Year: 2025

BBC At least 21 people have been killed in a road accident in central Mexico, according to a local official. The three-vehicle crash happened on the highway between Cuacnopalan and Oaxaca in Puebla state on Wednesday morning, said Samuel Aguilar Pala, a local government official. Mr Pala said 18 people died at the scene and…

Bat VC, a New York-based venture capital firm has announced its entry to India with plans to invest up to $100 million through its second fund. This will target India-linked startups s in AI, DeepTech, FinTech, and B2B SaaS. The new India-focused initiative will be led by BAT VC’s three General Partner Manish Maheshwari, ex-Twitter…

Iran’s president says his nation will not be intimidated by threats as Trump accuses Tehran of carrying out proxy wars. Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country would not “bow to any bully” in response to United States President Donald Trump’s criticism of Tehran during his ongoing three-day Gulf tour. “He [Trump] thinks he can…

Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Getty Images Joe Biden’s aides have hit back at a new book that accuses a White House inner circle of covering up the former US president’s “physical deterioration” during his ill-fated re-election campaign. According to the book, Original Sin, Biden’s condition during his 2024 presidential run was said to…

Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL), a leading provider of innovative fluid management solutions, has reported a 4.7 per cent year-on-year increase in its consolidated revenue from operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2025. The revenue stood at ₹1,281.3 crore, up from ₹1,223.8 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. However, the company’s net profit for…

President Donald Trump was welcomed at Lusail Palace for a dinner hosted by Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Source link

Fergal Keane Special correspondent BBC cameraman captures Israeli strike on Gaza hospital The war’s horrors multiply. The dead, the pieces of the dead. The dying. The starving. More and more of them now – all the weight of human suffering witnessed by my brave colleagues in Gaza. The urge to avert our gaze can be…

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw briefing the media in New Delhi on Wednesday | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA The Union Cabinet has approved a joint venture between HCL and Foxconn to set up a ₹3,076-crore semiconductor manufacturing facility near Jewar airport in Uttar Pradesh. This is the sixth project approved under the ₹76,000-crore India Semiconductor…

UNIFIL says incident first of its kind since Israel and Lebanese-armed group Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire last November. Direct fire from the Israeli military hit the perimeter of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s (UNIFIL) peacekeeping positions in south Lebanon, the mission said. In a statement on Wednesday, UNIFIL added that the incident on…