WEF 2025: Rapid global access to new life-saving HIV medicines must to end AIDS, says UNAIDS

IANS | January 21, 2025 3:01 PM

Davos, Jan 21 (IANS) Global leaders must urgently prioritise and work to provide access to new long-acting HIV prevention -- and potentially treatment -- medicines in all low and middle-income countries, to help end AIDS by 2030, said the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting here on Tuesday.

India sees surge in deal activity at record $116 billion in 2024

IANS | January 21, 2025 2:22 PM

New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) India's deal-making landscape witnessed a landmark year in 2024, with a record 2,186 deals valued at $116 billion, marking a 33 per cent increase in volumes and 76 per cent surge in values (year-over-year), a report showed on Tuesday.

Quick-commerce to remain hot sector for VC investments in India this year

IANS | January 21, 2025 11:28 AM

New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Global VC investment rose from $349.4 billion across 43,320 deals in 2023 to $368.3 billion across 35,684 deals in 2024, as quick-commerce remained a hot sector of investments in India in the fourth quarter last year and will continue in 2025, according to a report on Tuesday.

India, Belgium to deepen trade and investment ties: Piyush Goyal

IANS | January 21, 2025 10:00 AM

New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and Bernard Quintin, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Foreign Trade, held bilateral talks in Brussels to boost trade and investment ties across the spectrum, it was announced on Tuesday.