DK Shivakumar also emphasised the implications of the crash, particularly on the image of India’s civil aviation globally.

British drugmaker AstraZeneca unveiled on Friday an AI-assisted research partnership with Chinese counterpart CSPC Pharmaceuticals worth up to $5.3 billion to tackle chronic diseases.

Oil prices risk rocketing further should crude supplies become disrupted from a widening Middle East conflict after Israel struck military and nuclear facilities in Iran, analysts said Friday.