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Rhyl Journal
22-07-2025
- Rhyl Journal
Teenage killers stabbed prison inmate six months after being jailed for murder
Cousins Jakele Pusey, 17, and Jovani Harriott, 19, were detained for life in May 2023 and given minimum terms of 16 and 18 years, respectively, for the murder of Khayri Mclean. The pair had lain in wait for Khayri outside his Huddersfield school, wearing masks and carrying large knives, before attacking him in front of other horrified school children. Leeds Crown Court heard that six months after being sentenced for the murder, Pusey and Harriott were serving their sentences together at HMP Wetherby when they and two other teenagers launched a group attack on another inmate in the prison's gym. They used 'improvised weapons' to stab him more than 20 times across his arm, lower back and head while he was helpless on the ground. Pusey and Harriott both pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and possession of a knife in prison. Pusey, who was 16 at the time, was sentenced to 32 months in prison, on top of his sentence for murdering Khayri. Harriott, who was 18 at the time, was sentenced to a further 38 months in prison. Judge Ray Singh lifted a reporting restriction that prevented Pusey from being identified due to his age, saying he had already been named in the murder case. The court heard footage of the prison attack in November 2023 showed Harriott and Pusey standing against the gym wall, watching the victim while he was working out. As he knelt on the bench to do some weights, one of their co-defendants, who the judge said could not be named as he is 17 and has never been identified publicly, hit the victim in the face. The court heard that it appeared to be the trigger for the planned attack, as within a split second of the punch, Pusey and Harriott came off the wall and started to punch the victim. The three of them chased him across the gym floor into a corner and punched, kicked and stamped on him. Pusey and Harriott also stabbed him with improvised weapons. A judge heard that a fourth person, Thomas Murray, 18, joined in the attack, which lasted just under a minute before it was broken up by security staff. The court heard it was unclear what the cause of the attack was, but the victim appeared to have 'beef' with the 17-year-old who threw the first punch. In mitigation for Pusey, the court heard at that early point in his sentence, he hadn't engaged with psychiatrists and has now 'started to make progress in terms of starting to think about why these offences have been committed'. The judge heard Harriott is to undertake an anger management course and that 'a great deal can change' before he is in his 30s and can be considered for release. Murray, who, like Pusey and Harriott, pleaded guilty to a Section 18 assault causing grievous bodily harm, was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment. The 17-year-old, who pleaded guilty to a Section 20 assault, was sentenced to 36 months' imprisonment. Khayri Mclean, 15, was stabbed while making his way home from North Huddersfield Trust School (NHTS), in the West Yorkshire town, on September 21 2022. A trial heard he was stabbed in the chest by then 15-year-old Pusey, who was described by prosecutors as 'jumping into the air and swinging a knife with a 30cm blade'. Harriott followed up the initial attack, running after Khayri and stabbing him in his lower leg.
Indian Express
02-07-2025
- Health
- Indian Express
For a Viksit Bharat, data that informs and enlivens
In Lingampet, Telangana, a mother watched as her child was weighed on a rickety Salter scale at the Anganwadi centre. For the first time, aided by the Nutrition and Health Tracking System (NHTS) app and a simple conversation with the supervisor, she saw this not as a bureaucratic ritual, but as a meaningful glimpse into her child's health. A few kilometres away, a teacher at a school cluster meeting in Boraspet said, 'Only 20 per cent of our children can read with understanding. We want to take that to 60 per cent.' These moments demonstrate what data can achieve when it's purposeful, empathetic, and actionable. It moves from a compliance exercise to a catalytic one — especially in critical sectors like nutrition, education and health. India's public systems generate an overwhelming volume of data — from dashboards like the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE+) and the Health Management Information System (HMIS) to national surveys like the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) and the National Sample Survey (NSS). Yet, amidst hundreds of tracked indicators, there is insufficient clarity on what truly matters. Inputs are recorded in detail, but outcomes much less so. Frontline workers feed data upwards without knowing how it leads to better delivery. National surveys, while valuable, are too infrequent, too broad and often overlook state-specific schemes and local goals. So, what does it take to move from data fatigue to a data decision support system? We propose a shift to what we call the 4As of outcome-driven monitoring: Ascertain, Assess, Assist, and Adapt. When systems chase too many indicators, they end up focusing on none. That's why outcome-driven systems begin with clarity — identifying what truly matters and aligning everything else around it. Instead of starting with spreadsheets, Uttar Pradesh's NIPUN Bharat Mission started with a question: What should a child know by the end of each grade? These learning goals, called Lakshyas, were broken down into weekly checkpoints through the NIPUN Soochi, giving teachers a step-by-step roadmap. 