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India and Bangladesh has finalised a draft agreement on coastal shipping to allow river vessels to carry cargo between the two countries. Government sources said that the agreement was finalised during a secretary-level talk held at New Delhi on Friday. The arrangement would allow River Sea Vessels (RSV) to carry cargo between the two neighbouring countries. In terms of berthing ...

The Cabinet has cleared an agreement to export unused submarine cable bandwidth to India that will fetch Bangladesh $1.2 million every year. The proposal, placed by the Post and Telecommunication Division, was approved at Monday’s regular meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Cabinet Secretary Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said. He said the agreement to supply 10GBPS (gigabyte per second) ...

The Chairman of state-owned  Bangladeshes  Sonali Bank AHM Habibur Rahman has resigned eight months before the completion of his tenure. He submitted his resignation letter to the board of directors on Sunday. He cited ‘personal reason’ for resigning. The resignation was later forwarded to the Bank and Financial Institution Division at the Ministry of Finance. Even though Habibur Rahman showed ...

The prices of imported edible oil, sugar and flour are higher in Bangladesh despite a drop in the international market. The disparity became evident in reports of Bangladesh Tariff Commission (BTC) and Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB). According to the last report of BTC, the price of crude soybean oil in the international market was 32 per cent less on ...

Marks & Spencer shares rose to their highest level in seven years after the retailer posted a long-awaited rise in clothing sales. The retailer said sales for the three months to 28 March rose by 1.9%. Closely-watched general merchandising sales, which include women’s clothing, rose 0.7% on a like-for-like basis over the quarter, its best performance in nearly four years. ...

The dollar stuck to its recent ranges in holiday-thinned trading on Friday and stocks edged up as investors awaited key US employment figures for possible clues on when the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.2 percent, while Japan’s Nikkei stock average was up 0.3 percent. Wall Street logged modest gains ...

Major powers and Iran have stretched talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme into a second day past an end-March deadline, with diplomats saying the chances for a preliminary deal were balanced between success and collapse.   Both Brent and US crude prices snapped three-session losing streaks on Wednesday, gaining $2 or more after data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed ...

According to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (BTRC), the country’s first cellphone operator Citycell lost 135,000 and Airtel 418,000 users in the last one year. BTRC disclosed the latest figures of mobile phone and internet subscribers on Tuesday. According to the telecom regulator, the number of mobile-phone users in the country rose to 122.66 million at the end of February this ...

The flash HSBC/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) dipped to 49.2 in March, below the 50-point level that separates growth in activity from a contraction on a monthly basis, stoking worries over the strength of the world’s No.2 economy. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a reading of 50.6. “Considering that the preliminary PMI figures for major crude importers turned out ...

Chewy Junior Cream Donut Puff! The fun-food for the food-lovers with a great taste, just too good to forget! Originally, a concept of bakery genius Mr. Kevin Wong from Singapore, Chew Junior has been serving the global gourmand through its 50 plus outlets in eleven countries and is generally celebrated as a wonder donut among its fans. To meet up ...