Independent News & People Network Desk of News

Offer teenagers a meningitis B vaccine on NHS, advisers tell UK government

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-16T13:47:17+00:00

JCVI says children should have one or two doses of menB vaccine at age 15, depending on if they had one as a babyTeenagers should be offered a vaccine on the NHS to protect against deadly meningitis B (menB), government advisers have recommended.The move by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which needs approval from the government, means young people should get a jab around the age of 15, with catch-up programmes for those who would otherwise miss out. Continue reading...

Discussion
•••

NMPA Chairman hopes to achieve 53 mt cargo handling in FY27

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-16T13:39:47+00:00

Sushil Kumar Singh said that the port handled 50 mt of cargo during 2025-26, the highest ever in the history of NMPA

Discussion
•••

UK government drops plan to stop paying coastguard volunteers

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-16T13:38:16+00:00

Move raises questions over position of the head of the Maritime and Coastguard AgencyUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters have U-turned on plans to strip volunteer coastguard officers of their hourly pay after coming in for intense criticism over the plan.The announcement, made by the maritime minister in parliament on Thursday, was described as a huge win for coastguards many of whom had said they would reduce their hours or leave the service altogether if the government had pushed ahead. It has raised questions over the position of Virginia McVea, head of the Maritime and Coastguard Ag

Discussion
•••

EU rejects Chinese rice flour cargo for GMO presence

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-16T13:34:12+00:00

An EU notification issued on Monday said the Netherlands had found the presence of GMOs in hydrolysed rice flour

Discussion
•••

MI5 lied about relations with neo-Nazi informant, watchdog says

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-16T13:21:16+00:00

Review of case criticises handling of agent X, who exploited role with agency to violently threaten his girlfriendMI5 has been reprimanded by a watchdog for lying about its relationship with a neo-Nazi informant, who had exploited his role with the spy agency to violently threaten his girlfriend.The Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (Ipco) criticised MI5’s handling of a man known only as agent X, and said some of its officers had initially misled the courts and the regulator about his true status. Continue reading...

Discussion
•••

Tridiagonal.ai (T.AI) Partners with PETRONAS Carigali’s TriCipta AI with IBM to Advance Engineering Domain-Driven AI Solutions for Upstream Operations

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-16T13:13:50+00:00

Tridiagonal.ai will contribute engineering domain-driven AI solutions, physics-informed models and Decision Intelligence capabilities to support upstream surface equipment optimisation, maintenance reliability and asset integrity decision workflows.

Discussion
•••

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : limogeage du ministre de la défense ukrainien, en conflit avec le commandant en chef de l’armée ; le Parlement approuve la nomination d’un nouveau premier ministre

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-16T13:12:31+00:00

La nomination de Serhi Koretsky, directeur général du groupe énergétique public Naftogaz, a été approuvée, jeudi, par 289 voix sur 318, dans le cadre d’un remaniement ministériel décidé par le président ukrainien.

Discussion
•••

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : limogeage du ministre de la défense ukrainien, en conflit avec le commandant en chef de l’armée ; le Parlement approuve la nomination d’un nouveau premier ministre

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-16T13:12:29+00:00

La nomination de Serhii Koretsky, directeur général du groupe énergétique public Naftogaz, a été approuvée, jeudi, par 289 voix sur 318, dans le cadre d’un remaniement ministériel décidé par le président ukrainien.

Discussion
•••

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : limogeage du ministre de la défense ukrainien, en conflit avec le commandant en chef de l’armée ; le nouveau premier ministre a présenté son gouvernement

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-16T13:12:29+00:00

La nomination de Serhii Koretsky, directeur général du groupe énergétique public Naftogaz, a été approuvée, jeudi, par le Parlement avec 289 voix sur 318, dans le cadre d’un remaniement ministériel décidé par le président ukrainien.

Discussion
•••

Onida charts ‘rewiring’ plans with ambitions to grow 5x in five years

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-16T13:07:12+00:00

The 45-year-old company, which admits it lost ground to global electronics majors in the last decade, is also moving away from contract manufacturing business to focus entirely on branded product business

Discussion
•••
news

Editorial wall of the news flow

A query on the internal database produces an ordered selection of articles, ready for reading and discussion.