Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita had been kept in as police wanted time to verify their addresses. The judge in Delhi said this was "not plausible". The students had joined a protest last year against a controversial citizenship law, a day before deadly riots broke out in Delhi. They were arrested in May 2020 under a stringent anti-terrorism law. "We have received tremendous support inside jail and we will continue our struggle," Ms Narwal told reporters outside Tihar jail. She and Ms Kalita are founding members of Pinjra Tod (Break the Cage), a po[CENSORED]r student movement that wants women to reclaim public spaces. Granting bail on Tuesday, the judges had criticised the government for confusing the right to protest with terrorist activity. Devangana Kalita at a Pinjra Tod protest IMAGE COPYRIGHTPINJRA TOD image captionDevangana Kalita was arrested last year on charges of sedition A third activist, Asif Iqbal Tanha, also walked free on Thursday. He too was arrested in May last year for taking part in protests before the rioting, and spent two more days in jail despite having been bailed on Tuesday. Lawyers for the three have accused the police of using delaying tactics to keep them in jail - and on Thursday, judge Ravinder Bedi ordered them to be immediately released. The Delhi police appeal against their bail will be heard by the Supreme Court on Friday. Why journalists in India are under attack Why is India denying prisoners spectacles and straws? The oldest person accused of terrorism in India India jails pregnant student despite Covid-19 risk The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) sparked massive protests across India. Critics say it discriminates against Muslims, a charge the government denies. One of the protests in Delhi sparked a political rally in favour of the law the following day.

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Maserati is gearing up to launch the Grecale as its second SUV, and our spy photographers have snapped the clearest prototype shots yet, outside a manufacturer facility in Italy. The Grecale is clearly a similar size to the Alfa Romeo Stelvio, with which it will share the bulk of its underpinnings, and despite heavy camouflaging and a fence obscuring most of the car's final design, the influence of the larger Levante is evident. The brand's important second SUV is named Grecale after the "fierce north-east wind of the Mediterranean Sea". The model forms a key part of Maserati's bold revival plan that it launched last year with the reveal of the MC20 supercar. Destined to play "a key role in the brand's development", the Porsche Macan rival will be built on the same production line as the Alfa Romeo Stelvio in the FCA plant in Cassino, Italy. Maserati is planning an investment of around €800 million ($970m) in the plant. It will also share much of its underpinnings with the Stelvio, and a fully electric version is also due to arrive by 2022. However, the combustion-engined models will use Maserati rather than Alfa-sourced engines, likely to include the mild-hybridised 2.0-liter turbo offered in the Ghibli and Levante, and a downtuned version of the MC20's new Nettuno V6 for the most potent variant. Maserati global planning boss Francesco Tonon told Autocar the Grecale will be "the most practical in its class, but it will also be luxurious", adding: "It will feature the best-in-class design and features. Of course, it's still a Maserati but it will also offer best-in-class performance and handling." SUVs are expected to account for 70% of Maserati's sales by 2025, with saloons reduced to 15% and sports cars, such as the newly launched MC20, making up 5%. The new SUV was first confirmed back in 2018 by former FCA boss Sergio Marchionne as part of a total overhaul of its product line-up. Also included are the MC20 in three variants: coupé, Spider convertible and fully electric, plus a new Granturismo and Grancabrio, due in both combustion and electric forms. By 2023/2024, the brand will also have a new-generation Levante and Quattroporte, also both available with an electric powertrain. In top-spec form, this will use an 800V electrical system and three motors.

