Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday, driving the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes to more record highs. Technology stocks powered much of the rally as investors focused on the latest batch of mostly solid company earnings reports. The latest gains came as worries about the economic impact of the virus outbreak that originated in China continued to subside. ...

A financial institution has come up with first ever loan scheme for persons with 18 years old and above to buy books in the ‘Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela’ aiming to encourage booklovers to read more books. The IPDC Finance Limited has introduced interest-free book loan scheme titled “Subodh at Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2020”, setting an inspirational instance to motivate people ...

Europe’s audacious Solar Orbiter probe has lifted off on its quest to study the Sun from close quarters. The €1.5bn (£1.3bn) mission is packed with cameras and sensors that should reveal remarkable new insights on the workings of our star. Scientists want to better understand what drives its dynamic behaviour.The spacecraft is riding on an Atlas rocket, which lifted off ...

Prices of goods imported from China mark a rise in Bangladesh Photo : A woman walks past an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. Asian stock markets slid Monday after China reported an uptick in new cases of its virus outbreak and analysts warned optimism the disease is ...

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 ...