Jewellers raised 22-carat gold prices by Tk 2,612 per bhori

Sri Lanka's new president won the election decisively, but his toughest task still lies ahead as he seeks to balance promises to aid the nation's poor against the need to keep crucial supplies of cash flowing from the International Monetary Fund

Shimmering piles of silver fish are snapped up for exorbitant prices in India's port of Kolkata, the unlikely side effect of a diplomatic fallout after a student-led revolution in neighbouring Bangladesh

IMF is ready to discuss its controversial $2.9 billion bailout programme for Sri Lanka with the country's new government, a spokesman said

The chamber met industries adviser, discussed collaborative approaches to tackle industrial challenges

The Indian government will sell onions from its reserves to cool high prices, a top official at the consumer affairs ministry told reporters on Monday.

China warned the United States on Monday not to take "discriminatory actions" against its firms, following reports Washington is planning to ban the sale of vehicles using Chinese and Russian technology

British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Monday will vow to "rebuild Britain" after 14 years of Conservative leadership, warning of "difficult decisions" in a speech at the Labour Party conference

TSMC and Samsung Electronics, have discussed building potential chip projects in the United Arab Emirates in coming years which could be worth more than $100 billion

US Vice President Kamala Harris plans to roll out a new set of economic policies this week that aim to help Americans build wealth and set economic incentives for businesses to aid that goal, three sources with knowledge of the matter said

The government high-ups took the decision

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spent much of the past decade lowering barriers to foreign investment in India

Japanese inflation rose slightly in August, with prices up 2.8 percent year-on-year, official data showed Friday, hours before the Bank of Japan was widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged

"It reflects confidence on the part of the Fed that inflation has come way down and is on the path back to the two percent target, and that the risks with respect to inflation have really meaningfully diminished," Yellen told an event in Washington

The party of a Marxist leader on track to win Sri Lanka's presidential vote vowed Sunday not to scrap the country's unpopular $2.9 billion IMF bailout agreement, but instead renegotiate it

The US Commerce Department is expected on Monday to propose prohibiting Chinese software and hardware in connected and autonomous vehicles on American roads due to national security concerns, two sources told Reuters

Youth unemployment in China climbed to 18.8 percent in August, its highest level this year, as the country struggles to boost a flagging economy

The index should be updated quarterly, the donor agency said

Bullion's latest rally got a fillip after the Federal Reserve initiated an aggressive easing cycle on Wednesday with a half-percentage-point reduction

The Samsung strike is one of the biggest in India in recent years