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    Bangla Mirror Desk: 26 November 2018 – Britain’s korma kings were last night crowned second to naan as they received the highest accolade in the curry industry  — the BCA Curry Chef of the Year award. The 12 winners of the coveted Chef of the Year category can now lay claim to being the best in their region ...

This will bring the number of aircrafts in the national airlines’ fleet to 15 Biman is set to add a new Boeing 787 to its fleet in December. The aircraft is scheduled to land at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 4:30pm on December 1.  The addition will bring the number of aircrafts in the national airlines’ fleet to 15. ...

Volkswagen will recall about 75,000 of its VW Polo and Seat Ibiza and Arona cars after a seatbelt fault was exposed by a Finnish car magazine test drive. A new fix would be offered to affected UK owners from Monday, VW said.   The test drive in Finland showed that when three passengers were in the back seats and the ...

The Trump administration has accused China of not changing its “unfair” practices, inflaming a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies. In an update to a March report, the US said China had failed to alter its “unreasonable” practices.   The US has, along with other countries, long criticised Beijing over its trade policies.   The move raises tensions ...

Mitzvah Day and Muslim Aid set record as part of Britain’s biggest interfaith day of social action – with thousands of portions of soup made by both faiths Soup cooking events held all over the UK and as far away as Australia Britain’s biggest interfaith day of social action Mitzvah Day and leading international charity Muslim Aid are today teaming up to ...

The US, Japan, New Zealand and Australia say they’ll bring electricity to 70 percent of Papua New Guinea’s people by 2030, boosting the West’s response to growing Chinese influence in the South Pacific. The four countries and Papua New Guinea signed the electrification agreement Sunday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting behind held in the capital Port Moresby.   US ...

US President Donald Trump has said he thinks the US could strike a trade deal with China, raising hopes that tensions between the two countries may subside. “I think a deal will be made,” Mr Trump said. “We’ll find out very soon.”   Mr Trump has made similar remarks in the past.   But this time the comments came after ...

Shares in India’s second-largest airline Jet Airways jumped almost three percent Wednesday following reports that salt-to-steel conglomerate Tata Group might invest in it.   Tata is reviewing Jet’s accounts with a view to potentially buying a stake, Bloomberg News reported, while on Tuesday the Mint daily said Tata’s finance chief and Jet’s chairman were leading the talks.  A spokesperson for ...

A China-backed bid to complete the world’s largest trade deal — without the United States — was pushed back to next year after Asia-Pacific trade ministers failed to agree key terms at a Singapore summit.   The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), covering half the world’s population, is billed as an antidote to President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda, which ...

After years of low, low prices, fed by near-zero interest rates in a convalescing economy, Americans are waking up to costlier consumer living. Everyday household staples like diapers, toothpaste, shampoo and dishwashing liquid — not to mention soft drinks, cookies, chocolate, cat litter and autos — have all started getting more expensive, a trend expected to continue early next year. ...