AFP, WASHINGTON: Justifications for an interest rate increase in the United States have grown in recent months, US Fed chief Janet Yellen said Friday.…

AFP, SAN FRANCISCO: Apple iPhone owners on Friday were urged to install a quickly released security update after a sophisticated attack on an Emirati…

AFP, WILMINGTON:  US rail operator Amtrak on Friday awarded a $2.0 billion (1.8 billion euros) deal to French manufacturer Alstom to supply new trains…

Although vendors collect crude salt from marginal farmers at Tk 150–Tk 300 per mound, some businessmen allegedly create an artificial crisis from…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will distribute national export trophy 2011-12 and 2012-13 tomorrow to 113 establishments for the their significant role in overseas trade, reports BSS. The awards will be distributed at a programme organised jointly by the commerce ministry and the Export Promotion Bureau…

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide $23.86 million as a highly concessional loan to fund the $214 million Second National Agricultural Technology Programme (NATP-II) to increase incomes and reduce extreme poverty for more than one million poor farming households by increasing…

Information and Communi-cation Technology (ICT) State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak said the government is working aiming at creating employment for two million youths in ICT sector by the year 2021, reports BSS. "Export earnings in the sector would also be raised to US$ 5 billion by 2021,"…

Junior Chamber International (JCI) will recognise the outstanding achievements of the country’s youth, says a press statement.  JCI Bangladesh has started short listing the ten outstanding young persons of Bangladesh, and hopes for the country’s youth to be represented among the world’s…

WhatsApp has tweaked its privacy policy so that businesses can send messages directly to people using the platform, reports Business Insider. The company, acquired by Facebook for $22 billion (£17 billion) in 2014, announced on its blog on Thursday that it is trialling the feature in…