Asian stocks squeezed out more gains Tuesday as the latest round of China-US trade talks moved into a second day, with one of Donald Trump’s top advisers saying he expected “a big, strong handshake”. There is optimism the negotiations — which come after the US president spoke to Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping last week — will bring some much-needed calm to markets and ease tensions between the economic superpowers. The advances in Asian equities built on Monday’s rally and followed a broadly positive day on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 edged closer to the record high touched earlier in…
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BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said the quality of education has declined more than before even after so many movements and mass uprising. “The quality of education has deteriorated alarmingly throughout the country. Without going into who is responsible, I want to say that the overall quality has declined,” he said while virtually addressing the golden jubilee celebrations of River View High School at Thakurgaon. Expressing deep concern about the education standard, Fakhrul said, “If we are going to reconstruct this nation, we have to prepare students. They should be able to prove their worth in…
Commerce Adviser Sk. Bashir Uddin today said that a huge anarchy had prevailed in the country’s leather sector over the last 15 years during the previous regime, which led to a drastic fall in this sector. “But, the interim government has been working to dismantle the syndicate in this sector that had grown over the years,” he said. The Commerce Adviser said this while talking to journalists after visiting the activities related to the management of rawhides of sacrificial animals at Rajarhat in Jashore, known as the largest rawhide trading centre of the southern and western regions of the country.…
DJ Desk President Donald Trump’s sweeping new travel ban came into effect early Monday immediately after midnight, barring citizens from a dozen nations from entering the United States and reviving a divisive measure from his first term. The move is expected to disrupt refugee pathways and further restrict immigration as the Trump administration expands its crackdown on illegal entries. Many of the nations covered by the restrictions have adversarial relations with the United States, such as Iran and Afghanistan, while others face severe crises, like Haiti and Libya. In announcing his restrictions last week, Trump said the new measure was…
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus left Dhaka this evening for London on a four-day official visit to the United Kingdom (UK) aiming to enhance bilateral relations. “A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the Chief Adviser and his entourage departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka for London at about 7.30 pm today,” Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS. On June 4, 2025, acting Foreign Secretary Ruhul Alam Siddique at a curtain-raiser briefing said the Chief Adviser will be granted an audience with His Majesty King Charles III and hold bilateral talks with British Prime Minister Sir…
(BSS) – Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus left Dhaka this evening for London on a four-day official visit to the United Kingdom (UK) aiming to enhance bilateral relations. “A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the Chief Adviser and his entourage departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka for London at about 7.30 pm today,” Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS. On June 4, 2025, acting Foreign Secretary Ruhul Alam Siddique at a curtain-raiser briefing said the Chief Adviser will be granted an audience with His Majesty King Charles III and hold bilateral talks with British Prime…
(BSS/AFP) Foreign interference in elections is a real concern but sometimes used as an “alibi” by democracies to divert attention from domestic issues, the head of a democracy think-tank said Monday. According to a new report by Stockholm-based International IDEA, disinformation and manipulation of social media algorithms to influence results are among the major threats to democracies during election campaigns. The threat is “exacerbated by the explicit willingness of domestic, foreign and non-state actors to engage in such activities”, the report said, highlighting states such as China, Russia and Iran. Among 54 elections covered in 2024, 80 percent experienced “deliberate…
(BSS/AFP) – After a round of talks in Geneva last month, the United States and China will sit down at the negotiating table in London on Monday to attempt to preserve a fragile truce on trade, despite simmering tensions. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will lead the US delegation, President Donald Trump announced Friday. Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng — who led Beijing’s negotiating team in Geneva — will also lead the team in London, the foreign ministry announced at the weekend. “The meeting should go very well,” Trump said in…
AFP Demonstrators torched cars and scuffled with security forces in Los Angeles on Sunday as police kept protestors away from the National Guard troops President Donald Trump sent to the streets of the second biggest US city. Unrest broke out for a third day, with protestors angry at action by immigration officials that have resulted in dozens of arrests of what authorities say are illegal migrants and gang members. The raids — which began in broad daylight in a city with a large Latino population — were always likely to spark reaction among the public in the liberal city. But…
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will leave here this evening for London on a four-day official visit to the United Kingdom (UK) aiming to enhance bilateral relations. “A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the Chief Adviser and his entourage will depart Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for London at about 7.30 pm,” Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS. On June 4, 2025, acting Foreign Secretary Ruhul Alam Siddique at a curtain-raiser briefing said the Chief Adviser will be granted an audience with His Majesty King Charles III and hold bilateral talks with British Prime Minister Sir…
