Rishi Sunak will on Tuesday be installed as Britain’s third prime minister this year, replacing the humiliated Liz Truss after just seven weeks and inheriting a daunting array of problems. Sunak became the ruling Conservatives’ new leader on Monday after rival contender Penny Mordaunt failed to secure enough nominations from Tory MPs, and Boris Johnson dramatically aborted a comeback bid. ...

WhatsApp, the messaging platform, has gone down for users around the world, including Bangladesh. Many people have taken to social media to complain they are unable to send or receive messages on the popular Meta-owned platform. When connecting to the browser version (https://web.whatsapp.com/), the URL asks the user if their internet is down and automatically logs out users. Users are ...

Vietnamese budget airline VietJet Air plans to start direct flights between Vietnam and Bangladesh on the Hanoi-Dhaka route from December 2022. Initially, the operation will start with chartered flights, but there is a plan to start regular flights in phases based on passenger demand, said Taslim Amin Shovon, director and CEO of InnoGlobe Travel and Tours Limited, the Bangladeshi partner ...

Akshata Murty, the Indian wife of Britain’s next Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, is fabulously rich thanks to her billionaire father, a fortune that is attracting controversy as ordinary people reel from a cost-of-living crisis. Sunak’s father-in-law, N.R. Narayana Murthy, 76, co-founded tech giant Infosys in 1981. The outsourcing behemoth now worth around $75 billion helped drive India’s transformation into the ...

Jewellers lowered the price of gold by Tk 1,166 to Tk 80,131 per bhori (11.664 gram) as price of pure gold fell in the local market. The price of 22-carat gold is now Tk 6,870 per gram while it is Tk 6,560 for 21-carat gold, according to a press release of Bangladesh Jeweller’s Association (BAJUS) issued on Monday. The price ...

Britain’s Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak becomes the first Indian-origin and Hindu Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on Monday became the Conservative Party leader, less than two months after he lost to Liz Truss in the Tory leadership race. Sunak’s change in fate was triggered by the resignation of Truss after ...

Dr. Mohammad Afroz Jalil, Country Manager of Roche Bangladesh Ltd. has been elected President of the Switzerland Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SBCCI) for 2022-2024. Swiss Ambassador to Bangladesh, Nathalie Chuard, conveyed best wishes to SBCCI and shared her experience on Bangladesh and potential business opportunities. “This year has been significant for both Switzerland and Bangladesh. We are celebrating ...

Bangladesh reported two more Covid-linked deaths and 207 more cases in 24 hours till Monday morning. With the new numbers, the total fatalities rose to 29,415 while the caseload to 2,034,348, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The daily case test positivity rate rose to 4.65 per cent from Sunday’s 4.44 per cent as 4,454 samples were ...

Rishi Sunak looked set to become Britain’s next prime minister after Boris Johnson withdrew from the contest on Sunday, saying that although he had enough support to make the final ballot he realised the country and the Conservative Party needed unity. Johnson had raced home from a holiday in the Caribbean to try and secure the backing of 100 lawmakers ...

Here are the main contenders confirmed or expected to run to succeed UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, after she announced her resignation on Thursday: – Rishi Sunak – Former chancellor of the exchequer Sunak secured the support of the 100 Conservative MPs needed to stand in the contest on Friday and formally announced his candidacy Sunday. The 42-year-old lost convincingly ...