Two-day Bangladesh Development Forum 2018 begins in the capital tomorrow  mainly focusing on the review of the 7th Five Year Plan (7FYP) alongside sharing the country’s challenges and way forward on SDGs with the development partners. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the flagship…

The government is set to sign two loan agreements with the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) for US $60 million aiming to implement the ‘Payra Bridge (Lebukhali Bridge) Project’ and the ‘South Asia Sub-Regional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Road Connectivity Project’,…

Experts have called for accelerated moves for exploring blue economy saying it could reach the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) to a staggering 10 per cent…

AFP, HONG KONG: Asian traders continued their blistering start to the year yesterday with most markets rising but Hong Kong’s record rally came to an end, while the euro extended gains against the dollar. Wall Street once again provided a strong lead on the back of optimism about corporate earnings…

AFP, DETROIT: The Detroit auto show arrived Sunday with showman’s flair, as the car industry tied its latest offerings to American nostalgia and Hollywood glamour. But on the sidelines, there were lingering questions about policy and politics. Arnold Schwarzenegger emerged from a Mercedes-Benz…

Stock markets plunged further yesterday due mainly to price fall in large-cap securities. All the indices at Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges closed…

AFP, JAKARTA: At least 75 people were injured yesterday when a mezzanine floor at Indonesia’s stock exchange building collapsed into the lobby, police said, with victims carried out of the debris-filled building on stretchers. Dramatic CCTV footage showed a group of some 40 visiting students on…

AFP, LONDON: British construction group Carillion announced its immediate liquidation yesterday after the heavily-indebted company failed to secure a financial rescue from the UK government and banks in last-ditch talks. Carillion, which employs 43,000 staff worldwide including 19,500 in Britain, said…

AFP,  TOKYO: Shares in Japan’s SoftBank Group soared nearly six per cent yesterday on reports it could list its mobile unit, potentially raising some $18 billion in one of the country’s biggest public offering. In a statement, SoftBank group insisted no decision had been made, but acknowledged…

AFP, PARIS: The French economy may have grown by nearly two per cent last year, faster than the government’s official forecast, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said yesterday. “Growth is solid. It could be approaching two per cent in 2017, a first since 2011,” Le Maire said…

European planemaker Airbus has said it will stop making its A380 “superjumbo” if it does not get any more orders, reports BBC. Sales director John Leahy said Airbus would have to halt the programme if the plane’s main customer, Dubai’s Emirates airline, did not place another…

AFP, ATHENS:  A general strike crippled public transport in yesterday and was set to hit air traffic ahead of a parliamentary vote on controversial reforms demanded by Greece’s creditors, including curbs on industrial action. Apart from introducing much larger quorums on unions to call a…