Share price index at the country’s both bourses - Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange - ended the week in red on Thursday with huge drop in market activities, reports UNB. The total turnover for the week stood at Tk 3,443 crore, a decline by 43.60 per cent, which was Tk 6,105…

Cambodia and Bangladesh have finalised terms on a massive rice deal that could see up to 1 million tonnes of rice purchased from the Kingdom over the next five years, with the first shipment due to begin by November, a source close to the deal said on Friday, reports The Phnom Penh Post. Hun Lak, vice…

US-Bangla Airlines, a private airline, will start operating its eighth international destination by flying beyond the borders of the nation in one of the most important cities of the Middle East Asia, Doha from today, reports UNB. Initially four flights will be operated for Doha from Dhaka and Chittagong…

Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon left Dhaka for Dubai yesterday night to attend a meeting over the signing of Air Service Agreement (ASA) with United Arab Emirates (UAE), reports BSS. “The minister left Dhaka by an Emirates International flight,” an official release…

The diesel emissions cheating scandal will cost Volkswagen an extra $3b (€2.5b), because engines are proving “far more technically complex…

AFP, SAN FRANCISCO: Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on Friday unilaterally appointed two new members to the board of directors in a surprise move that…

AFP, MADRID: Catalonia, whose leaders are pushing for secession from Spain, is one of the powerhouses of the Spanish economy, buoyed by industry, research…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Insurer AIG, rescued by the US government at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, will no longer face the stricter oversight of a “too…

AFP, BEIJING: China’s manufacturing activity accelerated for a second straight month in September, official figures showed yesterday, although an independent indicator was less positive about the world’s second largest economy. The sector expanded at its fastest pace since 2012 after rebounding…