- Sunday, February 23, 2025
THE number of robots used in various sectors in India has increased drastically during the pandemic, reports say. The 5ft tall Mitra robot, developed by the Bengaluru startup Invento Robotics, has been widely used in the country in the healthcare sector during Covid-19. The robot, which costs around £10,000, navigates…
Protesters in the central Indian city of Bhopal formed a human chain on Thursday (3) to demand justice for people suffering cancer, blindness, respiratory, immune and neurological problems from the world’s worst industrial disaster 36 years ago. In the early hours of December 3, 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from…
AS THE UK is all set to start the mass vaccination drive against Covid-19 next week, many Indians want to travel to the country to get the vaccine. Travel agents in India said that they have started receiving enquiries from people who want to go to the UK ‘as soon…
DHARAMPAL GULATI, a former refugee who became India’s ‘Spice King’ running an empire whose ready-to-use blends transformed kitchens around the country, has died at 97, his firm said. The fifth-grade school dropout spawned dozens of internet memes thanks to his swaggering presence in advertisements for his Delhi-based Mahashian Di Hatti…
BANGLADESH began transferring hundreds of Rohingya refugees on Thursday(3) to a low-lying island in an area prone to cyclones and floods, with rights groups alleging people were being coerced into leaving. Almost a million Rohingya — most of whom fled a military offensive in neighbouring Myanmar in 2017 — live…
Pakistan’s former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who served under military leader Pervez Musharraf, has died, his family announced. The 76-year-old died in the city of Rawalpindi outside Islamabad on Wednesday after recently suffering a heart attack, his son Mir Muhammad Khan Jamali said. Jamali was elected prime minister…
Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and UK’s prince Charles on Thursday (3) spoke over phone and reaffirmed the close bond between the two commonwealth nations as they discussed various issues, including climate change and COVID-19. The prince of Wales and prime minister Khan agreed on the need for greater global…
Haseeb Hameed paid tribute to India captain Virat Kohli for inspiring a revival that the England top-order batsman hopes will see him regain his Test place. Hameed signed a new contract with English county side Nottinghamshire on Thursday (3) that is set to keep him with the Midlands club until…
Indian film superstar Rajinikanth on Thursday (3) became the latest in a long line of big-name actors to enter politics, vowing to bring in “corruption-free” government to his home state. The action hero, one of Asia’s best-paid actors, said on Twitter that with “huge support from people” he would be…
THE Burevi tropical cyclone is headed towards southern India, authorities said on Thursday(3), after it slammed Sri Lanka’s east coast earlier this week but caused little damage. Burevi, the second cyclone in the southern Bay of Bengal in a week, slammed into north-eastern Sri Lanka just before midnight (1830 GMT).…
