- Thursday, March 06, 2025
THE UK‘s patient safety and primary care minister James Morris along with chief midwifery officer professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent on Monday (18) co-chaired the third meeting of the Maternity Disparities Taskforce. At the meeting, the Muslim Women’s Network and human rights organisation Birthrights presented findings from their latest reports on Muslim women’s…
Heart disease includes heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Each of these diseases poses a serious danger to life. But the good news is they are all preventable, and it’s possible to reduce the risk of a heart attack and high blood pressure. We all know that…
THE racist, sexist and otherwise discriminatory culture in Britain’s Labour Party is undermining its efforts to promote itself as a trailblazer on diversity and inclusion, a damning report has said. It added that antisemitism was treated as a ‘factional weapon’ by both supporters and opponents of former leader Jeremy Corbyn in senior…
AUTHORITIES should stop treating players like “cars” and fix cricket’s “jam-packed” schedule to retain multi-format players, England’s Ben Stokes said. Stokes announced his shock retirement from one-day internationals on Monday (18) saying playing all three formats of the game had become “unsustainable” for him. He elaborated further on his decision…
A viral video of the arrest of US lawmakers Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez along with other Democratic members of Congress showing that they were handcuffed during an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, has sparked a debate. This issue came to the limelight after media…
Firefighters worked through the night to damp down wildfires and engineers raced on Wednesday to fix train tracks that buckled in the heat as Britain woke up to the aftermath of its hottest ever day. The London Fire Brigade endured its busiest day since World War Two on Tuesday when…
Britain’s biggest public-sector pay increases in nearly 20 years will not fuel price pressures, finance minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Tuesday, in a speech where he said fighting inflation was “a moral imperative”. Earlier on Tuesday, Britain’s government announced pay rises of about 4% to 5% for more than 2…
Rishi Sunak, one of the final three candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister, said he wanted to make the country energy independent by 2045 in response to the supply shock caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “It has never been more important that our country achieves Energy Sovereignty so…
A new survey has revealed that British retailers need to work more to improve diversity at the top of their businesses as white men still dominate senior positions. The survey by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and executive search firm The MBS Group has said that over a third of…
BRITISH annual inflation surged to a new 40-year high in June on rising motor fuel and food prices, official data showed Wednesday (20), adding to a cost-of-living crisis. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) jumped to 9.4 percent last month from 9.1 per cent in May, the Office for National Statistics…