Israel says it carried out air strikes in Gaza overnight after Palestinians launched incendiary balloons from the territory, in the first major flare-up since an 11-day conflict last month. The Israeli military said it targeted compounds belonging to Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza. The incendiary balloons sparked 20 fires in southern Israel on Tuesday. Hamas said they were a response to a march by Israeli nationalists in occupied East Jerusalem. There were no casualties on either side and calm had been restored by Wednesday morning. The dilemma of rebuilding Gaza without rearming Hamas A conflict on pause as both sides claim victory The Israel-Palestinian conflict explained What do we know about the strikes? In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its fighter jets had hit military compounds operated by Hamas in Khan Younis and Gaza City. A site in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, reportedly hit in an Israeli air strike on 16 June 2021 IMAGE COPYRIGHTANADOLU AGENCY image captionThe Israeli air strikes were the first since a ceasefire ended a conflict with Hamas on 21 May It said "terrorist activity" took place in the compounds, and that the IDF was "prepared for all scenarios, including the resumption of hostilities, in the face of continued terror acts from the Gaza Strip". The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that aircraft bombed a site in the Maen area, south of Khan Younis, and another south of Gaza City, causing material damage. A Hamas spokesman said on Twitter that Palestinians would continue to pursue their "brave resistance and defend their rights and sacred sites" in Jerusalem. A field near Nir Am, in southern Israel, is seen on fire after Palestinians in Gaza sent incendiary balloons over the border (15 June 2021) IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERS image captionIncendiary balloons sparked fires in fields in southern Israeli communities on Tuesday The IDF said the strikes were carried out in response to the "arson balloons launched from Gaza into Israel" on Tuesday. In recent years, militants have frequently sent helium balloons and kites carrying containers of burning fuel and explosive devices over the Gaza border. The devices have caused hundreds of fires in Israel, burning thousands of hectares of forest and farmland. Masked Palestinians launch incendiary balloons from the Gaza Strip towards Israel (15 June 2021) IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES image captionPalestinian militants launched the balloons near Gaza's border with Israel The air strikes were the first carried out under Israel's new government, which took office on Sunday, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's 12 years in power. Naftali Bennett, the new prime minister, is a right-wing nationalist who heads a coalition of eight parties spanning the entire spectrum of Israeli politics. In a separate development on Wednesday, the IDF said soldiers shot a Palestinian woman who it alleged had attempted a car ramming and stabbing attack at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. She is reported to have died of her wounds.

The No. 3 Senate Republican, John Barrasso of Wyoming, told a group of voters that he wants to make President Joe Biden a "one-half-term president." "Mitch McConnell's come under a lot of criticism for saying, at one point, he wanted to make sure that Barack Obama was a one-term president," Barrasso said last Thursday at an event hosted by the Ripon Society, a centrist Republican think tank, which posted the remarks Tuesday. "I want to make Joe Biden a one-half-term president. And I want to do that by making sure they no longer have House, Senate, White House," he said. McConnell, R-Ky., the Senate minority leader, has vowed to block Biden's agenda and sharply criticized the administration's policies. McConnell said last month that he is "100 percent" focused on "stopping" Biden's administration. "We're confronted with severe challenges from a new administration and a narrow majority of Democrats in the House and a 50-50 Senate to turn America into a socialist country, and that's 100 percent of my focus," he said. Before the 2010 midterms, McConnell told the National Journal that "the single most important thing" Republicans wanted at the time was for Obama to be "a one-term president," adding, "I don't want the president to fail; I want him to change." Obama was re-elected for a second term, but Republicans won control of the House after the 2010 midterms and gained the Senate for the final two years of Obama's presidency, which denied him confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee. Republicans lost control of the House during the Trump administration, and Democrats narrowly regained Barrasso said Democrats are the "party of socialism" in his remarks and excoriated the Democratic agenda as government welfare. "I'm looking forward to a very successful 2022," he said. "Republicans want to continue to work on growing the economy, and the Democrats want to grow the government." He said Biden is going "along for the ride" as the party veers left on policies regarding policing, jobs and climate change. Barrasso also suggested that Biden is a rubber stamp for the Senate majority leader and the House speaker. "Joe Biden will never veto a bill," he said. "He will go down in history as a president who has never vetoed a bill, because he will sign whatever Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi put on his desk."

