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Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously activated Siri to record conversations through ...

Bangladesh General Insurance Company PLC. (BGIC) welcomed 2025 with a marvelous function at the Head office on Wednesday. 1st January is also 102nd Birth anniversary of M A Samad, the Pioneer of Insurance Industry and Founder of BGIC. The event remembered his ideals and his contribution to the insurance industry. The Chairman of the company Mr. Towhid Samad was the ...

Bangladesh has recorded its highest ever remittance inflow in December, with USD 2.64 billion received in the last month of 2024. The remittance inflow has been bolstered since the interim government took charge in August. The previous highest remittance inflow was of USD 2.59 billion in July, 2020. After the political changeover in August, more than USD 2 billion of ...

The prices of diesel and kerosene have been reduced by Tk 1 per litre with effect from January 1. According to new prices, set by the Energy and Mineral Resources Division for the month of January, per litre of diesel and kerosene will be sold at Tk 104 instead of earlier price of Tk 105 while prices of octane and ...

Women may be at risk of missing out on opportunities at work as they are less likely to go into the office than men, the boss of the world’s biggest building society has said. Speaking to BBC R4’s Today programme, Nationwide chief executive Debbie Crosbie said it was important for career growth to have a “physical presence” in the workplace. ...

Syria’s new rulers have appointed Maysaa Sabrine, formerly a deputy governor of the Syrian central bank, to lead the institution as the first woman to do so in its more than 70-year history, a senior Syrian official said. Sabrine, a longtime central bank official mostly focused on oversight of the country’s banking sector, did not immediately respond to a request ...

Rail passengers on Avanti West Coast routes will face a “significantly reduced” service on New Year’s Eve due to a strike by train managers. A dispute over rest days will see train managers who are members of the RMT union walk out on 31 December and 2 January. Avanti says the few trains running will be very busy, and advises ...

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country’s main capital market, saw an upward trend in the first hour on Monday. The 3 indexes of the Dhaka stock market DSEX, DSES, and DS30 increased in the morning. The main index DSEX increased by 9.15 points to 5,213.93 points, the DSES Shariah index rose by 1.32 points to 1167.62 points, and the ...

There will be no transaction at banks and financial institutions across the country as the bank holiday on December 31. Two stock markets will also remain close on Tuesday. But important branches of the banks will remain open, but no transaction will be held. During bank holidays, no transactions are conducted by Bangladesh Bank, any bank to bank, or bank ...

Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves have surpassed $21 billion, bolstered by a $1 billion inflow from international lending institutions, including the Asian Development Bank (ADB), over the past week. Bangladesh Bank’s Executive Director and Spokesperson Husne Ara Shikha confirmed the development on Friday, noting that the reserves have risen due to external loan disbursements and an uptick in remittance inflows. As ...