Ministers’ plans to cut the international workforce within NHS England appear overambitious, MPs have said, as a report reveals the health service saved more than £14bn by recruiting doctors, nurses and midwives from overseas.
Many of the countries recruited from were struggling with staff shortages, and the UK had a moral duty to offer support, rather than simply extracting what it needed, the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on global health and security found.
The group’s inquiry into the benefits and costs of international health worker recruitment heard that the scale of NHS reliance on overseas workers meant the government’s plan to reduce international recruitment to around 10% by 2035 was overambitious.
“The NHS has not operated at that level for decades,” said Andrew Mitchell, the former development minister who chaired the inquiry.
Thirty-six per cent of UK doctors and 24% of nurses and midwives were trained elsewhere in the world.
The number of visas granted to healthcare professionals has fallen sharply in recent years. But overseas staff would be needed “for the foreseeable future”, the APPG said.
Mitchell added: “We must grow our own workforce. But in a shrinking world, pretending health workforces are purely national assets, is no longer credible. If we benefit from health workers trained overseas, we also have a duty to help strengthen the systems they come from.”
The World Health Organization forecasts a global shortage of 11 million health workers by 2030. Today, almost a quarter of the world’s doctors, nurses and midwives are concentrated in just 10 high-income countries.
There are around 30 doctors for every 10,000 people in the UK, compared with nine in India, six in the Philippines and one in Ghana.
Giving evidence to the inquiry, representatives from Kenya and Uganda said they were losing significant numbers of experienced doctors, nurses and clinical educators. That would have detrimental effects on the next generation of health workers as well as patient safety and care, they said.
Ben Simms, the chief executive of Global Health Partnerships (GHP), said: “The NHS is one of the most internationally connected health systems in the world. But when we recruit from countries that can least afford to lose staff, the consequences can be measured in lives.”
The APPG report is published on Monday at the UK Global Health Summit in London. Analysis of the savings made by recruiting staff from overseas was conducted by the conference organiser GHP and the Center for Global Development.
They used “conservative estimates” that training a doctor in the UK costs taxpayers about £120,000, including elements such as subsidised university places and paid clinical training, while training a nurse costs about £23,000.
The UK has signed agreements with many of the countries it recruits from, but these tended to “solely manage the mechanics of mobility” rather than linking recruitment to sustained investment in training and retention that could offset its impact, the report found.
The APPG inquiry recommended a fairer system where international recruitment was offset by proportionate investment in health workforce development and health system strengthening in partner countries.
“A model based on partnership rather than extraction offers a path that aligns moral responsibility with national interest,” the report says.
Last week, the Guardian revealed that the government was axing a flagship health project that supported development and training for healthcare staff in six African countries, as part of aid cuts in order to boost defence spending.
Dr Beccy Cooper, the APPG’s chair, said: “International health workers are part of the NHS’s DNA. In a world where diseases don’t stop at borders, their global expertise strengthens our health system. Supporting homegrown talent and ethical international recruitment are not competing goals – they are both essential. What we cannot afford is boom-and-bust workforce planning that destabilises the NHS and weakens global health systems at the same time.”
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “The NHS benefits hugely from its international staff, and we’ll continue to support talented overseas health workers who want to dedicate their time, energy and skills to the health service.
“However, this shouldn’t be at the expense of countries with already stretched health systems, and it’s only right that British taxpayers should see a return on the investment they make in training our own medical talent. That’s why we’re making bold choices to focus on the recruitment and retention of homegrown doctors and nurses, prioritising UK medical graduates for jobs, and boosting graduate nurse pay.”
The traffic police has already issued an alert regarding the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway which is going to be opened soon in Dehradun. Police say that as soon as the expressway becomes operational, the number of vehicles in the capital may increase rapidly, due to which the problem of traffic jam on many major routes of the city may become serious. In this regard, the traffic police has sent a detailed report to the government and suggested possible challenges and solutions.
Talking about the current situation, traffic is already under pressure on the approximately three kilometer stretch from Asharodi to Transport Nagar Chowk in the city. Sometimes it takes about an hour to cover this short distance. In such a situation, when the expressway will be fully operational, the pressure of vehicles is expected to increase further.
