Companies around the world are waiting for China to re-open its factories and plants on Monday, reports BBC. If this does not happen, major brands from car makers to tech giants will struggle to make their products.Inventories are already running low following widespread shutdowns at Chinese factories forced to close to prevent the spread of the coroanvirus. China, known as ...

Shamima Begum, the woman who left Britain as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State in Syria, has lost the initial stage of her appeal against the Home Office’s decision to revoke her UK citizenship. A unanimous judgment by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) found against Begum, now 20, on three preliminary grounds, including that she had not been improperly ...

A UK court has sentenced a Bangladeshi man to life term imprisonment for killing his wife and two daughters in London in 2007. The convicted lifer is identified as Mohammed Abdul Shakur. London’s Old Bailey court delivered the judgment in the presence of the accused on Thursday.On January 1, 2007, police broke into Shakur’s family home in East London’s East ...

Uber’s business continues to grow, but so do its losses. The firm lost $1.1bn (£851m) in the last three months of 2019, even as revenue jumped 37% to $4bn and the number of trips made on its platform rose by 28%.Spending to expand its Uber Eats food delivery business hurt the firm’s bottom line, reports BBC. Uber boss Dara Khosrowshahi ...

Photo: PID President Abdul Hamid on Thursday said necessary steps should be taken for checking the misuse of information technology alongside ensuring their development. The President said this while delivering speech at the inaugural ceremony of ‘BASIS Soft Expo-2020’ held at Bashundhara International Convention Centre in the city. Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Service (BASIS) organised the four-day programme ...

Flower farmers in Jashore’s Jhikargacha say they expect to sell flowers worth Tk 70-80 crore ahead of Pahela Falgun, Valentine’s Day and International Mother Language Day this month. According to Bangladesh Flower Society, 8000-10,000 florists are involved in flower cultivation in around 3,500 hectares of land there. Around 12 species of flowers are cultivated here. Among the total cultivation, gladiolus ...

British energy giant BP on Tuesday said annual net profit slid to $4.0 billion last year, hit by weaker oil prices. The figure was down sharply compared with profit after tax of $9.38 billion in 2018, the company said in a statement.

Photo: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, speaks alongside Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister of Economics and Energy, left, and Julia Klöckner, Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, at the beginning of a meeting of the Federal Government with representatives of the food industry in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb.3, 2020. German Chancellor Angela Merkel met food industry representatives on Monday to address ...

Two decommissioned satellites sped past each other Wednesday after experts had warned they may collide at a combined speed of 33,000 miles (53,000 kilometers) an hour, sending thousands of pieces of debris hurtling through space. The satellites — a pioneering international space telescope and an experimental US craft traveling in opposing orbits — “crossed paths without incident,” a spokesman for ...

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has started its service of Airbus A350-900 medium-haul aircraft for the first time in the country. SIA made its inaugural flight from Dhaka to Singapore on Saturday. The boarding announcement was made by George Robertson, General Manager Bangladesh of Singapore Airlines for the inaugural flight of the A350-900. Featuring new regional Business Class and Economy Class cabin ...