Md. Saiful Islam Masum : Bangladesh has experienced significant economic growth over the past few decades, and a key factor...
Day: February 3, 2024
Staff Reporter : Consumers have no respite from soaring commodity prices as the cost of daily essentials have been rising...
Agency : Oil prices rose on Friday after the OPEC+ group’s decision to keep its production policy unchanged, but benchmarks remained on track for weekly losses on China demand growth fears. Brent crude futures were up 50 cents, or 0.6%, at $79.20 a barrel by 1001 GMT and US West Texas Intermediate crude futures gained 47 cents, or 0.6%, to $79.20. The Brent benchmark had approached $85 a barrel in Monday trading. Two OPEC+ sources said on Thursday that the...
AFP : A small plane crashed into a mobile home park in the southeastern US state of Florida on Thursday killing several people, local authorities said. “I can confirm that we have several fatalities both from the aircraft and within the mobile homes,” Scott Ehlers, fire chief for the coastal town of Clearwater, told a press conference. The accident occurred at 0000 GMT Friday, shortly after a nearby airport received an alert about a plane in trouble, Ehlers said. Firefighters...
City Desk : Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has invited his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina to pay an official bilateral visit to Hanoi. The formal invitation was handed over to foreign minister Dr Hasna Mahmud by his Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son at a bilateral meeting today on the sideline of the 3rd Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum being held in Brussels, a foreign ministry’s press release said here. During the meeting, the Vietnamese foreign minister also invited Hasan Mahmud to...
Al Jazeera : When Yasemin Acar heard that senior far-right German politicians were holding meetings to discuss plans for mass deportations, she felt worried, particularly as someone with Kurdish-Turkish roots. She decided to join street protests against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) on January 21 which more than 100,000 Germans ultimately attended. “It was very important for me personally to be there. As people with migration backgrounds in Germany, we are subject the most to racist attacks, especially from people...