Construction of expressway will increase the number of vehicles
According to the traffic police, after the opening of the expressway, Delhi, Haryana, GhaziabadThere may be a significant increase in the number of tourist vehicles coming from Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Roorkee. Its direct impact will be on major roads like Transport Nagar, ISBT, Shimla Bypass, GMS Road, Rajpur Road, Mussoorie Road and Vikasnagar Marg. Apart from this, the link roads connected to these main routes may also become vulnerable to traffic pressure.
Opening of expressway will put pressure on these routes.
According to the traffic police, some parts of the city have already become bottleneck points. Especially in Rispana bridge and Jogiwala area, traffic jams often occur. Trucks, buses, tempo travelers, school buses as well as a large number of private two-wheelers and four-wheelers also pass through these places. After the opening of the expressway, the pressure on these routes may increase further.
Traffic jam may arise in these areas
According to the traffic police, ISBT area is also considered to be the most sensitive. Due to increase in the number of buses, tourist vehicles and private vehicles coming from outside districts and states, jam situation may arise in Chandrabani, Transport Nagar Chowk and Shimla Bypass area. At the same time, due to increase in the number of tourists in Ghantaghar and Paltan Bazaar, the main commercial areas of the city, the problem of parking and internal traffic may worsen.
According to the police, the lack of sufficient police force to handle the traffic system is also a big challenge compared to the increasing population and number of vehicles in the city. Apart from this, due to lack of fully developed bypass in Dehradun, traffic coming from outside districts also passes inside the city, which puts additional pressure on the internal routes.
Police prepared diversion plan
In view of the situation, the traffic police has also prepared different diversion plans for vehicles. Under this, vehicles going to Yamunotri and Vikasnagar will be diverted from Transport Nagar intersection, while a plan has been made to send vehicles going to Mussoorie through alternative routes. Separate routes have also been decided for vehicles going towards Rishikesh and Doiwala.
Traffic police suggested short term solutions
The traffic police has also suggested some short term measures for the city. These include widening of GMS Road and other link routes, determination of vending zones, arrangement of parking at key locations, developing smart parking and tightening the registration rules of e-rickshaws.
According to Traffic Police Superintendent Lokjit Singh, after the opening of the expressway, the traffic pressure from Asharodi towards Dehradun, Mussoorie and Rishikesh is certain to increase. In view of this, a detailed traffic management plan has been prepared and sent to the government, so that necessary steps can be taken in time.
Impersonating Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, he defrauded retired teacher Alison Weems of Rs 1.57 crore. He was contacted through social media. On the pretext of coming to the city to do school business, he deposited money in various accounts from January 25, 2025 to February 20, 2026. After Mark Zuckerberg, the swindler also contacted American singer George Turner and Tesla company owner Elon Musk as his associate. After coming to know about the fraud, he lodged an FIR in the Cyber Crime Branch police station on Monday.
According to the FIR lodged at the Cyber Crime Branch police station, Alison Weems, a resident of Anandnagar, Chakeri, is retired from Methodist High School. He was introduced to a person on Facebook. He introduced himself as Mark Zuckerberg and started chatting. He took it into confidence and talked about starting a school business in Kanpur. After Mark Zuckerberg, he got in touch with a fraudster calling himself singer Josh Turner through Facebook and WhatsApp. He described himself as an associate of American singer and Elon Musk. He also assured to open a school and provide jobs in it.
Money was deposited from Alison Weems for jobs, investments, processing fees and other works. The chat between Josh Turner and Mark Zuckerberg was deleted from his account. After his money was deposited, a person named Miracle Givers contacted him. He assured to get the money back. Said that their money is in the package sent through FedEx company. He deposited more money in the name of shipping charges, custom charges, vehicle repair, package release and operational compliance fees. When he became suspicious, he cut off contact with the Miracle Givers.
A few days later, he was contacted by Ashok Suresh, an alleged advocate of Lead India (Delhi), through an account named Cyber Reporting Assistance Online Scam Reporting Center India on Messenger. The man told the teacher that his money had been invested in Wisdom Capital. There is a trading account in his name whose user name is -AllysonW-000817.
The teacher’s investment portfolio showed Rs 2,23,15,520 after tax deduction. To withdraw the amount, the accused deposited more money in the name of tax, verification fee, stamp duty, rebalancing fee. Said that Rs 2.23 crore will be received on 20 February 2026. If he waited for one more month, he was given the offer of getting more interest of Rs 18.86 lakh. After this the accused ended contact with him. He also received calls from different numbers from alleged cyber police officer Sandeep.