The images show a spacious cabin which the firm says majors on luggage capacity and visibility. Leather features prominently throughout, and will be available in several colours including brown and red. The steering wheel is shown to be be trimmed with a wood-like design, with four analogue dials and a clock at the centre of the dashboard nodding to 1960s-era sports cars. The company says pedal, steering wheel and gearstick positioning is still being mapped out, with further images detailing the hidden interior technology such as the sound system, smartphone integration, infotainment screen and cup holders, to be released in the coming months. “Squalo drivers will spend more time inside the car than looking at it from the outside, so it was vital to us that we not only listened to our customers but also drew on our experience of driving sports cars to focus on what’s important within the cabin: simplicity and driver engagement," said GTO Engineering founder Mark Lyon. The ‘Squalo’ name, which means 'shark' in Italian, was chosen for the bespoke creation "due to its shark-like look, instincts and speed". It was being developed under the codename Moderna, and recently became available to order. It’s claimed to be a sub-1000kg, hand-built sports car “celebrating the best of 1960s motoring with modern and motorsport-derived engineering”. It follows up the firm’s new-build run of ’Ferrari’ 250 SWB Revival models, which Autocar recently sampled in a new video (below), and is said to be nearing the production stage, with new renders giving a closer look at its final, signed-off styling. The new model, said to take learnings from GTO Engineering’s near three-decades of experience of building and looking after road and racing-spec Ferraris, uses a tubular steel chassis with aluminium subframes and an “F1-type-spec” carbonfibre body. The doors and bonnet will be aluminium, however. Styling inspiration will be taken from the iconic Ferrari 250 GTO racer. However, it doesn’t appear to be a straight-up recreation, rather a reimagined modern version of that car with some tweaks, including a unique ‘double-bubble’ roof design. Modern details include an exhaust and lights “modernised with updated electrics and internals”, as well as a set of bespoke 18in alloy wheels. The Moderna will be powered by a 4.0-litre quad-cam V12 engine - another '60s Ferrari throwback - which is on the verge of being assembled for the first time. GTO has promised to “increase driver engagement” with a number of motorsport-inspired components, and will reveal full power specifications next month. Back to top GTO Engineering Managing Director Mark Lyon said: “There’s been an outpour of admiration for what we’re doing here and we realise a little bit of scepticism whether we’re actually making this: a V12-powered, sub-tonne sports car with a Sixties feel but modern reliability, enjoyment and manufacturing quality. "We’re here to hopefully set the record straight to say yes, it’s happening and we’re sticking to our original ethos for the car as well as timing promises for production. We are also delighted to have early adopters and customer orders received already, and we thank them for the trust in our vision and business.” It's estimated that each model will take 18 months to hand craft from GTO Engineering’s Berkshire base; 300 house of labour go into the engine alone, while each car can be tailored to the requirements of the owner.

China has accused Nato of slandering its peaceful development after alliance leaders warned about "systemic challenges" coming from Beijing. China's actions, including expanding its nuclear arsenal, threatened "rules-based international order", Nato said. It was the first time Nato had placed China at the centre of its agenda. In its response, China said its defence policy was "defensive in nature" and urged Nato to "devote more of its energy to promoting dialogue". "Our pursuit of defence and military modernisation is justified, reasonable, open and transparent," China's mission to the European Union said in a statement. It added that Nato should view China's development in a "rational manner" and "stop taking China's legitimate interests and rights as an excuse to mani[CENSORED]te bloc politics, create confrontation and fuel geopolitical competition". Biden says America is back at the table Nato: US and Europe are safer standing together What does the US do for Nato? Nato's statement came at the end of a one-day summit in Brussels on Monday. It marked Joe Biden's first Nato meeting as US president. The powerful political and military alliance between 30 European and North American countries sees Russia as a main threat. Mr Biden is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva on Wednesday. media captionThree things to watch as Joe Biden faces Vladimir Putin Why is Nato focusing on China? According to the summit's communiqué (concluding statement), China's "stated ambitions and assertive behaviour present systemic challenges to the rules-based international order and to areas relevant to Alliance security". "We remain concerned with China's frequent lack of transparency and use of disinformation," it says. Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference ahead of the summit IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERS image captionNato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the military alliance didn't want a Cold War with China Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg told reporters: "We're not entering a new Cold War and China is not our adversary, not our enemy." But, he added: "We need to address together, as the alliance, the challenges that the rise of China poses to our security". China is one of the world's leading military and economic powers, whose ruling Communist Party has a tight grip on politics, daily life and much of society. The Chinese military currently has the largest armed forces in the world, with over two million personnel on active duty. Nato has become increasingly concerned about the growing military capabilities of China, which it sees as a threat to the security and democratic values of its members. In recent years, the alliance has also grown wary of China's activities in Africa, where it has set up army bases.

