Paid to poo: Combating open defecation in India

Summary: Using a toilet is something most people take for granted - but about 1.1 billion people around the world defecate in the open because they do not have access to proper sanitation. Now a scheme in India is aiming to instil better toilet habits in children by "paying them to poo".

By Suranjana Tewari BBC News Reporter, Mumbai Open defecation is a practice where people relieve themselves in fields, bushes, open spaces and into open bodies of water. It poses a serious threat to the health of children. Hundreds of thousands of children die every year because of diseases transmitted through human waste. In India, nearly half of the population - more than 590m people - relieve themselves in the open. For many it's a daily ritual and often something they do even when public facilities are available. Now a state council in the Gujarati city of Ahmedabad has come up with a scheme where children are being paid to use public toilets. Campaigners hope it will improve the situation in a country where diseases such as diarrhoea kill about 200,000 children every year. Reshaping attitudes People who live in the slums of Chandoliya in Ahmedabad use the railway tracks to do what most would do only in private, especially early in the morning before the crowds and the heat develop. "We've made public toilets but people still don't use them," said Anil Prajapati, chairman of the Gujarat Sanitation Development Organisation. "Some of these people fear that there are witches inside or that their children will be kidnapped. "These people have come from small villages, and so they are not used to the practice." When people defecate in the open, flies feed on the waste and then carry small amounts away on their bodies. The flies then come into contact with food. Human waste can also run into wells and streams, contaminating water that may be used for drinking or bathing. Ingested bacteria and worms spread diseases, causing sickness and malnutrition. New approach Faecally transmitted infections are also the main reason why nearly half of Indian children under five are underdeveloped. So health officers at Ahmedabad Municipal Council came up with a new approach to try to encourage residents to use the toilets, some of which are free while others cost money to use. "We have 320 public toilets and we are not taking any payment in 143 toilets," said Dr Bhavin Solanki. "We have observed some children are still doing open defecation just in front of the pay-and-use. "So we realised we have to introduce some other scheme. We are giving one rupee (less than a penny) to the children per day, or we're giving them chocolates to encourage use of the toilets." It's a scheme that Bhumi Datadia is taking advantage of. The five-year-old lives in a tiny room with her two siblings and parents. Like many others in her neighbourhood, a nearby river or public toilets are her only options. "Look at the size of my house. Where do I have space to build a toilet?" said Bhumi's mother, Jayashree. Under the new scheme, Bhumi is making one rupee every time she uses a public toilet. Her visits are recorded on a card and she receives her money at the end of the month. "The toilets are good," said Bhumi. "I will use the money I make for school." Good behaviour The city council has plans to scale up the project and it might start paying adults to use public toilets. "The idea is to understand you are rewarded for good behaviour," said D Thara, commissioner of Ahmedebad Municipal Corporation. "Once children start using the toilets, adults won't do it any more. Children themselves will become the motivators." But people in another part of the city say it won't be easy to convince them to change. They say the toilets are not kept clean and that their children are often stopped from entering the facilities because some of them use too much water. Ambitious goal Open defecation also has wider effects on a country, affecting education, income, women's safety and dignity. "It's not safe for women to go to the toilet in the open," said Mr Prajapati. "When they go out at night, anything can happen. It's happening everywhere in India. We want to stop this." Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made eliminating open defecation in India a priority, and wants every home to be installed with a toilet by 2019. In recent years, India has implemented well-funded sanitation campaigns, but few have worked. Some campaigners say that building toilets is not enough and that more needs to be done to reshape attitudes. But the people behind this scheme hope their alternative approach could be a crucial first step towards ending open defecation in India.

शौचालय का उपयोग एक ऐसी चीज है जिसे ज्यादातर लोग हल्के में लेते हैं-लेकिन दुनिया भर में लगभग 1.1 अरब लोग खुले में शौच करते हैं क्योंकि उनके पास उचित स्वच्छता तक पहुंच नहीं है। अब भारत में एक योजना का लक्ष्य बच्चों में शौचालय की बेहतर आदतों को "उन्हें शौच के लिए भुगतान" करके स्थापित करना है।


Tinchy Stryder for nationwide tour

Summary: Tinchy Stryder has announced details of a new tour for 2010.

The east London rapper will kick off a 16-date UK jaunt in Southend on 4 February 2010. Stryder's second album Catch 22 reached number two in the UK album chart when it was released in August. Presale tickets are available from 9am 14 October with general sale passes going on sale on 16 October. The tour dates are: Southend Cliffs Pavilion - 4 February Norwich UEA - 5 Sheffield Academy - 6 Glasgow Academy - 7 Newcastle Academy - 9 Leeds Academy - 10 Manchester Academy - 11 Liverpool Academy - 12 Birmingham Academy - 14 Ipswich Regent - 15 Cambridge Corn Exchange - 16 London Roundhouse - 18 Yeovil Westlands - 19 Bournemouth Opera House - 20 Bristol Academy - 21 Belfast St George's Market - 23

टिंची स्ट्राइडर ने 2010 के लिए एक नए दौरे के विवरण की घोषणा की है।


United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust to recruit more nurses

Summary: A Lincolnshire hospital trust is to recruit 80 new nurses.

The United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, which has hospitals in Grantham, Lincoln and Boston, said it hoped the changes would help it meet "increasingly complex patient needs". In February, a government review was announced into higher than expected mortality rates at the trust. The trust has also been criticised by the Royal College of Nurses for not having enough staff. 'Better quality of care' David Cleave, a matron at Lincoln Hospital, said: "Typically we have one nurse looking after about seven or eight patients. "That's more than we would like, particularly in these high-dependency areas. "What we do know is where staffing levels fall below where they should be, inevitably patient care will fall below where it should be as well." Eiri Jones, the trust's director of nursing, said the 80 nurses would be a mixture of newly-registered nurses, as well as experienced staff. They would be used to fill current gaps, as well as provide additional support. She said: "We have agreed as a trust board we want to invest some money in nursing this year and possibly next year as well." Ms Jones said the new roles would help increase staffing at night. She added the changes would also enable more ward sisters to be taken off general rotas so they could oversee patient care. "When you look at ratios, it's quite difficult to work out if you have the right ratio of nurse to patient or not," she said. "But research shows us the more nurses you have, the better the quality of care." Professor Patrick Callaghan, head of the school of nursing at the University of Nottingham, said the decision could only be good for patients. He added low ratios of qualified nurses to patients could be difficult to manage. He said: "I think it is difficult, especially if you are faced with patients with challenging and complex healthcare needs."

लिंकनशायर अस्पताल ट्रस्ट 80 नई नर्सों की भर्ती करेगा।


Musk promises '10km Hyperloop tunnel' in 2020

Summary: Elon Musk says he wants a new 10km (six-mile) vacuum tunnel for his futuristic Hyperloop - ready for next year's speed-record competition.

Hyperloop aims to transport people in high-speed pods in underground tubes. Mr Musk tweeted his plan after the Technical University of Munich set a new record for the fourth year running. Its pod reached 463km/h (288mph) on the current test tube in the US, which runs for 1.6km straight. Mr Musk said the new vacuum tube would be curved. Ultimately, Hyperloop trains will aim for a top speed of 1,220km/h (700mph). The idea received investment from Richard Branson's Virgin group, which is developing a passenger system called Hyperloop One that it says will have a top speed of 1,080km/h (670mph).

एलोन मस्क का कहना है कि वह अपने भविष्य के हाइपरलूप के लिए एक नई 10 किमी (छह मील) वैक्यूम सुरंग चाहते हैं-जो अगले साल की गति-रिकॉर्ड प्रतियोगिता के लिए तैयार है।


EU referendum: How will official lead campaigns be chosen?

Summary: Campaigning for the EU referendum is effectively under way already even though we don't yet know when it will be held or what the final package of reforms to the UK's membership that David Cameron will put to the British public.