According to the teacher, she had deposited Rs 1.57 crore as her retirement fund and life savings through other means. A complaint was lodged on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal on 27 February 2027, after which his Rs 30.42 lakh was held.
A report has been registered on the complaint of the retired teacher. The matter is being investigated. The accused have conspired to cheat with complete planning. In this, different members of the gang contacted the woman and cheated her of money. – Shravan Kumar Singh, DCP Crime
Oliver Bromley, a resident of Surrey, England, had his face completely changed due to a rare disease and he lost one of his eyes. In childhood, boys used to tease him by calling him ‘creepy demon’. Recently he made the world cry with his story.
Oliver with his wife Bridget.
The meaning of beauty in the world is often determined by external appearances. But there are some people, whose life teaches us that the real strength and identity is not hidden in the facial structure, but in the strength of mind and unwavering faith. The story of 44 year old Oliver Bromley, resident of Surrey, Britain, is also similar, who has created a distinct identity for himself amidst a rare disease and the taunts of the society. Oliver Bromley is a mental health activist, but his life has been full of difficulties. Recently he made the world cry by narrating his story. Oliver was born with a rare genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis. This is a condition in which non-cancerous tumors start growing on the nerves of the body. In Oliver’s case, the disease gradually damaged the bones in his skull and resulted in him losing his right eye.
This physical loss not only changed his face but also made his childhood extremely challenging. While sharing his childhood memories, Oliver says that when you look different from others, the world’s perspective towards you changes. During his school days he was called obscene names. The children called him ‘Cyclops’, who is considered to be a giant, scary demon with one eye in Greek mythology. ‘As a child, that time was full of confusion and uncertainty,’ says Oliver. I started realizing that I didn’t look like other kids and that’s why I was being targeted. However, despite all these difficulties, Oliver never broke. Oliver says that his parents and grandparents instilled in him the confidence from childhood that his worth is not determined by his face, but by his character and love for God.
His grandmother often told him, ‘Get up every morning, know who you are and just keep moving forward.’ These words became the basis of Oliver’s life. As Oliver grew up, he learned to face his challenges. He realized that what other people think about us is none of our business. Today Oliver is living a happy life with his wife Bridget. However, even today when he walks out on the street, people stare at him or whisper among themselves. Oliver tells that many times he was misbehaved in public places. People were hesitant to sit near him, as if his disease was contagious. To break this stereotype, Oliver is now spreading awareness. He explains that neurofibromatosis is not an infectious disease, which can be caught by touch. This is completely genetic.
Oliver says, ‘Such experiences are painful and stay with you, but these experiences have made me stronger. I decided that I would not let these moments overwhelm me, but would instead use them to educate people. During his teenage years, Oliver had to undergo several complex surgeries and craniotomy (skull surgery). It was a physically and mentally tiring process for him, but he never gave up. Today, as a mental health activist, he inspires others not to let their fears and the opinions of others come in the way of their success. Oliver Kay says, ‘Know your identity, trust in God and live with your head held high.’ Today he is not only fighting his disease, but is also trying to create an inclusive environment in the society for those people who, for whatever reason, look different from others.
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As anticipated, it ended up being One Battle After Another’s night at the 98th annual Academy Awards, with the political thriller carting away six Oscars out of a total of 13 nominations.
But while Paul Thomas Anderson’s magnum opus continued its march towards award-season domination, there were moments of genuine surprise and subversion in Sunday’s ceremony.
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Some of those moments had to do with the current political climate in the United States.
Host Conan O’Brien and his fellow presenters deftly avoided mentioning President Donald Trump by name, but their barbs took direct aim at his policies since returning to office.
Other surprises came from within the filmmaking community itself. For only the seventh time in Oscar history, a tie was announced: Two films had gotten an equal number of votes for Best Live Action Short.
As a result, both the surrealist thriller Two People Exchanging Saliva and the moody bar-room drama The Singers shared the Academy Award.
Here are six key takeaways from the night.
