Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said Bangladesh will be able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) well before the stipulated time of 2030, reports UNB. “I personally think Bangladesh will certainly reach the targets well before 2030, although the procedure to initiate the…

Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon yesterday said the government plans to create employments for 300,000 people in the tourism sector within 2018. The minister said it while speaking at a workshop organised by the Aviation and Tourism Journalist Forum of Bangladesh (ATJFB) at a hotel…

A day-long SAARCFINANCE Seminar on “Impacts of Mobile Financial Services (MFS) in the SAARC Region” will be held in the capital today, reports BSS. Bangladesh Bank’s SAARCFINANCE Cell of the research department is organising the seminar, said a press release yersterday.  BB Governor…

AFP, NEW YORK:  As the Dow nears 20,000 amid a Trump rally, longtime financial insiders see a difference compared with prior Wall Street landmarks: very little interest from the general public. Other milestones, such as when the Dow hit 10,000 in 1999, were accompanied by wide public discussion…

AFP, MBAU, DR Congo:  Antoine Kakule Kihumuledi longs for a car to transport his cocoa crop and, like fellow residents in the Beni region in eastern…

AFP, MADRID:  Two years ago, a district in Madrid got lucky in Spain’s hugely popular Christmas lottery, with people working or living there winning prizes of between 120,000 and 3.0 million euros. As Spaniards gear up for the next windfall from the world’s richest lottery known as…

AFP, SOAMAHAMANINA:  The mine had not yet opened, but Madagascans were already seething with rage and the Chinese management finally quit Soamahamanina,…

AFP,  ABU DHABI: British oil giant BP secured a 10-per cent share in an onshore oil concession in Abu Dhabi on Saturday in a deal worth $2.2 billion, the companies said. BP signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to take a stake in the Abu Dhabi Com-pany for Onshore…

Taking part in open discussion of a round-table meeting in Rajshahi yesterday, development activists, professional leaders and students unequivocally called for building large-scale mass-awareness and social responsibility to prevent child labour, reports BSS from Rajshahi. They viewed all owners of…

AFP, CARACAS: With protests rocking his unpopular government, embattled President Nicolas Maduro delayed until January 2 taking Venezuela's highest denomination bill out of circulation. The 100 bolivar bills would temporarily remain legal tender, Maduro said Saturday, but the borders with Colombia…

Muhammad Aminul Hoque and Abdul Mannan have been elected chairman and secretary respectively of Dhaka Regional Committee (DRC) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) for the year 2017, a press statement said yesterday. They were elected at the 37th Annual General Meeting of association…

Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) extended streak yesterday to open week in positive mode as the benchmark price index of DSE reached at about two-year on higher…

AFP, RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s largest telecommunications firm STC plans to buy a 10 per cent stake in car booking firm Careem, the company said yesterday. Careem is a competitor of US-based Uber, a smartphone app that connects passengers and drivers. In a notice to the Saudi stock exchange, Saudi…