- Sunday, April 20, 2025
BRITAIN’S biggest retailer Tesco reported Wednesday that its annual net profit surged 61 per cent as easing UK inflation helped cost-conscious shoppers buy more products. Tesco’s profit after tax rallied to £1.2 billion in the 12 months to February, the company said in a statement, while sales increased 4.4 per…
WHEN Simon Harris made headlines in his local County Wicklow newspaper in 2003 for criticising the government, the future Irish prime minister was described as “a well-known local activist”. He was 16 years old. Now 37, Harris became Ireland’s youngest ever premier on Tuesday (9), an ascent that while swift…
LONDON ZOO has recently welcomed three Asiatic lion cubs from an endangered subspecies. Born to seven-year-old mum, Arya, and 14-year-old dad Bhanu, these lion cubs arrived on 13 March. Their parents are residents of the zoo and integral members of its international conservation breeding programme, according to a statement. Asiatic…
Ahead of Dow’s annual general meeting on April 11, Amnesty International has approached the company’s shareholders to consider withdrawing their investment if it fails to meet its human rights responsibilities towards Bhopal gas leak tragedy victims. Amnesty has written to the US-based company’s largest investors, sharing its recent report Bhopal:…
TWO Indian sports tech innovators joined academics and other experts for the annual Commonwealth Debate on Sport and Sustainable Development in London, which concluded that artificial intelligence (AI) in sports can be harnessed and leveraged to meet the UN development goals faster. Rohn Malhotra, co-founder and managing director of Sports…
An Indian court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal against the arrest of Delhi chief minister and key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case. Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the financial crime probe agency Enforcement Directorate (ED). “The court is of the view that the arrest of…
Pegatron is in advanced talks to hand over control of its only iPhone manufacturing facility in India to the Tata Group, said two sources with direct knowledge, marking the Taiwanese firm’s latest scaleback of its Apple partnership. Under the deal, which has received the backing of Apple, Tata plans to…
Action film Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, starring Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff, and Ajay Devgn-led Maidaan will now release on April 11, the makers have announced. The two films were earlier scheduled to make their debuts in theatres on April 10 but as the festival of Eid will be celebrated…
A MAN suspected of killing a woman in broad daylight in Bradford city centre last Saturday has been arrested, according to media reports. The suspect, Habibur Masum (25), was detained early Tuesday (9) in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. The police had launched a nationwide manhunt for Masum, after he fatally stabbed 27-year-old…
Microsoft has unveiled its plans to establish a new artificial intelligence (AI) hub in London, with a focus on both product development and research. Mustafa Suleyman, the London-born cofounder of Google DeepMind who recently joined Microsoft, will lead the unit. “Microsoft AI London will drive pioneering work to advance state-of-the-art…
