Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone has taken media by storm by becoming the most followed woman on Twitter in Asia, with a whopping 16 million followers.

BSRM Steels, a unit of Chittagong-based BSRM Group, is going to set up a new melting plant by investing about Tk 725 crore to produce MS billets, a raw material for steel.

Bangladesh’s dream of advancing to the final round of the Asian Cup Qualifiers was buried at the hands of Bhutan when the visitors suffered a 1-3 defeat in the away match of the Play-Off Qualifiers at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu yesterday.

The United Arab Emirates will consider recruiting Bangladeshi workers in future.

Oil prices eased off four-month highs on Monday as doubts over oil producers reaching a meaningful output cut deal brought some speculators to unwind bullish bets.

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom, the Harvard and MIT academics, were awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday.

Bangladesh and India plans to work closely on various bilateral issues, especially in connectivity, security, counter terrorism, energy cooperation and migrant welfare, said Indian State Minister for External Affairs on Sunday.

Central banks` repeated warnings that there are limits to what they can do to bolster the sputtering world economy could suggest they are about to pull back and pass the baton to governments.

The Dhaka stocks Sunday closed in red as most of the major sectors, other than the banks, witnessed notable price corrections.

Gold prices rose for the second straight session on Monday, after falling in the preceding eight, buoyed by post-holiday buying in China.

European stock markets slipped lower on Monday as shares in Deutsche Bank fell, weighing on the broader European banking sector, while some major airline shares also declined.

Credit institutions in Vietnam expected credit growth to reach 21.82 per cent in 2016, according to the State Bank of Vietnam`s (SBV) survey for the fourth quarter on Monday.

Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday officially announced the visit of its President Xi Jinping to Bangladesh, India and Cambodia.

MP Tulip Siddiq has been appointed to the shadow cabinet of UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Net inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from China increased by 5 per cent in the last fiscal year (FY16), reveals Bangladesh Bank (BB) statistics.   

China is expected lend Bangladesh a record $40 billion and the loan agreements is likely to be signed during President Xi Jinping’s Bangladesh tour next week, officials have hinted.

Twenty-five members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have committed a total of SDR 243 billion (US$340 billion) in bilateral borrowed resources with maximum terms through end-2020.

Destroyed houses are seen in a village after Hurricane Matthew passes Corail, Haiti, October 6, 2016. Reuters

Syndication mode may help minimise risks along with reduction of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the country`s banking sector, senior bankers and experts have said.

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith called upon Dutch businessmen and investors to make a visit to Bangladesh to explore business and investment opportunities in the country.