Participants at the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF), 2016, are offering an array of discounts at the country’s biggest trade show. Though…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for introducing direct air link between Bangladesh and Canada for the mutual benefits of the people of the two countries, reports UNB. The prime minister came up with the view when newly appointed Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Benoit-Pierre…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will pass its order on an appeal against a High Court verdict that declared illegal the BSEC decision to dissolve the AIMS First Guaranteed and Grameen One closed-end mutual funds. The four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra…

AFP, KUWAIT CITY: Share prices in the energy-rich Gulf states nosedived yesterday following the sharp decline in oil prices as Iran prepares to resume…

AFP, UNITED NATIONS: A UN study of new sources of financing for its multi-billion-dollar aid operations is recommending a voluntary tax on football matches…

AFP, BEIJING: China recorded its lowest growth in a quarter of a century in 2015, an AFP survey has forecast, projecting a further slowdown in the world’s…

2016 surely sounded very futuristic a few years back but who knew it would be within our reach so quickly? Every year, a plethora of new versions of technologies are released including some breakthrough ideas that set a new bar in the tech world. Likewise, we have a lot to look forward to in 2016. Here…

The country’s export to key European destinations like Germany, the UK, Italy, France showed good performance during the July-November period of…

AFP, HANOI: After organising communist Vietnam’s first peaceful mass strike at a shoe factory, labour activist Do Thi Minh Hanh was arrested, beaten bloody by police, and jailed for four years. Authoritarian Vietnam does not allow the millions of workers in its export-orientated factories, which…

AFP, WASHINGTON: The Euro-peans want it and Athens is resigned to its presence. But the International Monetary Fund has still not decided whether it will participate in the third financial bailout for Greece, and continues to set out its conditions. “We have not decided anything in the financial…

The Digital Finance Imperative, a new global research from Chartered Global Management Accountant sponsored by Oracle, found that chief financial officers (CFOs) need to rethink how they measure the health of their corporations in the digital age, a press statement said. According to the study, while…

The first Cross Functional Summit 2015 was held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital on Saturday, a press statement said yesterday. The unique summit is designed to bring three professional groups-- Finance, Human Resource and Marketing, in one occasion to exchange views, ideas…

Tata Steel is expected to announce hundreds of job cuts at its Port Talbot plant in Wales in a statement to the Indian Stock Exchange in Mumbai as early as next week, according to a British media report, reports PTI. The Indian steel giant has been suffering from plant closures across the UK in the…