The much awaited mobile number portability (MNP) service is almost ready to serve the country’s mobile phone customers from the next month (August),…

A bill titled, ‘Sugar (Road Development Cess Ordinance) (Abolish) Bill, 2018’ was passed in parliament on Tuesday to repeal the existing ‘Sugar Road Development Cess Ordinance’, aiming to relieve the sugarcane growers from paying taxes for development of roads in sugar mill catchment…

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) initiative will play a vital role in increasing bilateral and multilateral trade by ensuring regional integration, according to experts, reports BSS. Connectivity initiatives in the present era are considered…

Asian markets were down yesterday as trade tensions between the US and China weighed on investor sentiment ahead of new tariffs kicking in, reports AFP from Honk Kong. Wall Street ended the session down in a shortened trading day ahead of Wednesday’s Independence Day holiday, with falls in tech…

President Mauricio Macri’s center-right government is struggling to stabilise inflation and reassure markets, but Argentina’s small businesses…

Pay is rising much faster for the top 1 per cent  of earners compared with those on average salaries in the richest countries, according to a report calling on governments to do more to tackle “wageless growth” since the financial crisis, reports The Guardian from London. Despite more…

Stocks witnessed upward trend yesterday as major indices of both Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges were found rising trend with higher activities of…

US e-commerce giant Amazon is going to open the second cashierless store later this year in downtown Seattle, the U.S. state of Washington on the west coast, reports Xinhua from San Francisco. “We are excited to bring Amazon Go to 920 Fifth Ave. in Seattle. The store will open in Fall 2018,”…

Ireland’s unemployment rate has dropped to an almost 11-year low with the latest June jobless rate standing at 5.1 per cent in the country, the lowest since October 2007, according to the statistics released by Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Ireland on Tuesday, reports Xinhua from Dublin.…

Reshadur Rahman and Md Amirullah have been re-elected as chairman and vice-chairman of Dhaka Bank Limited respectively, the bank said in a press statement…

The United States has temporarily allowed Chinese telecoms company ZTE to resume some activities while it works to meet conditions set by Washington in a politically charged settlement reached last month, reports AFP from Washington. In a Federal Register notice released Tuesday, the Commerce Department…

Tunisia and China have signed a partnership agreement on developing digital economy, the Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies (ITES) said Tuesday, reports Xinhua from Tunis. The deal was inked during the Belt and Road Digital Economy conference held in Beijing, the ITES said. This agreement will…