Sugar and other harmful chemicals like soda, dye and 'phitkari' (alum) are being used to produce date molasses in Sirajganj and its adjacent districts,…

AFP, BRUSSELS: The eurozone economy held steady in late 2015 despite the buffeting from global market turmoil and a sharp slowdown in China, official data showed yesterday, but the outlook is clouded. Analysts said the figures were "something of a relief" after recent weakening data had suggested…

The 25th well of Titas Gas Field is expected to go into production soon as the drilling at the well has already been completed, officials said, UNB reports from Brahmanbaria. Logging in boreholes is now going on which will require about one month, the officials also said, adding that the well will go…

AFP, LONDON: British newspaper The Independent will become digital only, and its last print edition will come out on March 26, owners ESI Media said in a statement on Friday. ESI Media said it was also selling off the "i" -- a cut-price sister title -- to fund the website of The Independent.…

AFP, SINGAPORE: Oil surged more than five per cent in Asia yesterday, a day after tanking towards 13-year lows and following a report suggesting the OPEC…

AFP, WASHINGTON:  Christine Lagarde, the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund, became assured Thursday of a second term as managing director to steer it through a global economic slowdown. The executive board of the global crisis lender announced that there were no challengers facing…

AFP, BRUSSELS:  The EU launched new probes yesterday into imports of Chinese steel, warning it would not allow “unfair competition” to…

AFP, FRANKFURT:  Robust domestic demand enabled the German economy, Europe’s biggest, to shrug off external headwinds and notch up “solid…