■ KHAIRUL NADIM CHOWDHURY Tahir isn’t much of a people’s person. He is shy and doesn’t like to talk much – everything he isn’t supposed to be tonight. He is feeling a bit disoriented and whether it’s because of the medication the doctor gave him an hour ago or just the pressure of being on live television is ...

South Korea’s first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the payload including a new disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space. Danuri — a portmanteau of the Korean words for “Moon” and “enjoy” — was on a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida by Elon Musk’s aerospace ...

Rishi Sunak on Thursday appeared to score a surprise win with a studio audience at a key debate with frontrunner Liz Truss in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister. While opinion polls back Truss to win the vote among Conservative party members, those sitting in the audience at the Sky News debate overwhelmingly supported Sunak in a show ...

The government is in talks with the multilateral lenders to get more budget support in three years to ease economic pressure stemming from the lingering corona crisis and the Ukraine war. The receipt of budget support increased in the last three years to procure corona vaccines and provide stimulus loans on the back of a slump in domestic resources during ...

The Bank of England (BoE) has raised interest rates to 1.75% from 1.25% – the highest level since January 2009. A warning has also been issued by the BoE that the UK is set to plunge into the longest recession since the financial crisis. The recession is set to begin in autumn, and last for more than a year, as ...

State-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) seeks Tk 30 billion loan from Power Sector Development Fund (PSDF) to pay bills of purchasing costly electricity from the private sector power producers. BPDB Secretary Mohammed Salim Reza wrote an official letter to the Power Division’s secretary recently in this matter. This development followed the private sector power producers’ call for the power ...

Planning Minister MA Mannan on has said that Bangladesh economy is moving toward a comfortable position with the restoration of global food supply after Russia’s recent deal with Ukraine allowing export of food grains. The minister said this at a press briefing at his office in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, while releasing the inflation data prepared by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) ...

A man arrested with a crossbow at Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle home on Christmas Day last year has been charged with having a weapon with intent to “alarm her Majesty” under Britain’s Treason Act, police and prosecutors said on Tuesday. Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, from Southampton in southern England, had been arrested on Dec. 25 while carrying a crossbow in ...

Jewellers have raised the price of gold by Tk 1,050 to Tk 82,348 per bhori (11.664 grams) due to a hike in the price of the precious metal in the international market. The price of 22-carat gold is now Tk 7,060 per gram while it is Tk 6,740 for 21-carat gold, according to a press release issued by Bangladesh Jewellers ...

Bangla Trac Group founder, group chairman and former chairman of Prime Bank Limited Aminul Huque passed away in Dhaka on Wednesday. Aminul Huque was also the founder of Bangla Trac Group’s business establishments. Aminul Huque was born in 1940. He got his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1962. He was involved in ...