Another unknown factor to add to the mix is the question of which will be the official campaigns on the In/Remain and Out/Leave sides. While a plethora of groups have been set up to argue the case for the UK to stay in or leave the EU, to quote Christopher Lambert from the cult movie Highlander, "there can be only one" when it comes to the official lead campaign for either side. So how does the process work? What is a lead campaign? Referendums are relatively rare in British political history but when they do happen, they are governed by a series of protocols and rules enshrined in law. One of these is that a lead campaign is officially designated on each side, if it meets certain criteria. For instance, in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Better Together was chosen as the official pro-UK lead campaign while Yes Scotland was chosen as the official pro-independence lead group. The Electoral Commission, which is in charge of making sure the EU referendum is a fair contest, will make the decision. The choice is very important, not merely for the increased media profile it confers on the chosen campaigns but also for the financial benefits. What are the benefits? The official campaigns will get access to a grant of up to £600,000, an overall spending limit of £7m, campaign broadcasts on TV and radio, free mail shots and free access to meeting rooms. Other groups are free to run their own campaigns but they will be limited to a spend of £700,000 if they register with the Electoral Commission and will have to report the source of donations. If they don't register with the Commission they will be limited to spending less than £10,000. Who is in the running? On one side of the fence, the state of play looks relatively straightforward. Britain Stronger In Europe is the main, and as yet unchallenged, campaign group making the case for the UK's continued membership of the EU. Although the SNP and Labour have both said they will run their own separate campaigns, and there are other internal Tory groups, this umbrella body - which is chaired by former M&S chair Lord Rose - commands broad support among those who believe the UK's future lies within the EU. However, it is a very different picture among those arguing that leaving the EU will benefit Britain. At the moment, there are three rival groups who could all ultimately vie for the nod from the Electoral Commission. Six months ago, it looked like a straight fight between Vote Leave and Leave.EU. The former was spawned out of the Business for Britain group, a longstanding Eurosceptic lobby group which campaigned for the UK to overhaul its status with the EU. It has historic links with the Conservative Party - it is now chaired by former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson and its campaign director is Dominic Cummings, a former special adviser to Michael Gove. It also has experience of fighting and winning referendums. Its chief executive Matthew Elliott ran the successful No 2 AV campaign in 2011, which opposed any change to the electoral system. Its deputy chairman is Labour donor John Mills and it includes UKIP's MP, Douglas Carswell, amongst its backers. Leave.EU is a different animal altogether. It was set up last July by businessman Arron Banks, a former Conservative donor who became one of UKIP's biggest supporters in the run-up to last year's election, It has portrayed itself as more of a popular movement focused on immigration. Relations between the two groups have never been cordial, amid claims of hidden agendas, differences in strategies, and failing to reach out to others in the Out camp. Amid signs that their differences were irreconcilable, a new outfit - Grassroots Out - sprung up last month and has gained support. GO was formed by Tory MPs Peter Bone and Tom Pursglove and Labour's Kate Hoey. It has since won the backing of UKIP leader Nigel Farage and the party's ruling body which described it as a "genuinely cross party, well organised, energetic campaigning group". Why does all of this matter? All of the groups concerned are making big play of their cross-party credentials and being a "broad church". This is not a coincidence. Any group seeking the official designation has to meet a series of criteria, set down by the watchdog. In other words, it has to pass a series of tests. One of these is demonstrating that it commands support from across the political spectrum. The other criteria are: The Electoral Commission has said it will chose "whichever of the applicants appears...to represent to the greatest extent those campaigning for that outcome". However, it is not as simple as that. The watchdog has the power to reject all applications to be the lead campaign on the grounds they do not meet the criteria set down in the 2000 Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act. To do this, however, would be highly unusual and controversial. Whichever Out campaign is chosen is likely to influence the tone and conduct of the campaign as well as who its figurehead is. Nigel Farage is likely to play a much more prominent role if either Leave.EU or Go is chosen - with the campaign likely to have the issues of immigration and security at its heart. Many Tory Eurosceptics - including a number of Cabinet ministers - will feel more comfortable with Vote Leave, which wants, according to UKIP MP Douglas Carswell, to have a "broad-based, optimistic, upbeat campaign", with a focus on what they claim will be the economic benefits of leaving the EU. Labour Eurosceptics, at the moment, seem uncertain about which horse to back, with John Mills - the founder of Labour Leave - insisting that it remains affiliated to Vote Leave despite rumours to the contrary. When will we know the result? The watchdog has said it will publish details of the designation process once David Cameron has named the date for the referendum, which could happen as early as Monday 22 February, if a deal on his draft renegotiation package is agreed by EU leaders the previous weekend. The timing of the process will be among details set out in legislation relating to the EU poll that will have to be approved by MPs. With the prospect of the referendum itself taking place in late June, campaigners on both sides will be keen for the watchdog to make a speedy decision, potentially before the Easter holiday at the end of March. The Scottish referendum campaigns were designated on 23 April 2014, just under five months before the referendum was held on 18 September. While the period is likely to be slightly shorter this time, activists will be arguing that time is of the essence in getting their message across. Further reading on the UK's EU referendum Guide: All you need to know about the referendum EU renegotiation: Did Cameron get what he wanted? Referendum timeline: What will happen when? The view from Europe: What's in it for the others? More: BBC News EU referendum special

यूरोपीय संघ जनमत संग्रह के लिए प्रचार प्रभावी रूप से पहले से ही चल रहा है, हालांकि हम अभी तक नहीं जानते हैं कि यह कब आयोजित किया जाएगा या ब्रिटेन की सदस्यता के लिए सुधारों का अंतिम पैकेज क्या होगा जो डेविड कैमरन ब्रिटिश जनता के सामने रखेंगे।


Jersey States surveys immigrants' use of services

Summary: The States of Jersey has launched an investigation into the amount of immigrants coming into the island and their use of public services.

The review will look at how immigrants make use of hospital, educational services and the States benefits system. Last week the States revealed it was considering tightening the rules on who can access these services. Access might stop if the investigation finds that services are exploited.

जर्सी राज्यों ने द्वीप में आने वाले प्रवासियों की संख्या और सार्वजनिक सेवाओं के उनके उपयोग की जांच शुरू कर दी है।


Man rescued after catamaran capsizes off Wembury

Summary: A man has been rescued from rocks after a catamaran he was onboard capsized off the south Devon coast.

The man, who was in his 50s, swam a "short distance" from the craft to rocks at Wembury, a spokesman for Brixham Coastguards said. He was rescued by the RNLI Plymouth lifeboat following a number of emergency calls on Saturday morning. The man was unhurt and the craft, which was no longer than 20ft (6m) long, was taken to Wembury, the spokesman added.

दक्षिण डेवोन तट पर एक कटमरैन के पलट जाने के बाद एक व्यक्ति को चट्टानों से बचाया गया है।


River Ettrick salmon tagged in order to test 'fish pass'

Summary: Salmon tagging has been carried on a tributary of the River Tweed in order to test the efficiency of a new "fish pass".

It has been installed at Murray's Cauld on the Philiphaugh Estate near Selkirk. The fish pass is part of a wider upgrade of the area, which includes a hydro-electric station. Salmon have traditionally leapt up the cauld - or weir - as they swim upstream from the Atlantic to spawn but they are now able to take the alternative route. Kenny Galt and James Hunt from the Tweed Foundation and Tommy Heard, water bailiff for the River Tweed Commission, helped to carry out the tagging operation.

एक नए "फिश पास" की दक्षता का परीक्षण करने के लिए ट्वीड नदी की एक सहायक नदी पर सैल्मन टैगिंग की गई है।


Summary: To celebrate the end of a decade of music Newsbeat speaks to the biggest artists in Radio 1's world, to find out their favourite album of the last ten years. In part two check out who Leona Lewis, Biffy Clyro, Chipmunk and Jay Sean have chosen...

Jay Sean Ne-Yo - In My Own Words I'm a big Ne-Yo fan. I do love his first album, it's only because I was heavily inspired by him and what he changed. He brought melody back into RnB music. He almost formed a new genre of pop RnB and that's what I do. I'm very inspired by him. Simon Neil (Biffy Clyro) At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command We saw them live twice - the first time at T In The Park they were without doubt the best live band you will ever see, or that I'll ever see. Absolutely the best gig and band ever. It's a damn shame that they broke up when they were just coming into their own. If you look at the music that came after At The Drive-In, rock music really moved in that direction. They opened up a whole new generation's eyes to a ferocity that no-one had seen. Any band can learn from that. Relationship Of Command - it was the one which introduced everyone to them. Leona Lewis Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor When Alicia first came out I think she was very different. It's all very piano based. At the time I was really into getting my piano skills down, she was quite an inspiration. Her song writing is great and I can just really relate to her. Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips) Radiohead - Hail To The Thief When Radiohead did their weird records they were really perched in a way where they could have said 'we're going to take over the world' and we're going to play with Beyonce and play stadiums. They chose not to. I was just powerless to it, this is the way groups should just be. They go for it, a lot of things they do could have failed, could have been too weird. Felix White (The Maccabees) Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights It was a proper magic record. For a band to make a first record and understand how beautiful, dark, understated music could be. Music which works from an egoless perspective. Music that doesn't come and get you, you have to give a bit of yourself to it and let it wrap you up. Embed itself in your mind, suddenly when that happens you get so much out of it. I listened to the record again and I was just stunned at how incredible it is. It's incredibly beautiful and incredibly sinister and aggressive and the songs are just wonderful. It was one of the records which set our band in place, uniting on a particular thing. Chipmunk Jay-Z - Blueprint III The production is amazing, the flows are amazing and it has inspirational words. Matt Cocksedge - Delphic Sigur Ros - () That's soundtracked any kind of panoramic moment I've had since then, that's an important record. It wouldn't be so important in terms of the public eye. There's one particular moment. I mean the whole album just works perfectly. This is one of the great things about that album, from the start to the end - it's just a constant flow. It only really kicks in terms of huge massive cymbals right in the last song, or the second to last song, the whole album is a huge peak towards that. It's unbelievable, so understated, simple and devastatingly effective. Artists choose their albums of the decade - part one

संगीत के एक दशक के अंत का जश्न मनाने के लिए न्यूज़बीट पिछले दस वर्षों के अपने पसंदीदा एल्बम का पता लगाने के लिए रेडियो 1 की दुनिया के सबसे बड़े कलाकारों से बात करता है। भाग दो में देखें कि लियोना लुईस, बिफी क्लाइरो, चिपमंक और जे सीन ने किसे चुना है...


My relative remembered at Gallipoli

Summary: Like many Australians, I have ancestors who served in World War One. The stories of their military service are well known by my relatives and their diaries, letters and medals are precious family relics.

By Wendy FrewAustralia editor, BBC News Online One of those letters - written by my great-great-uncle, Benjamin Bennett Leane - was read by Prince Charles to the crowd gathered in the cold dawn at Anzac Cove. With his brother (my great-grandfather) and three other brothers, Benjamin served at Gallipoli. The 26-year-old kept a diary during the war which he addressed to his young wife Phyllis. They had been married less than three years and his battlefield missives were his way of talking to her. Two days before the fateful morning when the Anzacs landed on the shores of Gallipoli, Benjamin, then a captain in the Australian army, wrote a letter to Phyllis that he feared would be his last. "In case the worst happens and I am unable to make any more entries I will take this opportunity to bid you 'goodbye,' dear girl," he told Phyllis. "Know that I died loving you with my whole heart and soul, dearest wife that a man ever had. Kiss little Gwen and our new baby, who perhaps I may never see, and never let them forget Daddy." He asked Phyllis to be patient with his mother, told his wife she must eventually consider remarrying, and said he was not afraid to die. But in his later diary entries the horrors of the war are clear. He records seeing men "weeping like babies" and "cowering at every explosion". One incident he recalls is particularly poignant. A young message runner returns from the fighting "looking like a maniac," calling for Captain Leane but unable to recognise the officer. The boy has dug himself out of the earth following several explosions that kill the other six runners with him. Not all Australians think the disastrous Gallipoli campaign should be at the heart of the nation's founding myth but it is hard not to be moved by the accounts of what happened to the troops. Like Erich Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front and the experiences of the Turkish troops, the stories of the Anzacs are often heart-breaking. Benjamin, along with his brothers, and some cousins and nephews, survived the horrors of Gallipoli. He died two years later at Bullecourt in France, killed by an artillery shell. His tombstone is surrounded by thousands of graves of unidentified soldiers.

