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Vegetables, chicken prices remain high in capital

Vegetables, chicken prices remain high in capital

Prices of different varieties of vegetables remained mostly high over the past week in the kitchen markets, though winter items are flooding the markets.…

Farmers-friendly banking stressed by RAKUB

The zonal managers of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) were urged to maintain farmers-friendly banking for boosting grassroots economy. Speakers viewed this while addressing a daylong half-yearly performance evaluation meeting of all the zonal managers and others concerned at Training Institute…

Amazon paves way for thousands of items to return to India site

Amazon has struck a deal that will allow hundreds of thousands of products forced offline because of new e-commerce rules to return to its Indian site, a source said yesterday. Some 400,000 items disappeared from Amazon.in after stringent regulations banning online marketplaces from selling products…

Trade wars, Brexit fears sap German export surplus

Germany’s trade surplus narrowed last year compared with 2017, official data showed Friday, with trade wars making themselves felt even as both imports and exports hit record highs. Europe’s powerhouse economy exported 227.8 billion euros ($258.3 billion) more than it imported in 2018, federal…

Greece interested in shipbuilding, renewable energy

The ambassador of Greece to Bangladesh Panos Kalogeropoulos has expressed his country’s keen interest to work specially in the food processing, ship-building and renewable energy sectors of Bangladesh. The Greek ambassador, based in New Delhi, expressed the interest when he met President of the…
Coastal women now self-reliant by drying fish

Coastal women now self-reliant by drying fish

Noor Banu, a 50-year-old woman, has achieved solvency by working at “Shutki Palli” (dried fish village) in Cox’s Bazar alongside maintaining…

Dhaka, Delhi sign 4 MoUs

Bangladesh and India yesterday signed four MoUs to further strengthen the existing "multifaceted cooperation" between the two countries, according to a joint statement. The MoUs were signed at the fifth meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) held in New Delhi.…
Asian markets fall on US-China talks, gloomy growth forecasts

Asian markets fall on US-China talks, gloomy growth forecasts

Asian stocks fell  yesterday  following losses on Wall Street as fresh doubts emerged over the prospects for US-China trade talks and global…
Ghosn under scrutiny over $57,000 wedding

Ghosn under scrutiny over $57,000 wedding

French carmaker Renault said Thursday that it would inform prosecutors about a transaction it uncovered involving its former boss Carlos Ghosn and the…
Taiwan carrier on strike during Lunar New Year travel rush

Taiwan carrier on strike during Lunar New Year travel rush

Pilots from Taiwan's China Airlines went on strike yesterday  in the middle of the Lunar New Year travel rush, forcing the cancellation of at…
Hong Kong’s red-hot property market cools

Hong Kong’s red-hot property market cools

For young Hong Kongers like Wilson Leung getting a foothold on the city’s property ladder has long been a near impossible task but with the notoriously…
No meet with Xi before trade talks deadline: Trump

No meet with Xi before trade talks deadline: Trump

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he did not expect to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping before a March 1 deadline in trade war negotiations…

India's Jet grounds four planes after failing to pay lessors

India's Jet Airways has grounded four planes after failing to pay lessors, the airline said, in the latest evidence of financial distress at the debt-laden carrier. The airline -- India's second-largest by market share -- is buckling under the weight of debts worth $1.1 billion and is urgently…

Tata Motors shares plunge 30pc on Jaguar woes

Shares in India’s Tata Motors tanked almost 30 per cent yesterday after problems at its Jaguar Land Rover unit dragged the luxury carmaker to India’s biggest quarterly loss. The Mumbai-based manufacturer has been badly hit by falling demand for luxury cars in China, as well as uncertainty…

German competition watchdog demands more control

Facebook users should be asked for consent before data collected by the group’s subsidiaries Whatsapp and Instagram and on third-party websites is combined with their social network account, Germany’s competition authority said Thursday. Neither should users who refuse permission for their…

Twitter hammered as user losses overshadow improving finances

Twitter shares took a pounding Thursday as an unsettling update on its global user base offset upbeat figures on revenues and profits in the past quarter. Shares skidded 9.8 per cent to close at $30.80 following Twitter’s fourth quarter update, which showed a consistent profit trend despite a…
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