Shipping Minister M Shajahan Khan yesterday urged the business community to work together and identify the troublemakers in trade and business to ensure…

A delegation of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) arrives here today morning on a two-day visit to share ideas and experiences of operating in the region and explore trade and investment opportunities, reports UNB. Simon Moore, CBI’s International director and Shehla Hasan, CBI India…

Bangladesh Telecommuni-cations Company Limited (BTCL) has undertaken a set of measures for the protection of land phones in competition with mobile phones, reports BSS. State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Begum Tarana Halim disclosed this in the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday while replying to…

AFP, ABU DHABI: Foreign individuals and institutional investors will be allowed for the first time to buy shares of UAE telecoms giant Etisalat from September 15, the company said in a statement yesterday. Etisalat, the second largest Arab telecoms firm after Saudi Telecom, serves 145 million customers…

Xinhua, CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposed yesterday an urgent OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) summit to help stabilise crude price. Such a meeting was extremely urgent and that leaders of non-member countries, such as Russia, would also be invited, Maduro…

Key share price index at the country’s premier bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) experienced marginal gain while key index of Chittagong Stock…

AFP, DUBAI: Saudi Arabia will cut spending and issue more bonds as it faces a record budget shortfall due to falling oil prices, the finance minister said yesterday. The kingdom—the biggest Arab economy and the world’s largest oil exporter—is facing an unprecedented budget crunch after…

AFP, MOSCOW: By acquiring its struggling rival Transaero, Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot is likely to find itself in a tight spot with an additional…

The International Infrastruc-ture Summit’15 will kick off on Wednesday at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon in the capital, says a press release. The theme for this year’s forum, ‘Infrastructure Techno-logy and Innovations’ will focus on carving the path to transforming Dhaka into the…

AFP, LA PAZ: President Evo Morales warned Bolivians to start tightening their belts Saturday because plunging oil prices are likely to lead to hard times over the next year. Bolivia’s economy has been growing at a rapid pace over the past two years, thanks in part to natural gas exports to Argentina…

Xinhua, BEIJING: Tibet's GDP soared from 327 million yuan in 1965 to 92.08 billion yuan ($14.5 billion) in 2014, a 281-fold increase, a government white paper published yesterday said. It showed that under the system of regional ethnic autonomy, Tibet's economic and social development has achieved…

AFP, BERLIN: The cost of Germany taking in a record number of asylum seekers could hit 10 billion euros ($11 billion), four times what Berlin spend looking after refugees last year, a German newspaper said Saturday. But despite the 800,000 refugees expected to pour into Europe’s biggest economy…

AFP, BERLIN: As thousands of refugees arrive every day in Germany, calls are growing louder from business leaders in Europe’s biggest economy to…

Access to Information (A2I) Programme is a UNDP and USAID backed project with the aim of providing support in building a digital nation. The A2I programme aims to improve quality of public services to ensure responsiveness and transparency. Having its office at the Prime Ministers’ Office, the…

AFP, PARIS: A collapse in commodity prices prompted by a slowdown in the world’s most voracious consumer, China, has rocked financial markets and…

AFP, SHANGHAI: Global stock markets will be on edge this coming week as China announces a slew of data investors will comb for clues about slowing growth…