Joanne Writtle Health correspondent, BBC Midlands BBC Paramedic Jacob Hoy said he believed many attacks on ambulance workers went unreported Last summer, as people watched England in the Euro 2024 final, paramedic Jacob Hoy was on a night shift. He was called to a football fan in Birmingham, reportedly in cardiac arrest – but the … Read more
French authorities have removed the electronic tag that former president Nicolas Sarkozy was ordered to wear following his conviction for graft, Paris prosecutors said Thursday. Sarkozy was fitted with the tag in February instead of going to jail to serve a one-year sentence for corruption, a first for a former French head of state. But … Read more
Justice B.R. Gavai will be sworn in as the 52nd Chief Justice of India on May 14, 2025 and will be the first Buddhist CJI. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Chief Justice of India-designate Justice B.R. Gavai, believes that trolls who scandalise the court on social media and resort to personal attacks against judges … Read more
BLA from Karnataka Gali Janardan Reddy. File | Photo Credit: Sudhakara Jain A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court in Hyderabad on Tuesday (May 6, 2025) awarded seven-year imprisonment to four persons, including Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Karnataka Gali Janardan Reddy, and his relative B.V. Srinivas Reddy, managing director, Obulapuram Mining Corporation … Read more
A rally was organized against the Waqf Amendment Act 2025 at Eidgah Maidan in Mysuru on May 3, 2025. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday (May 5, 2025) a batch of pleas challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act’s constitutional validity, weeks after the government paused two central aspects … Read more
The High Court of Karnataka has found fault in the actions of the State government as well as the Lokayukta in initiating disciplinary proceedings against an engineer for not acting against an illegal building situated in Hombegowda ward, while pointing out that the engineer could not take further action as a tribunal had ordered maintenance … Read more
Lawyers observe a moment of silence for the lives lost in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, at the Supreme Court premises, in New Delhi, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A Full Court of the Supreme Court on Wednesday (April 23, 2025) unanimously adopted a resolution expressing its deep anguish … Read more
Fugitive Indian businessman Mehul Choksi. | Photo Credit: ANI A Belgian court on Tuesday (April 22, 2025) rejected the bail plea of Mehul Choksi, the diamond merchant who is a prime accused in the ₹13,000-crore PNB fraud case, his lawyer said. The diamantaire was arrested in Antwerp by the Belgian police on April 12 based … Read more
Alison Holt Social affairs editor James Melley Senior social affairs producer BBC “A victory for common sense” or “devastating” – the contrasting reactions to the statement by five Supreme Court judges that legally the term “woman” means a biological woman. Behind the different responses lie many of the often bitter and vitriolic arguments that set … Read more
File picture of Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale. | Photo Credit: PTI TMC MP Saket Gokhale on Wednesday (April 16, 2025) expressed his willingness before the Delhi High Court to settle issues with former diplomat Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, to whom he has been asked to apologise and pay ₹50 lakh as damages in a defamation … Read more