Nick Triggle Health correspondent PA Media Health Secretary Wes Streeting is promising to keep NHS services running as a five-day walkout by resident doctors gets underway in England. He said the disruption would be kept to a minimum after NHS England ordered hospitals to only cancel treatments in exceptional circumstances. In previous strikes, the focus … Read more
Angus Cochrane BBC Scotland News PA Media John Swinney moved the announcement forward ahead of next year’s Scottish Parliament elections NHS Scotland will deliver an extra 100,000 appointments in GP surgeries in a bid to end the 08:00 “lottery”, First Minister John Swinney has pledged. The SNP leader made the announcement as he unveiled his … Read more
Nikki Fox Health correspondent, BBC East Lewis Adams BBC News, Essex PA Media Baroness Lampard is leading the inquiry The chair of England’s first public inquiry into mental health deaths vowed to “seek out the truth” – despite difficulties getting documents from the NHS. The first key evidence sessions in the Lampard Inquiry – examining … Read more
Admitting that its operations were being conducted from the residence of former chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) on Thursday said this was a temporary arrangement and the body will move to a new office in Connaught Place, New Delhi early in February. WFI, which was suspended by the Sports … Read more
Bangladesh interim government’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on Sunday appealed to the people to have “patience” as it is difficult to address the “mountain-like challenges” overnight while promising them a free, fair and participatory election after implementing key reforms in different sectors. In a televised address to the nation, his second since assuming charge on … Read more
2 hours ago By Maria Zaccaro, BBC News PA The new Health Secretary Wes Streeting says negotiations with junior doctors will begin next week in an attempt to end a long-running pay dispute. The Ilford North MP said he spoke with the British Medical Association (BMA) on Friday ahead of starting fresh talks, as he branded the … Read more
Arunachal Pradesh Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Ojing Tasing has asserted that he would check the misuse of funds in the two Departments mired in controversy over financial irregularities and make both of them the best in the State. Mr. Tasing, a first-time Minister, thanked Chief Minister Pema Khandu for entrusting him with the … Read more
Congress Party senior leader Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on May 22 said the “tempo of revelations about the Modani MegaScam has also picked up as the election momentum of the INDIA coalition accelerates”. An investigation by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), reported … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in the country, calling it a “terror channel” that spreads incitement, after parliament passed a law clearing the way for the closure. Netanyahu’s pledge escalated Israel’s long-running feud against Al Jazeera but also threatened to heighten tensions with Qatar, which owns … Read more
Former Minister and BJP candidate for Malkajgiri parliament constituency, Eatala Rajender, releasing his ‘sureties’ at his residence in Shamirpet in the periphery of Hyderabad on March 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Former Minister and BJP candidate from Malkajgiri Parliament constituency Eatala Rajender has vowed to develop the area in all spheres with the … Read more