Samsung Electronics is shifting away from fossil fuels and aiming to entirely power its global operations with clean electricity by 2050, a challenging goal that experts say could be hampered by South Korea’s modest climate change commitments. South Korea-based Samsung is a top producer of computer memory chips and smartphones and, by some estimates, the biggest energy consumer among hundreds ...

Bangladesh on Tuesday exported a locally built 6100-ton load capacity high-speed multipurpose container ship to the UK. This is the largest container ship built in the country that has been exported, according to the ship’s builder. Ananda Shipyard, a Bangladeshi shipbuilding company, has built the ship as per the requirements of UK-based Enzian Shipping Company Ltd. The vessel was officially ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend a high-level discussion on the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly in New York on September 22 apart from her other engagements at the UNGA. There will be another programme on sustainable housing on the UNGA sidelines on September 21, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told the media on Wednesday. “We will raise ...

King Charles and all senior members of the royal family gathered at Buckingham Palace to receive the coffin of the late Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday, after tens of thousands of people lined the streets as it was driven through the British capital. On a dark night of heavy rain, the well-lit hearse travelled slowly from a nearby airport through London, ...

Mourners in Edinburgh, some in tears, filed past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II through the night, before new king Charles III travels to Northern Ireland Tuesday and the monarch’s coffin returns to London. As people paid their respects, four members of the monarch’s Scottish bodyguard, the Royal Company of Archers, stood heads bowed at each corner of the oak ...

Bangladesh Bank (BB), the central bank of the country, has raised the inter-bank exchange rate to Tk 96 for per dollar The rate was increased by Tk 1 on Monday after banks decided to monetise expatriate income at Tk 108 and export bill at Tk 99 on Sunday. The central bank sold the dollar of worth Tk 6.5 crore to ...

Nasir Uddin Biswas, chairman and managing director of Nasir Group, one of the country’s leading industrial groups, has passed away. He breathed his last at about 11.00 am on Monday while undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital. Nasir Uddin established Nasir Group in 1977.

Mourners will on Monday get the first opportunity to pay respects before the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, as it lies in an Edinburgh cathedral where King Charles III himself will mount a vigil. Thousands of people are expected to line up for the chance to see the flag-draped casket at St Giles’ Cathedral in the Scottish capital, a week ...

Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) on Sunday (September 11) started selling sugar, lentil and soybean oil at subsidised prices to one crore low-income families. Commerce Ministry senior secretary Tapon Kanti Ghosh inaugurated the programme in Tejgaon’s Begunbari area in the capital this morning. He said, “Around 5 crore people in the country are being benefited through this programme. The products ...

Neymar notched his 10th goal of the season but a lethargic Paris Saint-Germain needed a second-half Gianluigi Donnarumma penalty save to secure a 1-0 win over Brest in Ligue 1 on Saturday. The result takes PSG back to the top of the table and maintains their unbeaten start to the campaign under new coach Christophe Galtier. PSG are two points ...