Alongside the accurate registration of mobile SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card, database of mobile handset IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number is needed to thwart mobile phone-based crime, opined experts. They said the law enforcing agencies would be able to nab the perpetrators…

Dhaka stocks opened week up yesterday despite a technical glitch that halted trading at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) for one and half hours. The trading at DSE began at 12 noon instead of usual 10:30 am opening, reports BSS. “The trading system of Dhaka Stock Exchange had a delayed start due to…

Bangladesh is set to appoint a private outsourcing firm in four Indian cities to collect machine readable visa (MRV) applications from Indian citizens, reports UNB.  The cities are New Delhi, Mumbai, Agartala and Kolkata. However, the number of cities may be increased in the future, according to…

 Extending its overseas footprint, Axis Bank ysterday opened a representative office in Dhaka, reports PTI from New Delhi. Indo-Bangladesh trade is growing and opening office in Dhaka would help in leveraging the opportunity, Axis Bank group executive, (corporate relationship group & international…

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has started bringing strategic changes in supervision of banking and financial sectors with the major objective of promoting good governance, Governor Atiur Rahman said yesterday, reports BSS. “In the backdrop of current internal control practices in some banks, BB has startedintroducing…

Xinhua, KATHMANDU: The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) said that Nepal’s economy could contract for the first time in more than three decades as the result of an “undeclared Indian embargo.” It is the first official document regarding the economic impact of alleged Indian blockade on Nepal.…

A multi-stakeholder trust has been set up to formally address payments to the victims of the 2012 Tazreen Fashions fire on account of their losses. The garment factory blaze in Dhaka that claimed the lives of some 120 workers and left several hundred injured. The Tazreen Claims Administration Trust…

AFP, CAIEIRAS: Brazilian Monica de Oliveira thought she'd forever left behind those days of worrying about getting her daughter new clothes. As part of a wave of poor Brazilians to enter a basic sort of middle class in recent years, de Oliveira was a Latin American success story. But for how much…

As China, the world's largest smartphone market, grows wary of US surveillance, it is mulling its own "secure" smartphones in an attempt to insulate them from surveillance, reports Economic Times. The effort - another step in the country's quest to build a homegrown tech industry -…

The Centre of Excellence for Bangladesh Apparel Industry (CEBAI) has received accreditation as a Registered Training Organization (RTO) from the Bangladesh Technical Education Board, the statutory authority for quality assurance and certification for Technical and Vocational Education and Training.…

Taskeen Ahmed, managing director of Ifad Autos Ltd, has recently been elected president of India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IBCCI) for…

AFP, KUALA LUMPUR: Southeast Asian leaders yesterday symbolically declared the establishment by year-end of an EU-style regional economic bloc, but diplomats…

The word is out! Innovation Xtreme (IX) is back with a bang! And, this year it’s going to be bigger, better and crazier than last year. For the…

AFP, MUMBAI: Hundreds of layoffs at several Indian start-ups have sparked fears the bubble is starting to burst for the country’s e-commerce companies,…

AFP, ZURICH: A tiny Swiss bank specialised in financing social and environmental projects will on January 1 go where no retail lender has gone before,…