Services business Serco has raised its profit forecast by millions of pounds thanks to growing demand for Covid-19 test and trace provision. The outsourcing giant, which runs part of the NHS Test and Trace, said demand is likely to remain strong and continue for longer than had been expected. It expects profits to be £15m higher than expected at £200m for the year. It is the second time Serco, which also runs transport and prison services, has upgraded profits due to test and trace. As well as tracing people who may have come into contact with those infected by coronavirus, Serco runs some of the testing sites. The test and trace system got off to a rocky start last year and was criticised for being less effective than local public health teams. 'Strong demand' Earlier this year, Serco's chief executive, Rupert Soames, admitted test and trace had experienced a "bumpy start". Serco said on Monday all four of its divisions were trading in line for ahead of their budgets in the first five months of the year. It singled out test and trace, saying in its statement: "In the UK in particular, volumes on both our testing and tracing contracts have continued to be strong and we now think it likely that demand for these services will continue for longer in the second half than we previously anticipated." Another of Serco's divisions services Ministry of Defence facilities, including that at Brize Norton. Serco also said on Monday that had been granted another £900m contract, but said this would not have "any material impact on our profits in 2021". Mr Soames said at the time of the results in February that work from the pandemic contributed less than 1% of profit, although he conceded that it added £350m of revenue.

Rockingham Motor Speedway will begin a new life as a dedicated used car storage centre for the owner of Cinch and WeBuyAnyCar. According to The Times, Constellation Automotive is purchasing the decommissioned racing track Midlands racing track, which was Europe’s quickest banked oval racing circuit, for £80m. It will convert the 200-acre site into a used car renovation centre and a training academy. Cinch was launched in 2019 as a rival to Auto Trader, which promotes cars on behalf of dealers. However, during the height of the pandemic late last year, it diversified to sell directly to customers, using its own stock. Following the success of Cazoo, a rival online car seller, which is valued at £5 billion, Cinch claims to be selling more than 45,000 vehicles per year. The facility at Rockingham will repair more than 100,000 second-hand cars for sale every year, with the capacity to store more than half that at a time. The news comes weeks after Cinch raised £1bn to fund expansion across Europe from investors including a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), hedge fund firm Neuberger Berman and funds managed by billionaire investor George Soros. Opened in 2001, the Rockingham Motor Speedway was the first purpose-built oval built in the UK since Brooklands in 1907, conceived as an American-style high-speed oval test track. However, despite hosting races from the Indycar-rivalling CART Champ Car World Series before launching its own stock car series, Ascar, the venue was shut for racing in November 2018 after being sold by its owners. READ MORE Analysis: A return to business as usual? Inside the industry: Can used car start-up Cazoo really be worth £5bn? Inside the industry: Car sales and the Covid effect

Canada's attorney general has approved terror charges against a man accused of killing four members of a Muslim family with his vehicle in London, Ontario. London police have said that Nathaniel Veltman, 20, intentionally targeted the family because of their faith, running them over in a "premeditated" attack. Mr Veltman also faces four first-degree murder charges and one attempted murder charge. Three generations of the Afzaal family were killed, leaving just one survivor. Salman Afzaal, 46, Madiha Salman, 44, Yumna Afzaal, 15, and Mr Afzaal's mother, 74, were killed while on an evening walk on 6 June. The family's nine-year-old son was the only survivor, and remains in hospital with serious injuries. Canada truck attack victims: 'They were the best among us' Muslim family killed in Canada truck attack Canada truck attack: Muslim family victims named Mr Veltman - who police have said has had no prior convictions - has not yet entered a plea. He made a brief appearance through a video call in court on Monday, wearing an oversized orange t-shirt and orange pants, with a blue face covering, local media report. He told the judge he had not yet retained a lawyer. The next court hearing has been scheduled for 21 June. Commenting on the additional terrorism