudeau said at the time, he didn't understand the hurt his actions could cause, because of "the layers of privilege that I have". Shachi Kurl, a pollster with the Angus Reid Institute, called the release of the images and footage a "massive cannonball" that could strike at the core of Mr Trudeau's brand. A new opinion survey published on Thursday by the institute suggest Canadians see his top attributes as tolerance and compassion. "Justin Trudeau's brand to this point - until today - has been unassailable on the question of tolerance and pretty unassailable on the question compassion," she told the BBC. "He has a very large base of goodwill on those issues." Three instances of Trudeau in blackface: She notes this is a second real hit to Mr Trudeau that could shatter his cultivated political image. The SNC-Lavalin affair, a political crisis related to attempts to pressure a former attorney general to cut a deal for a firm facing a corruption trial, saw his popularity drop sharply in the polls earlier this year. Liberal support dropped below the support for the Conservative Party at the time. Ms Kurl says in recent weeks, progressives and centre-left voters have been slowly rallying back around Mr Trudeau and the Liberals. This incident could reverse that trend, she says. That backing could move to other parties on the left - the NDP or the Greens - or leave voters undecided. The questions Ms Kurl is asking are: "Do they stay with Mr Trudeau or do they scatter? Can they pull they back together again or is it too late?" It could also alienate a key demographic for Mr Trudeau - younger voters. "The second question is what is the impact on voter suppression," she said. "Does this turn off young voters and then have them just stay home?" Kevin Bosch is a former deputy director of the Liberal Research Bureau, during which time he provided strategic research and advice to Liberal leaders including Mr Trudeau. Mr Bosch said that while this will definitely knock the Liberal campaign off track for a few days, "I don't think it'll be fatal for Trudeau". He said that Mr Trudeau has built up enough goodwill over the last four years as a vocal supporter of a multicultural Canada. "This could have been very damaging to Trudeau - if it came in 2015," he said. "When you've been a prime minister for a period of time, voters tend to focus on your record in government." He said if it had come out in the last election - when voters did not know Mr Trudeau as they do now - it might have collapsed the Liberal campaign and changed the eventual outcome: a Liberal majority. Like Canada, the Liberal Party is diverse. Before the story broke and throughout the following day, Mr Trudeau was busy contacting many minority Liberal candidates as well as various community leaders, offering apologies for his actions. Liberal candidate Greg Fergus, who is black, told journalists in Ottawa that he was contacted on Wednesday night by Mr Trudeau, CTV News reported. "There was a lot of confusion and hurt last night by the black community," he said, but added that Mr Trudeau had built up a good "track record" within the community. "I will say this to all of you, I don't believe that anybody has ever lived their lives without making errors," he said. Liberal candidate Randeep Sarai says he was "saddened" when the photos emerged. "For me, it's difficult to understand," he tell the BBC. "The person in those photos from 20 years ago isn't the person that I've worked with the last four years. He has an impeccable record on promoting diversity, calling out intolerance and breaking down the barriers in this country for people who look like me." He said he has accepted Mr Trudeau's apology. We have yet to see how the election polling - which has had the two main parties neck and neck- is affected by this crisis. But the Canadians that the BBC spoke to on the streets of Toronto and Ottawa on Thursday were mostly unmoved by the news. It's a non-issue, said one, in sentiments that were echoed by others. Prof Cheryl Thompson has studied the phenomenon of blackface in Canada, and she calls it "as Canadian as hockey". While the genre of performance began in the US, she says, it was part of Canadian culture by the mid-1800s. "The only difference [between Canada and the US] is that we haven't had a culture where we contend with race in terms of our national discourse," she says. Prof Thompson says this incident is an opportunity to address "a knowledge gap" about Canada's own history. "There is something about our culture that we are now being forced to confront in ways that we haven't been asked to confront before." On a personal level, Prof Thompson, who is black, says that as a longtime Liberal voter the images have given her pause. "How can I vote for someone who doesn't seem to understand who I am as a person? "And I just think Justin Trudeau, for all the stuff that he says, I don't think understands black and brown people as much as he says that he does."

