Highways (Financing) Bill: call for evidence

U.K., Oct. 20 -- UK Parliament issued the following news: Do you have relevant expertise and experience or a special interest in the Highways (Financing) Bill, which is currently passing through Parliament? If so, you can submit your views in writing to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee. The Public Bill Committee will meet for the first time on Thursday 29 October 2026 to scrutinise the Highways (Financing) Bill line by line. and is expected to report by 5.00pm on Tuesday 24 November...


Commons Speaker attends European Conference of Presidents of Parliament

U.K., Oct. 20 -- UK Parliament issued the following news: Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, joined Speakers and Deputy Speakers from across Europe at the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament in Rome, Italy. Held every two years, the conference is organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, which brings together 46 nations to promote human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. This year'...


Move all energy policy costs onto gas and tap windfall profits to reduce UK energy bills, says ESNZ Committee

U.K., Oct. 21 -- UK Parliament issued the following news: Government must maintain unwavering focus on costs as central issue in energy transition. Read the report [HTML] Government should now move all remaining energy transition policy costs off the price of electricity and onto the price of gas on UK energy bills, the Commons Energy Security and Net Zero Committee says in a report today - a key step to making the transition away from fossil fuels economical for consumers. There will need t...


Google Cloud outage: Bank of England and FCA letter published

U.K., Oct. 20 -- UK Parliament issued the following news: The Treasury Committee Chair has written to the Governor of the Bank of England and the Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) about today's Google Cloud outage affecting a number of organisations, including banks . Read the letter In January this year, the Treasury Committee published a report recommending that the government should use its powers under the Critical Third Parties regime to designate AI and cloud prov...


UK could be left on sidelines of global tech race by cautious govt approach to R&D

U.K., Oct. 21 -- UK Parliament issued the following news: Government should be bolder in taking stakes in innovative businesses it has backed with grants. In a new report on UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the PAC urges government to do much more to recover taxpayers’ money when a successful company exploits research for which UKRI has paid. Read the report According to the government, UK universities proportionally generate more spinout companies and patents than in the US - but the way t...


Government ambition must match scale of investment challenge, Committee warns ahead of Budget

U.K., Oct. 21 -- UK Parliament issued the following news: Ministers have rejected or only partially accepted key proposals that are needed now to mobilise capital for British businesses and infrastructure, says the BIST Committee as it publishes the Government’s response to its report, Investing in the UK economy , today. Read the response The inquiry received 60 written submissions and heard from 37 witnesses. Its recommendations set out a programme to rejuvenate the London Stock Exchange , ...


India House Launches Policy Report to Strengthen India's Allied & Healthcare Capacity

India, Oct. 21 -- New Delhi, 21 October 2026: India House, a New Delhi-based think-and-do tank, launched the second edition of its report, "Strengthening Allied & Healthcare Capacity: Industry Submission", at the Healthcare Futures Forum held on 8 October 2026 at the Constitution Club of India, New Delhi. The report was launched in the presence of senior government officials, institutional leaders and regulatory representatives, including Mr Mohammad Mohsin, IAS, Additional Chief Secret...


OPPO Find X10 Pro Max debuts industry's first triple 200mp camera system and ushers into new era of 'True-to-Life Imaging'

India, Oct. 21 -- New Delhi, 21th October 2026: OPPO India is taking smartphone photography beyond megapixels with the upcoming OPPO Find X10 Series, introducing the industry's first Triple 200MP Camera System on the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max, alongside a new generation of computational imaging designed to capture images closer to how the human eye experiences a scene.Hasselblad camera systemCo-developed with Hasselblad, the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max introduces the industry's first Triple 200MP Cam...


Inside the Lokhandwala Dental Clinic That Bollywood Has Quietly Trusted for Its Smiles Since 2006

India, Oct. 21 -- For nearly two decades, Millennium Smile Dental Clinic in Andheri West has been a familiar name among actors and television personalities for smile makeovers. Here is what goes into that work, and why everyday patients get the same care. Mumbai, October 2026: In a city where a smile is often the first thing a camera catches, many people from Mumbai's film and television industry have, over the years, found their way to a first-floor clinic in Lokhandwala Complex Market. Millenn...


Parenting in the age of AI: The question is no longer screen time

India, Oct. 21 -- Prakriti Saxena Poddar, Clinically Trained Mental Health & Wellbeing Expert, and Global Head at Roundglass Screen time was a reasonable question for a passive medium. It is no longer the right one. Technology that responds, validates, advises and remembers cannot be evaluated by the number of minutes it occupies. What is being shaped in a child during such an interaction is the more important question. The parenting conversation needs...