New cryptocurrency may be aiding Russia to dodge sanctions
Russia could be turning to a new cryptocurrency called A7A5 to allow money to flow in and out of the country and avoid Western sanctions, experts have told AFP...
Russia could be turning to a new cryptocurrency called A7A5 to allow money to flow in and out of the country and avoid Western sanctions, experts have told AFP...
Citizens Bank organised a training programme on capacity building for marketing and business development at its training academy recently, said a press release...
Trust Bank PLC and UnionPay International have recently signed an agreement in Shanghai, China, said a press release...
Lisa Tate, whose family has been farming in Ventura County since 1876, cannot recall a threat to crops like the one emanating from Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant onslaught...
Large US automakers have criticised the US-Japan trade deal for setting a lower tariff for Japanese auto exports compared with those from Mexico and Canada, where Detroit automakers operate...
Walton Digi-Tech Industries Limited has reduced prices of three of its popular monitor models...
TECNO has launched its SPARK 40 Pro Plus smartphone on the Bangladeshi market, said a press release...
Passengers on a US domestic flight were forced to evacuate onto a runway due to a brake fire just ahead of the plane taking off in Denver, the airline said...
Russia on Sunday began direct commercial flights to North Korea, in a further sign of closer ties with its Asian ally helping its offensive in Ukraine...
WHEN a new episode begins in Bangladesh, it often ends not in reform but in distortion. The story of higher education is no different. Public and private universities are said to be growing in number every few years. Yet in a country where even the four major autonomous public universities struggle to recruit talented and committed teachers, there is little...
A delegation of 21 physicians and nurses from Singapore, China and India, now staying in Dhaka to treat jet crash victims, met with Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday at the State Guest House Jamuna.
THIS is deplorable that the authorities have failed to address the issues that have rendered Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation Industrial Estate 2 in Rajshahi unattractive to entrepreneurs. Launched in July 2022 as a Tk 1.5 billion project, the estate was meant to create 10,000 jobs and stimulate small and medium enterprises in the region. It, however, remains...
The Appellate Division on Sunday dismissed the government’s appeal against a High Court verdict that had recently quashed a 2007 defamation case against former Grameen Bank managing director Muhammad Yunus, now the interim government’s chief adviser.
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday renewed his call for Malaysia to support Bangladesh’s bid to become a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
A meeting of the executive committee of the National Economic Council on Sunday approved a dozen projects involving Tk 8,149.38 crore, but sent back a proposal on a housing project for the July martyrs’ families for further scrutiny...
National consensus commission vice-chairman Professor Ali Riaz on Sunday said the preliminary draft of the much-cherished ‘July Charter’ has been prepared.
Cameron Green hit an unbeaten 55 and Josh Inglis added 51 to lift Australia to a three wicket win over the West Indies on Saturday in the fourth match of their Twenty20 International series.
Russia on Saturday said it had wrested two villages in Ukraine, including one in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, marking a fresh advance into an area largely spared seizures of land since Moscow launched its offensive in 2022...
PRAN-RFL Group selected 40 students from different universities across the country as NextGen Campus Ambassadors at a ceremony at the auditorium of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Dhaka on Saturday...
Religious affairs adviser AFM Khalid Hossain at a programme in Dhaka on Saturday said that all the waqf estates would be brought under digitisation to ensure their proper and smooth management.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and US President Donald Trump said Friday they would meet in Scotland this weekend in a decisive push to resolve a months-long transatlantic trade standoff...
Three years after it was declared ready for entrepreneurs, the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation Industrial Estate–2 in Rajshahi’s Paba upazila is struggling to attract investment due to the high price of plots and the absence of utility services...
South Korea’s deputy prime minister will meet with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent next week, ahead of Washington’s deadline to reach a trade deal, Seoul’s presidential office said Saturday...
American Airlines shares tumbled Thursday as the carrier projected a third-quarter loss due to lingering weakness in the US leisure market...
Intel on Thursday posted quarterly revenue that topped market expectations, saying it has cut about 15 per cent of its workforce to be ‘more agile.’...
A group of political leaders, emerging from a meeting with chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday, said that the interim government chief assured them that a specific date and timeline for the next national election would be announced...
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq finished at fresh all-time records Friday amid optimism over US trade deals, concluding a winning week on a positive note...
Wall Street stock indices ended at fresh records Friday as US investors bet on additional trade deals following this week’s breakthrough with Japan...
To promote financial literacy and inspire youth engagement in the banking sector, Prime Bank PLC, in collaboration with the SUST Career Club, organised a seminar titled ‘Financial Inclusion: Engaging and Inspiring Youth in Banking’ at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST)...
IFIC Bank PLC, a large bank in the country with 1,414 branches and sub-branches, held its Half-Yearly Business Conference 2025 on Saturday at the Multipurpose Hall of IFIC Tower at Purana Paltan in Dhaka...