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The civil penalty for employers, which was last increased in 2014, will be raised to up to 45,000 pounds per illegal worker for a first breach from 15,000 pounds, and up to 60,000 pounds for repeat breaches from 20,000 pounds.

The annual ‘High Commissioner for a Day’ competition, with focus on Sustainable Development Goals, will provide an opportunity to Indian women, aged 18 to 23, to share their strengths with the world, the British High Commission in New Delhi announced on Friday.

On Thursday, the demonstrators from the Greenpeace environmental managed to climb onto the house located near Sunak's constituency of Richmond, reports CNN.

The winner of the 50,000 pound prize will be announced at an event at Old Billingsgate, London, on November 26.

The ballot, which opened on Monday, will close at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday, the British High Commission announced in a tweet. The scheme, formally launched this year, allows Indian citizens with a graduate or postgraduate qualification to live and work in the UK for up to two years.

Manjit Singh, 60, of Toxteth was sentenced by Liverpool Crown Court this week to two years' prison after she admitted eight counts of fraud, the Metro newspaper reported. Singh transferred GBP958,180 from her employers' accounts at Lei Dat & Baig solicitors in Liverpool to another she believed belonged to Ravi Jani after meeting on a dating site.

Ben Wallace, who has played a key role in the UK's response to the Ukraine war, told the Sunday Times he would not stand at the next general election, but ruled out leaving "prematurely" and triggering a by-election. He has served as Defence Secretary under three Prime Ministers. 

The average mean temperature for June in the UK this year hit 15.8 degrees Celsius, 0.9 degrees higher than the joint previous record of 14.9 degrees in 1940 and 1976, reports Xinhua news agency. Met Office scientists found that the chance of observing a June beating the previous joint record has at least doubled since the 1940s. "Alongside natural variability, the background warming of the Earth's atmosphere due to human-induced climate change has driven up the possibility of reaching record high temperatures," said Paul Davies, Met Office climate extremes principal fellow and chief meteorologist.

Taking to Twitter, Goldsmith, in a two-page resignation letter, posted: "It has been a privilege to have been able to make a difference to a cause I have been committed to for as long as I remember. But this govt's apathy in the face of the greatest challenge we face makes continuing in my role untenable. Reluctantly I am therefore stepping down."

The annual event which will continue through June 30, seeks to strengthen the partnership between the two nations by providing a platform to spotlight crucial areas, including politics, trade, business, among other sectors. Praising the event as a catalyst for forging new trade ties, the British-Indian Prime Minister said that the "India Global Forum's annual UK-India Week 2023 is a highly anticipated fixture in the bilateral calendar of our two great nations".