State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications  Tarana Halim said that after receiving permission of the finance ministry, auction for 4G will be…

State Minister for Labour and Employment Md Mujibul Haque Chunnu yesterday urged garment owners to clear the festival bonus, salaries and arrears to the RMG workers before Eid-ul-Azha, reports UNB. The junior minister came up with the call while addressing the 35th meeting of the crisis management core…

Bangladesh Post Office has decided to integrate its Postal Cash Card with Visa and MasterCard to modernise its services to compete with the changing world…

The private sector industrial enterprises in Bangladesh will have to submit to Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) their amendment proposals of medium and long term external loans for extension of availability period at least 3 months before the expiry of the stipulated period, reports…

Non- gazetted employees of government, semi-government and autonomous organisations and non-commissioned officers and employees of the armed forces will get their salaries and allowances for the month of August while all the retired government employees will get their pensions for the current month…

Mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) introduced two co-branded smartphones Symphony G20 and itel it1409, reports BSS. The operator unveiled the devices in a ceremony at the GP Corporate House following good response from the previously launched co-branded smartphones. Deputy Chief Executive Officer…

AFP, ROME: Italy posted yesterday its best annual economic growth figures since 2011 with its gross domestic product outdoing official forecasts to grow 1.5 per cent on an annual basis. Improved domestic demand for industrial products and in the service sector drove the improvement in the second quarter,…

AFP, WASHINGTON:  Negotia-tors from Canada, Mexico and the United States open the first round of talks Wednesday to revamp the 23-year-old regional…

AFP, MOSCOW: Standing in a warehouse in a Moscow suburb, Dmitry Marinichev tries to speak over the deafening hum of hundreds of computers stacked on shelves hard at work mining for crypto money. “The form of currency we are used to is about to disappear,” predicts the 42-year-old entrepreneur,…

AFP, DOHA:  Qatar’s economy has been hit by the sanctions imposed by a Saudi-led Arab bloc but the emirate’s economy is strong enough…

AFP, HONG KONG:  Calm returned to Asian markets yesterday, with equities stabilising after a two-day rally, as the dollar strengthened on upbeat US economic data. Volatility eased as traders focused on the world economy and corporate earnings after a week dominated by the dramatic increase in tensions…

Stock markets saw the day downward as major sectors closed the session with falling trend at both the Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges yesterday despite…

Dutch paintmaker AkzoNobel said yeserday it has buried the hatchet with a key shareholder in a long-running spat over a planned takeover by US-based chemical giant PPG. US activist investor Elliott Advisors, which holds a stake of some 9.5 per cent in AkzoNobel, is in favour of a tie-up with main US…

Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board’s (BREB) Sports, Culture and Welfare Council observed the 42nd martyrdom anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on National Mourning Day 2017 yesterday, said a press release. On the occasion Sports, Culture and Welfare Council of BREB arranged Milad…

AFP, LONDON:  Britain’s unemployment rate has struck a new 42-year low, official data showed yesterday, as the uncertainty of Brexit boosts temporary hirings. The rate dipped to 4.4 per cent in the three months to June to record the lowest level since 1975, the Office for National Statistics…

Genex Infosys, the top BPO & ITeS (Information Technology Enterprise Solutions) company in the country has been awarded as the `Best Large Contact Center (Outsourced) Rank#2’ in the Asia Pacific Region by Contact Center World. The company received the award at a function in Kota Kinabalu,…

AFP, WASHINGTON:  American consumers spent at a brisk pace in July, pushing US retail sales to their biggest increase in seven months, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday. Auto sales helped drive the mid-summer upswing after sagging for much of the year, posting the biggest gain since…

AFP, SYDNEY: Australian publishing giant Fairfax Media yesterday posted a return to profit following a cost-cutting drive, although advertising revenue for its major newspapers weakened further. Fairfax -- which owns The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review -- reported…