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Bitcoin, one of the most popular cryptocurrencies, is reaching new heights as its price is soaring at $91,000. With the current growth, the cryptocurrency is expected to reach the target of $1 million by the end of this year. President Donald Trump’s policies have brought a new revolution in the market, turning tables for crypto. It will be interesting to watch the future growth bar of Bitcoin as Trump will soon host the first crypto summit in his second term.

A 21-member Bangladeshi delegation, including politicians, student leaders, and scholars, recently toured China (Feb 25–Mar 6) at Beijing’s invitation, Global Times reported. The group was reportedly wowed by China’s tech and infrastructure, and many now see the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as key to Bangladesh’s economic future. They visited top Chinese firms like BYD and LONGi, soaking in China’s modernization drive. It should be noted that China agreed in principle to extend Bangladesh’s loan repayment period and is reviewing a request to lower interest rates, Dhaka Tribune reported. Bangladesh urged China to reduce interest rates from 2-3% to 1%, waive off the commitment fee, and extend loan repayment terms from 20 to 30 years for Preferential Buyer’s Credit (PBC) and Government Concessional Loans (GCL).

Tamil Nadu politicians including Chief Minister MK Stalin and Kamal Haasan have raised concerns over the upcoming delimitation exercise, scheduled for 2026. The electoral exercise has sparked significant debate, particularly among southern states. However, leaders from states like Tamil Nadu express concerns that this process could diminish their political influence in Parliament. Tamil Nadu CM Stalin urged newlywed couples to plan a family early, linking it to Tamil Nadu’s representation in Parliament.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has brushed aside demands for his resignation after a heated public confrontation with US president Donald Trump in the Oval Office, as per a report. But he has kept the door open to resign on one condition. Here are the details.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For years, mourners and members of Russia’s pro-democracy movement have flocked to a bridge near the Kremlin each February to remember Boris Nemtsov, an opposition politician who was shot dead there in 2015. This week, at the 10th anniversary of the killing, a far smaller crowd turned out, with the leading lights of the opposition either dead or driven into exile.

Jeffrey Epstein, a disgraced financier and convicted offender, files were made public by the Justice Department on Thursday after Attorney General Pam Bondi pledged to do so. The US DOJ made public a 200-page document that included flight logs, Jeffrey Epstein's contact details, and other documents that marked the much-anticipated release of Jeffrey Epstein’s contact list revealing names of celebrities, politicians, and business figures, according to a report by The NY Post. «This Department of Justice is delivering on President Trump's pledge to openness and revealing the heinous deeds of Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices,» Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement, as per a report.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Should Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak out against the U.S. policy of deporting Indian illegal aliens back to India? Opposition leaders and media pundits are pressuring him to do so, but that would be a mistake.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Washington this week, President Trump invited him earlier than scheduled into the White House, where the two men talked alone for over an hour. Macron pressed Trump to provide a U.S.

Congress politician Sajjan Kumar for the murder of a father-son duo during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday's national election and is fielding its first candidate to lead the country. Other parties say they won't work with the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, or AfD, and co-leader Alice Weidel has no realistic chance of taking the country's top job. But AfD has become a factor other politicians can't ignore and has helped shape Germany's debate on migration.

Smriti Irani of being the «real agent» of billionaire investor George Soros. The Congress used Irani's profile of being a former USAID «goodwill ambassador» to attack the former Union minister.

James Carville has warned Democrats not to get in the way of the recent developments of protests across the country against new US President Donald Trump and his closest aide Elon Musk. Carville is of the opinion that Democrat politicians should let these things germinate and not get in the way of things at this point, which would be to their advantage, according to a Huffington Post report.

At a Treasury Committee hearing today (4 February), Diamond told politicians he «lies awake at night thinking about» the Labour Force Survey (LFS), a report that helps to inform the Bank of England's (BoE) monetary policy decisions and was previously suspended amid concerns about its accuracy.  To remedy this issue, the statistical office revamped the survey and is currently in the process of transitioning to an online TLFS, with the deadline for the transition set for December 2027.  Cost of Labour Force Survey revamp nearly doubles in a year to £40.4m «Please, please, please do n...

Britain's largest water company Thames Water is seeking court approval for up to $3.7 billion of emergency funding to prevent the cash-strapped firm from falling into government administration

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen gives a press conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Jan. 29.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is proud of its diaspora. People of Indian extraction tend to earn well over the average wage in most countries, and often fit seamlessly and unobtrusively into local power structures.

To build or not to build: that’s the question facing Canadian politicians, oil and gas experts and industry leaders when it comes to domestic pipelines, as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to tout plans for American energy independence.

Narendra Modi has made a point of cultivating Indians abroad and sometimes gifts foreign leaders a bit of his star power for their own campaigns. He attended a joint rally in Texas during President Donald Trump’s first term, for example.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 2017 Elon Musk branded Donald Trump a “con man" and “one of the world’s best bullshitters". Now he is known at Mar-a-Lago as Uncle Elon and is in the president-elect’s inner circle.

If you’ve ever used online banking to send money as a gift, pay a friend back for dinner or send rent to your landlord, there’s a good chance you used Interac e-Transfer to do it. The service allows people to request, send and receive money directly through Canadian personal and business bank accounts. Interac Corp. says 88 per cent of Canadians have used e-Transfer, and the company processed nearly 1.2 billion transactions in 2023.

Donald Trump this week over his pitch to make Greenland part of the United States.“Dear President Trump, listen very carefully,” Vistisen said on Tuesday in European Parliament. “Greenland has been part of the Danish kingdom for 800 years. It’s an integrated part of our country.