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Gillian Keegan. Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP  

Political situation in Great Britain   

Sources: Keegan too hasty - puts colleagues in trouble 

Britain's under-pressure education minister Gillian Keegan is being criticized within the Tory party, party sources told Sky News. Several colleagues are said to be concerned that she has "opened Pandora's box" with the decision to fully or partially close over 100 schools in the wake of the so-called concrete crisis.  

According to critics, several other ministers and departments were not given enough information, and there are now fears that the problems will spill over into activities involving public buildings other than just schools. 

The background to the school closures is warnings that properties built with RAAC lightweight concrete are at risk of collapsing.

 

Paintings depicting America's Joe Biden and India's Narendra Modi. Rajanish Kakade / AP  

 

G20 meeting in New Delhi 

Government and opposition in a name feud ahead of the G20 meeting 

 

Anger has been sparked within the Indian opposition after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government referred to India as "Bharat" - the country's name in Hindi - in an invitation to this weekend's G20 meeting. The BBC reports.  

 

According to the British public service company, parts of the opposition are questioning the purpose, as there have been unconfirmed reports that Modi and his BJP want to change the official name.  

 

In the constitution, Bharat is equal to India but the former is mentioned only once and India is the most common both within the country and internationally. According to AP, the BJP has already changed a number of names related to the colonial era.  

Illustration images. TT 

 

The climate threat|Global challenges 

Forecast: Harmful heat threatens 1.3 billion in 2050  

 

In 2030, 500 million people are expected to live at least one month a year in such high heat that it is harmful to health. That's what the Washington Post writes, based on forecasts produced with the help of so-called supercomputers from the American space agency Nasa.  

 

The forecasts take into account the climate commitments of all countries, but still the same figure is expected to be 1.3 billion in 2050. And the number of heat-related deaths for people over 65 has increased by 68 percent from the beginning of the 2000s until today. 

 

- Climate change is not a distant threat to health, it is a current threat to health, says Professor Kristie Ebi, who studies the health consequences of global warming.  

 

Extreme heat causes, among other things, heat stroke and damage to the heart and kidneys, writes WP.  

 

File photo, heat wave in Pakistan 2021. Fareed Khan / AP   

 

The number of patients with heat stroke is increasing: "It's disappointing"  

 

Pakistan is one of the countries in the world that is expected to suffer the worst from health-damaging extreme heat in the coming decades, according to data analyzed by the Washington Post.  

 

The worrying trend can already be seen now. According to the newspaper, the number of patients with heat stroke in the province of Sindh has increased by about 20 percent for five consecutive years.  

 

Three of the last five years have brought new heat records and hospital director Moinuddin Siddiqui says patients are coming in with heat-related ailments in a way he has not experienced in his twenty years in the profession. 

 

 - It is disappointing.