Category: Amazing Feats

** India’s historic Road to 1000 released

The 520-page special collection with 1000 pictures is a tribute to the journey

Sportstar and The Hindu group released a Coffee Table Book, ‘Road to 1000’, at the 2022 Sportstar Aces Awards at The Taj Mahal Palace hotel here on Saturday.

The book is a 520-page, special collection with 1000 pictures to commemorate Indian cricket’s journey.

First to the milestone

On February 6, India played its 1,000th ODI against the West Indies in Ahmedabad, becoming the first team to record the feat.

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source: thehindu.com

** P V Sindhu Wins Women’s Title – Syed Modi International Badminton, March 2022

P. V. Sindhu won the title with expected ease, by doing just enough to end her title drought.

Excitement was at a premium on the final day of the $150,000 Syed Modi India International badminton that produced one-sided matches.

World No. 7 Sindhu ended the spectacular run of Malvika Bansod 21-13, 21-16 for her first World Tour title since the 2018 BWF World Tour Finals.

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** In post-Brexit UK, Indians got 43 per cent of all skilled work visas in 2021

Indians nationals are the top nationality in the skilled work category in the United Kingdom, accounting for two-fifth’s of visas granted.

“In the last year alone, over 65,500 Skilled Worker visas were issued to Indian nationals,” a British High Commission spokesperson told this newspaper.

Indians have accounted for 43% of the total skilled worker visas in 2021, which is a 14% increase from 2019.  Experts attribute this to point-based UK immigration system that was launched post Brexit.

In May 2021, the UK signed the Migration and Mobility Partnership with India, increasing cooperation on migration and opening access for youth mobility.

A number of legal routes are being offered to work in the UK.

These include the Skilled Worker route, Graduate Route and Health and Care Worker visa.

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** This all-women team of smartphone-toting, low-caste reporters could fetch India first Oscar

Khabar Lahariya works in areas left behind by the economic boom, where life has barely changed even as new wealth transforms the country’s urban landscape and culture.

An all-women team of smartphone-toting, low-caste reporters who chronicle India’s hardscrabble heartland may give the cinema-mad country its first Oscar-winning film, after their own story became a critically lauded documentary.

The journalists of Khabar Lahariya (Waves of News) have built a huge following across Uttar Pradesh, a northern state with more people than Brazil, covering a beat that runs from cow thefts to sexual violence and corruption.

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** How Subhajit Banerjee went from Netaji Nagar to 10 Downing Street

This digital expert at the UK Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office is a Bengali boy.

He holds a high-profile digital communications job in the UK Government and was the Guardian’s first ever mobile editor. But Kolkata is where the 42-year-old grew up and spent the early years of his career. Meet Subhajit Banerjee, a Londonder for years but a Kolkatan to the core.

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** Meet Dr Soma of Moscow, he’s been helping evacuate Indian students from Ukraine

In the last 25 years since Madurai-born Somasundaram Subramanian became a doctor, he has built extensive contacts with educational institutions across the former Soviet republic and European Union.

Now, he wants to help students who wish to resettle and continue their studies

The Moscow-based cancer surgeon, educationist and philanthropist began working the phone lines to help evacuate Indian students and other citizens caught in the war zone.

He has worked extensively across the region these last 30 years, especially through the various non-profits he has initiated to fight cancer such as the Eurasian Federation of Oncology (EAFO) in Europe, the EAFO Educational Research Centre in Russia and the Eurasian Cancer Research Council (ECRC) in India.

He has founded the Eurasian Global Peace Mission which aims to offer emergency aid to anyone still left behind in Ukraine as well as resettlement support to students and expats of all nationalities, including Russians who have been expelled from some institutions in the Western nations. Affected persons can register on the website. Soma intends to help students to relocate to other institutions to continue their studies.

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** CJI lauds UAE expats for sending aid in crores to flood-hit Kerala

hief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Thursday lauded the expatriate community in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for sending aid worth crores to flood-hit Kerala, saying it showed their deep sense of fraternity.

He was was speaking at a reception hosted by the Indian community in Abu Dhabi. “I remember a few years back when the State of Kerala faced devastating floods, it was our brothers and sisters in the Gulf who were the first to send immediate relief in crores to help those in need,” the CJI saiid.

** 19 firms in India to make Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 antiviral drug

They have signed sublicence agreements with United Nations-backed Medicines Patent Pool

Nineteen drugmakers in India have signed sublicence agreements with the United Nations-backed Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to manufacture the generic version of Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 antiviral nirmatrelvir, which is to be used in combination with ritonavir.

They are among the 35 companies across 12 countries to have entered into such agreements with MPP for manufacturing and supplying to 95 low and middle income countries, including India. The non-exclusive sublicences allow the generic manufacturers to produce raw ingredients for nirmatrelvir and/or the finished drug itself co-packaged with ritonavir.

** A robot to help surgeon during laparoscopy launched

It can hold the laparoscopic camera and provide tremor-free images

The British Deputy High Commission in Chennai on Thursday unveiled Freehand Robot, first of its kind laparoscopic surgical equipment. Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ma. Subramanian inaugurated the equipment.

“Tamil Nadu has always been ready to adapt and use advanced technology in the field of medicine. We are happy to launch the Freehand Robot here, and encourage doctors to be trained to use the equipment as well,” Mr. Subramanian said. 

The robot, which acts as a laparoscopic camera holder providing tremor-free images and the option of performing solo surgery without the need for a camera-holding assistant, has been developed by Freehand, a healthcare solutions company based in the U.K. The equipment is being introduced to Tamil Nadu as a part of the #TamilNaduFirst Initiative. 

** Defence Minister Rajnath Singh opens R&D facility for stealth jet in Bengaluru

A seven-storeyed, 1.3 lakh sqft Flight Control System (FCS) complex for research and development of the public sector HAL’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) has been built in just 45 days. 

The construction started on February 1. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday inaugurated the facility, housed at the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), alongside Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.