Actor Michael B Jordan holds the Oscar for Best Actor next to director Ryan Coogler, who earned an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay [Valerie Macon/AFP]
A two-horse race between Sinners and One Battle
The vampire film Sinners came into Sunday night’s ceremony with a record 16 Oscar nominations. But the big question of the night was: How many nods could it actually convert into wins?
Its biggest competition was, of course, Anderson’s One Battle After Another, which had the second highest tally of nominations.
Sinners director Ryan Coogler and Anderson were in direct competition in several top categories, including Best Picture and Best Director.
In both cases, Anderson came out ahead, though he acknowledged how fickle such awards can be.
“ I just want to say that, in 1975, the Oscar nominees for Best Picture were Dog Day Afternoon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Jaws, Nashville and Barry Lyndon,” the four-time Best Director nominee said, listing films now considered to be Hollywood classics.
“There is no best among them. There is just what the mood might be that day.”
In the categories for Best Supporting Actor and Best Film Editing, One Battle After Another also triumphed, as well as for the inaugural award for Best Casting.
But in a sign of how well matched their two films were, both Coogler and Anderson emerged from the night with writing Oscars.
Anderson picked up Best Adapted Screenplay award for his use of the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland, while Coogler made off with the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Sinners, a work inspired by his uncle’s love of the blues.
US cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw poses in the press room with her Oscar for Best Cinematography [Valerie Macon/AFP]
Jordan dunks on Chalamet in Best Actor race
Sinners, which won four Academy Awards overall, earned some of the most emotional, nail-biting victories of the night.
In the Best Cinematography category, for instance, Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to top the field.
It was her first nomination and first win, with Arkapaw besting veteran cinematographers like Marty Supreme’s Darius Khondji and Frankenstein’s Dan Laustsen, both multiple nominees.
Another big win for Sinners came in the form of Michael B Jordan, the actor whom Coogler has cast in every film since his directorial breakout in 2013’s Fruitvale Station.
Jordan, 39, was in a tight race for Best Actor with another young performer, 30-year-old Timothee Chalamet of the 1950s ping-pong drama Marty Supreme.
But Chalamet’s aggressive campaigning may have ultimately sabotaged his prospects. Multiple cracks were taken throughout the night at Chalamet’s recent comments disparaging opera and ballet.
“Nobody cares anymore” about either art form, Chalamet said in an interview last month.
“We can change society through art, through creativity, through theatre and ballet and also cinema,” director Alexandre Singh said pointedly during his acceptance speech for Best Live Action Short.
O’Brien, meanwhile, acknowledged the backlash with a joke about heightened security at the night’s Oscar ceremony.
“I’m told there are concerns about attacks from both the opera and ballet communities,” O’Brien said, before turning to Chalamet. “They’re just mad you left out jazz.”
Irish actress Jessie Buckley celebrates her win during the 98th Annual Academy Awards [AFP]
A conga line of snubs
Given the dominant performances from Sinners and One Battle After Another, plenty of critically acclaimed films left empty-handed, or nearly so.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, as expected, earned three wins in technical categories, including Best Production Design, Best Costumes and Best Hairstyling and Makeup.
Netflix’s smash hit KPop Demon Hunters, meanwhile, also fulfilled expectations that it would dominate in its categories, Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.
But then there were former frontrunners like Hamnet that failed to generate much traction, including for director Chloe Zhao, a past Oscar winner. Out of eight nominations total, it only came away with one win: a Best Actress trophy for Irish performer Jessie Buckley.
Marty Supreme and the Brazilian film The Secret Agent fared worse, however. Despite having nine nominations and being considered an early shoo-in for Best Actor, Marty Supreme scored no wins.
The Secret Agent, which swept the Best Actor and Best Director categories at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, also earned nothing at this year’s Oscars.
Same was true for the quirky kidnapping drama Bugonia, from Oscar darling Yorgos Lanthimos.
South Korean-US singer Ejae poses with the Oscar for Best Original Song for the film KPop Demon Hunters[Angela Weiss/AFP]
Fears about artificial intelligence
The ceremony, however, did occasionally veer away from the competition between the films to discuss issues facing the film industry and the country as a whole.
Among those was the creeping growth of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creative sector.
In the weeks leading up to the 98th Oscars, an AI-generated video clip had gone viral, appearing to show Hollywood icons Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in a rooftop brawl worthy of a James Bond movie.
