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The UK Covid Inquiry has opened its investigation into the impact of the pandemic on children and young people., externalAreas it will focus on include how children’s education, development, mental health and use of social media were affected. The inquiry said it would listen to children with special educational needs, disabilities and from a diverse range of ethnic and other backgrounds.Public hearings are likely to start at some point in 2025.When the draft terms of the Covid inquiry – which covers England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – were published in March 2022, there was criticism that they failed to…

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Project manager Ashish Rajput said that the AI system’s cameras, comparable to those used by the Indian Army along the nation’s borders, are programmed to even detect humans near railway lines. When elephants are detected within 100ft of the railway track, alerts are sent to forest and railway officials, who coordinate to slow down trains and guide the elephants away to prevent collisions. Four personnel continuously monitor the system in the control room near the railway track.The project, launched in February, has been executed at a cost of 72.4m rupees ($867,758; £683,976), says Supriya Sahu, secretary of the Tamil Nadu…

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