Led by technology companies, the total market capitalisation of top 50 firms in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region surged to $8.1 trillion in 2024, reflecting a 20.6 per cent year-on-year increase, according to a new report.
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his second term in office, the global economy braces for a wave of uncertainty.
In January so far, foreign investors have withdrawn Rs 22,194 crore from Indian equities.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will represent India at the inauguration of Mr Donald Trump as the President of the United States on January 20.
Taking to the social media platform Truth Social, the President-elect argued that this effort should have been focused on issues such as crime in New York City and the State.
The new law would enforce punishment for "subversion" and other perceived offenses in the city, which was swept by months of massive and occasionally violent pro-democracy protests last year.
Having threatened to truncate funding to the World Health Organization, Donald Trump has now threatened to pull the US out of the global body altogether unless it makes 'major substantive improvements'.
More than 94,000 Americans have died due to the coronavirus and over 1.6 million have tested positive so far.
Earlier, Trump had announced cutting off funding of up to USD 500 million annually to the WHO on April 15, accusing the UN body of 'severely mismanaging and covering up' the spread of the deadly coronavirus when it first emerged in China.
The former Vice President said of the virus that the scale of the loss is staggering and it's infuriating.
