West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose wrote to President Droupadi Murmu on Friday, claiming that the assembly speaker administering the oath to two newly elected TMC MLAs was a «violation of the Constitution,» according to a Raj Bhavan official. Bose took this step just hours after Biman Banerjee, the speaker, administered the oath to the two TMC legislators instead of the deputy speaker, who had been authorized by the governor for the task. Governor Bose had previously authorized assembly deputy speaker Ashish Banerjee to administer the oath to Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar.

Former union minister Chaudhary Birender Singh criticized the BJP for failing to gain support through religion-based politics, predicting the NDA government will collapse within two years. Singh, who left BJP for Congress, emphasized Arya Samaj over Sanatan tradition. He urged preparations for the upcoming assembly elections and called for action on jobs, education, and corruption issues.

Pulsus Group is establishing an AI-based pharma healthcare IT hub in Ameenpur, Telangana, costing Rs 300 crore and creating around 50,000 jobs. Announced at the Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, the project aims to enhance drug development and healthcare delivery. Telangana's minister emphasized AI's potential to make treatments more affordable and boost the state's pharma industry.

A taskforce has been set up by the Govt of India to examine AI's influence on future work. Significant job creation in India, especially by global capability centers and startups. Labour laws simplified into four categories. Emphasis on increasing female workforce participation and social security. India's GDP expected to reach $33 trillion by 2047.

England midfielder Jude Bellingham has been handed a suspended one game UEFA ban and fined €30,000 (£25,000)for his controversial gesture against Slovakia.

Police have arrested the suspected 'mastermind' in a plot to blackmail the family of former Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher, German media reports.

Today's massive increase in trade volumes, combined with the need to conduct border checks for compliance with the growing number of EU standards and to stay abreast of continuously evolving trade strategies, has put EU customs authorities under a lot of pressure. Concerns have been raised that the EU's customs union is burdened by an uneven level of digitalisation across Member States, suboptimal coordination between national authorities and overall complexity. This situation creates high administrative compliance costs for traders while providing criminals with opportunities to commit fraud. To tackle these issues, the European Commission tabled a customs reform package on 17 May 2023. Key to the reform is the establishment of an EU customs authority that would oversee a new customs data hub. The aim is to adopt a more centralised and digitalised approach to customs that should lower compliance costs for traders, free up resources for national authorities and ensure a more efficient, strengthened and fraud-proof customs union. The proposal is subject to the ordinary legislative procedure, requiring the support of both Council and Parliament. Within Parliament, the file was assigned to the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, with Deirdre Clune (EPP, Ireland) as rapporteur. At its March 2024 plenary, Parliament adopted its position at first reading. Negotiations at the Council are ongoing. Third edition. The 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene after officers were called to an address in Radiant Road in Thurncourt, Leicestershire, at 6am yesterday.

Huge numbers of Brits have fled London to Ogmore-by-Sea, which was voted the number one WFH location after experts crunched data on homes, connectivity and countryside access.

Labour's deputy leader walked down the famous London street before being named by Sir Keir as Britain's new Deputy Prime Minister.

Hans Jürgen Höss, 87, delivers perhaps one of the most bewildering lines ever captured on film when he says: 'I had a really lovely and idyllic childhood in Auschwitz'

Barrister Ayoub Khan, who quit the Lib Dems over Gaza, is the new MP for Perry Barr who left Labour rival Khalid Mahmood close to tears in a defeat where he used TikTok to harness the youth vote.

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren penned an emotional post for father and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) president Shibu Soren. Day after taking oath as CM, Soren posted a few photos with his father from the oath ceremony and said he is his father's «emerging reflection». Hemant Soren took oath as Jharkhand CM for the third time on Thursday. The ceremony was held a week after he was released on bail in a money laundering case. Soon after the oath he asserted that «people intoxicated with power» tried to silence him, but now the voice of the state will be strengthened.

Follow MailOnline's live election coverage as Sir Keir Starmer meets King Charles at Buckingham Palace to become Prime Minister after a landslide Labour victory in the election.

Follow MailOnline's live election coverage as Sir Keir Starmer meets King Charles at Buckingham Palace to become Prime Minister after a landslide Labour victory in the election.

If another eruption occurs this summer in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row system, volcanologist Haraldur Sigurðsson expects a similar eruption to the one that has happened.

A mother spoke of her shock that killer nurse Lucy Letby was in charge of her newborn son at the Countess of Chester Hospital. The baby was born just 15 hours after Letby tried to kill Baby K.

Follow MailOnline's live election coverage as Sir Keir Starmer meets King Charles at Buckingham Palace to become Prime Minister after a landslide Labour victory in the election.

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says it has restored power to 80,000 customers across the island in the last 24 hours. It says the areas restored are predominantly in Kingston and St Andrew, St Catherine and St Thomas, with...

Former transport minister S. Iswaran, who faces 35 charges, on July 5 tried to compel the prosecution to provide conditioned statements for all 56 prosecution witnesses. A conditioned statement is a mode of giving evidence by written statement, rather than by oral testimony. Iswaran, whose charges involve more than $400,000 worth of items, arrived at the High Court with his defence team at around 9.30am. The prosecution team argued they had provided a list of the 56 witnesses and their roles in the case, and are not obliged to provide the conditioned statements of these witnesses. One of the seven prosecution witnesses named in court documents was Iswaran’s wife, Taylor Kay Mary. The prosecution said she had seven statements recorded by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau during investigations. Of the 35 charges Iswaran faces, 27 relate to hotel and property tycoon Ong Beng Seng. Eight charges relate to Mr David Lum Kok Seng, the managing director of mainboard-listed Lum Chang Holdings.

A search has been launched for a hiker in the Skálafellsjökull glacier in Vatnajökull. A helicopter of the Icelandic Coast Guard has been activated.

The Chinese Navy hospital ship Peace Ark arrived in Seychelles on Friday and berthed at the IPHS Quay at Ile du Port. The hospital vessel expects to welcome the public on board during the next few days for free consultations and treatments. Peace Ark also came to Seychelles in 2010. The hospital ship's was welcomed upon arrival by the Seychelleus Minister for Health, Peggy Vidot, accompanied by other high level officials as well as the Chinese Ambassador to Seychelles, Lin Nan and members of the Chinese Association of Seychelles. Following the arrival of the ship, Vidot along with her delegation had the opportunity to visit the ship, where the various departments and services were explained in detail. Starting from Saturday, July 6 to July 11, people will be able to register to be treated on board by simply bringing their identification card with them to the ship. With a full-service hospital on board, the ship has many departments that the public will be able to access including such as cardiology, general surgery, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, dentistry, paediatrics, dermatology and traditional Chinese medicine physical therapy, among others. There is also a special examination room for ultrasound and ECG and an imaging department.   The ship has a full-service hospital on board with many departments. (Seychelles News Agency) Photo License: CC-BY   Designed and built in China, the hospital ship Peace Ark is an emergency medical support platform at sea. It primarily assumes tasks such as treating, caring and evacuating casualties at sea during wartime; giving medical treatments to the residents and stationing troops on China's islands and reefs in peacetime. It can also provide international humanitarian medical assistance, and response to major disasters and emergencies, as well as undertake international exchanges and cooperation tasks on military medicine. The vessel has a full load displacement of more than 10,000 tonnes, operating rooms, doctor offices as well as nurse stations and hundreds of beds. It is also equipped with advanced medical facilities, such as CT, DR and colour ultrasound and a rescue helicopter available onboard. The ship set sail from Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, on June 16 as part of Mission Harmony 2024 under the command of Rear Admiral Ying Hongbo and Rear Admiral He Yongming. Through this mission, the vessel plans to visit 13 countries where the visiting medical staff will carry out medical services to promote the concept of a maritime community with a shared future and enhance the development of friendly relations between China and the visited countries.

MADRID: Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan has urged European nations to impose sanctions on Israeli officials violating international human rights laws as he warned that Israel’s war on Gaza was affecting the entire Middle East, including southern Lebanon. “The situation in the Gaza Strip does not only affect the Palestinian issue but the entire region and contributes to further escalations, which is currently happening in southern Lebanon,” he said on Thursday.

Senior MailOnline reporter Nick Pisa - who has been on the case longer than any other journalist - has posed ten questions which could hold the key to revealing what really became of Jay Slater.