कई ऑस्ट्रेलियाई लोगों की तरह, मेरे भी पूर्वज हैं जिन्होंने प्रथम विश्व युद्ध में सेवा की। उनकी सैन्य सेवा की कहानियों को मेरे रिश्तेदार अच्छी तरह से जानते हैं और उनकी डायरी, पत्र और पदक बहुमूल्य पारिवारिक अवशेष हैं।


Woman in hospital after being hit by car in North Ayrshire

Summary: A woman has been taken to hospital after she was hit by a car in North Ayrshire.

Emergency services were called to Crawfords Lodge access road, Ardrossan, at about 14:20 on Friday. The woman was taken to Crosshouse Hospital near Kilmarnock for treatment. Her condition was unknown. The A78 between the Montfode roundabout and West Kilbride was closed, and diversions were in place.

उत्तरी आयरशायर में एक कार की चपेट में आने के बाद एक महिला को अस्पताल ले जाया गया है।


Cardiff Co-op cash machine blast: Man arrested

Summary: A man has been arrested in connection with a burglary at a shop in Cardiff which involved the shop door and cash machine being blown off.

Forty people were evacuated on Friday from flats above the Co-op store in Countisbury Avenue, Llanrumney, when acetylene cylinders were used to break into it. The 20-year-old man, from Llanrumney, was arrested on suspicion of burglary. He has since been released on police bail pending further inquiries. South Wales Police said they were still investigating what had happened. Related Internet Links South Wales Police

कार्डिफ में एक दुकान में चोरी के मामले में एक व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है, जिसमें दुकान का दरवाजा और नकदी मशीन को उड़ा दिया गया था।


The Mumbai 'toxic hell' where poor are forced to live

Summary: Tens of thousands of people are fighting to leave Mahul, a heavily industrialised neighbourhood in the western Indian city of Mumbai, saying the toxic pollution there is adversely impacting their health. BBC Marathi's Mayuresh Konnur and Janhavee Moole report on the residents' battle to be relocated.

Anita Dhole, 38, was forced to move to a "transit camp" set up by the civic authorities in Mahul in May 2017 after the illegal slum she was living in was demolished. Since then, she says, she has been suffering. "I have breathing trouble and high blood pressure, and the pollution has also affected my eyesight," she says. Hers was one of more than 5,000 families - estimated to be between 30,000 and 50,000 people - that lost their homes in the demolition drive and were offered temporary housing in Mahul. They were told they would be given homes in another Mumbai suburb later but, residents say, Mahul is not fit for living, even for a short time. A former fishing village, it's now close to oil and petroleum refineries, chemical factories and fertiliser plants. A report in 2013 by the King Edward Memorial Hospital said that around 67% of people living in Mahul complained of breathlessness several times a month and around 84% of them complained of eye-irritation. In 2015, India's environment court National Green Tribunal said there was "a perceptible threat to [the] health of residents" in Mahul because of the "prevailing air quality in the area". But local municipal authorities say three different surveys by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board show "that the pollution levels in Mahul are not different from other areas of Mumbai". Yet residents blame breathing issues, asthma, skin diseases, tuberculosis and blood pressure-related problems on poor local conditions. Ms Dhole says her parents fell so sick in Mahul that they soon left for their village. Shamdas Salve, who also moved to Mahul last year, says his two-year-old son has had a persistent skin infection for the past five months. "He doesn't sleep the whole night and keeps scratching. I've consulted several skin specialists and changed his medication but he has had no relief. He cries and keeps scratching. He now has marks on his face too." His words are echoed by many of his neighbours - 10-year-old Sahil suffers from TB and so does 17-month-old Anshul Tusambad; Maya Goswami, 55, struggles with asthma; and 18-year-old Kavita Subramanyan has low BP and breathing problems. Besides pollution, residents say they have no access to clean water and sewage facilities and that electricity supply is far from regular. There are also no hospitals or schools nearby. The area is poorly connected with other parts of the city and, as a result, many women have been forced to quit their jobs and stay home. The transit camp where Ms Dhole lives is actually a block of apartments that goes by the official name of Eversmile layout. It has dozens of buildings and each is home to 300 congested one-room apartments. The complex is filthy - sewage pipes are broken, gutters are overflowing; electric wires are dangling everywhere; the air is stuffy, mosquitoes abound and rats scurry past us as we walk around the neighbourhood. Most of these low-cost homes are meant for families who have been relocated because of demolition of unauthorised slums. Every year, tens of thousands migrate from rural India to Mumbai in search of livelihood and most end up living in illegal shanty towns that often encroach on roads or other city infrastructure. Most of those who were relocated to Mahul, including Ms Dhole, used to live in a slum along the Tansa pipeline - the 160km (99 miles) long water pipeline that runs through Mumbai, carrying water from Lake Tansa. It's a major source of water for the city. Just over half of the pipeline is overground and, over the years, unauthorised houses came up alongside it and, in some places, on top of it. In 2006, a petition was filed in the high court in Mumbai asking the court to order the government to relocate those living in the slums to "ensure that the water, which is used by the citizens of Mumbai, is safe, and that these pipelines do not become a target for persons to attack the citizens of Mumbai". Read more stories about pollution and the environment: In 2009, the court ruled that there must be a 10-metre gap between the pipeline and the nearest home, which meant that thousands of families had to move out. Their homes were subsequently demolished and they were told to relocate to Mahul. Many initially refused because of the pollution, but were forced to move as the demolitions continued. The fight to leave Ms Dhole has started an online petition demanding that they be moved out of Mahul. She and other residents have also petitioned the high court. In August, the court said the civic authorities could not force people to move to Mahul and that they must find alternative housing for them or pay rent for those families that did move out. The protests have intensified in the past two months with many residents of Mahul's transit camp demonstrating at the site where their homes once stood. They have also launched a campaign on social media with the hashtag and Twitter handle MumbaisToxicHell - demanding that they are relocated again, this time to a safer and healthier environment.

दसियों हज़ार लोग पश्चिमी भारतीय शहर मुंबई में एक भारी औद्योगिक पड़ोस माहुल को छोड़ने के लिए संघर्ष कर रहे हैं, यह कहते हुए कि वहाँ के विषाक्त प्रदूषण से उनके स्वास्थ्य पर प्रतिकूल प्रभाव पड़ रहा है। बीबीसी मराठी के मयूरेश कोन्नूर और जानहवी मूले ने निवासियों की लड़ाई को स्थानांतरित करने पर रिपोर्ट दी।


Your pictures of Scotland 12 - 19 February

Summary: A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 February. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.

Please also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly. Conditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions. Please ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice). In contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide. However, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News. At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law. You can find more information here. All photos are subject to copyright.

12 और 19 फरवरी के बीच भेजी गई स्कॉटलैंड की अपनी तस्वीरों का चयन करें। अपनी तस्वीरें scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk पर भेजें। कृपया सुनिश्चित करें कि आप यहाँ पाई जाने वाली तस्वीरों के संबंध में बीबीसी के नियमों का पालन करते हैं।


Sellafield accused of disposing of waste at landfill

Summary: Sellafield nuclear plant is to be prosecuted over allegations that it sent low-level radioactive waste to a landfill site.

Sellafield Limited is accused of sending and disposing of four bags from the plant to Lillyhall landfill site in Workington in April 2010. It is facing eight charges brought by the Environment Agency and one brought by the Office for Nuclear Regulation. The case is due before Workington Magistrates' Court in December.

सेलाफील्ड परमाणु संयंत्र पर इन आरोपों के लिए मुकदमा चलाया जाना है कि उसने एक लैंडफिल साइट पर निम्न-स्तरीय रेडियोधर्मी अपशिष्ट भेजा था।


Postal Service in Statue of Liberty stamp photo mix-up

Summary: The US Postal Service regrets issuing a stamp featuring a photo of a Las Vegas casino's replica Statue of Liberty rather than the original in New York harbour, a spokesman has said.

But the postal service printed three billion of the first-class stamps and will continue to sell them, he said. And the agency would have selected the photograph anyway, he said. A stamp collector discovered the mix-up after noting discrepancies between the stamp image and the copper original. The mix-up was first reported by Linn's Stamp News, a publication for philatelists. It points out that the photo used on the stamp shows a rectangular patch on the crown that is present on the 14-year-old statue at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, but not on the 305ft (93m) copper statue in New York. In addition, the facial features on the Las Vegas replica are more sharply defined than on the original. The image was taken from a stock photography service, the New York Times reported. Designed by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi and French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the statue - entitled Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World - was given to the US by the French and dedicated in 1886.

एक प्रवक्ता ने कहा है कि अमेरिकी डाक सेवा को न्यूयॉर्क बंदरगाह में मूल के बजाय लास वेगास कैसिनो की प्रतिकृति स्टैच्यू ऑफ लिबर्टी की तस्वीर वाली डाक टिकट जारी करने पर खेद है।


Van life: Durham couple's six years on the road (and counting)

Summary: The idea of packing up your possessions to live life on the open road has its appeal, but the practicalities put a lot of people off actually doing it. Six years ago, after one of them nearly died and both were diagnosed with depression, Dan Colegate, 38, and Esther Dingley, 37, swapped their careers and a permanent home for motoring through the mountains, valleys and coastlines of Europe.