'Improving learning' became less of a slogan and more of a timetable. Importantly, the state didn't create new structures. It made existing ones — training, assessments, review meetings — work better together. No complexity added, just more coherence. Once that alignment is achieved, the next step is to ask: Is it working? That's where regular, embedded assessment comes in. Assessments work best when they're routine, regular and integrated as a part of the teaching-learning or administrative processes, as opposed to being reserved for audits that trigger a system-wide panic. A pilot in Andhra Pradesh led by Karthik Muralidharan demonstrated this powerfully. When real-time dashboards were paired with regular mentoring and school visits, foundational learning improved by nearly 20 per cent in just one year. When data informs action, improvement follows. States like Madhya Pradesh, UP and Telangana are embedding this into the everyday. The 4+1+1 model — four days of teaching, one for assessment, one for revision and remediation — builds progress checks into the school week, identifies struggling learners early and supports them with targeted instruction. Telangana's Human Development and Livelihood Survey (HDLS) enables departments to monitor broader citizen outcomes annually, using the data not just to report progress but to adjust programmes, close delivery gaps and allocate resources better. These interventions ensure that data helps frontline workers catch issues early, adapt quickly, and turn feedback into a habit. Because in public systems, success isn't about having no problems — it's about addressing them better and faster. Data should empower, not intimidate. Yet in many systems, it's used to inspect rather than to improve. Outcome-driven systems flip this script — treating data not as a scorecard but as a coaching tool. In Telangana's rural development department, workers track outcomes through self-reporting, manager visits and feedback calls from citizens, creating greater accountability, without the blame. In Odisha's schools, teachers sit together in quarterly cluster- and block-level meetings to make sense of the data and solve problems. In Andhra Pradesh, real-time citizen feedback under the Rythu Bandhu scheme led to timely disbursal rates improving by over 25 per cent and grievance redressal times being cut nearly in half. People even started trusting the system more. For systems to adapt consistently to feedback data, they would benefit from analytical muscle — a dedicated data analytics unit (DAU) embedded within planning departments. DAUs can stitch together programme data, citizen feedback, and real-time survey results to generate actionable insights. By anchoring public monitoring in the 4As, we can move from counting activities to changing lives, from tracking inputs to building a truly Viksit Bharat. Because what is measured can be managed. But what is understood improves the last mile for 1.4 billion citizens. Sharma-Kukreja is CEO & MD at Central Square Foundation and Pingale is a retired IAS officer and CEO at Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States
Time of India
26-06-2025
- Time of India
2 NSO surveys to map tourism trends from July 1
Lucknow: To understand how people spend on tourism and how they travel, the National Statistical Office (NSO) will conduct two surveys from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. These are the Domestic Tourism Expenditure Survey (DTES) and the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS). The DTES will collect information about how much people spend on tourism, while the NHTS will study how people travel—like which transport they use, why they travel and how often. These surveys will help govt make better tourism and transport policies and create special data tools like the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) and Origin-Destination Matrix (OD) for ministries such as tourism and railways. To train officers for these surveys, a three-day Regional Training Camp (RTC) began on Wednesday and was inaugurated by Manoj Kumar, director (DDG), zone and Suchita Gupta, director, SCRO Lucknow. Suchita said the DTES is part of the NSS and will help build the TSA, which matches global standards and supports the Ministry of Tourism in giving data to international organisations like UNWTO. Director Mohammad Tayyab highlighted the need to collect good quality data and follow proper methods. He encouraged officers to stay alert and careful during the work.
The Hindu
25-06-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Surveys on domestic tourism expenditure and national household travel to commence from July
National Statistics Office will be commencing its nationwide Domestic Tourism Expenditure Survey (DTES) and National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) from July. The survey will be conducted from July 2025 to June 2026. National Statistics Office is collecting socio-economic data from the households as part of the 80th round of the National Sample Survey. The main objective of the DTES survey was to collect the detailed expenditure and related information on domestic overnight tours, as well as information on domestic same-day trips made by the household members. The main objective of the NHTS survey was to collect the data based on the Ministry of Railways' requirements on where, when and why people travel within the country. The survey results will be used to improve public transportation system, infrastructure planning, and making policy decisions and developments in the country. Inaugurating a regional training conference, Director of National Statistics Office (Field Operations Division), Madurai, G. Vishnu Raj spoke about the importance of quality data collection of the surveys. Assistant Director of National Statistics Office (Field Operations Division), Madurai, L. Palaniappan; Assistant Director of National Statistics Office (Field Operations Division), Virudhunagar, V. Rethinam; Assistant Director Directorate of Economics and Statistics Madasamy, Senior Statistical Officer, Madurai, Padmavati and Senior Statistical Officer, Madurai, Roop Singh Gurjar were present Qualified and trained enumerators will be engaged for data collection using hand held devices equipped with E-Sigma Software. Assistant Directors and In-Charge officers, Statistical officers, Survey Enumerators and other officials from Madurai, Virudhunagar, Thanjavur and Tirunelveli Sub Regional Office participated in the conference.
Deccan Herald
24-06-2025
- Deccan Herald
NSO to launch two socio-economic surveys in Karnataka
While DTES aims to collect info on household expenditure on domestic overnight and same-day trips, NHTS is being conducted with help of Ministry of Railways to collect data on origin-destination, modes of transport used, trip purposes, and travel frequency.