कनाडाई प्रधान मंत्री जस्टिन ट्रूडो के काले चेहरे या भूरे रंग के चेहरे पहनने के तीन उदाहरण-जिन्हें व्यापक रूप से नस्लवादी कैरिकेचर के रूप में स्वीकार किया जाता है-कनाडा के चुनाव अभियान में एक बम की तरह गिर गए हैं। उनके जीतने की संभावनाओं के लिए इसका क्या मतलब है?


Postal worker plan for National Memorial Arboretum

Summary: Postal workers killed while serving in the armed forces during World War I and II could be remembered at the National Memorial Arboretum.

The Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance hopes to store two books listing the names of the postal workers at the site in Alrewas, Staffordshire. Simon Kelly, company secretary of the fellowship, said they had been produced by a postal worker in about 1950. The WWI book lists 8,858 names and the WWII book lists 3,792. Mr Kelly said the names were listed in alphabetical order under gold letters and gave the postal district in which the men and women worked as well as the regiment they served with. The arboretum is home to many memorials, including the National Armed Forces Memorial, police, fire and ambulance service memorials as well as those of charities and organisations.

प्रथम और द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध के दौरान सशस्त्र बलों में सेवा करते हुए मारे गए डाक कर्मचारियों को राष्ट्रीय स्मारक अर्बोरेटम में याद किया जा सकता है।


Sir Walter Scott's home plans get government approval

Summary: Plans for a new visitor centre at Sir Walter Scott's former home in the Borders have been approved by the Scottish government.

The Abbotsford Trust had already got council approval but ministers had the final say on the £10m programme. It will include a modern visitor centre as well as a new car park and tourist accommodation. Lawyers have also given consent for Abbotsford's historic collections of books and papers to be displayed. Borders MP Michael Moore has welcomed the move and said he was "so proud" to have such a national treasure in his constituency.

सीमा में सर वाल्टर स्कॉट के पूर्व घर में एक नए आगंतुक केंद्र की योजना को स्कॉटिश सरकार द्वारा मंजूरी दी गई है।


Driver rams fencing in unexplained rampage at plantation

Summary: A motorist has caused thousands of pounds in damage after repeatedly crashing into the gates of a government-owned plantation, prompting a police appeal.

Five field gates were destroyed in the apparently deliberate act at Glion Gill, near Greeba, when the vehicle tore through them, forcing them to break, officers said. It happened some time over the weekend. Environment Minister Geoffrey Boot said the damage was "not acceptable". Isle of Man Constabulary said a four-wheeled drive vehicle is thought to have been used in the rampage. Under byelaws, using a vehicle on land owned by the government is prohibited without permission. The gates had been damaged beyond repair and the cost to replace them would run into the thousands of pounds, Mr Boot said. Why not follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk

एक मोटर चालक ने सरकारी स्वामित्व वाले बागान के फाटकों में बार-बार घुसने के बाद हजारों पाउंड का नुकसान पहुंचाया है, जिससे पुलिस की अपील शुरू हो गई है।


The drone pilot whose maps are saving lives in Zanzibar

Summary: A lack of accurate maps is a big problem in parts of Africa: for disaster relief agencies, local authorities and people looking for safe places to build homes. Could cheap survey drones and local volunteers help plug the gaps?