charge on Monday, Canada's deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland said it was "important" to name the attack "as an act of terror". London police said in a statement that they worked with the attorney general and federal prosecutors to determine Mr Veltman's charges. Authorities said that the investigation is still ongoing but there is no further threat to the public. They have not yet said what evidence led to the belief that the murders were motivated by hate. Afzaal-Salman family IMAGE COPYRIGHTCOURTESY SABOOR KHAN image caption(From left to right) Yumna Afzaal, Madiha Salman, Salman's mother, and Salman Afzaal, were "the best" of their community, friends said Mr Veltman was arrested shortly after the attack in a parking lot close to London's oldest mosque, where the Afzaal family were devoted members. The suspect was wearing what appeared to be body armour and a helmet, police said. It is the third time terrorist activity charges have been laid in the past year after attacks in Ontario, Canada's most populous province. With murder-terrorism charges, prosecutors must prove there was the intent to cause death or serious harm, evidence that the act was committed for a political, religious or ideological purpose, and evidence that the act was meant to intimidate the public or a specific group. The attack has sent waves of grief and fear across the country, as London's tight-knit Muslim community mourns the loss of a beloved family. Saboor Khan, a long-time friend of the family, told the Globe and Mail newspaper that adding the terrorism charge was "the right thing to do". "The family and the community has been terrorised and many of us are afraid to leave out homes," he said. A public funeral for the Afzaal family on Sunday drew hundreds of mourners to London, a small city two hours west of Toronto. Thousands had gathered on Tuesday for a vigil to honour the family. An online fundraiser for the surviving nine-year-old son has raised nearly C$900,000 ($742,000; £525,400) as of Monday morning. A parallel campaign by the family's relatives in the US has raised more than C$1.1m. All of Canada's major party leaders have also joined Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in decrying the violence as an act of terror in a show of rare political unity.

From the moment Autocar first sat in a prototype version of the Toyota GR Yaris – in the simpler times of December 2019 – we had a sense it would do well in the world’s most comprehensive road test. That feeling was heightened after our first drive of the finished car, and again when it outstripped the Honda Civic Type R, Ford Fiesta ST and Volkswagen Golf GTI to claim our Britain’s Best Affordable Driver’s Car crown in November last year. But nothing was certain until our expert road testers took the GR Yaris to Millbrook for the most extensive and exhaustive test process going. Still, when the white smoke that signals an ultra-rare five-star verdict finally rose from the secret bunker in which our testers debate their scores, we doubt many people were all that surprised. But it turns out that some very important people were: Toyota’s Gazoo Racing team, which had developed the hot hatch. “We appreciated your kind words, but in my humble opinion we can never achieve the perfect car,” says chief engineer Naohiko Saito. “We had to start from scratch with this car, and we’d lost 20 years of experience. So this is just the start of development for our sports car. The important thing now is just to keep making it better for the future.” It’s worth remembering that while the GR Yaris is now virtually shorthand for hot hatch brilliance, that was by no means certain during its development. In fact, the very idea of the world’s largest car company, one with a reputation for building staid, sensible models (and hybrids), transforming the solidly dependable Yaris into a four-wheel-drive homologation-special pocket rocket still seems faintly absurd. That it happened is testimony not only to the Gazoo Racing engineers and the firm’s World Rally Championship team but also to the support of the wider company – going right to the top. While part of the impetus for the GR Yaris was to provide the base for the next-generation Yaris WRC, the main driving force was company boss Akio Toyoda’s determination to prove that Toyota could develop a world-class performance car in-house. He had already led Toyota’s return to performance cars with the GR Supra and GT86 (now GR 86), but he wanted to take that to the next level. “He wanted to show that we could put learning from motorsport into our road cars,” says Saito. “His passion to produce a sports car ourselves and make it in our own plant was key to development.”

