Latest news bulletin | March 6th, 2026 – Morning
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Day: March 6, 2026
Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels
Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’A leading vice-chancellor has questioned whether students without A-levels should be eligible for government-backed student loans, as pa…
Mass stranding of whales on Scottish beach caused by loyalty to their pod, report finds
The 55 pilot whales, which had to be euthanised, had been following a female having a difficult birth, scientists believeThe mass stranding and death of 55 whales on the Isle of Lewis in 2023 was caused by the mammals’ loyalty to their pod, a report ha…
Louise Casey: England’s social care system faces ‘moment of reckoning’
Head of government-commissioned review says adult social care is held together by ‘sticking plasters and glue’England’s “creaking” adult social care system is confusing and impenetrable to the people that rely on it and held together with “sticking pla…
UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say
Ministers urged to abandon plans to let tech firms use work of novelists, artists and writers without permissionThe UK’s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a House of Lords committee has war…
Water firms sent bailiffs to tens of thousands of homes for debts under £1,000
Most recorded visits are for smaller debts, data from England and Wales suggests, though method of recovery is a postcode lotteryTens of thousands of people a year have bailiffs sent to their homes by water companies in England and Wales, data shows.Ma…
Study predicts ‘only two’ countries in the world will survive World War III
A new peer-reviewed study in Nature journal found that a nuclear war could wipe out around five billion people and plunge the world into nuclear winter
Tokyo says second Japanese citizen held in Iran
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India’s $236M Shtil-1 Gamble: Cost-Effective Edge Over Barak-8 In Naval Defence
India has finalised a $236 million contract for the Russian Shtil-1 missile system, a move that bolsters its naval air defence capabilities amid ongoing regional tensions.This procurement forms part of broader Ministry of Defence deals exceeding ₹5,000 crore, encompassing advanced helicopters and vertical launch missiles.The Shtil-1, supplied by Russia’s JSC Rosoboronexport, targets frontline
Strategic Stranglehold: Pakistan’s Defence Pact With Saudi Arabia Faces First Real Test Amid Iranian Retaliation
The ongoing Iran war, sparked by US-Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 28 February 2026, has thrust Pakistan into a precarious strategic bind. Tehran retaliated with missile and drone attacks on Gulf states, including Saudi oil facilities and the US embassy in Riyadh, prompting Islamabad to invoke its fresh mutual defence pact with Riyadh.The pact itself, signed