The clip had been generated through AI software developed by the Chinese firm ByteDance, and Hollywood leaders quickly denounced it as a threat to their livelihood, not to mention a copyright infringement.
Those concerns reverberated on the Oscar stage on Sunday, with O’Brien and others addressing the growing use of AI.
“Tonight we are celebrating people, not AI, because animation – it’s more than a prompt,” actor Will Arnett said emphatically as he introduced the animation awards.
O’Brien, meanwhile, joked that, by next year, his hosting gig would be taken by “a Waymo in a tux”.
Host Conan O’Brien performs onstage during the 98th Annual Academy Awards [Patrick T Fallon/AFP]
Trump skewered for threatening free speech
Another concern looming over the night’s Oscar ceremony came in the form of President Donald Trump, who has courted controversy by launching deadly military attacks in Venezuela and Iran, as well as leading a violent immigration crackdown in the US.
At no point was Trump mentioned by name. But his leadership was alluded to throughout the night.
O’Brien, the host, set the tone early on with his oblique jabs at the Republican president in his opening monologue.
“When I hosted last year, Los Angeles was on fire,” the two-time Oscar emcee said in remarks dripping with sarcasm. “But this year, everything’s going great.”
Fellow comedian Jimmy Kimmel was even more direct. Last September, his show was briefly suspended after Trump criticised the comedian.
The head of the Federal Communications Commission, a Trump appointee, subsequently threatened the broadcasting license of the TV channel Kimmel performs on.
“There are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech. I’m not at liberty to say which. Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS,” Kimmel quipped, referring to another channel that cancelled a fellow late-night comedy show.
Several filmmakers honoured at the Oscars likewise waded into the controversies surrounding Trump.
Best Documentary Feature winner David Borenstein, for instance, implied a parallel between his film — an exploration of authoritarianism in Russia — and what is currently happening in the US.
“Mr Nobody against Putin is about how you lose your country,” Borenstein explained.
“What we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless small little acts of complicity: when we act complicit, when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don’t say anything, when oligarchs take over the media.”
Indian actress Priyanka Chopra and Spanish actor Javier Bardem present the award for Best International Feature Film [Patrick T Fallon/AFP]
Political speeches avoid mention of Iran war
The Oscars come roughly seven months ahead of the pivotal midterm elections in the US, which could see Trump’s Republican Party lose its majorities in Congress.
But while several filmmakers did hint at their anti-Trump stances, few explicitly denounced his policies.
For example, Norway’s Joaquim Trier, the winner of the Best International Feature category, veiled his criticism in a James Baldwin quote about the duty to protect children.
“Let’s not vote for politicians who don’t take this seriously into account,” Trier said.
No artist during the night referenced the US and Israeli war against Iran either, though its effects were felt among the participants of this year’s Oscar crop.
Writer-director Jafar Panahi, whose work was up for two Oscars on Sunday, has already said he plans to return to his native Iran after the awards season concludes.
Meanwhile, Iranian politician Sara Shahverdi — the subject of a nominee in the Best Documentary Short category — was prevented from attending the Oscars at all due to Trump’s ban on visas for 39 countries.
Palestinian actor Motaz Malhees, star of the Oscar nominee The Voice of Hind Rajab, likewise told media outlets he could not be present at the ceremony due to the travel ban.
The most pointed acknowledgements of the US-led and US-backed conflicts in the world were brief. When Spanish actor Javier Barden took the Oscar stage to present an award, he offered up six words, “No to war, and free Palestine!”
Russian filmmaker Pavel Talankin, meanwhile, made a similar appeal to the audience. “In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now,” he said.
But by and large, the Oscar winners and presenters kept their remarks vague, emphasising global unity over political criticism.
“If I can be serious for just a moment, everyone watching right now around the world is all too aware that these are very chaotic, frightening times,” O’Brien told the audience at the outset of the night.
“It is at moments like these that I believe that the Oscars are particularly resonant. Check it out. Thirty-one countries across six continents are represented this evening, and every film we salute is the product of thousands of people speaking different languages.”
Cinema, he and others argued, transcended borders. The talent on stage was not the US’s alone.
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Indian T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav revealed the strategy and team’s thinking behind winning two consecutive World Cups. He said that the selection of Sanju Samson, aggressive batting of Abhishek Sharma and the energy of the young players became the major reasons for this victory. He also gave credit to the former captains for the fearless culture of Team India.
