PRETORIA, Feb 15 (AP): Some white South Africans showed support for President Donald Trump on Saturday and gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria to claim they are victims of racism by their own government.Hundreds of protesters held placards that...
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 15 (AFP): An Argentine court has issued arrest warrants for the head of Myanmar's military junta and former officials including Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi over alleged "genocide and crimes against humanity" targeting the...
KHAN YUNIS, Feb 15 (AFP): Palestinian militants handed three Israeli hostages over to the Red Cross on Saturday, while buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners rolled out of two Israeli jails in the latest exchange under an ongoing Gaza truce deal.An...
SHANGHAI, Feb 15 (Reuters): Alibaba will partner with Apple to support iPhones' AI services offering in China, its chairman said on Thursday, a move likely to help the US company ease falling smartphone sales in its key market.For Alibaba, the...
NCC Bank PLC recently signed an agreement with Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd (DMTCL) to set up ATM/CRM booths at all stations of Metro Rail. Khondaker Ehteshamul Kabir, Company Secretary of DMTCL, and Md Zakir Anam, Deputy Managing Director of...
OpenAI on Friday rejected a $97.4 billion bid from a consortium led by billionaire Elon Musk for the ChatGPT maker, saying the startup is not for sale and that any future bid would be disingenuous, reports Reuters.The unsolicited approach is...
Zeeshan Hasan | 2025-02-16 00:00:00
For the past few years, Bangladeshi consumers have suffered terribly due to price inflation. Ministers and various MPs of the previous government blamed "syndicates" for increasing food prices, especially of chicken and eggs. The Bangladesh Competition Commission subsequently ordered several...
BENAPOLE, Feb 15 (UNB): Despite the duty-free import of 13,968 tonnes of rice from India over the past three months, prices have not decreased in the markets of Benapole and Jashore. On the contrary, rice prices have risen by Tk...
Artificial intelligence, or AI, has raised many debates on its effects on different professions, one of them being accounting. Will AI replace accountants, or will it be a worthy partner?AI is already transforming the accounting industry with the automation of...
Dhaka, the bustling capital of Bangladesh, is a city that never sleeps. As the vibrant heart of the country, it is already notorious for its traffic congestion and overcrowding. However, widespread street protests have now brought the city to a...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2025-02-16 00:00:00
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) was established on January 1, 1972 with a noble objective. Its open market sale of some essential products at prices that are comparatively lower than in the market is intended to provide relief to...
Asjadul Kibria | 2025-02-16 00:00:00
Three decades after the formal inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a successor of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), tariffs are still a key tool for navigating global trade. As the average tariff applied by...
Transparency International (TI), the global watchdog on corruption, which is concerned mainly with dishonest practices like bribery, fraudulence, etc., taking place in the public sector alone, but not in the private sector or at the individual level, cannot for obvious...
NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters): Meta Platforms is establishing a new division within its Reality Labs unit to develop AI-powered humanoid robots that can assist with physical tasks, according to an internal company memo viewed by Reuters on Friday.Facebook parent...
SAO PAULO, Feb 15 (Reuters): A powerful Brazilian soy grower lobby is recommending farmers reject the inclusion in soy purchase and sale contracts of the obligation to comply with the European Union anti-deforestation law, according to a statement on Friday.Europe's...
RIYADH, Feb 15 (Arab News): Saudi Arabia's total government revenues reached SR1.26 trillion ($336 billion) in 2024, marking a 4 per cent increase from the previous year and exceeding the initial budget estimates by 7 per cent, the latest official...
WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters): US retail sales dropped by the most in nearly two years in January, likely weighed down by frigid temperatures, wildfires and motor vehicle shortages, suggesting a sharp slowdown in economic growth early in the first quarter.But...
WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters): US President Donald Trump's administration said on Friday it has granted a liquefied natural gas export license to the Commonwealth LNG project in Louisiana, the first approval of LNG exports after former President Joe Biden paused...
Gold prices fell over 1 per cent on Friday due to profit-taking, although they remained poised for their seventh straight weekly rise, driven by fears of a global trade war in the wake of US President Donald Trump's push for...
The 46th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Meghna Petroleum Limited was held on a digital platform on Saturday. The meeting was presided over by Chairman of the company's Board of Directors Farzana Momtaz. A large number of shareholders joined the...
NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters): Oil prices settled down on Friday on prospects for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine that could ease global supply disruptions by ending sanctions against Moscow, but losses were limited by a delay in...
NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters): Walmart's quarterly report in the coming week will give investors fresh insight into the health of US consumers, who are facing stronger inflation and uncertainty over whether President Donald Trump's tariffs will push up prices.The...
NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters): The Trump administration's pledge to contain long-term US Treasury yields has strengthened bond market expectations that a long-desired regulatory shift on bank leverage requirements could be finally looming.Some traders are betting regulators may soon focus...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2025-02-16 00:00:00
Presently, one can purchase mutual fund units at only Tk 3 each when net asset value per unit is more than Tk 11. That means investors will get a heavy discount of 72 per cent for investing in an instrument...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2025-02-16 00:00:00
On February 1, President Donald Trump issued an executive order imposing sweeping tariffs on almost all imported products from Canada, Mexico, and China. However, Tariffs on China became effective on February 4, 2025, while Canada and Mexico reached agreements with...
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain and his Indian counterpart, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar, are likely to hold a meeting on the sidelines of the 8th Indian Ocean Conference to be held in Muscat, Oman, on February 16-17,...
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus Thursday joined the interactive plenary session of the World Governments Summit (WGS) at its venue in Dubai, the UAE, reports BSS.The session was moderated by Becky Anderson of CNN, according to a message received.Prof Yunus...
Decision on the recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights Office's (OHCHR) including the dissolution of the RAB and limiting DGFI's role to military intelligence activities will be taken collectively, Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-14 00:00:00
Police once again used force, including baton and water cannon, on Thursday to disperse scrapped primary schoolteachers as they staged a sit-in blocking the city's busy Shahbagh intersection.The lawmen also took away some of the protesters for "interrogation" at the...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has arranged a public hearing on the proposed gas-tariff hike for new industries and extended units of existing industries on February 26. It requested the interested persons and institutions to enlist their names with the...
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