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'ED party has been wiped out': Kejriwal mocks BJP after AAP sweeps local body poll in Punjab

[Written Question] Local Government: Elections

Question by: Lord Jamieson Answering Body: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Question: To ask His Majesty's Government which councils and combined authorities will have elections in May 2027; and which will have their scheduled elections cancelled as a consequence of unitary restructuring.

Khata, mutation, property card: Here's what each document does

When you buy a piece of land or an apartment in India, the seller hands over the keys, the agreement is registered, and you may believe that the property is yours. Legally, it is, but in the records of the local municipal body, it might still belong to the person you bought it from. This gap between ownership on paper and ownership in government records is bridged by the khata, mutation, and property card.

Experiments in Agentic AI for Science

arXiv:2605.26305v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper details two novel frameworks for developing autonomous, agentic AI in scientific workflows. Both systems leverage a hybrid Local Body, Remote Brain architecture via Google Colab, utilizing Python-based local orchestrators to invoke large language model (LLM) cloud backends. The first agent, DeepTS/DeepCollector, automates the large-scale curation, extraction, and deduplication of time-series datasets.

Can Equality Act protections be replaced with common sense, as Kemi Badenoch suggests

The Tory leader says the public sector duty to consider minorities encourages division but legal experts warn abolishing it will fuel discriminationFor more than two decades, an important part of Britain’s equality laws ensured public institutions had to think about the impact the decisions they make could have on different groups within society. Introduced in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, the public sector equality duty required public bodies – such as local councils, police...

Can common sense replace Equality Act protections, as Kemi Badenoch suggests?

The Tory leader says the public sector duty to consider minorities encourages division – but legal experts say abolishing it will fuel discriminationFor more than two decades, an important part of Britain’s equality laws ensured public institutions had to think about the impact their decisions could have on different groups in society. Introduced after the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, the public sector equality duty required public bodies – such as local councils, police forces and hospitals –...

Can Equality Act protections be replaced with common sense, as Kemi Badenoch suggests?

The Tory leader says the public sector duty to consider minorities encourages division but legal experts warn abolishing it will fuel discriminationFor more than two decades, an important part of Britain’s equality laws ensured public institutions had to think about the impact the decisions they make could have on different groups within society. Introduced in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, the public sector equality duty required public bodies – such as local councils, police...

Italy bans Kanye West concert over security concerns

A concert by the US rapper Kanye West, who was supposed to perform on July 18 in Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, has been banned on public safety grounds, the authorities said. The prefect of the province, Salvatore Angieri, said the decision was made following requests from bodies including the local Jewish community. They had “expressed reservations” about the appearance of the rapper as part of the Pulse of Gaia Festival, the statement released on Friday evening said.

[Written Question] Fire and Rescue Services: Water Supply

Question by: Lee Anderson Answering Body: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that new housing developments have adequate water supply for local Fire and Rescue services.

[Written Question] Pride in Place Programme

Mr Andrew Snowden Answering Body: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will provide a breakdown of allocations of Pride in Place funding by constituency.