The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) yesterday approved a project to ‘increase the strength of the existing runway and…

Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir yesterday asked bankers to ensure proper banking services in their banks for bringing down the country’s position in doing business ranking to below 100 from the existing 176 within fiscal year 2019-20 (FY20), reports BSS. “Bangladesh Investment…

AFP, HONG KONG:  Asian markets mostly fell yesterday, with concerns about upcoming European elections and Donald Trump’s unpredictable presidency…

AFP, LONDON: BP returned to profit in 2016 as cost-cutting and lower charges linked to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill offset weaker crude prices, the British…

AFP, BANGALORE: In the basement of a Bangalore building, hundreds of young Indians sit in neat rows of desks typing furiously, all dreaming of becoming…

K-Beauty, skincare beauty products of Korea,  has been lauched in Bangladesh recently. Shine Skin Bangladesh is the sole distributor of the K-beauty product in Bangladesh, says a press release. K–beauty products include:  Products that help with exfoliation- removing the oldest dead…

Bangladesh would start bandwidth export to Bhutan within a month, as the landlocked Eastern Himalayan country is interested in ensuring redundancy for…

Appreciating Bangladesh’s rapid progress, Malaysian High Commissioner in Dhaka Nur Ashikin Mohd Taib has said Bangladesh and Malaysia can grow together by strengthening ties between the two countries in all aspects, reports UNB. ’’We (Malaysia) are growing and you (Bangladesh) are…

A two-day international business conference titled ‘Asia Pacific Business Forum’ (APBF) begins here on Wednesday with special focus on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reports UNB. The theme of the forum is “Regional Integration to Achieve Sustainable Development”…

Walton Mega Pavilion in the just ended Dhaka International Trade Fair-2017 recorded about 56 perc ent growth in sales of wide ranges home, electronics and electrical appliances compared to the sales in the lasty years trade fair, says a press release. According to the Walton authorities, the overall…

The Rio Tinto group has decided to hand over a diamond mine to the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh where the project is located, the company said yesterday, reports UNB. Work at the mining giant’s Bunder diamond mine stopped last year when the company announced that it would end the project…

AFP, LUXEMBOURG:  Luxembourg has filed a criminal case against an unknown person in an unusual step related to the Volkswagen “dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal. The duchy insisted that it was the victim of the row, despite having itself been one of seven countries sued by…