By Duncan LeatherdaleBBC News In January 2014, Dan and Esther appeared to have a good life. They had a nice flat in the picturesque cathedral city of Durham, multiple degrees from universities including Oxford and Cambridge, flourishing careers and were three weeks away from getting married. But beneath the surface, both felt hollow inside, like "zombies sleepwalking through life", Esther recalls. Dan, a business development manager, was getting counselling for depression while Esther, who ran her own personal training firm, battled with chronic fatigue sparked by her own mental health struggles. And then Dan nearly died. Doctors had told Esther to say her final goodbye to her partner of 11 years just in case they were unable to halt the "flesh-eating" bacteria threatening to devour his insides; the necrotising fasciitis he had was an infection that followed surgery to ease a bowel incontinence-causing defect he had endured since birth. They could not have known it on that fretful night, but the moment Dan nearly died proved to be the moment his and Esther's life together really started. "It was the kick up the backside we needed," says Dan, chatting six years later via video-call from an idyllic vineyard in Gascony, France, where he is house-sitting. In the on-screen box beside Dan, Esther, who is broadcasting live from the pair's parked-up campervan, nods. "People say every cloud has a silver lining but when you're in the cloud it does not look like it," she says. The couple are currently several hundred miles apart, Dan opting to stay still for a time while Esther prefers to keep mobile. "We've got the best of both worlds, really," Esther says. "We get a home bug and a travel bug. Travelling takes you to some beautiful places but it feels a bit unsettled at times, so then we house-sit somewhere to get a bit of stability. "We realised that during the coronavirus we had not been apart from each other for a year so decided to each just do our own thing for a bit. This whole thing has been really good for us individually and our relationship; we are genuinely happy now." The seeds of that happiness first started to be sown in the weeks after Dan's operation, when he was lying on the sofa eating chunks of discounted Christmas cake they had bought for their wedding. The nuptials had to be cancelled because of his health scare, and they've still not got around to becoming husband and wife. "We really loved to travel and we kept saying one day we would do it, but there was always another project, another job to help pay for the future we wanted that we should do first," Esther says. "We were always just chasing the next objective, always chasing something bigger so we could do something in the future. Then all of a sudden someone turns around and says the person I love and was planning to do it all with could be gone by the morning. "It was time for us to think again about our lives." Dan nods, adding simply: "We were taking our future for granted." With Dan recovering, they decided to start travelling almost immediately, and within three weeks they were on the road. They found a campervan - quickly nicknamed Homer - a tenant for their flat and a buyer for their car. Initially they put most of their possessions in a friend's attic, but have since given most away to friends and charities. "Everything we own and consider personal possessions fits in the van," Dan says. They reckoned with their savings and rental income from their Durham home they could head off for a year-long adventure. The two fitness fanatics were keen to hike and cycle in some of Europe's most beautiful spots. One year has become six and counting, with the couple living off a combination of savings, rental income and money earned doing odd jobs. "When you are sitting on your sofa in Durham trying to decide if you can take the financial risk, with people asking you 'what about your pension?' or 'what about this or that?', you are pretty risk averse," Esther says. "It was not until on the road and finding out how inexpensive it could be, and interacting with people living on the road for 10 or 20 years, that we started to see we did not have to go back to the careers that we had. "We could have done this years earlier." They have never really had a plan but instead have just been "searching for a feeling", Dan says. They've lived in France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Liechtenstein, enjoying summers in the altitudes of the Alps and Pyrenees, and have spent winters in the warmer climes of Spain. They have biked and hiked thousands of miles, sometimes apart but most of it together; both recognise they were in a fortunate financial position that's certainly not shared by everyone. No matter how hard they had worked to put themselves in that situation, there was still an element of luck to get there. And they say luck has accompanied them throughout. "The overriding experience for me is that something always comes up," Dan says. "Every time we said 'we needed to do this or that', something happened that made that possible." There was the time they broke down in Italy on a national holiday with the garages closed, and a chance encounter with an expat Mancunian walking her dog led to them being offered a place to stay. Or when they quickly found farm work or house-sitting jobs when they needed some extra cash or a stable base for a while. And then there was the arrival of Leela. In January 2017, Dan and Esther found themselves in San José, a small fishing village of pristine white houses beside the dazzling blue Alboran Sea in southern Spain, enjoying lunch at a cafe with Esther's parents, who had flown out to see how the pair were getting on. It was the cheese and ham toastie that caught Leela's attention. The eight-month-old was a stray, a not uncommon sight in Spain. This one day found Leela on the cafe's terrace, where Esther and Dan slipped her the remnants of their lunch. After some deliberation, Dan and Esther decided to give Leela a home - but what they didn't know until they took her to the vet to be checked over was that their new friend was pregnant. They soon rented a house in the town, where Leela could give birth to her six puppies, and helped the inexperienced mother raise them: Dan and Esther bottle-fed the pups every three hours for several weeks. Two of the dogs found new homes in Spain, while the other four and their mother joined Dan and Esther on their travels. This was the inspiration for what became a series of children's books written by the couple, to add to several travel books Dan has authored. One campervan, two people and five dogs, and there are no plans to end the adventure, no matter how much they miss friends, family and the weekend trips they used to take to the beaches of Northumberland and hills of the Lake District. They might currently be in separate countries but they are of one mind when asked what they plan to do next. "We haven't got a clue," Dan smiles, and Esther nods enthusiastically. All pictures are subject to copyright

खुली सड़क पर जीवन जीने के लिए अपनी संपत्ति को पैक करने का विचार अपनी अपील रखता है, लेकिन व्यावहारिकताओं ने बहुत से लोगों को वास्तव में ऐसा करने से रोक दिया। छह साल पहले, जब उनमें से एक की लगभग मृत्यु हो गई थी और दोनों को अवसाद का पता चला था, 38 वर्षीय डैन कोलेगेट और 37 वर्षीय एस्थर डिंगले ने अपने करियर और यूरोप के पहाड़ों, घाटियों और तटरेखाओं के माध्यम से मोटर चलाने के लिए एक स्थायी घर की अदला-बदली की।


Leicester under-15s football match disorder suspect charged

Summary: A man has been charged following a disorder at an under-15s football match in Leicester.

The man, aged 50, is accused of a public order offence at a match between Blaby and Whetstone FC and Leicester Nirvana FC on 21 October, last year. The match was being played at the home of Blaby and Whetstone FC in Warwick Road, Whetstone. The man, who has not been named, is due to appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on 25 February.

लीसेस्टर में एक अंडर-15 फुटबॉल मैच में विकार के बाद एक व्यक्ति पर आरोप लगाया गया है।


Flooding damages bird breeding sites in Lincolnshire

Summary: Heavy rain and flooding has affected bird numbers in Lincolnshire, according to the RSPB.

The organisation said rising water levels had damaged nests and breeding grounds. Laura Harpham from the RSPB, at Frampton Marsh, near Boston, said wading birds were most at risk, including ground-nesting avocets. In March, nature reserves in the county suffered from dry conditions which put the same birds at risk from predators.

आर. एस. पी. बी. के अनुसार, भारी बारिश और बाढ़ ने लिंकनशायर में पक्षियों की संख्या को प्रभावित किया है।


Goole building evacuated after lightning causes fire

Summary: A building in an East Yorkshire town had to be evacuated after being hit by lightning and catching fire.

Humberside Fire and Rescue Service sent five fire engines to Aire Street in Goole, where the roof of the building was ablaze. The property houses council offices and unoccupied flats. The fire service said it had also attended a number of flooding incidents across Goole after heavy rain hit the town. Matt Smith from the service said the lightning strike caused a fire in the roof void. "It was relatively bad," he said. "We eventually got on top with a turntable ladder and two jets."

पूर्वी यॉर्कशायर शहर में एक इमारत को बिजली गिरने और आग लगने के बाद खाली कराना पड़ा।


Scientific opinions differ on bee pesticide ban

Summary: When the first neonicotinoid insecticide was introduced in 1991, there was a general welcome from scientists because it provided an improved method of tackling some of the world's most destructive crop pests while being safer for humans and the general environment.

By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent, BBC News Neonicotinoid chemicals are usually applied to seeds, entering every part of a growing plant so all of it becomes poisonous to threats like beetles and aphids. And they are widely used around the world - In the US it's estimated that 94% of corn seed is treated with these chemicals. Given their prevalence in farming it is little wonder that scientists have sought to establish if they have played a role in the decline of bee populations widely seen around the world over the last 10 years. But the studies carried out to date have not reached a clear conclusion on the impacts of neonicotinoid chemicals. Some have shown significant effects. Others have not. "We're not making this stuff up, we have reason to think this is a problem," Dr Geraldine Wright from Newcastle University told BBC News. "I think there is an effect of neonicotinoids and I think that based on research I've done in my own lab. Before that I was fairly doubtful, but I do actually think there is an influence." There are far more research papers that show an effect than don't, says Dr Wright. However, Dr Julian Little from Bayer in the UK draws a big distinction between studies conducted in the laboratory and those carried out in the field. "We have never argued about the science, what we have been upset about is how that research has been put into policy. Because when you repeat it with real bees, real colonies in real fields, you don't see any effect." But Dr Wright says it is wrong to dismiss the research carried out in the laboratory. She says the work is done there precisely because it is possible to control the variables such as the doses of the chemicals the animals are exposed to, and thereby establish cause and effect. "I think it is incorrect to outright dismiss the work that has been done in the lab on neonicotinoids because it is clearly indicative there is an effect of these pesticides on the bees brain, their behaviour, and I have unpublished data which shows a strong effect on their physiology - the effect we saw we didn't expect and its quite a strong effect." Dr Wright says that the ban is justified. While the field studies might be unclear, the chemicals do have subtle effects on bees, she says. "If you feed this stuff to honeybees and you give them a measured dose, they don't just curl up and die, their behaviour changes subtly. They are dependant on their abilities to learn and remember things in order to find food. If the workers can't do that they are not as efficient and that's a problem for the whole colony." Bayer believe that the a ban on neonicotinoids will not improve the health of bees. Dr Julian Little says that politicians are drawing the wrong conclusions from the research that has been carried out. "We have two controls for all of this. One is France; we've had massive restrictions on these products for over 10 years, have we seen any improvement in bee health? No. "The other control is Australia where neonicotinoids are used in exactly the same way as in the UK, same formula same crops and they have the healthiest bees on the planet. The difference there is they don't have varroa." Varroa is a parasitic mite that has also played a role in the decline of bees over the past decade. They help spread a range of viral infections that are lethal to the animals. "The varroa mite is key," says Dr Little. "If you don't have varroa you have healthy bees regardless of whether neonicotinoids are used. Varroa and bee health are inextricably linked." Other researchers in the field have concerns over the field data that has been published so far. They are also concerned that focussing too much on the impact of neonicotinoids doesn't fully address the problem. Dr Adam Vanbergen from the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology says he doesn't support the EU ban. Neonicotinoids, he says, are not a smoking gun. "We are beginning to see some evidence that if our pollinators are not malnourished, they are in a better position to buffer themselves against diseases and indeed pesticide effects. That's the root of it really. Neonicotinoids are part of that, but they are not the whole story. "If you ban the neonicotinoids, farmers are going to be compelled to use products that are much more harmful to the environment and to a wider range of animals. "There is a tender balance between protecting the environment and securing the food supply. I still err on the side of not banning, to be honest," he added.

