State Minister for Post and Telecommu-nications Tarana Halim has called in for a meeting to formulate a guideline for subscription of dot bangla (.bangla) domain. The meeting is scheduled for today and the state minister will brief the media tomorrow.    Representative from state-owned Bangladesh…

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has initiated the process to lease two more Boeing 737-800 aircraft by December this year, reports BSS. The national carrier has taken the move to replace two decades-old aircraft Airbus A310-300 that were grounded last month. Talking to the news agency, Biman General…

Digital World 2016, the country’s biggest ICT expo, will be held at the Inter-national Convention City, Bashundhara, from October 19-21, reports…

AFP, BENAULIM: The BRICS nations agreed yesterday to fast-track the setting up of their own credit-rating agency to better cater to developing economies, rivalling existing ones based in Western countries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said they agreed to move ahead on the ratings agency, although…

AFP, MOSCOW: A dissertation council reviewing work on the mediaeval era is not normally national news, but Russia was abuzz this month when historians…

AFP, FRANKFURT: European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi will be under pressure this week to clarify the bank’s stimulus plans after investors were spooked by talk of an end to its massive bond-buying programme. The ECB governing council is not expected to make any changes to its ultra-loose monetary…

AFP,WASHINGTON: Looking to break out of a “messy” email situation, the nonprofit group dosomething.org recently switched over to a new way…

AFP, LOME: African leaders on Saturday signed a deal to boost security off the continent’s economically crucial coasts, hoping to shore up development by tackling maritime crimes like piracy and smuggling. Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso hailed the African Union agreement as “historic”,…

Stock market opened week yesterday mixed when Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) saw marginal changes to its indices and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) closed considerably higher, reports BSS. DSEX, the main index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), crossed 4700-point mark and settled at 4701.31 at the last…

Roughly 15 Swiss banks are in a "red zone" of lenders particularly exposed to money laundering risks, the head of Swiss banking watchdog FINMA said in a newpaper interview published yesterday, reports The Economic Times.  Swiss federal prosecutors last week said that they have…

AFP, MILAN: Banco Popolare and BPM shareholders voted on Saturday to merge under an accord that will create Italy’s third-largest  lender and consolidate the country’s troubled banking sector. As expected, the “yes” vote won easily at Banco Popolare, with some 23,683 votes…

The board of directors of City Bank elected its director Mohammad Shoeb as chairman and Tabassum Kaiser as vice chairperson of the bank, the bank said…

Air India, which is operationally profitable now, is looking to rejig debt worth Rs 10,000 crore under the scheme for sustainable restructuring of bad assets floated by the Reserve Bank, reports The Hindu. To further strengthen the ability of lenders to tackle stressed assets and provide an avenue for…

Microsoft will participate in Digital World 2016 to be held at the International Convention City, Bashun-dhara, from October 19-21, as a key sponsor, a press  statement said yesterday.  Digital World is the largest IT Expo of Bangla-desh which covers the breadth of knowledge in the…