The Bank of England is set to keep interest rates on hold Thursday and will likely indicate that they won’t be raised again until the uncertainty surrounding Brexit has been resolved. The bank, which last month lifted its benchmark rate by a quarter point to 0.75 percent to dampen down inflation, has been assuming that the country’s exit from ...
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Electronic manufacturers demand persistent policy support
Local manufacturers of refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and compressors recently urged the government for provide industry-friendly policy supports in the next couple of fiscal years for the sustainable advancement in high-tech appliances manufacturing industry in the country. They also demanded withdrawal of 15 percent VAT on the locally made compressors and the reduction of imbalanced duties structure between the ...
Read More »Suu Kyi says handling of Rohingya could have been better
Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi says the country’s handling of its Rohingya Muslim minority crisis could have been handled better. The Nobel Prize laureate made the comment Thursday when asked during a one-on-one discussion at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Hanoi. Myanmar is facing international pressure over atrocities allegedly committed by its military against the Rohingya. About ...
Read More »China: Car rams into Hunan square killing nine
A man has driven a car into a busy square in southern China, killing at least nine people and injuring 43, local government officials say. The red SUV drove into Binjiang square in Hengyang city, Hunan province, at 19:40 local time (11:40 GMT). Local media say that some victims appeared to have been stabbed. The driver, who has a ...
Read More »Airstrikes kill 8 Taliban militants in N Afghanistan
At least eight militants were killed after the fighting aircraft targeted Taliban hideouts in Khalazai area of Baghlan-e-Markazi district in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province on Wednesday, army spokesman in the northern region Ghulam Hazrat Karimi said. Six more militants sustained injuries in the sorties, the official said. Taliban militants who have inflicted casualties on security forces in Baghlan-e-Markazi district ...
Read More »Leading Brexit supporters deny plot to topple Theresa May
London, Sep 12 : Leading Brexit-supporting lawmakers insisted Wednesday that they aren’t about to topple Prime Minister Theresa May, despite strong opposition to her plan for taking Britain out of the European Union. A faction of May’s Conservative Party opposes her proposal to keep the U.K. aligned to EU rules after Brexit in return for free trade in goods. They ...
Read More »Tipping point – Climate and Society
By Fatema Miah: Back to Climate science. The Climate Change has been an alarming issue for last decade. Where the past century of neglegency where accumulation of carbon emission and other neglected landfill gases has been bought to addressing. Climate is biological and geological science that also has connection to Natural Physics and Chemistry. The Climate Science is deeply interlinked ...
Read More »PMQs verdict: Corbyn nails it with focus on universal credit
Labour leader wins parliamentary set-piece comfortably with peroration that was perhaps one of his best Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn start PMQs by congratulating cricketer Alastair Cook on his long career. Corbyn asks May what the National Farmers’ Union, the Federation of Small Businesses, the National Audit Office, the charity Gingerbread and the Royal Society of Arts have in common? ...
Read More »Skripal poisoning: Putin says suspects ‘civilians, not criminals’
The two suspects in the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are civilians, not criminals, Russian President Vladimir Putin says. The UK government named them as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, and said they were from Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU. Mr Putin said his government had found the pair and he hoped they would ...
Read More »Apple launch: Bigger! Faster! Pricier! Innovative?
Apple has given the Oval Office a run for its money in the past few weeks – we’ve had an unprecedented number of leaks ahead of the firm’s annual product launch. So, barring any surprises – a Steve Jobs-esque “one more thing” – we have a pretty good idea of what to expect when Tim Cook heads out on stage ...
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