जब 1991 में पहला नियोनिकोटिनॉइड कीटनाशक पेश किया गया था, तो वैज्ञानिकों ने इसका स्वागत किया क्योंकि इसने मनुष्यों और सामान्य पर्यावरण के लिए सुरक्षित होने के साथ-साथ दुनिया के कुछ सबसे विनाशकारी फसल कीटों से निपटने का एक बेहतर तरीका प्रदान किया।


International Women's Day: History, strikes and celebrations

Summary: You might have seen International Women's Day mentioned in the media or heard friends talking about it. But what is it for? When is it? Is it a celebration or a protest? And is there an equivalent International Men's Day?

For more than a century people around the world have been marking 8 March as a special day for women. Read on to find out why. 1. When did it all start? International Women's Day grew out of the labour movement to become a UN-recognised annual event. The seeds of it were planted in 1908, when 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter working hours, better pay and the right to vote. It was the Socialist Party of America who declared the first National Woman's Day, a year later. The idea to make the day international came from a woman called Clara Zetkin. She suggested the idea in 1910 at an International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen. There were 100 women there, from 17 countries, and they agreed on her suggestion unanimously. It was first celebrated in 1911, in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. The centenary was celebrated in 2011, so this year we're technically celebrating the 108th International Women's Day. Things were made official in 1975 when the United Nations (UN) started celebrating the day and setting an annual theme. The first one (in 1996) was "Celebrating the past, Planning for the Future". This year's focuses on ""Think equal, build smart, innovate for change" - UN figures show that only half of working age women are represented in the labour force globally. International Women's Day has become a date to celebrate how far women have come in society, in politics and in economics, while the political roots of the day mean strikes and protests are organised to raise awareness of continued inequality. 2. When is it? 8 March. Clara's idea for an International Women's Day had no fixed date. It wasn't formalised until a war-time strike in 1917 when Russian women demanded "bread and peace" - and four days into the women's strike the Tsar was forced to abdicate and the provisional government granted women the right to vote. The date when the women's strike commenced on the Julian calendar, which was then in use in Russia, was Sunday 23 February. This day in the Gregorian calendar was 8 March - and that's when it's celebrated today. 3. Is there an International Men's Day? There is indeed, on 19 November. But it has only been marked since the 1990s and isn't recognised by the UN. People celebrate it in more than 60 countries, including the UK. The objectives of the day are "to focus attention on men's and boys' health, improve gender relations, promote gender equality and highlight positive male role models". The theme for 2018 was "Positive Male Role Models". 4. How is Women's Day celebrated around the world? International Women's Day is a national holiday in many countries, including Russia where the sales of flowers doubles during the three or four days around 8 March. In China, many women are given a half-day off work on 8 March, as advised by the State Council, although many employers don't always pass the half day on to their female employees. In Italy, International Women's Day, or la Festa della Donna, is celebrated by the giving of mimosa blossom. The origin of this tradition is unclear but it is believed to have started in Rome after World War II. In the US, the month of March is Women's History Month. A presidential proclamation issued every year honours the achievements of American women. 5. What is happening this year? This year's International Women's Day campaign has chosen the theme #BalanceforBetter, which encourages people around the world to take action towards accelerating gender balance. The past 18 months have seen the women's movement reach an unprecedented scale. In October 2017, millions began using the hashtag #MeToo on social media to speak out against experiences of harassment and sexual assault, and to denounce their widespread prevalence. In 2018, the #MeToo conversation grew to a global scale, with countries such as India, France, China, and South Korea joining in the conversation to demand change. In the US a record number of women were elected in the midterm elections. In Ireland, citizens voted to repeal the eighth amendment of the constitution, paving the way for legalised abortion. What is 100 women? BBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. We create documentaries, features and interviews about their lives, giving more space for stories that put women at the centre. On 8 March, BBC 100 Women will be showcasing inspirational stories from women in the UK and across the world: from India's first school for grandmothers to comedians showing you how to respond to sexist banter. Follow BBC 100 Women on Instagram and Facebook and join the conversation.

आपने मीडिया में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय महिला दिवस का उल्लेख देखा होगा या दोस्तों को इसके बारे में बात करते हुए सुना होगा। लेकिन यह किस लिए है? यह कब है? यह एक उत्सव है या विरोध? और क्या इसके बराबर कोई अंतर्राष्ट्रीय पुरुष दिवस है?


The Brexit trade-off with the economy is under way

Summary: The British economy has embarked on a historic change, involving at least some pain, some opportunities and an uncertain destination. The immigration policy changes will have far reaching consequences. Business has been served notice that the economy will take a lower priority than 'getting Brexit done'. The rupture with Europe is supposed to be followed with a cosier US relationship, but the hotline to the Oval Office has turned frosty.

Douglas FraserBusiness/economy editor, Scotland The history books will record 31 January as the day Britain exited the European Union. But historians should give at least as much status to 19 February - the day the Brexit rubber hit the road. It's been a long time coming and businesses can't say they weren't warned. Perhaps they thought, until December's election, that Brexit wouldn't happen, or that the interests of the economy would prevail in the end. But the new plans for a points-based immigration system confirmed their fears - that in the trade-off between 'getting Brexit done' and economic performance, the latter will be the loser. In charge of this policy, Priti Patel continues the approach taken by Theresa May when she was home secretary - setting out policy in bold, stark, uncompromising terms, presumably because that's what Leave voters expect and understand. It may yet be that the policy is softened at the margins, as exceptions are made for the care sector, and perhaps a bit more for farming. But for now, this is immigration policy in high-contrast monochrome. The war zone Some form of exception may also have to be found to save Scottish Tory faces. Jackson Carlaw's party made an election commitment in December to have an immigration policy that works for Scotland's demographics and economy, and it's not clear that message has yet reached the Home Office. Going out to explain the policy and how it will work for Scottish employers seemed to be beyond every rank of Tory contacted by BBC colleagues. It seems they were all too busy on Wednesday. Forced to comment by Holyrood journalists on Thursday, the Scottish Tory leader fell some way short of enthusiastic support for Ms Patel's plans, instead suggesting that elements of the SNP government's approach are worthy of consideration. Let's see how that plays when Mr Carlaw's memo is lobbed into the Whitehall war zone that is, we're told, Priti Patel's private office. Points mean prizes For Scottish business, there were elements of the Patel proposals to be welcomed, in that they were less bad than the previous draft. There is a four-fold rise, to 10,000 across Britain, in the visas for farm workers. And the £30,000 threshold for getting a visa has been lowered, on the advice of the UK government's migration advisory committee. No longer was there to be a cap on skilled workers coming into the UK. But that's where business's diplomatic welcome ended. The vague talk of "an Australian-style points system" which featured in the election campaign, had meant next to nothing. But it became less vague when points were set out for salary, job offer, qualifications, more for a doctorate, and more still for a science and technology PhD - "the best and the brightest". Throw in English language skills, and you might get the 70 points for entry into the UK jobs market. Employers already used to the visa regulations for non-EU migrants find it "notoriously complex and costly", according to the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland. So once applied to every foreigner, including the high proportion of small firms in Scotland that have got used to European recruitment, it's a daunting prospect. Activating the 'inactive' That's the way it's meant to be, argues Ms Patel. Firms are going to have to adapt, and train up British workers. But which British workers are these? There's an exceptionally low level of unemployment across the UK these days - statistics which sit oddly with the lack of growth or confidence to be found in other data. So the home secretary has pointed to the 20%-plus who are designated "economically inactive". If anyone in her private office had explained to her that these people include those who stay at home to care for their children or for elderly parents (including, one imagines, quite a lot of bedrock Tory voters), plus those who are full-time students or suffering from long-term illness, then the briefing hadn't sunk in. In other words, the economically inactive are not sitting idly at home, available to be sparked into activity as care home workers through the gently persuasive powers of a Home Office taser. Or even a rise in starting pay. Call for flexibility The CBI was more polite than most business groups, arguing that the choice should not be between training up British workers or recruiting from abroad. Instead, it requires a bit of both. Scottish farmers' leader, talking to ITV Borders, sounded dismayed, and rebellious. He's thinking again about the potential for Scotland running its own migrant worker policy. The CBI hasn't ruled that out either, if the UK system fails the flexibility test. The construction industry pointed out that shutting off access to Europe's skilled workforce will mean higher pay. That's a plus, for those who had to wait until this week to find their average pay had finally caught up with the spending power they had before the descent into banking crisis 12 years ago. (That's a factor that probably had a lot to do with the Leave vote in 2016.) Trade unions don't like to look anti-foreigner, but they have seemed uncharacteristically quiet about this, public sector Unison being an exception. In the private sector, they won't be complaining if skill shortages give them pay bargaining leverage. However, the construction industry's representative pointed to the further consequence of pay inflation - that government priorities of building more housing and tackling climate change will become more expensive. That goes for the household shopping basket too. The visa plans' airy dismissal of migrant workers with 'low skills' no longer being allowed in to Britain offered a strange sort of opportunity, at least for the care sector. Donald Macaskill, who speaks and negotiates on behalf of Scotland's private care homes, offered up a blistering denunciation of those who think caring for those with dementia have 'low skills'. He was visibly angered. And this was a chance to point out that demographics and labour shortages require us to think very differently about the lower-paid care workers with superhuman levels of patience and devotion to the care of elderly people. 'A change is gonna come' It would be hard to overstate the significance of the change that is now under way. In the past forty-plus years, there have been waves of massive and sometimes painful change in the British economy, including the clear out of heavy industries and mining, and later of the electronics assembly of Silicon Glen. With each wave of closures, there was a re-orientation of the economy, adjusting to the seamless supply chains and markets of the growing and integrating European market, and ever more dependent for labour on the skills and flexibility that the vast European labour pool offered. With the labour market plans set out on 19 February 2020, all that is set to change. The future economy may see British-born workers on higher pay, with more skills and at the cutting edge of automation, breaking free of petty regulations to occupy the sunny uplands of the 21st century global economy. That's the theory, but it's far from guaranteed. Meanwhile, the only certainty about the transition, wherever it takes us, is that it will take time and it will involve some painful dislocation. Trump card Around the plans to end 'low-skilled' migration have been the pre-talks positioning and posturing of UK and EU negotiators. These should together serve warning that links to those EU supply chains and European customers are going form seamless to sticky, and perhaps increasingly costly. Brexiteers have told us to look beyond Europe, starting with the landmark trade deal to be struck with Donald Trump. Reports from Westminster suggest these Atlanticists are increasingly concerned that the personal chemistry between President and British Prime Minister has turned into a volatile compound when exposed to heat. A visit by Boris Johnson to Washington had to be postponed five days ago, rather than face a snub over the Huawei issue. A terse, details-free 'read-out' from a phone call between Downing Street and Oval Office on Thursday evening did nothing to reassure. Their previous call is said to have ended with President Trump abruptly and angrily hanging up on his British chum. On Thursday, we're told the leaders signed off their call with reference to their next meeting, at the G7 summit, in June. That's right - not until June. And this is now Britain's most important trading and diplomatic relationship.

