Home Minister’s college told to pay ₹15 lakh compensation for cheating student of MBBS seat

Home Minister’s college told to pay ₹15 lakh compensation for cheating student of MBBS seat

Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara heads the Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education (SSAHE) in Tumakuru. | Photo Credit: Murali Kumar K The High Court of Karnataka has directed Home Minister G. Parameshwara-headed Sri Siddartha Academy of Education (SSAHE), Tumakaru (a deemed to be university), to pay a compensation of ₹15 lakh to a student … Read more

Baby food firms told to cut sugar and stop promoting snacks for under-ones

Baby food firms told to cut sugar and stop promoting snacks for under-ones

Catrin Nye and Adam Eley BBC News Getty Images Baby food manufacturers must cut levels of salt and sugar in their products and stop promoting snacks for babies under the age of one, the government has said. The new guidance would also restrict the use of marketing claims that suggest health benefits without scientific evidence. … Read more

NHS England told to keep patients in Powys waiting for operations

NHS England told to keep patients in Powys waiting for operations

Emilia Belli Westminster correspondent, BBC Wales News Mel Wallace Mel Wallace was a keen motorbike rider but now, as she waits for a hip replacement, she struggles to put her own socks on NHS patients from Wales who need knee and hip operations in England face lengthy delays after a health board asked English hospitals … Read more

Setting a clear goal, confidence will simplify the path to success, students told

Setting a clear goal, confidence will simplify the path to success, students told

Police Commissioner N. Shashikumar speaking at Gurudev Sambhrama in Dharwad recently. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Setting a clear goal combined with self-confidence will simplify the path to success in competitive examinations, Police Commissioner of Hubballi-Dharwad N. Shashikumar has said. He was inaugurating Gurudev Sambhrama, a felicitation programme organised by Gurudev IAS, KAS and Banking … Read more

Kidderminster premises plea as wellbeing charity told to move

Kidderminster premises plea as wellbeing charity told to move

Tom Edwards BBC Hereford & Worcester Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands BBC The charity offers counselling, exercise classes and training A health and wellbeing charity has said it is in desperate need of new premises after it was told to leave its current site. Simply Limitless offers counselling sessions to help support people’s mental … Read more

Kidderminster premises plea as wellbeing charity told to move

Kidderminster premises plea as wellbeing charity told to move

Tom Edwards BBC Hereford & Worcester Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands BBC The charity offers counselling, exercise classes and training A health and wellbeing charity has said it is in desperate need of new premises after it was told to leave its current site. Simply Limitless offers counselling sessions to help support people’s mental … Read more

Parking fee: Ernakulam Collector told to form subcommittee to consider petition

Parking fee: Ernakulam Collector told to form subcommittee to consider petition

Kerala State Human Rights Commission Chairperson Alexander Thomas has asked the Ernakulam District Collector to look into a complaint about the unfair collection of parking fees at the district collectorate and to take a decision within two months. The Commission asked the petitioner to forward the complaint and possible solutions to the Collector. The Collector … Read more

Watchdog ‘acted irrationally’ over private gender clinic, court told

Watchdog ‘acted irrationally’ over private gender clinic, court told

The High Court has heard claims that the health regulator, the Care Quality Commission, “acted irrationally” when it registered England’s first private clinic offering gender treatment to under-18s. The case, brought by a former nurse and the mother of a 16-year-old, claims the watchdog did not consider all relevant information and should also have imposed … Read more

PM must call all-party meeting upon his return to brief leaders on what he told Trump: Congress

PM must call all-party meeting upon his return to brief leaders on what he told Trump: Congress

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Congress on Wednesday (June 18, 2025) demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must immediately chair an all-party meeting upon his return from his three-nation tour to brief leaders on what he has told U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephonic conversation and … Read more

Sainsburys and Morrisons told to stop advertising heated tobacco

Sainsburys and Morrisons told to stop advertising heated tobacco

The government has written to Sainsbury’s and Morrisons asking them to stop “advertising and promoting” heated tobacco products, which it says is against the law. The BBC reported in February the supermarkets were displaying posters and video screens showing devices which create a nicotine-containing vapour by heating tobacco with an electric current. At the time, … Read more