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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told

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Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told

Covid inquiry Dido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemic If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding, who was in … Read more

Doctors told my mum poison symptoms were anxiety – Essex woman

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Doctors told my mum poison symptoms were anxiety – Essex woman

Neve Gordon-Farleigh BBC News, Essex Jamie Niblock/BBC Ellena Baxter says witnessing her mother suffer was “devastating” The daughter of a couple who were fatally poisoned with fentanyl by a family friend said doctors told her mother she had anxiety as her health deteriorated from the effects of the drug. Luke D’Wit was jailed in 2024 … Read more

Lampard Inquiry told of ‘appalling delays’ to inquests in Essex

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Lampard Inquiry told of ‘appalling delays’ to inquests in Essex

Lewis Adams BBC News, Essex PA Media The Lampard Inquiry has been told of an “extraordinary and shocking number of deaths” at inpatient units in Essex Bereaved families have been traumatised by “distressing and appalling delays” to inquest proceedings, a landmark inquiry heard. The Lampard Inquiry is examining the deaths of more than 2,000 mental … Read more