Month: December 2025

CPI(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan, Congress Working Committee member Ramesh Chennithala, and senior BJP leader V.K. Sajeevan join candidates as campaigning peaks

Many say they are returning after watching videos of departure and fearing arrest under ongoing SIR exercise

River Action says use of issuance tied to environmental benefits is ‘corporate greenwash on steroids’Water companies have issued a fifth of the UK’s “green bonds” since 2017, despite a consistently poor record of sewage pollution during that time, research has shown.Privately owned water companies in England have together issued £10.5bn in bonds tied to projects that offer “environmental benefits”, according to analysis of financial market data by Unearthed, which is part of Greenpeace UK. Continue reading…

The journalist and editor also led the British Board of Film Classification and served as the senior lay member of the Church of EnglandAndreas Whittam Smith, the co-founder of the Independent newspaper and a former president of the British Board of Film Classification, has died aged 88.Whittam Smith was also the first editor of the Independent and served as First Church Estates Commissioner, the senior lay member of the Church of England, from 2002 to 2017. Continue reading…

Greens senator Steph Hodgins-May says gas corporations have created a “crisis” that Australian households have had to pay for. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFinal stage of early childhood educator pay rise kicks inEarly childhood educators will receive a 5% pay rise today, the last instalment of a promised 15% wage increase by Labor.Our early educators deserve to be paid fairly for that work. That’s why we’re delivering this 15 per cent pay rise, with the final 5 per cent hitting the pay packets of early educators from tomorrow.We know the pay rise is working to bring more people into sector and help to keep the great educators we’ve already got. Continue reading…

Mason Mount scores Manchester United's winner at Crystal Palace and completes his first 90 minutes for the visitors in the Premier League.

George Abaraonye lost a no-confidence vote after appearing to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk.