The report tiled 360 ONE Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2023 said Mumbai now boasts of 92 billionaires, overtaking Beijing's count and solidifying its status as a thriving center for wealth creation.
Beijing, the Chinese capital, has been confirmed as the host of the 2029 World Aquatics Championships
In the presidential elections held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai emerged victorious.
A spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office insisted that the election result "does not represent the mainstream view on the island".
The most recent report issued in 2022, the year when Beijing ended the ‘zero-Covid’ policy, showed that only 7 per cent of the graduating class, including both undergraduates and graduates, chose to study abroad.
China's National Meteorological Centre on Wednesday renewed a yellow alert, the third highest, for sandstorms in several areas across the country said to be the "most severe" of this year.
India has maintained a steady relationship with Russia, Iran and Afghanistan as well as enhanced tieups in the name of democratic solidarity in the form of the Quad comprising India, Australia, Japan and the United States.
Beijing has closed the border citing the new year celebration as the Chinese new year will begin on January 22 and will be celebrated till February 5.
Japanese Chief of Staff of the JASDF, Izutsu Shunji, put it plainly, "Japan and India are in a special strategic global partnership relationship." When viewed alongside enhanced US support towards Japan's military wherewithal, the signing of Japan's RAA with UK (earlier signed with Australia) which allows both countries to deploy forces on each other's soil, the visible presence of Indian fighter planes in Japan is loaded with portents of immense concern as far as Beijing is concerned
Coming as the statement does in the aftermath of a Pentagon report which explicitly said that US officials had been “warned” by Beijing not to interfere in the Sino-Indian relationship, the pattern is clear.