By Katie Prescott and Sarah TreanorBBC News, Tanzania Khadija Abdulla Ali is an unlikely drone pilot in the Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar. Conservatively dressed and from a traditional Muslim background, she is a member of the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative, which since its inception in 2016 has become a poster-child for how African nations can approach the urgent geospatial challenges they face. She never dreamed that her career would look anything like this. "I worked so hard. I was working 24 hours a day taking pictures, processing the data. My family wondered what I was doing it for, but it's so worth it." Behind these drone flights is Zanzibar's charismatic Minister for Lands, Muhammad Juma Muhammad. An architect by training, he's grappling with urban growth and the needs of the tourists that prop up the local economy. Sprawling settlements are in no-one's interest on this idyllic and space-conscious island. "In Africa, we don't create space for human beings," he says. "To walk in the street in Zanzibar you have to negotiate with cars. We need to have pavements, space for children to play, for the old, for disabled people." He believes maps can engineer social change. "We want to get to the stage where we can plot our hospitals on the map, where we can issue building safety certificates, where we can tell people where the local schools are. "We might even be able to start taxing people on their property because we have a better sense of who owns what now." Edward Anderson, who looks after urban planning and disaster reduction for the World Bank, says such survey drones are a nimble, low-cost solution. "Traditionally, you would use satellite imagery but it's not that effective in the tropics because of cloud cover and it's not very high resolution," he explains. "Or you'd use manned aircraft. But that's not something you can do every six months because it is too expensive. Just mobilising the plane can be hundreds of thousands of dollars." The Zanzibar Mapping Initiative is the largest drone mapping exercise in the world, but the project was inspired by one across the water in Dar Es Salaam, in mainland Tanzania, which is partly funded by the UK's Department for International Development. Here, the need for better maps is acute because the city is one of the fastest growing in the world, absorbing a thousand people a day. The last census in 2012 estimated the population to be 4.36 million - now it is nearly six million and rising. Authorities can't keep pace. And as many of the areas where newcomers settle don't appear on a detailed map, officially, they don't exist. Nothing is known about them. Consequently, they lack basic amenities, such as sewers and rubbish collection. Osiligi Losai, a community leader in Kigogo, a suburb of Dar Es Salaam, surveys his domain with a sense of helplessness. "Houses are going up like mushrooms," he says. Sitting between two rivers just off a dual carriageway, a population of 70,000 people has settled from all over Tanzania in this 2.5 sq km (1 sq mile) area, building their own housing in whatever space they can find. This includes river banks, making the homes increasingly vulnerable to flooding. "The water comes up to here," Mr Losai says, gesturing over his head. "People die in these floods." As a result, deadly diseases like cholera are a constant threat. "Mapping is the basic tool for any development," says Mr Losai. "Even if you go to war, you need a map of your enemy. If you don't have a map it's difficult for you to plan, to organise, co-ordinate, so things are completely random." So locals are using drones to map the locality. "Now we're engaging the community to make maps so the people feel a sense of ownership in them," says Mr Losai, "and they're more willing to listen to us when we tell them not to build somewhere." But both drone mapping projects have found that an aerial photo can only show so much. You also need boots on the ground, labelling what the drones see and flagging up issues, such as blocked drains. "You collect the data and then you've got to do something with it," explains John Kedar, director of international engagement for Ordnance Survey, the UK's national mapping agency. "Creating a map takes a lot of skills. There is a massive challenge in many parts of Africa developing skills to create digital mapping that is then used by governments and businesses." Even the biggest global technology companies, such as TomTom, say they need local help to complete their maps. "I strongly believe in the power of crowdsourcing platforms where you work with voluntary or freelance contributors who collect information," says Arnout Desmet, head of TomTom's mapping division. Google is using artificial intelligence in Lagos to map roads, addresses and businesses from their Street View imagery, and adding buildings to the map from satellite pictures. More Technology of Business But its Street View project only applies in seven African countries. And like TomTom, it relies on local people to fill in the gaps through its Local Guides programme. Apple's maps are made from satellite images, which is fine for navigation but not for more detailed use. And several African countries are missing from its Standard Maps list - Ethiopia, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti and Zambia, for example. For many mapping companies it seems there just isn't a commercial incentive to cover Africa, which is why governments, local communities and open source data are so important. The UN has created an Africa mapping initiative aimed at integrating population, housing and other social data with geographical information. It hopes that better "geosocial" maps could save lives. In Dar Es Salaam, for example, hospitals are starting to use the maps created by the World Bank's drones to mark where cholera patients are coming from, so they can spot where outbreaks are happening. "Mapping is simply a tool - a means to an end," concludes the World Bank's Edward Anderson. "Our end is sustainable urban development and an understanding of the unseen implications of this pace of growth."

सटीक मानचित्रों की कमी अफ्रीका के कुछ हिस्सों में एक बड़ी समस्या हैः आपदा राहत एजेंसियों, स्थानीय अधिकारियों और घरों के निर्माण के लिए सुरक्षित स्थानों की तलाश करने वाले लोगों के लिए। क्या सस्ते सर्वेक्षण ड्रोन और स्थानीय स्वयंसेवक अंतराल को भरने में मदद कर सकते हैं?