Under pressure following the shutdown of their factories in the city's Hazaribagh area, tannery owners fear that their export orders of some Tk 1,100…

Implementation rate of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the first nine months (July-March) of fiscal year 2016-17 was 45 per cent with an expenditure of Tk 53,864 crore, reports BSS. The implementation rate for FY17 was 1.0 per cent higher from 44 per cent of the same period of the last fiscal…

State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki said, government has taken a project for making two crore women economically self-reliant, reports BSS. “The government has launched Income Generating Activity (IGA) for empowering women economically with Taka 250 crore across the…

AFP, HONG KONG: Asian markets swung yesterday as investors were on edge over geopolitical tensions, with US-Russian relations strained by last week’s…

UK inflation held steady last month, as rising prices for food and clothing were offset by lower air fares. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said inflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index remained at 2.3per cent, reports BBC. The main downward effect on inflation last month came from…

AFP, NEW YORK: The Victoria Beckham clothing range for Target is flying off the shelves, the latest high-fashion, high-street collaboration seeking to…

The charity looked at Coca-Cola’s  annual sales figures of certain product lines and the proportion that they have represented in the company’s…

Stocks performed mixed yesterday with major indices finishing flat despite increasing the daily transactions, which rose at the market that prevented price indices from sharp decline, reports BSS. The daily transactions at the two markets rose considerably. The trade value at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)…

Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) will sign a power purchase agreement today (PPA) with Summit Power Limited to buy 149 megawatts electricity, reports BSS. Under the deal, Summit Power Limited will commission a power plant at Kodda in Gazipur to supply the electricity in next 15 months. State…

AFP, SYDNEY: Mining giant BHP Billiton yesterday rejected an activist hedge fund proposal that it restructure the business and spin off its US petroleum arm, saying the costs and risks outweighed any benefits. New York-based Elliott Advisors, a significant shareholder in the Anglo-Australian company,…

AFP, SANTIAGO: Chile and China launched negotiations Monday to expand trade ties in the face of protectionist threats from US President Donald Trump. The Chilean government said officials in Beijing had started discussing expanding an existing bilateral trade agreement to include areas such as e-commerce…

AFP,BERLIN: The chiefs of the IMF, WTO and OECD vowed Monday in a joint statement to defend free trade against creeping protectionist  trends, amid growing global alarm over US President Donald Trump’s “America First” call. “Disappointing trade growth figures and the danger…

AFP, BRASÍLIA: Brazil's Central Bank is expected to cut the key interest rate by one per centage point on Wednesday in an accelerating strategy of trying to inject life into the floundering economy, analysts say. This would be the fifth straight cut, taking the key Selic rate to 11.25 per…