Promotion of entrepreneurship through boosting SME financing stressed . Senior bankers at a meeting in Rajshahi today stressed the need for boosting investment in the small and medium enterprise sector for promoting entrepreneurship.They termed the sector Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) as labour-intensive and viewed that successful promotion of the sector could be the effective […]

Nike results top expectations but profits down on higher costs . Nike reported better than expected earnings on Tuesday in its latest quarter, supported by strong demand although higher inventory and logistics costs weighed on its margins.The company reported profits of $1.2 billion for the three months ending February — down 11 percent from the […]

Google launches ChatGPT rival in US and UK . Google on Tuesday invited people in the United States and Britain to test its AI chatbot, known as Bard, as it continues on its gradual path to catch up with Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.Bard, ChatGPT and other similar artificial intelligence apps churn out essays, poems or computing code […]

30% of Brazil top state jobs to go to people of color: decree . At least 30 percent of appointed positions in Brazil’s federal government must be occupied by black and mixed-race people, according to a decree signed Tuesday by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.The leftist leader, who returned for his third presidential term […]

Rain or thundershowers with temporary gusty wind likely few places over countryRain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barishal andChattogram divisions. Rain or thundershowers with temporary gusty […]

Ensuring equal access of marginalized people to social services :expertsExperts and right activist campaigners at a three-day training programme here today urged authorities of relevantorganisations to take necessary measures for ensuring equal access of underprivileged people in the country. Ensuring equal access of marginalized people to social services :experts It is urgent to include marginalized […]

Five Ecuador TV stations receive letter bombs, one explodes . Letter bombs were sent to at least five journalists working in TV and radio stations in violence-plagued Ecuador Monday, one of which exploded without causing serious injury, Interior Minister Juan Zapata said.The prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation into the crime of terrorism, […]