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
As much cathartic it would be to write about it, this piece is not about reels that our rulers — from mighty ministers to mere magistrates in small towns — love to foist on us in 2025. Instead, this is about the reels that have hooked almost all of us. Young and old, employed and … Read more
People stand against a book store after the College Street area gets waterlogged due to rainfall, in Kolkata, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Publishers and booksellers in College Street, often considered the world’s biggest book market, are still recovering from the shock of seeing their wares submerged in water, no longer retrievable, … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
