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Asia is on track to become the world’s second largest wealth hub by 2024, with India being the main engine for this growth, outpacing neighboring China and Indonesia, according to the Knight Frank consultancy forecast.
After rising by more than six percent in 2019 to 513,200 people, the number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) — those who have a fortune of more than $30 million — is expected to further expand over a five-year period. According to the firm’s recent Wealth Report, the super rich population will jump by 27 percent to nearly 650,000.

As the Asia-Pacific region hosts the fastest-growing economies, it is not surprising that most of new multimillionaires are building fortunes in countries such as India and China. The former had less than 6,000 ultra-rich individuals last year, but the figure is projected to increase by 73 percent — the fastest pace in Asia and across the globe.

India will be followed by Egypt and Vietnam, the super-rich population of which is set to jump by 66 percent and 64 percent, respectively. China will not make it into the top three, with expected UHNWI population growth of 58 percent, followed by Indonesia and Tanzania.
The US is currently first in the wealth race, hosting 240,575 ultra-rich individuals — more than Europe and Asia combined. It will apparently keep the leading position, but will enjoy just 22 percent growth in the number of people worth more than $30 million in the next five years, one percent less than Russia.

The Wealth Report’s findings are based on projected GDP growth, house prices, equity performance, interest rates and other asset classes that individuals hold. To make a clearer picture and evaluate net wealth, Knight Frank also looks at primary residences and second homes not owned primarily as investments.

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, the sole remaining woman in the Democratic presidential primaries, has been accused of “fascism” and pressured to drop out of the race after she shared a post about hatred of Hindus in the US.
“Unfortunately, Hinduphobia is very real,” Gabbard tweeted on Thursday, saying she experienced it directly both in her congressional and presidential campaigns. “Sadly, our political leaders [and] media not only tolerate it, but foment it,” she added.

By way of example, she retweeted someone quoting a Facebook post about a confrontation with an Uber driver accusing Indians of murdering Muslims during the recent unrest in New Delhi.

Reactions to Gabbard’s post quickly proved her point, as critics swooped on the Hindu-American congresswoman to accuse her of “fascism” over her alleged support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ideology of Hindutva, or Indian nationalism.

“She is a fascist and needs to drop out,” argued Molly Crabapple, a self-described Bernie Sanders supporter.

Rutgers professor Audrey Truschke chimed in as well, saying that Gabbard being Hindu is not the issue, but her “being a Hindu nationalist is horrifying and disqualifying,” and that she has “yet to comment on the Hindu nationalist pogrom in Delhi last week that left more than 45 people dead.”

Sales have dropped by 80 per cent in some areas, and clarifications put out by the industry have failed to stem the panic

Volunteers distributed about 6,000kg of chicken delicacies and 20,000 boiled egg recipes free of cost to thousands of people in the southern Indian state of Telangana over the weekend as part of a campaign organised by the poultry industry to quell rumours surrounding the coronavirus outbreak.
Speculation is rife on Indian cyberspace platforms over possible avian links to the deadly Covid-19 disease, which has spread across the world and killed over 3,200 people, mostly in China.
With no substantiation, several messages are circulating in messaging platforms, particularly on WhatsApp, stating that the coronavirus could be transmitted via chicken meat. There have been a number of outbreaks of various strains of bird flu since it emerged in Hong Kong in 1997, resulting in the culling of 1.5 million chickens, ducks and geese, but these strains are not linked to Covid-19.
At the poultry industry event, lawmakers and celebrities were seen devouring chicken drumsticks on stage to encourage people to consume the meat.
Similar efforts are undertaken in other parts of the country to combat the fake news and rumours spreading on social media.
Such fears have grown given that India now has 28 confirmed cases of coronavirus infections, with 16 Italian tourists testing positive for Covid-19 in New Delhi.