Day: April 19, 2023
CB Insights: Indian startups raised just $2B in Q1, down 75% YoY and the smallest quarterly total in nearly three years, across 271 startups, down from 561 YoY (M. Sriram/Reuters)
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CB Insights: Indian startups raised just $2B in Q1, down 75% YoY and the smallest quarterly total in nearly three years, across 271 startups, down from 561 YoY — A funding squeeze at Indian startups that has alr…
How to Fix Virgin Media Website Not Working
Virgin Media is a telecom company that provides television, telephone, and Internet services. The website of Virgin Media is very famous because it lets users manage their subscriptions and the services they bought. With 17 million active users, Virgin…
Greens blasts ‘centre-right’ Albanese government after Labor rules out substantial jobseeker boost
Adam Bandt says ALP not progressive and is ‘making economic decisions Scott Morrison would have been proud of’Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe leader …
Moscow court rejects WSJ journalist’s detention appeal
American reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain under arrest, the Moscow City Court has ruled, rejecting an appeal for his release by his legal team. The US citizen is currently being held in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in the Russian capi…
Ukraine live briefing: U.S. announces new round of military aid for Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he raised the issue of F-16s in a call with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
Patients stranded on aircon units in deadly Beijing hospital fire
The director and deputy director of the hospital are among those being questioned by police.
🔴 Live: Russia’s Lavrov urges like-minded countries to ‘join forces’ against Western ‘blackmail’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, currently on a week-long tour of Latin America, has called for like-minded countries to “join forces” against Western sanctions “blackmail”. Russia, meanwhile, launched a drone attack on the southern Ukrainian p…
The world remembers the Warsaw ghetto uprising, 80 years on
On 19 April 1943, several hundred poorly armed inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto began to resist Nazi Germany’s efforts to deport Jews to the death camps. The civilian fighters resisted for 27 days. The Germans subsequently burned the ghetto to the gro…
A contest encouraged children to hunt feral cats — until the backlash
The idea of enlisting children armed with air rifles in an effort to kill feral cats in New Zealand set off alarm bells among animal rights groups.