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Photo: Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, arrives for a ceremony to pardon the National Thanksgiving Turkey in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Washington, Jan 1 : Ivanka Trump is set to launch a White House effort aimed at women’s global economic empowerment in early 2019. A formal launch for the initiative was planned ...

The UK will spend more than £100m chartering extra ferries to ease “severe congestion” at Dover, in the case of a no-deal Brexit. Over the last few months, additional ferry contracts were awarded to French, Dutch and British companies.   The contingency plans allow for almost 4,000 more lorries a week to come and go from other ports, including Plymouth, ...

Photo: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. Beijing, Dec 25 : Japanese stocks plunged Tuesday and other Asian markets declined following heavy Wall Street losses triggered by President Donald Trump’s attack on the U.S. central bank. The Nikkei 225 fell by an unusually wide margin of 5.1 percent ...

Business investment has now declined for three quarters in a row, figures show, its worst run since the economic downturn of 2008 to 2009. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said investment fell by 1.1% in the July to September period compared with the previous quarter.   However, separate ONS figures showed government borrowing fell in November.   Borrowing was ...

Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn arrives for a joint press conference with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. in Yokohama, near Tokyo onMay 12, 2016, file photo Tokyo, Dec 17 : Nissan’s board is meeting to pick a chairman to replace Carlos Ghosn, arrested last month on charges of violating financial regulations. Monday’s meeting comes amid an unfolding scandal that ...

US jobs growth was weaker than expected last month, a slowdown that analysts blamed partly on a tight labour market. Employers added 155,000 jobs, with health care, manufacturing and transportation firms driving the growth, the Labor Department said.   The gains kept the unemployment rate unchanged at 3.7%, near record lows, according to the report.   The average hourly pay ...

UK Curry Connect (UKCC), a small campaign group that is trying to make its voice heard on behalf of the Asian catering industry to various government and industry bodies to deal with staff and skills shortages that are blighting the industry. UKCC has a number of viable proposals that have already been presented and one of its long term proposals ...

Singapore, Dec 4 : Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday as investors questioned if a 90-day truce in a tariffs battle will allow the U.S. and China to resolve a range of issues from technology development to trade. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 index shed 1.0 percent to 22,356.80 and the Kospi in South Korea lost 0.5 percent to 2,120.65. ...

Oil prices soared on Monday after Russia and Saudi Arabia renewed a pact to cap output, while the US agreed to halt raising tariffs on Chinese imports, stalling a trade row that many feared could hit demand for the commodity.   Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “have agreed to extend our agreement” ...

    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 ...