Airports in the Highlands and islands face additional strikes after a second union announced members plan to walk out in a pay dispute. Prospect members rejected a 5% pay offer in October and the union claims that since then no “substantive progress” has been made by Hial or its owners the Scottish Government to resolve the dispute. Jane Rose, Prospect …
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Renowned education reformist and engineer Sonam Wangchuk whose life we glimpsed in 3 Idiots’ is spearheading the I Live Simply Movement launched by Himalayan Institute of Alternatives Ladakh in special partnership with United Nations Environment Programme, India. The sustainability movement to address climate change was officially launched in the presence of eminent dignitaries from the United Nations along with those …