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According to Worldometer, India notched 188 fresh cases till Friday and in the immediate neighbourhood are Pakistan with 15 cases, 11 in Afghanistan and five in Sri Lanka. However, other neighbours like Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh had zero infections, and the same was with Thailand, a popular tourist destination for Indians.

Addressing the media here on Wednesday, Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, said: "In China, what's been reported is relatively low numbers of cases in ICUs, but anecdotally ICUs are filling up. "We've been saying this for weeks that this highly infectious virus was always going to be very hard to stop completely, with just public health and social measures."

The woman and her children were brutally killed by her husband. The deceased woman's family in Kerala had sought Rs 3 million as financial assistance to bring back the bodies home. The Malayalee community at Kettering, a town in UK's Northamptonshire, where the brutal incident took place, raised the amount within two days.

Nimco Ali, who stepped down as government's adviser on tackling violence against women last week, slammed the Indian-origin Minister's "crazy rhetoric" on the issue of immigration, which is fuelling racism.

Lord Peter Cruddas, a ruling Conservative party peer in the House of Lords and one of the party's biggest recent financial donors, bluntly told The Observer: "Something's going to come to a head because the members don't want Rishi Sunak. The odds are stacked against him.

The University of Portsmouth failed to reappoint Dr Kajal Sharma for a job she had been doing for five years, replacing her with a white candidate with no experience of the role, The Guardian reported. While 11 out of her 12 white colleagues were reappointed after their contracts ended, Sharma, hired as a senior lecturer in 2016, was not given her job back.

Atmadaya, the British representative for the controversial guru known as Nithyananda, was invited to the function by the MP Bob Blackman and the peer Rami Ranger, the Observer reported. Nithyananda's organisation also took out a full-page advertisement in an accompanying brochure which was handed out to attendees.

Kwarteng told The Financial Times his biggest regret was being "too impatient" with the mini-budget, the BBC reported. The plans sparked turmoil in the markets, eventually leading to Kwarteng and Truss's resignation. "There was a brief moment and the people in charge, myself included, blew it," he said, BBC reported.

Clerics expressed reservations on a draft bill, and a parliamentary panel ultimately rejected the bill despite protest from minority lawmakers. The cleric is one of 30 individuals who have been sanctioned in total. Of these, 18, including Mithu, have been targeted for "violations and abuses of human rights". Meanwhile, sources in the Pakistan government expressed dismay over Pakistan's name being tarnished because of this individual.

Border Force workers at locations in England, Scotland and Wales, including the country's biggest airport Heathrow, plan to go on strike for eight days in December, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said on Wednesday. The industrial action comes after 100,000 PCS members in government departments and other public bodies voted to walk out demanding a 10 per cent pay rise, pensions justice and job security, reports Xinhua news agency.