MELBOURNE/BEIJING: Oil prices rose on Tuesday as investors embraced expectations that oil producers will add supply at a meeting on Tuesday as a sign that fuel demand remains robust despite the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
Oil prices were largely steady on Tuesday as investors expected major producers to agree to stick to their planned output increase at their meeting later in the day amid diminishing concerns over the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Brent crude was up 22 cents, or 0.3%, at $79.20 a barrel at 0939 GMT, .
A woman and her brother on Wednesday allegedly strangledto death a five-year-old son of her neighbour over old enmity in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, police said.