Fisheries and Livestock Minister Narayan Chandra Chanda has said agricultural land should to be kept out of shrimp farming and it (shrimp) should be cultivated zone wise, reports BSS. "The crop land should be kept free from shrimp farming ...it should be cultivated zone wise and the fellow land…

Mentioning that Japan is the third most attractive IT market in the world which is experiencing a shrinking manpower, State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak yesterday said Bangladesh wants to send trained IT engineers to its market taking the opportunity, reports UNB. He made the remarks while addressing…

Expatriate Bangla-deshis sent US $9,461.15 million remittance in the first eight months of the current fiscal 2017-18, which is 16.56 per cent higher…

Stocks opened week upward yesterday with rising trend of all the major indices at Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges on higher activities of large-cap…

India has expressed interest to support Bangladesh in building Bagerhat's Khan Jahan Ali Khan airport and modernizing Saidpur airport in Nilphamari, reports BSS. This was revealed at a meeting between Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister…

AFP, PARIS: The EU will soon unveil a plan for taxing major internet companies like Amazon and Facebook by imposing a levy of two to six percent on revenues in every country where they operate, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said yesterday. "The range will be from two to six percent; but…

Mahbubul Hoq, chief scientific officer (CSO), joined Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission as chairman recently, a press statement said Earlier, he was…

AFP, BEIJING: China warned yesterday that it was ready to hit back if the United States damaged its economic interests, fuelling fears of a trade war after President Donald Trump unveiled tariffs on steel and aluminium. Trump's announcement on Thursday sparked a flurry of counter-threats from other…

AFP, BERLIN: Germany’s economy minister on Saturday suggested tightening the rules on foreign investment, following concern over Chinese influence on European firms. Last month it emerged that Chinese billionaire Li Shufu had quietly bought a near 10-per cent stake worth around 7.2 billion euros…