AFP, WOLFSBURG:  German auto giant Volkswagen on Friday said it raced back into the black in 2016 as car sales hit an all-time high, in the latest…

AFP, RIYADH:  Seventeen years after first setting foot in Saudi Arabia, Dominic Steck shipped his two cats and returned to Germany with his wife…

AFP, NEW YORK:  Wall Street narrowly avoided a negative finish on Friday while major European indices ended in the red. The close call for stocks…

Apparently indicating the USA, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday expressed displeasure for talking too much about trade unions instead of saying anything about the raising the prices of Bangladesh apparel products, reports UNB. He wondered why only Bangladesh will be in discussion when it comes…

Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) yesterday urged the government to review the decision of gas price hike considering the present cost of…

A modern multistoried food warehouse, first of its kind in the country, has been constructed at Santahar under Adamdighi Upazila under Bogra district at a cost of around Taka 300 crore, BSS reports from Rajshahi. The air-conditioned warehouse having capacity of 25 lakh metric tons of food grain has…

The United States has dismissed the allegation of exerting any pressure on Bangladesh's key export earning sector - readymade garment (RMG) industry -- in the name of workers' rights and safety standards, reports UNB. "You can call it pressure but we call it eligibility," she told…

AFP, RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman begins today a three-week Asian tour likely to seek investment and technical expertise as the world's…

AFP, PARIS:  Google said it will begin offering media groups an artificial intelligence tool designed to stamp out incendiary comments on their websites. The programming tool, called Perspective, aims to assist editors trying to moderate discussions by filtering out abusive “troll”…

Dr AK Abdul Momen has been elected new chairman of the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE), reports BSS. Abdul Momen, also former ambassador and permanent…

National Board of Revenue collected Tk 4,384 crore as tax-revenue in Chittagong region during July-January period of fiscal year 2016-17, up by 26.41 per cent from the same period of the last fiscal of Tk 3,468 crore, BSS reports from Chittagong. Additional commissioner of taxes Bazlul Kabir said this…