Although women in Bangladesh are making huge strides in different socio-economic fronts, working women in Dhaka and other big cities continue to struggle for the lack of safe accommodation facilities. Now the government has adopted a plan – 'Construction of Department of Women Affairs Complex…

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday said huge employment opportunities will be created after the beginning of vehicular movement on the Padma…

A total of 29 Bangladeshi food and beverage manufacturing companies will take part in five-day ‘Gulfood-2020′ to be held in the World Trade Center in Dubai from February 16 to 20. The companies are participating with the coordination of the Bangladesh Agro-Processors’ Association (BAPA)…

Chinese tech giant Huawei has been hit with fresh US criminal charges alleging a "decades-long" effort to steal trade secrets from American…

French carmaker Renault said yesterday it went into the red last year for the first time in a decade on lower sales and a falling contribution from its…

Asian plane makers have thrown huge sums at building jets but flagship projects have suffered repeated setbacks, and they face a tough time breaking into…

Global shares mostly rose yesterday despite continuing concerns about the virus outbreak that began in China and its possible impact on global growth.…

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday backed moves by the OECD group of free-market economies to reform the way online giants are taxed worldwide,…

Growth ground to a halt at the end of the year in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, as manufacturing remained in a slump and exports fell. The figure underlines the challenge facing the eurozone. The state statistics agency said yesterday there was zero growth in the fourth quarter and a mediocre…

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the US military from awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, after Amazon claimed the process was tainted by politics. A preliminary injunction requested by Amazon was issued by Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith, barring the Department…

Tesla shifted gears on Thursday and said it would issue new shares to raise fresh cash, as the electric carmaker responded to the coronavirus epidemic impact on its Shanghai factory and the China car market. Tesla plans to raise slightly more than $2 billion by issuing 2.65 million shares of common…