The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) together with Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) and other partners yesterday jointly commemorated the third anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse on the CRP premises at Mirpur in the city, reports UNB. The organiaations…

Silicon Valley giants Facebook, Google and Cisco may be more concerned as their campuses are now at the risk of being flooded, reports IANS.  At…

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) would reward people of various professional groups for significantly contributing to the national exchequer by paying…

AFP, MOSCOW: Russia said Friday it had temporarily suspended its demand for full repayment of a disputed $3-billion loan to Ukraine, saying it wanted to give the new government in Kiev time to “assess the situation”. “We have given the new Ukrainian government an extension to assess…

Eurozone finance ministers say they have made progress in talks about the bailout programme for Greece, reports BBC. But they said after a meeting in Amsterdam on Friday that further work was still needed. They said they are hopeful that an agreement can reached in the next few days and are ready to…

AFP, AL-JENDAYA, Egypt:  Egyptian mother Aaz Menhom cups her hands under a running tap in her yard to let her young children Atef and Nada drink.…

AFP, BEIJING:  Chinese manufacturers and Internet giants are in hot pursuit of their US counterparts in the race to design driverless cars, but the route to market is still littered with potholes. While Google has been working on autonomous vehicles for at least six years, with the likes of BMW,…

AFP, LONDON:  British Prime Minister David Cameron called the EU referendum to try to heal Conservative party divisions on Europe, but the bitterness…

AFP, New York:  US officials have ordered Boeing to fix engines on some of its 787 Dreamliner airplanes to avoid sudden failure in icy conditions,…

Stock market opened week flat yesterday when daily transaction declined on lower demand, reports BSS. The boarder DSEX index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) finished the first day of the week only 2 points down at 4,338.24, with the blue-chip DS30 and the Shariah DSES followed it to close at 1,663.52…

AFP, NEW DELHI:  India’s government has revoked embattled former airline boss Vijay Mallya’s passport, after he failed to appear before investigators over a loan probe, the foreign ministry said yesterday. Mallya, a part-owner of the Force India Formula 1 team who used to run a liquor…

Hundreds of rural women of five northern districts will get a comprehensive training so they could find their desired jobs in the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector, reports BSS. The training is designed under the World Bank (WB) supported Northern Areas Reduction-of-Poverty Initiative (NARI)…

AFP, FRANKFURT:  Negotiations on a US-EU free trade deal “will fail” if the US refuses to make concessions, German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned yesterday ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. “The Americans want to hold fast to their ‘Buy American’…

AFP, RIYADH: The king of Saudi Arabia has sacked the country’s water and electricity minister, Abdullah al-Hussayen, amid public anger over price hikes, state media reported. King Salman issued a decree on Saturday ordering his dismissal and replacement in the interim by Agriculture Minister Abdel…

AFP, Istanbul: Turkey stood its ground over the contentious issue of visa-free travel for its citizens on Saturday, warning German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top EU officials it would stop taking back migrants from Europe if the bloc failed to keep its word. “The issue of the visa waiver is…

AFP, PARIS:  France’s energy giant EDF will give the final green light to the controversial construction of two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Britain in September, Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said yesterday. French President Francois Hollande “has confirmed France’s…