Nature often takes us by surprise. Its power is all too frequently underestimated, with catastrophic consequences. So it was with the Chamoli disaster back in February, when the flank of a Himalayan mountain failed and fell into the valley below. It set in train a cascade of debris that claimed over 200 lives and destroyed hydro-electric infrastructure worth hundreds of millions of dollars. You may have caught some of the mobile phone footage that was shared at the time. A horrifying wall of slurry racing downslope, sweeping away everything in its path. Underwater avalanche continued for two days 1.9 billion people rely on natural 'water towers' US geologists revisit giant Zion landslide An international group of more than 50 researchers has now published a detailed assessment of what happened. It's based on multiple data sources, from satellite imagery to field observations. It's a sombre read that reports numbers that, to be honest, are almost beyond comprehension. The disaster was initiated close to the top of the 6km-high Ronti Peak in the Chamoli district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Map A wedge of glacier-covered rock more than 500m wide and 180m thick just suddenly let go. The team calculates almost 27 million cubic metres of material was put into a minute-long descent that at one point was in complete freefall. To put this volume in context, it's about 10 times that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. When the mass hit the Ronti Gad valley floor, it released the energy equivalent to 15 Hiroshima atomic bombs. media captionThe team has reconstructed the event from satellite and other geophysical data The colours in this reconstruction show the material composition (red = dominant rock; blue = dominant water; green = dominant ice). Flow height is indicated by the contour lines. Courtesy of Martin Mergili/U Graz 2px presentational grey line "The ratio of rock and ice was about 80% to 20%, and that ratio, combined with the incredible fall height of almost 2km, was able to provide enough heat, through all the friction from the disintegrating rock, to almost fully melt the ice and turn it to water," explained team-leader Dr Dan Shugar from the University of Calgary, Canada. "This was critical in transforming what otherwise would have been a regular rock avalanche into something that was hyper-mobile and able to travel tens of kilometres to even lower elevations," he told BBC News. On impact, the fallen material immediately sprayed the surrounded hillsides with large boulders, some 10m wide; the air blast flattened 20 hectares of nearby forest. Ordinarily, much of the pulverised mass would have been expected to remain in place. But it didn't. With the consistency of a concrete mix, it headed off further downslope. media captionThe deluge washed away hydro and bridge infrastructure By the time the debris flow ripped through the Rishiganga hydro-electric plant, 15km away, close to the village of Raini, the frontal velocity was 25m/s. That's 90km/h (56 mph), the speed of fast-moving car. Even 10km beyond that, at the Tapovan hydro plant, the flow was still moving at 16m/s. Nearly all of those who died, which was 204 in total, were either working in, or visiting, the power plants. They had no warning of what was coming towards them. At the time, there was speculation that much of the water in the flow could have come from a breached glacial lake. In the Himalaya, you get large bodies of meltwater forming in front of glaciers that can, on occasions, burst out to cause a flash flood. The team's investigations definitively rule this out. No source could be identified.