ब्रिटिश अर्थव्यवस्था ने एक ऐतिहासिक बदलाव की शुरुआत की है, जिसमें कम से कम कुछ दर्द, कुछ अवसर और एक अनिश्चित गंतव्य शामिल है। आप्रवासन नीति में बदलाव के दूरगामी परिणाम होंगे। व्यवसाय को यह नोटिस दिया गया है कि अर्थव्यवस्था 'ब्रेक्सिट पूरा करने' की तुलना में कम प्राथमिकता लेगी। यूरोप के साथ टूटने के बाद एक आरामदायक अमेरिकी संबंध होने की उम्मीद है, लेकिन ओवल ऑफिस की हॉटलाइन ठंडी हो गई है।


Covid cluster on Norwegian ship docked at Invergordon

Summary: The crew of a Norwegian ship berthed at a Highland port have been told not to leave the vessel after a number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 on board.

Normand Energy docked at Invergordon on Wednesday morning after arriving from the port of Kristiansand in Norway. Cromarty Port Authority has informed the ship's captain all crew must stay on board. NHS Highland said it was working with Highland Council to deal with the cluster. Dr Tim Allison, the health board's director of public health, said there was no risk of the infection spreading in the local community. Any work on the ship, which is used for laying pipes, involving harbour staff has been cancelled. Dr Allison said: "NHS Highland is aware of a vessel docked in Invergordon in which a small number of crew have tested positive for Covid-19. "NHS Highland's health protection team is working with environmental health officers in Highland Council and all relevant partner agencies to ensure the safety of all the crew on-board. "There is no risk to the wider community."

हाईलैंड बंदरगाह पर खड़े नॉर्वे के एक जहाज के चालक दल को जहाज पर कोविड-19 के कई पुष्ट मामलों के बाद जहाज को नहीं छोड़ने के लिए कहा गया है।


Mela organisers want place in Southampton art complex

Summary: The organisers of one of Southampton's largest cultural events has launched a campaign to ensure their presence in the city's planned new Arts Complex.

About 20,000 people attended the Mela festival in Hoglands Park on Saturday to experience Asian music and culture. Art Asia has spent 10 years and £750,000 to help realise plans for a new arts venue at Guildhall Square. However, it said it had been told by the council and the Arts Council that it would no longer be an anchor tenant. Councillor John Hannides, of Southampton City Council, said he could not comment specifically on Art Asia's concerns because the plans for the Arts Complex had not yet been approved. The Arts Council England will decide next week whether it is going to support the project. If the city council gets Arts Council England's backing it will move the plans forward, Mr Hannides said.

साउथेम्प्टन के सबसे बड़े सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रमों में से एक के आयोजकों ने शहर के नियोजित नए कला परिसर में अपनी उपस्थिति सुनिश्चित करने के लिए एक अभियान शुरू किया है।


Nirvana: 25 years since first UK gig in Newcastle

Summary: They became one of the biggest bands of the 1990s and defined the "grunge" sound coming out of Seattle, but Nirvana's first UK gig was at a half-empty venue in Newcastle. Twenty-five years on, two fans recall a chaotic but thrilling show.

By Simon ArmstrongBBC News "They looked like what they were - a scruffy, penniless American punk-influenced band," says Carl Taylor, a then-23-year-old Riverside regular. "Nirvana made a really strong impression, but they were very much in their infancy and at the start of their journey. We didn't get a sense they would be a group the whole world would hear about." While the buzz among the UK music press was steadily building, Nirvana were very far away from the multimillion-selling machine they would become in the wake of 1991's Nevermind. Signed to small independent Seattle-based record label Sub Pop, debut album Bleach had hit American shelves in June of 1989 with a UK release following two months later. In a time before Smells Like Teen Spirit would command round-the-clock airplay on MTV and turn Nirvana into the world's hottest band, Bleach showcased a much blunter approach. Still to refine the quiet-loud-quiet-loud dynamic that would become such a key part of their songwriting, songs such as Blew, Floyd the Barber and Paper Cuts showcased a heavy, rougher-edged sound. The three-piece arrived on British shores for the start of the 37-show Heavier Than Heaven tour which would be crammed into 42 days. Having recently parted ways with guitarist Jason Everman; Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Chad Channing would travel across the UK and Europe with fellow Seattle rockers Tad, rotating the headlining slot from show to show. A long time stopping-off point for up-and-coming acts, the Riverside was one of Newcastle's most-cherished venues. For Tad-fan Carl, Nirvana were not even the main attraction - but they would make a lasting impression. After picking up Tad's debut album, God's Balls, earlier that year, he bought a gig ticket from Volume Records, a small independent record shop in the city centre. "The gig was a Monday night and I remember it being pretty cold. There would have been 100-150 people there. The Riverside held 400 or so people at that time, so it was about one-third full. "I can remember seeing Kurt and his straggly blonde hair around the bar before Nirvana's set. He was shaking hands with people and talking to them after coming out of the backstage area. "He looked like everyone else there - scruffily dressed with ripped jeans. There was a certain uniform among the Riverside crowd." Taking to the stage after a short opening blast by Scottish support band The Cateran, Nirvana's ferocious power quickly won him over. "They had a lot of pent-up anger to let out," says Carl. "They were exorcising their demons. "Some of the punk music coming out of America's east coast was political, but there was no sense of that with the Sub Pop bands and Nirvana were in that tradition. They were rooted a little bit more in Americana. It was pretty chaotic. The music was loud and fast and people were responding." Among the set list, he recalls, was Negative Creep and Polly - a song which would later see the light of day on Nevermind. "They came on and played about 13 songs. They clearly had quite strong character and attitude. I thought they sounded a little bit like Husker Du, but their songs were not quite as structured." Also there that night with friends was 23-year-old Jim Mawdsley. A one-time Riverside doorman, he was by then a gig promoter and publisher of local music and style magazine Boiling Point. He too remembers a small but enthusiastic audience. "It wasn't 150 kids jumping around in front of the stage, but people were into it. It was a real music fans' gig. "Sub Pop was a very cool American indie label. It had Mudhoney, who had been over and were playing to about 1,000 people, which was a lot in those days because at the time that sort of stuff was very niche." Nirvana - and especially Cobain - impressed. "I remember thinking it was something special. They were just amazing," says Jim, who today is chief executive of North East-based music development agency Generator and responsible for Tyneside's Evolution Festival. "It had been a while since I'd seen a gig where someone put so much energy into it." The band earned an excited thumbs-up from Boiling Point. The magazine's review read: "The first few songs made it clear they needed to warm up and also suggested they were missing their recently departed guitarist. "By about the sixth song of a pretty long set, though, they were ripping away with their awesomely heavy guitar of theirs - good job as well as bass monster Krist wrecked his instrument in song three, smashing the head clean off and ripping his speaker casing. "If things hadn't improved I think he may have bitten someone's leg off." Novoselic's rage, seemingly, was sparked by being hit on the head with a beer bottle. For Carl, co-author of Riverside: Newcastle's Legendary Alternative Music Venue and producer of an upcoming documentary about the club, the Nirvana gig remains among his most memorable. "It was always a fantastic place to watch live music. With its low ceiling and sweaty walls, it was quite an intimate venue. The barrier between the artists and the audience was broken down. You always felt you were a real part of any particular show." Few of those watching that night could have imagined the maelstrom that would engulf the band within 18 months. The tour would take them to far-from-glamorous stopping-off points including Manchester Polytechnic, Leeds' Duchess of York pub and Norwich Arts Centre. Audience numbers remained small but the band's signature songs - Come As You Are, Lithium and the aforementioned Teen Spirit - would see Nirvana propelled into the mainstream as their follow-up album, 1991's Nevermind, topped the American Billboard chart. By the time the band returned to Newcastle in December of that year for a gig at the larger Mayfair, they had been thrust firmly into the spotlight. Once again, Carl was there to see them. "Melody Maker and the NME were all over them, and I had difficulty getting a ticket. The Mayfair was packed. They were a different band. There was a clear sense with that show they had moved on and shed their support role. "Dave Grohl was playing drums for them by then and they were probably the biggest band in the world at that point." Like Carl, Jim Mawdsley was shocked by the band's sudden ascent. "It was a surprise for me when they crossed over into the mainstream in the way they did because they'd been on a really cool little label. The speed of the journey was so fast - they were headlining Reading [Festival] by '92." Often railing against the ensuing fame, Cobain would be dogged by drug addiction, depression and rumours surrounding his marriage to fellow musician Courtney Love. Third album In Utero followed in September 1993, but a star that had burned so brightly would soon be no more. On 8 April, 1994, he was found dead at his Seattle home from a gunshot wound to the head. His suicide brought to an end a five-year rollercoaster ride which had seen the band go from rags to riches and bring the underground scene kicking and screaming into the mainstream consciousness. The band's music, though, lives on with every new generation - helped a little by those who were in Newcastle that chilly October evening. "My daughter was born in 1995 and has grown up to be a Nirvana fan," says Carl. "She asks me constantly about that Riverside gig, and I always tell her how amazing it was."

वे 1990 के दशक के सबसे बड़े बैंडों में से एक बन गए और सिएटल से निकलने वाली "ग्रंज" ध्वनि को परिभाषित किया, लेकिन निर्वाण का पहला यूके गिग न्यूकैसल में आधे खाली स्थान पर था। पच्चीस साल बाद, दो प्रशंसकों को एक अराजक लेकिन रोमांचक शो याद आता है।


World T20: How do the lights on cricket stumps work?

Summary: The England men's team has qualified for the World Twenty20 cricket final. Throughout the tournament, the flashing stumps have drawn plenty of interest from spectators. But how do they actually work, ask Harry Low and Hannah Sander.

By Who, What WhyThe Magazine answers the questions behind the news Those watching this year's World Twenty20 cricket tournament will probably have noticed that the stumps and the bails, known as a wicket, sometimes start flashing a luminous red. Traditionally stumps and bails are made from wood, but the new flashing wickets are made from a composite plastic, which are embedded with LED lights. The use of flashing wickets in international matches was approved by the International Cricket Council in July 2013, and since then they have been used in hundreds of domestic and international matches. Flashing stumps add to the excitement of one-day cricket but they also have a practical use. The rules of cricket say that a batsman is out if they are beyond their batting crease when the stumps are "broken" - that is, when the bails are knocked off the stumps. Both ends of the bail have to come apart from the stumps. However, it can be hard for an umpire to detect this in real time. However, with the new equipment, known as the Zing wicket system, the stumps and bails will flash the moment contact is broken. It was developed by Bronte Eckermann, a former Australian grade cricketer who was inspired by one of his daughter's toys, which was roughly the size of a cricket bail and contained LED lights. The bails are powered by hidden low voltage batteries. They each contain a microprocessor that detects when contact between the bails and the stumps has been broken. The bails are illuminated within 1/1000th of a second. "They can be vibrated, knocked, rained upon, but will only flash when both ends are completely dislodged from the stumps," explains Eckermann. The microprocessors then send a radio signal to the stumps which also light up. Flashing bails might have reprieved Indian captain MS Dhoni in a Test against England in 2006. He was given out because it was unclear to the umpires whether he had been safely behind the crease at the moment the ball hit the wicket, knocking the stumps to the ground. Hundreds of thousands of Australian dollars have been spent developing the technology, turning the humble wooden stumps and bails into an expensive set of equipment. This means that the sight of players clutching stumps after victory could become a thing of the past. Follow Harry Low @harrylow49 and Hannah Sander @hsander365 on Twitter Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

इंग्लैंड की पुरुष टीम ने विश्व ट्वेंटी-20 क्रिकेट फाइनल के लिए क्वालीफाई कर लिया है। पूरे टूर्नामेंट के दौरान, चमकते स्टंप ने दर्शकों की काफी रुचि खींची है। लेकिन वे वास्तव में कैसे काम करते हैं, हैरी लो और हन्ना सैंडर से पूछें।


West Side Story's Rita Moreno: 'J-Lo can't be sole representative' of Latinos

Summary: Rita Moreno, the first Hispanic actress to win an Oscar, has said that "Jennifer Lopez can't be the sole representative" of the Hispanic community when it comes to having a meaningful onscreen presence.

By Emma JonesEntertainment reporter A documentary about Moreno, who won her best supporting actress Oscar for West Side Story in 1962, premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival. Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It, looks back at the Puerto Rican performer's life, and her future - the 89-year-old also stars in Steven Spielberg's delayed new big screen version of the hit musical. Lopez sang her song Let's Get Loud in Spanish during her performance at the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden last month. But although Moreno welcomes greater equality and diversity within the film industry, she argues that the Hispanic community still isn't as visible as it should be. "The Hispanic community in America has barely moved. And I'm really upset about that," she says. "And because it's barely moved, I'm thinking that at my age, I'm not going to see a real change. We can't just let Jennifer Lopez be the sole representative of the Hispanic community. "I'm probably going to be quoted and inundated with phone calls of people saying, 'You don't like her.' No, I love her. She's brilliant, she's wonderful, she's gorgeous, and her part in the inauguration was touching, but we can't make her the sole representative of what we are. "I love her, I admire her spunk, I admire her talent, and her talent for business. She's fantastic, but... it's like saying that any one of the great black actors is the representative of that community. It's not enough, we can't still be playing the same role over and over." 'Stereotypical roles' Produced by Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda, the documentary examines the sexual assault and on-screen stereotyping that Moreno suffered when she first went to Hollywood. Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria recounts how Moreno was required to produce a standard "foreign" accent for the early parts she played, no matter what country the characters were from. The film's Puerto Rican director, Mariem Pérez Riera, says Longoria could relate to Moreno's experiences, as stereotyping was still a problem for actresses of colour. "I think Eva Longoria has had to struggle so much, and she is almost 50 years younger than Rita, so yes, it's incredible how so many women today are still fighting fights that Rita had back then," says the director. "I think it's part of the fact that for so long also, the black community has been also pushed down into only one stereotypical role. And it's the same with the Latin American community. "I mean, I'm from Puerto Rico, I live in the United States, I have an accent, I can speak two languages, and I'm a film director. But there's not a role in a movie or in a TV show like me, because this is not supposed to be a Latina woman. It's supposed to be the one who crossed the border and cleaned houses and is suffering all the time." Directing debuts However, in a historic week that saw three female film directors nominated at the Golden Globes, two of which - Regina King and Chloe Zhao - are women of colour, the Sundance Film Festival also announced it had achieved gender parity across the event, and of those female film-makers, nearly half were women of colour. The winner of the US Grand Jury prize, Coda, about a teenage girl who is the only hearing person in her family, is directed by Sian Heder, who was a writer on Orange is the New Black. The film sparked a bidding war and was bought by Apple TV + for $25m (£18m). Two high profile actresses, Robin Wright from House of Cards, and British star Rebecca Hall, launched their directing debuts at the festival. Wright also stars in her film, Land, about a woman attempting to survive in the American wilderness. Hall's film, Passing, which she co-wrote, stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, and explores black women "passing" as white because of their light skin in 1920s New York. But even Wright and Hall have recounted how their films struggled to get funding. Passing producer Margot Hand said in conversation with movie website Indiewire that having two black leading actresses and a first-time female film-maker proved "challenging" when trying to get it made. Welsh director Prano Bailey-Bond, whose first feature horror film, Censor, also premiered at Sundance, thinks women are still facing obstacles when trying to reach the highest level of some areas of film production. "It's interesting that a lot of A-list actresses are moving into directing, and I think that's brilliant, but it can be harder for women not coming up through the acting route," she says. "If you want to move up working on the 'craft' side, it's about people trusting you with more money. So, women in different film departments get more opportunities at a certain level, but when it comes to trusting, say, a female composer with more money, we're not quite breaking through on those levels yet. "However, from where I'm sitting now, it's looking very hopeful, and it's very important for young women to see it's possible." Bailey-Bond's film Censor is set in the 1980s world of "video nasties", with a heroine, Enid, who works in film censorship and is forced to watch violent acts on screen. She says that both she and Rose Glass, the director of St Maud, a British horror film that has 17 nominations at this year's Bifa independent film awards, have benefited from changes in attitudes towards women making horror films. "I definitely had a period of making short films where horror and female directors weren't appealing," she remembers. "Luckily when we were writing Censor a couple of years ago, that all changed - films like Julia Ducornau's Raw, and The Babadook, were released. The people who took chances on those directors changed things for directors like me down the line." Meanwhile Karen Cinorre, another first-time feature film maker, agrees that it's "heartening" to know female-directed and themed movies are no longer so rare. Her film, Mayday, starring Juliette Lewis and Mia Goth in an ensemble cast of women, is a play on the Greek "Siren" myth - creatures whose beautiful voices lure warriors to their death. Set on an island seemingly frozen in time, the young women, with Goth playing their leader, lure male soldiers to their death with their "damsel in distress" calls. "We know that films by women and about women have always been made," says New York-based Cinorre. "They're my heroines and I've sought out those films my whole life. But in a more mainstream way, they've been rare. "Now the idea of an all-female ensemble cast of women seems to be thriving, and it didn't used to be. And that's also why I find those Golden Globe nominations heartening, but not actually surprising." The BBC Talking Movies Sundance special is available on BBC iPlayer. BBC World News viewers can find the latest show times at bbc.com/talkingmovies.

ऑस्कर जीतने वाली पहली हिस्पैनिक अभिनेत्री रीटा मोरेनो ने कहा है कि जब एक सार्थक ऑनस्क्रीन उपस्थिति की बात आती है तो "जेनिफर लोपेज हिस्पैनिक समुदाय की एकमात्र प्रतिनिधि नहीं हो सकती हैं"।


Newsbeat meets the Broadchurch 'killer'

Summary: **SPOILER ALERT: If you are not up-to-date with Broadchurch series one, don't read on.** Two years ago you could be forgiven for not knowing who Matthew Gravelle was, even Broadchurch fans might have struggled to recognise him.