Suryakumar Yadav’s interview
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India’s T20 champion team was honored at BCCI’s Naman Awards in New Delhi. Team India not only created history by winning the T20 World Cup trophy this year, but also defeated history and wrote a new chapter. The Suryakumar-led team became the first team to win the T20 World Cup while being the host. It also became the first team to win two consecutive T20 World Cups. Team India defeated New Zealand team in the final. After this victory, Suryakumar gave an interview to news agency PTI and revealed many things. During this, he also discussed the former captains. Also told about the thinking of the current players. It was also told which players always supported his decisions within the team. We are telling you some things from his interview in graphics.
A car rammed into a tractor trolley laden with bricks from behind at 6.15 am on Monday at Mankara turn on Delhi-Lucknow highway in Mundhapande police station area. In this accident, Nainital Bank’s Delhi Region Regional Manager (RM) Dayal Singh Rawat (59), private company engineer Bhuvan Bhandari (35), senior accountant Sundar Singh (42) and Anil Negi died while car driver Yoga teacher Yashdeep Pandey was seriously injured.
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Four people resident of Haldwani lost their lives in Moradabad accident – Photo: Samvad
All these people were residents of Haldwani and worked in Noida. The four people who lost their lives had booked seats in Yashdeep’s car through Blah Blah app and were going for Noida duty. After the accident, the tractor driver ran away leaving the tractor trolley on the spot. Police have admitted Yashdeep to the district hospital. SP City Kumar Ran Vijay Singh said that Yashdeep Pandey (30), a resident of RTO office in Haldwani, is a yoga teacher in a private school in Noida. Yashdeep was going for duty in the morning.
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Four people resident of Haldwani lost their lives in Moradabad accident – Photo: Samvad
He had shared the details of his car Tiago on Blah Blah app. Dayal Singh Rawat, resident of Amravati Colony, Haldwani, Bhuvan Bhandari, resident of Kusumkheda, Haldwani, Sundar Singh and Anil Negi, resident near RTO office of Haldwani, had booked seats through the app. On Monday morning around 4.30 am, Yashdeep left for Noida after taking all four people in his car.
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Four people resident of Haldwani lost their lives in Moradabad accident – Photo: Samvad
His car was passing near Mankara turn on Delhi-Lucknow Highway in Mundhapande police station area at around 6.15 am on Monday morning when suddenly a tractor trolley full of bricks coming from the link road was cut by the driver on the highway. The car driver tried to stop but due to the high speed, the car rammed into the tractor trolley from behind. In this accident, all five people in the car were seriously injured and the car was blown to pieces.
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Four people resident of Haldwani lost their lives in Moradabad accident – Photo: Samvad
People came out from nearby dhabas and shops and informed the police. Police reached the spot and sent all the injured to Mundhapande government hospital where doctors declared Dayal Singh Rawat, Sundar Singh and Bhuvan Bhandari dead while Anil Negi and Yashdeep were sent to the district hospital where doctors also declared Anil Negi dead while admitted driver Yashdeep and started his treatment.
Mahalakshmi became a mother to a 3 month old baby girl, her cute expressions and innocent manners won people’s hearts!
A very cute and heart touching video is becoming increasingly viral on social media. In this video, a 3 month old little girl has been dressed on the theme of Maa Mahalakshmi. During the photoshoot, the girl was decorated with traditional clothes and beautiful decorations in such a way that she looked exactly like Goddess Mahalakshmi. But the most special thing about this video is not just her look, but the innocent expressions and small actions of the girl during the photoshoot. Sometimes she smiles, and sometimes she looks here and there with her lovely eyes, which makes the whole moment even more special. People watching the video are praising the cuteness of the girl a lot. Many users on social media expressed their love by writing heart emojis and lovely messages in the comment section. Many people said that this video filled their day with happiness. This video has spread rapidly on Instagram and other social media platforms and people are calling it one of the cutest and most heart-touching videos of recent times. Such moments remind us that the innocence of children and their small smiles can also bring smiles on the faces of thousands of people. Video Credit: Instagram- @achal.photography, @manish_0_0_7 and @little_bhosale
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Indians Arrested in UAE: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ordered the arrest of a total of 35 people, including 19 Indian citizens, for sharing misleading and fabricated video clips on social media amid regional tensions. According to a statement by the country’s official news agency ‘Emirates News Agency’ (WAM), the accused will be presented in court for a speedy trial.
