The discussions come as the UK clamps down on smartphones use among young people. In February, the government issued guidance on the use of the devices in English schools in order to reduce disruption and improve behavior. It was suggested that schools could ban handsets by requiring students to leaveRead Entire Article
OnePlus has angered retailers in India – the Organized Retailers Association (ORA) represents 4,300 brick and mortar stores and it announced that it would ban its members from selling OnePlus products from May 1. And this might be just the tip of the iceberg. The much larger All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA), which represents more than 150,000 stores, is considering a similar ban. What did OnePlus do to upset store owners? The retailers accuse the phone maker of not supplying...
Polls show significant support for curb to protect children but some Tories uneasy with idea of government ‘microparenting’Ministers are considering banning the sale of smartphones to children under the age of 16 after a number of polls have shown significant public support for such a curb.The government issued guidance on the use of mobile phones in English schools two months ago, but other curbs are said to have been considered to better protect children after a number of campaigns. Continue...
BATON ROUGE - Members of Jews Against Gassing stood alongside Senator Katrina Jackson-Andrews on the Capitol steps Tuesday afternoon to protest a recently passed bill which legalized lethal gas as an execution method.House Bill 6, authored by Representative Muscarello and signed by Governor Jeff Landry, approved the use of lethal gas for death-row executions. The new precedent is set to begin in July.Louisiana became the eighth state in the country to recognize lethal gas as an execution...
China's EV industry benefits from billions of dollars in government subsidies.
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After surviving a last-minute lobbying effort from third-party ticketing resale companies including StubHub, Vivid Seats, and SeatGeek, the Maryland House passed Senate Bill 539 on Monday. If signed into law […]
Former prime minister says a western arms embargo on Israel would ‘hand victory’ to HamasMiddle East crisis – live updatesBoris Johnson has said banning arms sales to Israel would be “insane”.The former prime minister also criticised the foreign secretary, David Cameron, for remaining silent on the debate over curtailing UK arms sales to Israel.Guardian Newsroom: Crisis in the Middle EastOn Tuesday 30 April, 7-8.15pm GMT, join Devika Bhat, Peter Beaumont, Emma Graham-Harrison and Ghaith...
According to reports, herbal cigarettes are harmful to one’s health but makers market the product to be linked with health benefits due to the inclusion of herbal ingredients.
Former environment secretary Theresa Villiers called for the substance to be outlawed by 2024 to restore peatlands, which are the UK's largest carbon sink.
The bill, a key policy announced by Sunak last year, would make it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009.
The UK is set to vote on a smoking ban, aiming to create the first smoke-free generation, phasing out smoking and limiting tobacco sales to those born after January 1, 2009.