By Anna CollinsonNewsbeat reporter Until the final episode of series one. Gasps reverberated around the UK when it was revealed that Joe Miller, the seemingly kind and caring on-screen husband of Olivia Colman, was the Broadchurch resident who had killed Danny Latimer. At the very end of series one, ITV confirmed the drama would return but Matthew has spent nearly two years pretending he wasn't part of any of it. The 38-year-old told Newsbeat: "I had to deny that I was doing the second series since filming started, if not before. "That's a good year of technically being 'unemployed', even though I wasn't. "Only a very close-knit group knew the truth; my wife, my dad and my sisters, and that was it." But surely isn't it that the beauty of Broadchurch? Producers are so desperate to keep the audience guessing that they even put special measures in place during filming to stop leaks. "The secrecy certainly helps," said Matthew. "It's the anticipation and the excitement; nobody knows what's going on or is able to spoil it for anyone else." Nearly eight million tuned into the first episode of the new series. By uttering the words 'not guilty' to a crime fans are sure he committed, Joe Miller fast became one of the most hated men on TV. With so many people emotionally involved in the story, we asked Matthew if anyone has ever confused him with his on-screen character? "I haven't had anyone throwing things or wagging their fingers at me on the street, so at the moment I'm safe," he said. The dad-of-two says that although he has concerns that some viewers may see him as a villain in real-life because of who his character is, he was desperate to take on the role. "From the beginning, there was a massive part of me that wanted to be the killer," he admitted. "For most of series one I really didn't think I would be, I only found out ahead of the filming of the final episode. I thought it would shatter Olivia's character, and it did." So far in series two, Matthew has spent much of his time stuck in a glass box in a court room, and he told us there were two things he missed, the seaside and his cast mates, particularly one. "Olivia's brilliant," he told us. "Nobody's got a bad word to say about her, she's just very good and it makes you better. "We all get on really well which made the second series more frustrating because I couldn't mess about, I was stuck away from them." Before Broadchurch aired, Matthew had no idea how big it would become, but he said he did have an inkling during the first read-through with the rest of the cast. "When I was sitting around the table for the first time and I saw all these brilliant people, I did think, 'oooh, this could be quite good,' but I had no idea of the scale until the first episode went out." But don't even bother asking Matthew about what happens in episode two or three. "Wouldn't you like to know..." Ok, will there will be a third series? Will he be in it? "Who knows?" We reckon he has a better idea than most, but Matthew is wise to the questions, he also believes that deep down none of us actually want him to let anything slip. He said: "People ask, 'who did it?' or 'where's it going to go?', but nobody really wants to know. It's all part of the fun of it, it's just a wry question." And you know what? He's probably right. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

* * स्पॉइलर अलर्टः यदि आप ब्रॉडचर्च श्रृंखला एक के साथ अद्यतित नहीं हैं, तो आगे न पढ़ें। * * दो साल पहले आपको मैथ्यू ग्रेवेल को न जानने के लिए माफ किया जा सकता था, यहां तक कि ब्रॉडचर्च के प्रशंसकों को भी उन्हें पहचानने के लिए संघर्ष करना पड़ सकता था।


Police investigate sudden deaths of three men in Belfast

Summary: Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the sudden deaths of three men in Belfast.

They all happened on Monday 3 April, the PSNI has confirmed. Two men died in west Belfast and one died in the south of the city. A police spokesperson said they are not investigating any link between the deaths. Post-mortem examinations will take place to determine the causes. The deaths are not being treated as suspicious at this stage.

पुलिस बेलफास्ट में तीन लोगों की अचानक मौत के आसपास की परिस्थितियों की जांच कर रही है।


General election: All Welsh MPs to defend their seats

Summary: All of the current MPs in Wales will defend their seats in the snap general election, it has emerged.

Wales has 40 MPs - 25 from Labour, 11 Welsh Conservative, three Plaid Cymru and one Welsh Liberal Democrat. None of them are expected to stand aside ahead of the early general election. MPs overwhelmingly voted to trigger an early election on Wednesday. The poll will take place on 8 June. Parliament is set to be dissolved on 3 May, at which point the 40 MPs will become candidates.

यह सामने आया है कि वेल्स के सभी वर्तमान सांसद आम चुनाव में अपनी सीटों की रक्षा करेंगे।


New details revealed on Belfast Troubles killing

Summary: New details are expected to emerge later relating to an investigation into a controversial killing by the Army during the Troubles.

Michael McLarnon, 22, was fatally wounded in Etna Drive in Ardoyne, north Belfast, on 28 October 1971. The Committee on the Administration of Justice is due to publish a report by the Historical Enquiries Team. It is expected to show that the killing was not carried out by the man who admitted it. Mr McLarnon's death was the subject of a BBC programme in 2006.

ट्रबल्स के दौरान सेना द्वारा की गई एक विवादास्पद हत्या की जांच के संबंध में बाद में नए विवरण सामने आने की उम्मीद है।


Fuel poverty among older people 'highest in isles'

Summary: Almost 60% of people aged over 60 and living in rural parts of Scotland are living in fuel poverty, according to a new report.

The study by Scotland's Rural College said that the figure compared with 45% of over 60s in urban areas. According to the report, Rural Scotland in Focus 2014, the highest levels of fuel poverty were found in Orkney and the Western Isles. The study suggested 75% and 76% of older people there were affected. People in fuel poverty include those who spend a high amount of their income on heating their homes.

एक नई रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, 60 वर्ष से अधिक आयु के और स्कॉटलैंड के ग्रामीण हिस्सों में रहने वाले लगभग 60 प्रतिशत लोग ईंधन की गरीबी में जी रहे हैं।


Jersey dairy farmers warned about Schmallenberg virus in cows

Summary: Dairy farmers have been warned their cows could give birth to deformed calves next month after Schmallenberg virus was found in two sheep flocks.

The virus causes deformed or stillborn livestock and is thought to spread through midges. States Vet Linda Lowseck said farmers would not know if cattle were affected until calving begins next month. Last month tests confirmed the virus after five lambs were born dead and badly deformed at a farm. Mrs Lowseck said the virus could lead to the suspension of the export trade, particularly concerning bovine embryos. There have been dozens of reports of the Schmallenberg virus across England and cases have been reported in Normandy, France.

दो भेड़ के झुंडों में स्मालेनबर्ग वायरस पाए जाने के बाद डेयरी किसानों को चेतावनी दी गई है कि उनकी गायें अगले महीने विकृत बछड़ों को जन्म दे सकती हैं।


Mexico avocado price sparks fears of unrest

Summary: Recently, it's felt as if the whole country has been talking about the same thing - and for once it's not football or the latest hit telenovela. Around dinner tables, in street markets and at work, it's the price of avocados that has been on everyone's mind.

By Julian MiglieriniBBC News, Mexico City From costing a couple of dollars per kilo earlier this year, avocados went on a constant price climb which appeared to know no end - rising all the way up to $5-6 per kilo. I heard of sightings of a kilo of avocados for more than $8. In a country that takes its food seriously, this was a recipe for disaster. Soft as butter and slightly sweet, avocado was first grown around 12,000 years ago in the south of Mexico. It's now a delicacy prized the world over. But the origins of its name are not so elegant. The word avocado comes from "aguacate" in Spanish, which in turn comes from the Nahuatl Mexican native language "ahuacatl", referring to a certain intimate part of the male anatomy. ** In Mexico - where 40% of the world's avocado crop is grown - this fruit is sacrosanct. In fact, Mexicans are estimated to eat up to 8kg of avocado each, every year. Avocados go with everything: they are a key additive to the delicious tortilla soup, a layer in the Mexican multi-level sandwiches known as tortas and - last but not least - they are the basis of that most famous of Mexican dips - guacamole. And you don't want to mess with Mexicans and their food. Back in 2007, the rising price of tortillas - the flat-corn bread that is a key source of calories for the poor - sparked a series of protests around the country known as the "tortilla wars". So, with prices through the roof, was I about to witness an "avocado war"? If I was, I had to find out the reasons for the price hikes. And here I discovered that there is something else aside from food that Mexicans seem to enjoy - urban legends. Anger brewing I talked to a security expert who claimed he knew the reason for the spiralling price. The great majority of Mexican avocados come from the state of Michoacan, in the west, a region badly affected by the presence of drug cartels. The cartels, the expert told me, are expanding into the business of extortion, and are targeting avocado growers. The criminals demand a fee for every kilo that is transported through the dangerous roads of Michoacan, and that fee forced up the final consumer price. Nonsense, the head of the local avocado producers' association told me. The cause of the price increase is simply a bad harvest. Carmen, our cleaning lady, had her own conspiracy theory. "I blame the gringos," she told me. "Americans have taken a liking to guacamole, so all our avocados are heading north." Social networks were brimming with comments about how "aguacates" were quickly vanishing from Mexican dinner tables - and the anger seemed to be brewing. But then, an epiphany. I was sitting in the back of a cab, silently hating Mexico City traffic, when an ad burst on to the radio - from a local supermarket, promoting a kilo of avocados for just over $2. Was it over? At my local food market, I confirmed it. At most stands, avocados now are around $3 per kilo, and the prices still seem to be falling. But if there's something I learned over the last few months, it's that I can't always be sure that I'll be able to have my avocado - and eat it. ** The testicle. How to listen to From Our Own Correspondent: BBC Radio 4: A 30-minute programme on Saturdays, 1130. Second 30-minute programme on Thursdays, 1100 (some weeks only). Listen online or download the podcast BBC World Service: Hear daily 10-minute editions Monday to Friday, repeated through the day, also available to listen online. Read more or explore the archive at the programme website.

हाल ही में, ऐसा महसूस किया गया जैसे कि पूरा देश एक ही बात के बारे में बात कर रहा है-और एक बार के लिए यह फुटबॉल या नवीनतम हिट टेलीनोवेला नहीं है। रात के खाने की मेज के आसपास, सड़क के बाजारों में और काम पर, यह एवोकैडो की कीमत है जो हर किसी के दिमाग में रही है।