The latest list includes 25 people from different countries, of which 17 are Indians. This group is different from the 10 people arrested on Saturday, including two Indians, whose arrest has already been ordered.
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On March 15, UAEAttorney General Dr. Hamad Saif Al Shamsi Ordered the arrest of 25 people of different nationalities and directed their trial to be carried out expeditiously. This includes 17 Indians. This group is different from the 10 people who were ordered arrested on Saturday, including two Indians.
Dr. Shamsi’s statement said that this action was taken after strict monitoring of digital platforms, the aim of which was to prevent attempts to create public instability and harm national stability by spreading false information and artificial content.
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Investigation and electronic monitoring revealed that the accused were divided into three groups. The first group was posting video clips related to real incidents. The second group was creating fake videos with the help of AI or sharing footage of foreign incidents as if they happened inside the country. The third group was praising a hostile state and its political and military leadership and publicizing its military actions.
This action America, Israel This has been done amid increasing regional tensions between India and Iran. Authorities had earlier warned residents not to share untrue and fake content on social media.
Three-quarters of nine-month-old babies in England are allowed daily screen time, while a small “heavy use” group watch more than three hours a day, according to a study.
Just 2% of the infants included in the research reportedly watched more than three hours a day, while the average amount of time was 41 minutes, research by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) found.
Parents across different income levels made similar choices for their nine-month-olds, researchers found, and they concluded that screen time and a healthy, active childhood “are not necessarily mutually exclusive”.
Instead of “demonising” screens and trying to cut exposure, they said, policymakers should support parents to use digital devices to enhance child development and parent-baby bonding.
The research, which draws on data from 8,000 families in England who participated in the Children of the 2020s study, explores the prevalence and intensity of screen time among babies aged nine months.
It found 72% of the babies in the sample reportedly experienced at least some screen time at nine months, while just over a quarter (28%) experienced none.
The more siblings a baby has, the less likely they are to be reported to watch screens. Four out of five (80%) babies with no siblings had some screen time, compared with three out of five (57%) of those with four or more siblings.
Infants in single-parent households watched for an average of 47 minutes a day, compared with 39 minutes for those with two parents in the home. Differences by parental education and income were not significant.
Researchers also looked at the relationship between screen use and other activities and found that infants in the heavy-use group were significantly less likely to experience regular enrichment activities, such as being read or sung to, or trips outside.
Dr Tammy Campbell, the director for early years, inequalities and wellbeing at the EPI, said: “This research is one piece of an expanding jigsaw of up-to-date evidence, and adds new information for a very recent, nationally representative cohort of infants.
“It suggests that when it comes to babies and screens, parents across income levels are making similar choices for their children. It also indicates that screen time and a healthy, active childhood are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
“Therefore, a large part of the conversation needs to shift from ‘how much’ to ‘what,’ and ‘why’. It’s about how and when a screen is being used for shared, interactive play, or for passive viewing. And it’s about why use is high among the very small group of babies experiencing more than three hours a day.
“Instead of simply focusing on demonising any use, and cutting minutes, policymaking and guidance should help families use digital tools to enhance development, bonding and enjoyment of babyhood.”
The children’s commissioner for England, Rachel de Souza, co-chair of the panel drawing up government guidance, said: “Parents today are raising children in a world where screens are part of everyday life – for many, especially in the earliest months of a child’s life, it can be difficult to know what the right balance looks like.
“That’s why I am pleased to be co-chairing a group creating the first piece of government guidance on screen time for children under five, because the context in which screens are used at home among families is crucial.
“As children’s commissioner, I understand screens feel like both a help and worry for parents – which is why the upcoming early years guidance will offer clear, trustworthy advice, giving parents confidence when managing how their children see screens.”
A Department for Education spokesperson said:“Parents have told us they want clear, practical and non-judgmental advice on screen use for under-fives as they raise children in a digital world.
“That’s why we are working urgently to publish the first ever government guidance for parents on screen use for young children, backed by an independent expert-led evidence review and shaped by the experiences of parents themselves so the advice reflects real family life.”
