Alison Holt Social affairs editor Getty Images Care providers have said the government is taking away the “lifeline” of overseas recruitment without fixing the problems that make it difficult to recruit UK staff. Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, announced sweeping reforms to immigration on Monday, including plans to end the recruitment of care workers … Read more
David Gregory-Kumar Correspondent for science, environment & rural affairs Getty Images At the site of the Shropshire farm outbreak, the killing and disposal of a million egg-laying birds continues A person working on a farm has contracted the human version of avian flu. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the individual “had close and … Read more
BBC/Sabbiyah Pervez Film of Julie Trafford during a mental heath crisis was taken by a member of NHS staff and posted in a WhatsApp group A patient whose mental breakdown was secretly filmed by an NHS worker and shared on WhatsApp says she has been left feeling “dirty, angry and confused”. Julie Trafford’s moments of … Read more
In September 2023, Simon Boas was diagnosed with throat cancer. Aged just 46, he was told the disease was terminal, and that it would ultimately take his life. Over the following year, he knitted together his reflections on life into a book – A Beginner’s Guide to Dying. The book is set to hit the … Read more
The West Bengal unit of BJP alleged that a female leader of the party’s Minority Morcha was beaten up by TMC supporters in the Cooch Behar district. | Photo Credit: DIBYANGSHU SARKAR The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged on Friday that a female leader of the party’s Minority Morcha was … Read more
After protests from local party workers, two BJP candidates — Vadodara MP Ranjanben Bhatt and Sabarkantha’s debutant candidate Bhikhaji Thakor — have opted out from the electoral race, citing “personal reasons”. Their names were cleared by the BJP in the first list of candidates. On Saturday, they both announced on social media that they were … Read more
A. Ayyanar and his wife Baby packing coloured sambrani cups at the couple’s manufacturing unit in Avadaiyarpattu near Vikravandi in Villupuram district | Photo Credit: S.S. Kumar In a quaint village nestling amidst lush green fields, A. Ayyanar, 36, his wife Baby, 33, and other family members sit under an asbestos roofed-shed, packing incense sticks … Read more
A sanitary worker was arrested for secretly filming a female resident doctor while she was taking a bath in a hospital in Chembur in Mumbai, police said on Thursday. According to the police, Ashok Gupta, a 28-year-old worker at the Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Shatabdi Municipal General, peeped into the bathroom of the hostel while … Read more
A casual labourer, Mallavarapu Sowri Babu (32), died after he came under the wheels of a coal rake in the Coal Handling Plant (CHP) in Dr. Narla Tata Rao Thermal Power Station (Dr.NTTPS), at Kondapalli, on Vijayawada outskirts on the morning of November 4. West Zone Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), K. Hanumantha Rao, said … Read more
A non-local worker was shot dead by militants in south Kashmir’s Pulwama on Monday. Preliminary reports suggested that the migrant worker was shot from a close range in Nowpora village of Pulwama district in south Kashmir. The victim, identified as Mukesh Kumar of Uttar Pradesh’s Tumchi area, was shifted to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries. … Read more