Reuters 2018-12-22 11:33:58
India has authorised 10 federal government agencies to intercept and monitor information from any computer, a move opposition parties said on Friday risked creating a “surveillance state”....
Syful Islam 2018-12-22 10:01:51
The World Bank (WB) is likely to adopt a new reference rate from next year in calculating the interest of its high-cost loans, officials have said. Presently, the interest rate of WB's high-cost loan...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-12-22 09:56:31
A company, on an average, has to spend around 435 hours to comply with tax payments each year in Bangladesh, according to a recent global report. The length of time for tax payments in Bangladesh is...
-- 2018-12-21 20:55:59
Earth's North Pole is famous for its snowy climes - and for hosting Santa's workshop, of course. But as this picture reveal, it's not the only planet with snow scenes this holiday season. The Korole...
BBC 2018-12-21 17:38:04
Plant collectors have searched for the hidden wonders of the plant world for centuries. Yet plants that are new to science are still being described, at a rate of about 2,000 a year. Scientists at th...
-- 2018-12-21 13:45:07
A company called Swarm Technologies Inc in US will pay a $900,000 fine for launching and operating four small experimental communications satellites that risked “satellite collisions” and...
-- 2018-12-21 12:53:40
The World Bank (WB) said on Friday that it has downgraded its growth projections for the Philippines to 6.4 per cent in 2018 and 6.5 per cent in 2019 "to reflect recent economic trends." These new fo...
-- 2018-12-20 18:39:50
Manpower exports witnessed a record rise over the last ten years as more than 6.5 million workers went abroad with jobs and the country received $133.5 billion remittance since 2009. “We’...
-- 2018-12-20 13:10:56
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled a prototype underground tunnel in Los Angeles which is designed to transport cars at high speed around the city. The tunnel is only a mile (1.6km) long at the mome...
-- 2018-12-20 12:27:54
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) continued to inject liquidity into the money market through reverse repos Thursday with rates unchanged despite a US interest rate hike overnight. It conducted 120 b...
Syful Islam 2018-12-20 10:43:32
In the wake of widespread criticism over mounting non-performing loans (NPL) in the banking system, the finance ministry is going to hold a meeting next week to review the situation, officials said....
Reuters 2018-12-20 10:41:44
After weeks of market volatility and calls by President Donald Trump for the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates, the US central bank instead did it again, and stuck by a plan to keep withd...
Reuters 2018-12-20 10:22:25
Weaker economic growth and tepid price pressures in Asia will leave central banks in the region with few reasons to tighten policy next year — especially as US rate hikes slow — unless a n...
-- 2018-12-19 20:12:11
Japan-based global economic journal Nikkei Asian Review has said Bangladesh continued to witness 'rise and rise' with booming economy. The journal made the statement in its cover story titled 'The ri...
-- 2018-12-19 14:43:09
Chinese researchers have found that tea plants can send a chemical "Mayday" signal during pest attacks and the signal can be received by neighbouring plants so they can fortify their defences. Previo...
-- 2018-12-19 12:31:04
Japan logged a goods trade deficit in November, the government said in a report on Wednesday. According to the Finance Ministry, the country posted a goods trade deficit of 737.3 billion yen (6.56 bi...
-- 2018-12-18 20:18:18
US President Donald Trump has warned the Federal Reserve not to “make yet another mistake” ahead of an expected interest rate hike. Trump made the remarks on twitter on Tuesday to put pre...
-- 2018-12-18 14:07:06
British economic growth this year and in 2019 looks set to be the nine years low, due to a freeze in business investment and weak consumer demand ahead of Brexit, the BCC said. The British Chambers o...
-- 2018-12-18 13:53:33
The European Commission (EC) has asked Italy for a further €2.5 billion-€3 billion ($3.40 billion) in savings before approving the country’s 2019 budget, Corriere della Sera daily r...
-- 2018-12-18 13:34:46
The petroleum exports of United States have increased in recent years, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report on Monday. The EIA said in its latest Petroleum Administratio...
-- 2018-12-18 11:08:59
Twitter has warned of ‘unusual activity’ from China and Saudi Arabia related to a bug in a help form. The bug - discovered on 15 November and fixed the day after - could have revealed the...
Siddique Islam 2018-12-18 09:51:53
Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued a fresh rescheduled policy on short-term agriculture loans on Monday aiming to boost production through facilitating farmers across the country, officials said. Under the...
-- 2018-12-17 19:00:00
The euro recovered nearly half a per cent from recent lows on Monday as the dollar slipped, with traders reluctant to push the US currency much higher before the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting...
-- 2018-12-17 13:22:05
The total non-oil domestic exports (NODX) of Singapore declined by 2.6 per cent in November from the high base a year ago, after the recalculated 8.2 per cent year-on-year growth in October. Accordin...
-- 2018-12-17 10:50:41
The co-founder of the popular app HQ Trivia, Colin Kroll, has been found dead in his apartment in New York at the age of 34. The CEO, who also co-founded the video platform Vine, was found by police...
-- 2018-12-16 18:52:14
WASHINGTON, Dec 16: NASA's Parker Solar Probe recently dove deeper into the sun's atmosphere than any spacecraft before. And it has the photos to prove it. Its approach brought it within 15 m...
-- 2018-12-16 17:52:22
Israel is struggling to recruit enough workers to its technology sector, a report showed on Sunday, creating a challenge for an industry seen as the country’s main potential driver of economic g...
-- 2018-12-16 17:45:43
There is no doubt that the China-US trade war was one of the biggest stories of 2018. The tit-for-tat tariffs levied between the world's two largest economies have put the global supply chain and trad...
-- 2018-12-16 17:39:07
Finland has canceled planned bond auctions for the remainder of the year and is on course to cut debt in 2018 for the first time in a decade, the finance ministry said on Sunday, according to Reuters....
-- 2018-12-16 17:00:15
Facebook's privacy controls have broken down yet again, this time through a software flaw affecting nearly 7 million users who had photos exposed to a much wider audience than intended, report...
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