Congleton High School shuts for deep clean after pupil sickness

Congleton High School shuts for deep clean after pupil sickness

Shannen HeadleyWest Midlands BBC The school will be shut on Wednesday and Thursday, said a letter to staff and parents A secondary school in Cheshire has been shut to deep clean the building after high levels of pupil sickness. Congleton High School told parents and staff it contacted the UK Health Security Agency and infection … Read more

Calcutta High Court disqualifies politician Mukul Roy from West Bengal Legislative Assembly under anti-defection law

Calcutta High Court disqualifies politician Mukul Roy from West Bengal Legislative Assembly under anti-defection law

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday (November 13, 2025) disqualified senior political leader Mukul Roy from membership of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly following his defection to the Trinamool Congress after winning the Assembly polls on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket over four years ago. A Division Bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice … Read more

Supreme Court wants High Court judges’ ability to deliver judgments in time to be in the public domain

Supreme Court wants High Court judges’ ability to deliver judgments in time to be in the public domain

The Supreme Court of India | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court on Wednesday (November 12, 2025) said High Courts should put it out in the public domain, for the world to see, how long their judges take to pronounce judgments in pending cases. A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi was … Read more

Islington Council wins right to vaccinate baby after High Court ruling

Islington Council wins right to vaccinate baby after High Court ruling

A council has won a High Court battle to vaccinate a baby against her mother’s wishes. Islington Council faced a legal challenge by one of its residents after it arranged for her eight-month-old daughter to receive routine vaccinations while the child was in its care. The mother, known only as Ms S, had refused the … Read more

Warning over high street baby scans giving ‘dangerous advice’

Warning over high street baby scans giving ‘dangerous advice’

Getty Images Some high-street clinics are putting lives at risk by allowing unqualified non-specialists to carry out baby scans, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) has warned. The trade union says its members have seen examples of pregnant women being incorrectly diagnosed with serious health conditions and given dangerous advice. Other expectant mums have been sent … Read more

Convene meeting with brand owners to enforce plastic ban in Western Ghats, Madras High Court directs T.N.

Convene meeting with brand owners to enforce plastic ban in Western Ghats, Madras High Court directs T.N.

Image used for representation | Photo Credit: M. Sathyamoorthy In an attempt to rid the Western Ghats of harmful plastics, the Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to convene a meeting with all stakeholders, including brand owners who sell eatables, drinking water, and other such products in plastic packets, sachets, and PET … Read more

Pollution levels remain high after Chennai celebrated Deepavali

Pollution levels remain high after Chennai celebrated Deepavali

Air quality deteriorated in most parts of Chennai on Monday evening because of the continuous bursting of firecrackers. A scene at Guindy. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ   A mostly dry afternoon and evening with light rain here and there kept the city noisy and smoke-filled on Deepavali day on Monday. However, a timely spell of … Read more

Corruption cases against Ministers, IAS officers must be dealt with in an expeditious manner: Madras High Court

Corruption cases against Ministers, IAS officers must be dealt with in an expeditious manner: Madras High Court

Madras High Court. File | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani Corruption cases involving sitting as well as former Ministers, other legislators, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, and such other individuals must not be allowed to get “ambushed” by long-drawn procedures and instead, they must be dealt with as expeditiously as possible to gain public confidence on … Read more

Kalaignar TV moves Madras High Court against income tax proceedings related to 2G spectrum case

Kalaignar TV moves Madras High Court against income tax proceedings related to 2G spectrum case

Kalaignar TV office. File | Photo Credit: R. Ragu The 18-year-old alleged 2G spectrum scam has come back to haunt Kalaignar TV Private Limited, with the Income Tax (I-T) department reviving its inquiry into the receipt of ₹200 crore by the television channel during the assessment years 2009-10 and 2010-11. The Madras High Court has, … Read more