After two straight days of decline, gold prices rebounded by more than 1% on Thursday as investors sought safe-haven assets amid renewed geopolitical tensions. Traders also remained cautious ahead of key U.S. inflation data due on Friday. At 9:21 AM New York time, spot gold was up 1.2% at $4,043.80 per ounce. In the previous session, it had fallen to ...

King Charles III arrived in Rome on Wednesday for a state visit to the Vatican, where he will meet Pope Leo XIV and become the first British monarch in five centuries to pray publicly with a pontiff since the Church of England’s split from Rome. The visit comes amid renewed controversy surrounding the king’s brother, Prince Andrew, following new allegations ...

President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday that Venezuela has 5,000 Russian man-portable surface-to-air missiles to counter US forces deployed in the Caribbean. Washington has deployed stealth warplanes and Navy ships in the Caribbean as part of what it calls counter-narcotics efforts, and destroyed at least eight vessels it said were smuggling drugs from Venezuela toward the United States. Venezuela has denounced ...

Students, mostly from Government Science College in Tejgaon, have blocked Farmgate area demanding justice and road safety reforms after one of their fellow classmates was killed after a truck ran him over near the area. At about 11:30AM, under the banner of United Students Alliance, the students went to Farmgate in procession and blocked the road, halting traffic in that ...

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has decided to announce the date for delivering its verdict in the July uprising crimes against humanity case against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and another accused on November 13. A three-member ICT-1, headed by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Majumder, announced this date on Thursday after prosecution completed the ...

Former lawmaker from Jamalpur constituency and chairman of Citizen Cables Limited Begum Tahura Ali passed away early Thursday at a hospital in the capital. She breathed her last around 6:11AM while undergoing treatment at United Hospital, family sources confirmed. She is survived by one son and three daughters, including renowned actress and singer Meher Afroz Shaon, her eldest daughter. Tahura ...

A BNP delegation is meeting with Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin to discuss about the 13th national parliamentary elections. The meeting began at 11:45AM on Thursday at the Nirbachan Bhaban. EC officials said that a number of issues, including the recruitment panel for the election-related boards may be discussed at the meeting. The delegation is led by BNP National ...

Young physicians in the country have urged the government to swiftly amend the Tobacco Control Act to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease, cancer, and chronic respiratory illnesses, and to protect children from tobacco-related risks. They emphasized that the current law falls short of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), and delays in updating ...

After eight straight increases, gold prices have seen their steepest single-day drop of the year, with the price of 22-carat gold falling by more than Tk 8,000 per bhori. In a press release issued Wednesday night, Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) announced that the price of 22-carat gold has been slashed by Tk 8,386 per bhori (11.664 grams), bringing the new ...

Amid the 31-point campaign for state repair announced by nationalist party BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, former mayor of Sylhet City Corporation and advisor to BNP Chairperson Ariful Haque Chowdhury has launched a huge march in favor of paddy sheaves in Sylhet-1 constituency (City Corporation and Sadar Upazila). In his speech, he expressed hope that the party high command will ...