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Easy Build has introduced full-fledged services on clients’ demand and likings to build a house with all architectural, structural, plumbing and electrical drawings facilities. Rahat Zahan Shamim, chief operating officer, Easy Build, said everyone has a dream to have his/her own house. Perhaps some people have their own lands to build house. But many don’t dare to start construction activities ...

Italy was the first European country to report a major surge in cases of the coronavirus, with numbers quickly climbing into the hundreds. The authorities have responded with travel restrictions in the north of the country that are bound to hit the economy. So far, a number of towns in Lombardy in northern Italy have been locked down, with very ...

Photo : A trader works at New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States. U.S. stocks closed mixed on Friday after a volatile trading session, as investors continued to flee riskier assets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 357.28 points, or 1.39 percent, to 25,409.36. The S&P 500 fell 24.54 points, or 0.82 percent, to 2,954.22. The ...

Stock markets fall in Asia on Friday, after losses in the US and Europe on Thursday. First case reported in sub-Saharan Africa – in Lagos state, Nigeria, reports BBC. New Zealand confirmed its first case – someone recently returned from Iran.Belarus, the Netherlands, and Lithuania also confirmed first cases. South Korea confirmed 256 new cases, bringing the total above 2,000. ...

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will refund to its passengers who, purchased tickets for traveling to Saudi Arabia for performing Umrah or tourism purposes, as the Saudi government has imposed a temporary ban on Umrah pilgrims and tourists to stop the spread of coronavirus in the Kingdom. If the passengers want to travel to Saudi Arabia after withdrawal of the ban, they ...

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid, Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, Co-chairman Sadat Sobhan Tanvir, Vice-chairman Shafiat Sobhan Sanvir, Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and Walid Sobhan pose for a photograph during the launching ceremony of Bashundhara Bitumen Plant at Keraniganj on Saturday. Bashundhara Group, the country’s leading business conglomerate, ...

Bashundhara Group launched pitch bitumen plant for road carpeting in its business point at Pangaon area in the upazila on Saturday. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal inaugurated the plant as the chief guest. He said Bashundhara Group has produced pitch for road carpeting for the first time in the country. From now on, Bangladesh has no need to import pitch ...

Business in the 19-country eurozone has picked up in February from a deep slump, particularly in Germany’s big industrial sector, despite disruption from the new coronavirus, a report showed Friday. A survey of business managers by financial firm IHS Markit showed that the economy expanded in February at its fastest rate in six months as services grew and trouble in ...

Shares were mixed Thursday in Asia after Wall Street recovered to record highs, but worries persist about damage to the regional economy from the new virus that began in China. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.3% to 23,474.78, shedding bigger early gains. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.2% to 7,159.00 and the Shanghai Composite index picked up 0.5% to 2,989.31. But ...

Boeing’s crisis-hit 737 Max jetliner faces a new potential safety issue as debris has been found in the fuel tanks of several new planes which in storage, awaiting delivery to airlines, reports BBC. The head of Boeing’s 737 programme has told employees that the discovery was “absolutely unacceptable”.A Boeing spokesman said the company did not see the issue further delaying ...