There is no bigger game in cricket than the clash between arch-rivals India and Pakistan, and one is due today (Sunday). The two neighbouring nations, with a bitter cricketing history, will lock horns in the Asia T20 Cup, report agencies.India's...
LAHORE, Aug 27 (Express Tribune): Recent flooding coupled with an expected hike in price for raw materials has raised an alarm in the agriculture sector of Pakistan, depicting a bleak picture for the future of food security in the country.Food...
TUNIS, Aug 27 (AFP): Tunisia and Japan launched a pan-African investment conference on Saturday, seeking to counter the influence of rival China whose economic imprint on the continent has steadily grown.The conference takes place amid a "complex" international environment caused...
JACKSON HOLE, Aug 27 (Reuters): The tradeoffs facing global central bankers - between jobs, inflation and growth - are likely to get worse in coming years as the world struggles to right job markets and supply chains, and price pressures...
PARIS, Aug 27 (AFP): As the costs of importing energy soars worldwide and climate crises wreak havoc, interest in nuclear power is on the rise with nations scrambling to find alternative sources.Investment in nuclear power declined after Japan's 2011 Fukushima...
MUNSHIGANJ, Aug 27 (UNB): A Bangladeshi-flagged ship has started its journey from Muktar-pur of Munshiganj to India carrying jhut, the scrap fabric produced by the RMG industry, for the first time in the country's history.The ship 'MV Razzaku' started its...
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has claimed that the power supply situation has been better in the current month than that in the previous month, reports UNB."The power supply situation will further improve in the...
Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge Analytica access the private data of users, a court filing showed, according to NDTV.The financial...
India's forex reserves slumped to the lowest in over two years, marking the third straight week of decline as the Reserve Bank of India, true to its word, intervened to keep the rupee from weakening past 80 per dollar during...
Shares of Affirm Holdings Inc tumbled 11% on Friday after the buy-now-pay-later lender forecast full-year revenue below Wall Street estimates, underscoring the broader downturn in the fortunes of the once high-flying fintech sector, reports Reuters.Rising rates, geopolitical turmoil and a...
MOSCOW, Aug 27 (Reuters): Moscow Exchange, Russia's largest bourse, on Friday said it intends to restart early morning trading for currencies and derivatives in September and to widen the trading hours of the Chinese yuan before the end of the...
Chairman of Ansar-VDP Unnayan Bank Major General AKM Nazmul Hasan, who is also Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP, held a views-exchange meeting with the bank's executives at the head office of the bank on Thursday. Managing Director of...
Global equity funds witnessed their biggest weekly capital withdrawals in five weeks in the week to Aug. 24 on concerns that rate hikes would lead to a recession, reports Reuters.Investors were also wary ahead of the Federal Reserve's annual Jackson...
Board meetingThe IBN SINA Pharma-ceutical Industry Ltd: A meeting of the board of directors will be held on September 05, 2022 at 2:30 PM to consider, among others, audited financial statements of the company for the year ended June 30,...
Romo Rouf Chowdhury has been elected Chairman of Bank Asia Ltd. in the 479th meeting of the bank's Board of Directors held on Thursday. Mr Chowdhury is one of the sponsor-shareholders as well as sponsor-directors of Bank Asia Ltd. He...
HAMBURG/LONDON, Aug 27 (Reuters): Preliminary steps to list Porsche on the stock market are expected in the coming days, six people familiar with the matter said, adding executives at parent Volkswagen and family members were gathering to sell the idea...
An agreement was signed between Social Islami Bank Limited and Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad, India, recently. Mohammad Forkanullah, Deputy Managing Director of SIBL, and Keshov Gupta, SVP of Yashoda Hospitals signed the agreement in presence of Zafar Alam, Managing Director &...
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Four listed companies dominated the weekly gainers' chart of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) last week, driven by unusual price rise in their shares. During the week, these firms' share prices jumped as high as 50.89 per cent on the DSE...
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Around 91.1 per cent of the investors' complaints submitted online have been addressed through the securities regulator's Customer Complaints Address Module (CCAM) in nearly three years.The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) introduced the CCAM on September 30, 2019 and...
Md Jaker Hossain, director, SME & Special Programmes Department of the Bangladesh Bank, and Hassan O Rashid, managing director and CEO, Prime Bank Limited, recently signed an agreement in presence of Abdur Rouf Talukder, governor of Bangladesh Bank, on providing...
Union Bank Limited has signed an agreement with Bangladesh Bank recently to disburse loans at 7.0 per cent profit rate under the 'Refinance scheme against term loans to cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSME) sector'. Governor of Bangladesh Bank...
Planning a trip to Thailand? Well, private carrier US-Bangla Airlines has announced a special package for Bangkok with free accommodation. The package will be valid from September 1 to October 31, reports UNB.The special package starting from TK 33,000 includes...
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Rehnuma Begum, a Facebook-based business owner, has to make several phone calls to her customers every day for business needs, such as verifying orders or assuring the successful delivery of the products. To run her small business, she needs to...
Bangladesh is going to sign a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Indian companies GMR Karnali Hydropower Company Limited and NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) to buy 500 MW of electricity, reports UNB.In the joint steering committee (JSC) meeting between the...
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NEW DELHI, Aug 27 (Reuters): For years Indian television company NDTV pursued an independent line critical of the government even as others embraced strident nationalism. Now a proposed takeover by tycoon Gautam Adani's conglomerate has raised fears that one of...
MANILA, Aug 27 (AP): Philippine coast guard personnel and volunteers have rescued more than 80 passengers and crew of an inter-island ferry that caught fire as it approached a port south of Manila, prompting many to jump into the water...
TRIPOLI, Aug 27 (Reuters): Intense fighting erupted in the Libyan capital overnight and lasted until Saturday morning, with rival factions exchanging heavy gunfire and the sounds of several loud blasts ricocheting around the city.The clashes took place in Tripoli's city...
KABUL, Aug 27 (Reuters): Flooding in Afghanistan this month killed more than 180 people, the Taliban said on Thursday, appealing to the international community for help.Flooding has wrought widespread devastation in central and eastern Afghan provinces in recent weeks, washing...
KYIV, Aug 27 (AP): Authorities began distributing iodine tablets to residents near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Friday in case of a radiation leak, amid mounting fears that the fighting around the complex could trigger a catastrophe.The move came a...
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