The reptiles have been seized under various wildlife protection laws in India.
The conflict in Kashmir has long attracted a high degree of misinformation online. In the aftermath of the deadly militant attack on Indian tourists in Pahalgam last month, AI images circulated - with some seeking to dramatise actual scenes from the attack.Vedika Bahl, a journalist with France 24, said the Pahalgam attacks had prompted a sharp "uptake in misinformation from both sides surrounding the conflict".
"Lots of this misinformation begins on X," she said. "Eventually this trickles down over time from X to WhatsApp which is the communication tool which is most used in South Asian communities."The government ended a wave of public sector strikes last summer when it accepted, in full, the recommendations of independent public sector pay review bodies to increase the pay of teachers, nurses and others.But ministers might be facing another headache over pay and the possibility of a fresh threat of strikes from some unions.
BBC Verify examines why this pressure over public sector pay and industrial action has re-emerged.In July 2024, the new Labour government
to increase public sector pay by between 4.75% and 6% for the 2024-25 financial year.
There is a new round of recommendations from these bodies every year and they traditionally deliver in the summer.Thursday may seem like any other day of the week to some - but it's a date gamers have had marked on their diaries for months.
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps even a million, people will unbox their very own, the sequel to the third-best selling console in history.
I was one of the lucky few to get my hands on it last month, and it makes quite a first impression. It's like a Switch - but with a bigger and brighter screen, and of course much more power under the hood.It also has a cool hook - you can use the controller like a computer mouse by twisting it on its side, making PC games such as Civilization VII a more enjoyable experience than struggling with joysticks.