Experts at a function today said 82 per cent participation of the girls and women in the ICT sector can increase the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 1.6 per cent, reports BSS. If the girls and women participation in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector increases…

US-Bangla Airlines, a private carrier, will begin its flight operations on Dhaka-Guangzhou, China route today, reports UNB. Initially three flights will be operated from Dhaka to Guangzhou on every Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday and return from Guangzhou to Dhaka on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Guangzhou…

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said Bangladesh will sign bilateral trade agreement (BTA) with Cambodia to tap the trade potentiality, reports BSS. The commerce minister who is visiting Cambodia invited his counterpart Pan Sorasak to sign the BTA in Dhaka at the end of June or early July, during a bilateral…

Crude oil prices are expected to jump 23 percent this year amid strong economic growth, while metals prices are rising, hit by ongoing trade tensions, the World Bank said Tuesday, reports AFP from Washington. The World Bank raised its forecast for oil prices to an average of $65 a barrel this year and…

Asian markets went into reverse yesterday, tracking fresh losses on Wall Street as investors fret about rising US Treasury yields and speculation that interest rates will rise four times this year, reports AFP from Hong Kong. Technology firms were once again in the firing line in response to a plunge…

After witnessing a downward trend in the last four consecutive sessions, stocks rebounded yesterday on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong…

Facebook reports quarterly results yesterday as it grapples with a data privacy scandal that strikes at how the huge social network makes money from what it knows about people, reports AFP from San Franisco. The earnings release comes just two weeks after Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark…

Food Chain Asia Ltd has opened three chain restaurants in the capital`s Dhanmondi yesterday.  The restaurants are Canadian coffee chain ‘Second Cup Coffee’, Malaysian Seafood Franchise ‘The Manhattan Fish Market’ and famous American burger chain ‘Johnny Rockets’,…

Popular messaging service WhatsApp is banning under-16s from using its platform in the European Union, reports BBC. Users must currently be at least 13, but the firm is changing the rules ahead of the introduction of new EU data privacy regulations in May. The app, which is owned by Facebook, will ask…

India’s Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers said yesterday that they had agreed to merge in a deal that will create the world’s second-largest mobile mast company, reports AFP from Mumbai. The merged entity will boast 163,000 towers across India, behind just China Towers for the number of masts…

The German economy ministry yesterday published an optimistic set of forecasts for 2018-19, saying strong growth into next year will help create a million new jobs, reports AFP from Frankfurt Am Main. “The German business cycle remains spirited and the upturn is continuing” against the background…