内容摘要：They turned up not just because Yoon's decision had alarmed and angered them, but to protest against a president who insisted South Korea was free of sexism - despite the deep discrimination and flashes of violence that said otherwise.

They turned up not just because Yoon's decision had alarmed and angered them, but to protest against a president who insisted South Korea was free of sexism - despite the deep discrimination and flashes of violence that said otherwise.

Asia's third-largest economy benefitted from strong farm activity, steady public spending and improved rural demand in the last financial year, even as manufacturing and new investments by private companies remained weak.While rural growth has improved on account of a strong winter harvest, it is not nearly enough to offset continuing weakness in urban consumption, which has flagged due to high unemployment and lower wages.

India's growth engine remains heavily dependent on the government's infrastructure spending on roads, ports and highways, in the absence of significant improvement in private investment.Going forward, domestic growth should benefit from government's income tax cuts announced in the federal budget, as well as "monetary easing, expectations of an above normal monsoon and lower food inflation", Aditi Nayar, an economist with the ratings agency Icra, said.But ongoing global uncertainties, including US President Donald Trump's trade war, are expected to weigh on export demand.

India is currently negotiating a trade-agreement with the United States which is officially expected to conclude by fall. Trump slapped tariffs of up to 27% on Indian goods in April – and a 90-day pause on these ends on 9 July.Economists expect GDP growth in the ongoing financial year 2025-26 to further slow to 6% on the back of these global slowdown worries which could delay new private capital spending on projects.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects global growth to drop to 2.8% in 2025 and 3% in 2026.

Data from Icra earlier showed private sector expenditure, as part of overall investments in India's economy, fell to a 10-year low of 33% in the last financial year.He also has a prominent role in the administration of US President Donald Trump, and campaigned heavily to get him elected - something that analysts say is contributing to

at his best known firm, electric car maker Tesla.The world's richest man has also invested heavily in AI.

He was a co-founder of the world's best known AI firm, OpenAI, the company which makes ChatGPT.He subsequently left and became involved in a long-running row with OpenAI's boss, Sam Altman, over its future direction.