Vicky Johnson, Lucy Parry, Alice Evans and Gerry GeorgievaBBC Yorkshire & Lincolnshire Investigations Mike Barley Mike Barley was in hospital for a month following a motorbike accident When Mike Barley almost died in a motorbike crash on the way home from work, he did not think his biggest worry during recovery would be the council … Read more
Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Uttarakhand Governor Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh (Retd.) on Monday (October 7, 2025) approved the Uttarakhand Minority Education Bill, 2025. With the implementation of the Bill, the State will repeal the Madrasa Education Board Act, 2016, and the Non-Government Arabic and Persian Madrasa Recognition Rules, 2019. A statement issued … Read more
The Bill seeks to render Malayalam as Kerala’s sole official language | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government tabled the Malayalam Language Bill (2025) in the Kerala Assembly on Monday. Law Minister P. Rajeeve stated that the Bill aims to enshrine the Malayalam language at the heart of official communications in … Read more
A brief debate was held on the Bill amid protests. Several Opposition MPs who stood up to participate in the debate on the Bill, demanded a discussion on SIR. | Photo Credit: Sansad TV via ANI Parliament on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) passed The Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill 2025, amid Opposition protests and … Read more
The Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to review the new Income Tax Bill 2025 proposed by the government has retained the provisions in the new Bill empowering tax officials to access, forcibly if necessary, the social media and private emails of people they are conducting search and seizure operations on. The Income Tax Bill 2025 was … Read more
Maia Davies & Johanna Chisholm BBC News Getty Images Dame Esther Rantzen told the BBC in 2023 that she had joined assisted dying clinic Dignitas Dame Esther Rantzen has appealed to the House of Lords not to block a bill giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to an assisted death, after … Read more
A group of protesters gathered at Parliament Square as MPs debate the final stage of a bill today which could legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. One woman described her son dying of cancer in “excruciating pain” saying that assisted dying would have given him a choice. Another protester said that the bill would … Read more
BBC Jabez Petherick says hospice care made a big difference to him As a nurse who supports terminally ill patients to die in their own homes, Angelina Blair sees first hand the last few hours of people’s lives. “There are times where you put on a brave face, you smile, you give the care that’s … Read more
Sam Francis Political reporter Harry Farley Political correspondent Getty Images MPs will debate a bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales for the first time since significant changes were made to it. The bill passed the first stage of the Commons last November – but since then the details have been pored over … Read more
In his sharpest rebuke of the world’s richest man, a distinction he once held, Bill Gates accused Elon Musk at least twice in the past week of “killing” children in the world’s poorest countries by cutting foreign aid under the Trump administration. Mr. Gates, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, assailed Mr. Musk for the … Read more