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A sleeper election issue is our sinking dollar, which fell this past year by nine per cent against the U.S. dollar, reaching its lowest level since April 2003. It nowtakes $1.44 in Canadian dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. Flipping it over, $1 Canadian dollar costs just 69.4 U.S. cents.

Alka Lamba from the Kalkaji constituency where she will take on AAP leader and Chief Minister Atishi in the upcoming assembly polls. The Congress on Friday released its third list of candidates — which has just one name — for the assembly polls due in February.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tesla sold fewer cars in 2024 than it did the year before. Yet the company is worth about 53% more now.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SEOUL—South Korean investigators failed to arrest the country’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, thwarted by his armed Secret Service bodyguards in another tense showdown resulting from his short-lived martial-law decree last month. Yoon, who is being investigated for insurrection among other charges, has refused three summonses to appear for questioning.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “I will respectfully step aside," said the man who lost an election, “and participate in a smooth transition process." The speed with which President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat on November 1st was striking—all the more so given that his Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) had ruled this diamond-rich southern African country for six decades, ever since independence from Britain in 1966. On November 4th Mr Masisi was officially replaced by Duma Boko (pictured), a Harvard-educated lawyer, whose Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) was the first party to defeat the BDP, after 13 attempts.

Meta Platforms has elevated prominent Republican Joel Kaplan to be its chief global affairs officer, replacing Nick Clegg.

Wisconsin Elections Commission voted unanimously to investigate whether Madison City Clerk Maribeth Wetzel-Biehl failed to comply with state law or abused her discretion. Commission members said they were concerned the clerk's office didn't inform them of the problem until late December, almost a month and a half after the election. Commission Chair Ann Jacobs certified Wisconsin's election results on November 29.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: The rupee is expected to further weaken in the coming months as Trump’s presidency strengthens the dollar at least in the near-term, experts said, adding that the central bank's interventions in the currency market are likely to ease. In 2024, the local currency lost 2.9% but the depreciation was lower than some of the other Asian currencies.

Jenniffer González Colón has been sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor as the island held for a normally ebullient ceremony overshadowed by widespread anger over a blackout that hit the U.S. territory days ago

Tesla’s global annual sales fell for the first time in at least 9 years, with a 2.3% increase in the final quarter not enough to overcome a sluggish start to 2024

Following the high-profile successes of the crypto industry in last year’s United States elections, digital-asset companies in Canada are already applying what they’ve learned.

The holiday period is over and Canadian politics is gripped by a single question: when will the country hear from Justin Trudeau?

Shares of cryptocurrency-focused companies such as Coinbase (COIN) and MicroStrategy (MSTR) jumped Thursday morning ahead of the first trading session of the new year as Bitcoin (BTCUSD) also rose.

Donald Trump is sworn in as the US President on January 20, the country is in the grip of violence. Right after a terror strike in New Orleans in which a US military veteran drove an a pickup truck with a black Islamic caliphate flag into a New Year crowd celebrating in iconic Bourbon Street, killing 15 and injuring dozens of others, another US military veteran in a suspected suicide bombing exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.

Elon Musk pay a settlement or face civil charges relating to alleged securities violations during his $44 billion takeover of Twitter in 2022.

Delhi assembly elections by double voting, AAP MP Sanjay Singh on Thursday said that the BJP does nothing but spread lies.

«But Q3 is going to be better. But the earnings slowdown is probably going to take a couple of quarters to wear out. What has really happened is there has been this little bit of a change that we have seen,» says Nitin Raheja, Julius Baer Wealth Advisors. Hope 2025 is bigger, better, brighter for you as well as the markets. But is that the base case scenario because last year we saw gains of almost 9% on Nifty, but it was the smallcap and midcap indices which were up over 20-25%. Is it going to be another year where smallcaps and midcaps outperform massively or do you think there is room for largecaps to catch up? Nitin Raheja: So, what you have sort of highlighted is correct. I mean, last year was a pretty much of an anomalous year where the largecaps underperformed dramatically while the mid and smallcaps actually gave almost 70-80% outperformance vis-a-vis the largecaps.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N Chandrababu Naidu is planning to revive his party in Telangana and step into this year’s local body elections in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

Mahindra Group Anand Mahindra shared a video on X and answered the question.

Keerthy Suresh, who recently tied the knot with her long-time boyfriend Antony Thattil on December 12, 2024, has been making waves for her professional commitments and her unique post-wedding appearances. The actor, amidst her promotional spree for Baby John, has been spotted wearing a turmeric thread around her neck instead of a traditional mangalsutra, sparking curiosity among fans.