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stir online. He has been hit with a wave of criticism by far-right groups particularly from activist Laura Loomer. Loomer voiced concerns about Krishnan’s appointment, claiming it runs counter to Trump’s “America First” agenda, especially in light of Krishnan’s past advocacy for removing country-specific caps on green cards.

US President Joe Biden is reportedly preparing to leave the White House with really minimal fanfare following a challenging year for the Democrats who lost to US President- elect Donald Trump in the US Presidential Elections 2024, reported The Hill.

bird flu is out of control in America, paving the way for a new pandemic.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Niche American dramas and small-scale Hollywood films such as Tom Hanks-starrer Here and Michael Keaton’s comedy Goodrich have seen reasonable box-office success in India, buoyed by premium pricing, despite the noise around steep ticket prices deterring footfalls at theatres.

Jennifer Lopez rang in her first holiday season since she filed divorce from Ben Affleck on their second wedding anniversary in August. Lopez shared a peek inside her intimate family Christmas Eve gathering amid her ongoing divorce from Ben Affleck.

Bitcoin hit a new all-time high of $108,250 and other major coins such as Ethereum, XRP and BNB have traded near all-time highs fueled by the anticipation of a 25 basis points rate cut by the Fed. Since the time BTC hit an all-time high, the market dynamics have changed quite a bit, taking the crypto market cap down to $3.2 trillion. Despite the dip, key developments in the establishment of Bitcoin reserve, Ripple stable coin and others are keeping the market sentiment strong with buying interest emerging at the lower levels. As we move to the last week of the year, let's take a look at how the previous week changed the crypto dynamics.

Aditi Nayar, Chief Economist, ICRA, says she expects that the rupee will remain in the 85-86 range until the Budget is presented and that will take care of the Trump presidency transition as well. Once the Budget is presented, and there is some clarity on the US tariff policy front – although possibly we are in for a year where there could be a lot more volatility and a lot more changes as compared to what we have seen in the past coming in from the US – ICRA will take a relook. The slide of the rupee has accentuated in the last couple of weeks and I am not sure if it is just a coincidence or is it just the timing with the new RBI governor coming on board? Has anything changed in the RBI policy in terms of management of the rupee and the forex reserves? Aditi Nayar: It is really a global phenomenon right now. EMs are all getting hit. The dollar is quite strong and the way the DXY is moving, it is no surprise that we are going to get some weakness coming in with the rupee. Having said that, the Indian rupee has still been one of the strongest performing EM currencies in the recent period.

Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) President Ashwani Kumar has also demanded extension of the five per cent Interest Equalisation Scheme (IES).

Philipp Ackermann, sees a silver lining—an increasing focus on attracting skilled professionals from India. In a candid conversation at a TOI editors' roundtable, Ackermann highlighted how Germany's changing immigration laws present a unique opportunity for Indian workers, especially in sectors facing labor shortages.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The past decade has witnessed the astronomical rise of crypto assets around the world. Their decentralized nature, transactional speed and accessibility immediately lured users.

Bitcoin and crypto has undergone a significant change. This shift, often described through the lens of the Overton Window, marks the movement of crypto from the fringes of financial systems to a central position in economic discourse. The Overton Window, named after American political scientist Joseph P. Overton, describes the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population.

Aravind Srinivas, the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, stands at the center of a broader conversation on the contributions of skilled immigrants to the United States. Chennai-born Srinivas, who graduated from IIT Madras and later did his PhD from University of California, Berkeley, worked at OpenAI before launching Perplexity AI in 2022. Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity AI, pointed to Srinivas’s contributions, noting that the company’s growth under his leadership has created over 100 American jobs.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The calendar year is coming to an end with Nifty 50 seeing a correction in the final quarter after surging as much as 20.58% in the first nine months. Bidding adios to 2024, analysts at D-street got to number crunching, tossing around stock ideas for 2025.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A car and driver had been readied to whisk Jason Bannan from FBI headquarters early one morning in August 2021 to brief the White House on a novel virus that was killing hundreds of thousands of Americans and had stopped the world in its tracks. Bannan had been told by his superiors to be on hand in case the Federal Bureau of Investigation was asked to join a top intelligence community briefing for the president.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. America’s unions have had a banner year. In November 33,000 machinists returned to their stations at Boeing having won a 38% wage increase over four years.

Donald Trump issued starkly contrasting Christmas messages Wednesday, with the latter doubling down on recent comments about seizing the Panama Canal, buying Greenland and annexing Canada.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President-elect Donald Trump appears keen to expand on the long-standing American belief in the United States’ “manifest destiny" to dominate its part of the world.