The Enyaq is Skoda’s take on the Volkswagen ID 4, a crossover battery-electric vehicle (BEV) based on the VW Group’s MEB electric platform, with batteries beneath the floor and, until a four-wheel-drive version arrives, a motor at the back. Let’s deal with the numbers first, because this is a BEV so they end up dominating the description. The Enyaq is 4.65m long and 1.88m wide but looks bigger, and comes in two versions. One has a 58kWh usable battery (62kWh gross), makes 177bhp and has a WLTP range of 256 miles. It weighs 1890kg. Mysteriously, Skoda calls this one the 60. The other has 77kWh of usable battery (82kWh gross), makes 201bhp, has a WLTP range of 332 miles and weighs 2015kg. Skoda calls it the 80. Of course. Both can be charged at up to 50kW as standard, with the 60 getting 100kW charge capability as an option, and the 80 a 125kW charge capability option. The additional power of the heavier 80 makes it a smidge quicker on paper than the lighter 60 but we’re talking 8.4sec versus 8.2sec for the 0-62mph sprint, and the peak torque is 229lb ft from rest in either case, so from the lights, there’ll be nothing in it. Shortly before the on-sale date, Skoda tweaked the Enyaq’s pricing to account for the government’s recent changes to the plug-in vehicle grant (now capped at £35,000), so all 60 versions fit under it and get £2500 off their £34-something-grand list prices, while all 80 versions are over it and obtain no discount on their £39k-£42k ones. I’ve driven both here but we’ve already tested an 80, so we’ll major on the 60 this time around. What's it like? Elegant and inoffensive outside, and well finished inside. The driving position is great, the car retains a strong centre tunnel in the front, even though I suppose it doesn’t technically need one – but storage abounds – and there’s generous rear room and a big boot. Skoda does this kind of family stuff well and is sticking with its ‘Simply clever’ line of equipment – an umbrella in the door and an ice scraper in the bootlid. A pocket for drive cables and the drive motor beneath the boot floor mean there’s no spare wheel back there but the load capacity is still 585 litres with the seats up, rising to 1710 with them folded. ADVERTISEMENT Find an Autocar review Make Select model Latest Drives 1 Skoda Enyaq 2021 UK FD hero front Skoda Enyaq iV 60 Suite 2021 UK review 1 Everrati Porsche 964 2021 UK FD hero front Everrati Porsche 964 Signature 2021 UK review 1 Genesis GV80 2021 UK FD hero front Genesis GV80 2021 UK review 1 Audi Q7 TFSIe 2021 UK FD hero front Audi Q7 55 TFSIe 2021 UK review 1 Genesis G80 2021 UK FD hero front Genesis G80 2021 UK review View all latest drives Back to top There’s a pretty big glass area, too, which makes the interior airy. Most notably, the windscreen, which pushes so far forwards that it’s more MPV than SUV. The number of territories this crossover crosses over are perhaps unsurpassed. Finish is strong, materials feel solid even if they’re not soft, and there’s a simple digital dashboard and, perhaps obviously, a group-sourced central touchscreen. At least the temperature is permanently displayed and big enough for a simple finger jab. The dash is shaped so that you can rest your hand on it while you’re distractedly prodding the four buttons it takes to turn off the infuriating lane keep assist. On the 80, there’s the option of paddles on the steering wheel, which increase or decrease the amount of engine braking. That’s denied to 60 buyers, which is a shame if you like driving because it gives you something to do. As it is, there’s the auto option, which thinks about junctions ahead and mostly predicts deceleration levels well, or two standard regen alternatives – quite coasty, and not quite so coasty. Either way, there’s no one-pedal driving. It’ll creep unless you brake to a standstill. No bother. The driveline is smooth and linearly responsive either way, in a manner that quite suits a Skoda. Ditto the steering, which is accurate and moderately and consistently weighted.

Earlier this month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the cancellation of key school-leaving examinations. "We were glued to our phones, waiting for the announcement on Twitter," 18-year-old Vishwas Dubey told the BBC. He was among millions of students who were due to take the national school-leaving tests. The examinations - po[CENSORED]rly called boards - are crucial for students hoping to secure admission in some of India's most prestigious public universities. The exams, originally planned for May, were postponed to July, with the authorities saying they would do a review on 1 June. The cancellation came as a huge relief to many who were anxious about writing exams at a time when Indian towns and cities were gripped by a deadly second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. But, students said, this relief soon gave way to anxiety. "I was cheerful in the beginning but soon I started asking questions about the future and what would happen," Mr Dubey told me over the phone. Shubransu Dash, a student from Cuttack city in the eastern state of Odisha (formerly Orissa), described it as a "somewhat bittersweet moment" when he found out that he wouldn't have to write the tests under such pressure but it also opened up a whole world of uncertainty. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. View original tweet on Twitter Presentational white space "I was studying very hard, logged on to Zoom calls from early morning to late noon. But with exams cancelled, how do we prove ourselves?" he asked. For the most part, the education system in India is geared towards this one big board exam that Class 12 students have to take. It marks the culmination of their school life and forms the basis for all their future studies. The cancellation of these tests, students say, complicates matters. "We don't know how we are going to be evaluated, how colleges and universities would accept our admission applications," Mr Dubey said.