Japan’s economy expanded just 0.2 percent in the last quarter of 2022, Japan GDP rebounds ,a smaller rebound than expected despite the long-awaited reopening of the country to tourists, government data showed Tuesday.The figure for the three months to December fell short of the 0.5 percent growth forecast by analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, with the […]

To support export and import-based businesses to cope with global uncertainties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, enhance trade and currency ,IFC is  providing $50 million to Prime Bank Limited in Bangladesh. This IFC funding will support working capital, trade finance, and foreign  exchange liquidity needs of export and import based entities borrowing  through Prime Bank’s […]

Asian equities fell again Monday on growing expectations that ,Concerns about rate ,US interest rates will go much higher and for longer than previously thought.While inflation has been trending down for several months, data showing the jobs market remained very tight in January indicated the world’s top economy was still robust. Concerns about rate hikes […]

Rescuers pulled moresurvivors from the rubble , Miracle rescues a week after an earthquake struck Turkey and Syrialeaving more than 33,000 dead, as the UN warned the toll was set to rise far higher. A young boy and a 62-year-old woman were the latest miracle rescues after nearly seven days trapped under the wreckage of […]

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) to “be true friend”  of the coastal people by establishing guardianship at the sea.”The motto of the force (BCG) is ‘Guardian at Sea’ which means to establish yourself as true friend of the coastal people,” she said while addressing 28th founding anniversary function […]

Cyprus voters on Sunday elected the former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides elected president as the next president of the small EU member state, with his rival conceding defeat and congratulating him.Christodoulides, 49, won 51.92 percent to defeat fellow diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis, 66, who took 48.08 percent, the government election service in the south of the […]

Bangladesh’s humanitarian assistance package under the directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ,Aid from Bangladesh arrived at Damascus in Syria on Saturday by a special flight of Bangladesh Air Force Aircraft C-130J. Bangladesh non-resident ambassador to Syria Nahida Sobhan and Syrian deputy minister of Local Administration and Environment of Moutaz Douaji received the relief ‘goods […]

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh will never look back again, Bangladesh will keep moving , rather it will continue marching to be a smart, developed and prosperous country.”InshaAllah, Bangladesh will never look back again. The country is marching forward and it will continue. . .,” she said while addressing Bangladesh Ansar and VDP’s […]

Railways Minister Md. Nurul Islam Sujan has said AL power comes in power with people’s mandate as they are the party’s only source of power.”People are the only source of AL power,” he said at an AL peace rally held on Khosabari high school ground of Panchagarh district’s Debiganj upazila in a protest of anarchy […]