Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) yesterday claimed that the festival bonus has been disbursed among workers by almost 100 per cent RMG factories, reports UNB. The apex body of the country’s apparel sector also said around 91 per cent factories paid salaries for…

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday inaugurated a LED (light-emitting diode) light bulbs manufacturing factory of Walton Group at Walton Micro-Tech…

AFP, BRATISLAVA: Budget-squeezed EU countries will ask Brussels for their share of the billions in Irish back taxes demanded from tech giant Apple, officials said yesterday. The European Commission, the EU’s powerful competition regulator, last month ordered Apple to reimburse a record 13 billion…

AFP, KANO: With the naira currency in free fall and inflation soaring, few Nigerians can escape the country’s economic troubles—and that includes Muslims preparing for Eid al-Adha. Livestock traders and buyers said the sale of rams for the annual festival of sacrifice have dropped sharply…

AFP, NEW YORK: A Volkswagen engineer is expected to help the US pursue its criminal case against the German automaker after pleading guilty Friday to…

AFP, ISTANBUL: Turkey’s economy grew 3.1 per cent in the second quarter, slowing sharply from the strong figure of the first quarter in a potentially worrying development for the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, statistics showed Friday. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had grown a revised…