Tania Wahab dreamt of becoming an employer instead of being an employee after completion of her study. She formally started running after her dream in…

Civil society members at a human chain in Rajshahi yesterday demanded for imposing 70 per cent flat tax rates on all tobacco products by cancelling the prevailing slab-based system to discourage consumption of the same, reports BSS. They forwarded the demand in the programme organised by Association…

Reiterating that sufficient essential commodities are in store, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday again ruled out any scope of price hike or artificial crisis of commodities during the holy month of Ramadan, reports BSS. "Sufficient sugar, gram, edible oil, lentil and date along with other…

AFP, HONG KONG: Asian markets mostly turned lower yesterday as profit-taking overshadowed a healthy lead from Wall Street, while the pound fell after…

AFP, VIENNA: Oil producers inside and outside the OPEC cartel have little choice but to extend their deal from late 2016 curbing output when they meet…

AFP, ISTANBUL: Russia agreed Monday to lift some trade sanctions against Turkey imposed in the wake of the shooting down of a Russian warplane over the…

AFP, BEIJING: China's imports from North Korea fell in April to a near three-year low, data showed Tuesday, as Beijing faces calls to put more economic pressure on its nuclear-armed ally. China -- the North's sole major diplomatic ally and key trading partner -- has stopped buying coal from…

Stocks maintained upward trend yesterday as the major indices of both Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges were found upward with higher transactions…

AFP, HAVANA: Cuba's first ultra luxury hotel opened its doors Monday in Havana, with guests paying up to $2,500 a night to stay in five-star comfort on the Communist island. The "Gran Hotel Manzana," part of the Swiss group Kempinski Hotels, is situated in the heart of the Cuban capital…

AFP, BEIJING: A booming rental bike business has flooded China's streets with packs of cyclists, but their habit of going the wrong way and abandoning their rides anywhere is causing havoc.  The authorities, scrambling to catch up, are considering new regulations to curb the chaos -- from capping…

AFP, HELSINKI: Nokia and Apple said yesterday they were burying the hatchet in a bitter patent dispute with a cooperation agreement and an undisclosed cash payment by the US tech giant to the Finnish group. By settling their ongoing intellectual property dispute, the two companies would "move the…

AFP, BRUSSELS: The IMF yesterday demanded more detailed commitments from the eurozone on debt relief for Greece before it could accept joining the country's latest bailout and end a year-long row with Europe. After more than eight hours of talks in Brussels overnight, eurozone finance ministers…

City Bank signed an agreement with the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private sector arm of Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group, in order to strengthen collaboration for fostering private sector development in the country, the bank said in a statement yesterday. …

AFP, BRUSSELS: The eurozone economy grew at its fastest pace in six years in May as job creation in Europe picked up to its highest level in a decade, a closely watched survey showed yesterday. Data monitoring company IHS Markit said its May Composite Purchasing Mana-gers Index came in at 56.8…