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Saudi private sector growth rises

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector grew at its fastest pace in two years in November, amid the sweeping crackdown on corruption, a survey showed on Tuesday. The survey indicated that the swe...

World's first robot citizen Sophia arrives

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

World's first robot citizen with artificial intelligence, Sophia, has arrived in Dhaka to attend the Digital World 2017. A Dragon Airlines flight carrying Sophia from Hong Kong landed at Hazrat Sha...

Pigeons can discriminate space, time: Study

-- 2017-12-05 04:43:19

Just like human being, pigeons can discriminate the abstract concepts of both space and time, a new study said Monday. But they seem to use a different region of the brain than humans to do so, accor...

Muhith seeks more Saudi investments in BD

-- 2017-12-05 04:25:40

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday sought more Saudi Arabian investments in infrastructure, power and other sectors in Bangladesh. “The government is providing all sorts of supports to the...

Irish services sector growth falls in Nov

-- 2017-12-05 03:48:51

Ireland’s services sector expanded at the slowest pace in 12 months in November due to weaker domestic demand, a survey showed on Tuesday. The Investec Services Purchasing Managers’ Ind...

US factory orders slip in October

-- 2017-12-05 03:42:41

New orders for US-made goods fell 0.10 per cent in October and shipments of core capital goods were much stronger than previously reported, the Commerce Department has said. Factory goods orders dipp...

Australian retail sales bounce in Oct

-- 2017-12-05 03:33:44

Australian retail sales bounced in October after months of lukewarm demand, a bright sign for spending in the upcoming holiday season as Amazon.com Inc opened its doors for business Down Under. The r...

YouTube to expand teams reviewing extremist content

-- 2017-12-05 01:26:08

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Monday it plans to add more people next year to identify inappropriate content as the company responds to criticism over extremist, violent and disturbing videos a...

Nine banks' capital shortfall swells to Tk 177b in Q3

Siddique Islam 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Nine banks, four owned by the government, had an aggregate capital shortfall worth over Tk 177 billion at end of the third quarter (Q3) of the current calendar year as growing bad loans sapped their...

Britain to probe Brexit impact on drug sector

BBC 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Brexit may affect the cost of medicines and hit UK pharmaceutical investment, a Commons committee head has warned. Rachel Reeves, who chairs the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) commit...

Bangabandhu hi-tech park to create 14,000 jobs

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Bangabandhu Hi-tech Park will create 14,000 new jobs in Rajshahi. State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak said this while he was distributing rehabilitati...

Global ad costs to grow 4.1pc in 2018: Zenith

Reuters 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Leading forecaster Zenith lowered its prediction for global advertising expenditure growth in 2018 to 4.1 per cent to reach $578 billion by the end of the year, with marginal downgrades in North Ameri...

BD's investment policy most liberal, PM tells Cambodian businessmen

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said investment policy of Bangladesh is the most liberal in South Asia. “It (the policy) includes protection of foreign investment by law, generous tax holiday,...

Facebook’s kids’ app will need parent’s approval

-- 2017-12-04 11:51:01

Facebook is launching a new version of its chat app targeting children under 13 with strict parental controls including contact approvals. The free app, called Messenger Kids, is expected to attract...

Facebook, Google face probe in Australia

-- 2017-12-04 10:27:00

Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether US online giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google has disrupted the news media market to the detriment of pu...

Samsung demos 5G on high-speed train

-- 2017-12-03 12:18:19

Samsung Electronics on Friday said that it demonstrated the fifth-generation network on a high-speed train travelling over 100 kmph under a joint project with Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI...

IRRI claims rice research breakthrough after 9yrs

-- 2017-12-03 12:00:00

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has briefed Bangladesh's Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury about the groundbreaking progress of a new rice type. Experts say the new variety, once...

Foreign exchange reserves fall

-- 2017-12-03 12:00:00

Bangladesh's foreign exchange reserves fell in November, although it rose by four per cent than that of previous year. November’s foreign exchange reserve fell to US$32.60 billion from the prev...

Foreign credit use to rise for financing budget deficit

-- 2017-12-03 12:00:00

A top official in Dhaka has said that the government wants to increase the use of foreign credit in offsetting the budget deficit. Economic Relations Division (ERD) Secretary Kazi Shafiqul Azam on Su...

Bad debt grows faster than credit in Bangladesh!

-- 2017-12-03 10:23:21

Only 20 per cent of the loans written off by banks in Bangladesh have been recovered in the last 12 years, says a new report. The study by LR Global Bangladesh says the country has the highest share...

Remittance inflow rises 4.47pc in Nov

-- 2017-12-03 08:47:39

The country's remittance inflow has witnessed a 4.47 per cent rise in the month of November compared with last month of October 2017.  The increase is 27.68 per cent higher than that of November...

Khulna receives 146,000 tax returns

-- 2017-12-03 08:22:24

The income tax zone in Khulna received a massive response from the individual taxpayers in the current fiscal year as the record numbers of return submission and revenue collection had been made. On...

iPhone X to hit BD market Dec 7

-- 2017-12-03 06:11:38

Apple’s latest generation iPhone, ‘iPhone X’, will be available in the Bangladesh market for purchase from Thursday (December 7).  Apple rolled out the first ever all-screen iP...

Tiny graphene ‘tweezers’ can grab molecules: Scientists

-- 2017-12-03 05:18:53

Scientists have developed tiny electronic ‘tweezers’ using graphene that can efficiently grab biomolecules floating in water, an advance that may lead to a handheld disease detecting syste...

China will not close door to global internet: Xi

Reuters 2017-12-03 03:04:13

China's President Xi Jinping speaks at the opening ceremony of the "CPC in dialogue with world political parties" high-level meeting, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China December 1, 2017...

Apple app to identify irregular heart beats

-- 2017-12-03 02:18:22

Apple on Friday launched a new application that uses data from Apple Watch to detect and notify users when they experience irregular heart rhythms, like atrial fibrillation (AFib)– one of the le...

New app to rate Saudi govt services

-- 2017-12-02 12:27:27

A new smartphone application for citizens to provide feedback on government services will be launched in early 2018, according to arab news. Hussam Al-Madani, acting director general of the National...

Bangladesh slips one step in global entrepreneurship index

FE Report 2017-12-02 12:00:00

Bangladesh fell one notch down the latest Global Entrepreneurship Index to 134th position among 137 countries taken for global ranking, indicating some drawback to the country's business environment....

JICA sees SPM pipeline as major obstacle to Matarbari seaport

Syful Islam 2017-12-02 12:00:00

The pipeline of single point mooring (SPM) will emerge as a major obstacle to the main channel of the proposed seaport in Matarbari area, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has informed the...

UK warning of Russian anti-virus software

BBC 2017-12-02 12:00:00

The British government has issued a fresh warning about the security risks of using Russian anti-virus software. The National Cyber Security Centre is to write to all government departments warning a...