The 9th South Asia Economic Summit (SAES IX) is set to begin in the capital on Saturday (Tomorrow) with a focus on cross-cutting and thematic issues over regional cooperation, connectivity and trade in South Asia. With the theme of ‘Reimaging South Asia in 2030’, the two-day summit will…

AFP, SEOUL: South Korea’s central bank yesterday trimmed its 2017 growth outlook, having considered the potential impact of Samsung’s Note 7 recall crisis on the national economy. The electronics giant announced Tuesday it was scrapping production of the new smartphone, following reports…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here for Goa, India on Sunday on a two-day official visit to attend the BRICS-BIMSTEC Outreach Summit, reports UNB. During the visit, she will also have meetings with some world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra…

AFP, SEOUL: South Koreans returned their discontinued Samsung Note 7 smartphones yesterday, with the beleaguered electronics giant offering swap incentives…

AFP, BEIJING: China’s exports plummeted in September, data showed yesterday, as anemic global demand dealt another blow to the world’s second-largest…

AFP, NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will look to reinvigorate the BRICS group of emerging nations at a summit this weekend with India seen as…

AFP, NEW YORK: Online giant Amazon entered the streaming music wars Wednesday, taking on rivals like Spotify and Apple with a subscription service that offers discounts to those using its voice-controlled speakers. Amazon Music Unlimited will offer “tens of m­illions of songs” to subscribers,…

Stock market closed week yesterday with recovery trend while the broader index at the country’s premier bourse crossed the upper level again, reports BSS. DSEX, the main index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), dropped to 4689.31 on Monday, the last trading day before a two-day holiday for Durga…

AFP, THE HAGUE: Dutch food giant Unilever, reportedly caught up in a pricing war with a British supermarket chain, warned yesterday the falling pound will likely hike its prices in Britain. Releasing stagnant third-quarter figures, the huge multinational, which supplies popular brand names like Ben…

AFP, ISTANBUL: OPEC said on Wednesday it was inviting Russia and other key non-members to a meeting later this month as the oil cartel and Moscow seek to tighten cooperation to boost historically low crude prices. The announcement came after a meeting in Istanbul between several top OPEC energy ministers…

The 47th World Standards Day is going to be observed in the country as elsewhere in the world tomorrow with the motto "Standards Build Strut,"…

Kuwait Airways schedule will be changed in the winter in Bangladesh. All flights are scheduled to arrive in Dhaka at 12.20 am and depart at 01.30 am, says a press release.  This change in timings will be effective from October 31 and continue till December 16, the statement added.

Walton launched a new model of LED television with 20-inch HD (High Definition) display, a press statement said yesterday. It was named Walton ‘Boom Box’ for its unique feature like two sets of dolby sound box each in the left and the right sides of this TV. They the price of the new LED…

AFP, KARLSRUHE, Germany: Germany's top court on Thursday gave the government the go-ahead to approve a planned EU-Canada free trade deal, in a setback for activists who had sought to block the agreement. The Constitutional Court did set certain conditions however, stipulating that Germany may only…