Street hawkers’ body urges Centre to issue national guidelines to protect vendors from heatwaves

Street hawkers’ body urges Centre to issue national guidelines to protect vendors from heatwaves

The National Hawkers Federation (NHF) on Friday (April 11, 2025) urged the Centre to issue national-level guidelines to protect street vendors from the rising threat of heatwaves. The increasing temperatures are putting the lives and livelihoods of over two crore vendors at risk, it said. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union … Read more

Dysfunctional street lights abound in Kochi despite drive to install LED lights

Dysfunctional street lights abound in Kochi despite drive to install LED lights

Street lights on many arterial roads and highways in Kochi are dysfunctional. A scene from the Palarivattom-Edappally stretch on Thursday (March 20, 2025). | Photo Credit: John L. Paul Innumerable road corridors in Kochi continue to have dysfunctional street lights or remain without provision for such lights, despite efforts to replace 40,400 of them with LED … Read more

No traffic allowed on Bengaluru’s Church Street for a week owing to a revamp

No traffic allowed on Bengaluru’s Church Street for a week owing to a revamp

Work under way on Churuch Street on Monday. | Photo Credit: k. bhagya prakash Church Street was closed to traffic on Monday and this will continue for a week, as a private non-profit organisation, which has adopted the maintenance of the road for two years, has taken up repair works.  Several traders are upset with … Read more

Great Ormond Street: Families criticise redacted surgeon report

Great Ormond Street: Families criticise redacted surgeon report

Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images Lawyers representing children who developed long-term pain and injury after operations at Great Ormond Street Hospital have criticised a heavily redacted report carried out for the trust. More than 700 cases linked to the surgeon Yaser Jabbar are being reviewed including some involving leg lengthening and straightening. Some of the … Read more

Five hospitals linked to disgraced Great Ormond Street surgeon

Five hospitals linked to disgraced Great Ormond Street surgeon

Getty Images Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals An investigation into disgraced bone surgeon Mr Yaser Jabbar has been widened to cover five London hospitals, as 721 patients’ care is being reviewed. His work at St John and St Elizabeth Hospital and Cromwell Hospital, both private, is now being … Read more

Great Ormond Street reviews 700 children treated by ex-surgeon

Great Ormond Street reviews 700 children treated by ex-surgeon

EPA Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals Great Ormond Street Hospital is overseeing an urgent review of the cases of more than 700 patients after concerns were raised about one of its former surgeons. The hospital said 22 children in 39 cases looked at so far had come to … Read more

5 Delhi Must-Try Refreshing Street Food In Summer

5 Delhi Must-Try Refreshing Street Food In Summer

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Gold’s run on Street remains uninterrupted for 5th straight week

Gold’s run on Street remains uninterrupted for 5th straight week

Spot gold closed with a gain of 0.59% at $2392 Friday as the metal rose on fresh concerns about the geopolitical situation following Israel’s attack on Iran. Israel reportedly struck back Iran on Friday morning in a low-scale drone operation. Although targets were Iran’s military sites, damage was limited. Iranian media downplayed the impact of … Read more

Formula 4 night street race in Chennai | Madras High Court to pass orders on February 16

Formula 4 night street race in Chennai | Madras High Court to pass orders on February 16

A debris fence installed as a safety measure on Sivananda Salai in Chennai as part of preparations for the Formula 4 night street race that was originally scheduled to be held in December 2023, but was subsequently postponed | Photo Credit: Akhila Easwaran The Madras High Court on Tuesday, February 13, 2024, said that it … Read more