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India's sugar demand surges in heat wave and election season

Consumption of cold drinks and ice cream, and as a result demand for sugar, rises in India during the summer months roughly from mid-March to mid-June
23 April 2024, 09:13 AM

Apple's Q1 phone sales in China fall 19.1%, Huawei's up 70%

Apple's China smartphone market share fell to 15.7 percent in the fist three months of the year from 19.7 percent in the first quarter of 2023
23 April 2024, 08:48 AM

Tesla earnings a 'moment of truth' for Musk after stumbles

The electric car maker, which enjoyed scorching growth for most of 2022 and 2023, has experienced setbacks that analysts say have raised the stakes for the first-quarter report
23 April 2024, 07:48 AM

Boeing expects slower increase in 787 production rate and deliveries, memo says

Boeing still plans to steadily increase its rate to meet "strong demand," according to the memo seen by Reuters from Scott Stocker, 787 vice president and general manager
23 April 2024, 06:28 AM

Will a 6-day workweek for executives help Samsung avert crisis?

Samsung Group’s latest decision is to make the executives of its key tech affiliates — Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI, Samsung SDS and Samsung Display — work an extra day per week as part of the group’s emergency measures to tackle ongoing business uncertainties
22 April 2024, 10:50 AM

Souring China dreams force Western financial firms to cut costs

As doubts grow about China's economic recovery and its markets lag global peers, many of the financial firms are taking a hit on their earnings and are reining in their ambitions
22 April 2024, 09:26 AM

China's BYD names electric pickup truck BYD Shark

BYD Shark will feature a plug-in hybrid system called Dual Mode Off-Road (DMO), which it developed for improving off-road driving experiences
22 April 2024, 07:34 AM

What do countries and companies want in global plastic treaty talks?

More than 200 consumer-facing companies including Unilever, PepsiCo and Walmart have joined the so-called Business Coalition for a Plastics Treaty.
22 April 2024, 05:42 AM

Administrator appointed for Sonali Life Insurance

Brig Gen (retd) SM Ferdous has already joined office: IDRA spokesperson
21 April 2024, 11:50 AM

Remaking Made in India will be a long slog

The production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme unveiled in 2020 is losing shine after a soaring start
21 April 2024, 11:17 AM

IMF's Gopinath says high U.S. deficits fueling growth, higher interest rates

Gopinath told a fiscal forum at the IMF and World Bank spring meetings that US deficits are projected to rise for years with one of the world's steepest curves for debt.
21 April 2024, 05:11 AM

Jewellers cut gold prices by Tk 840 a bhori

From today, each bhori of 22-carat gold will cost Tk 118,798
20 April 2024, 13:34 PM

Stocks sink, oil jumps after Israeli attack on Iran

Asian shares and bond yields sank on Friday while safe-haven currencies, gold and crude oil jumped after reports Israel attacked Iran in a continuing series of assaults
19 April 2024, 06:00 AM

Gold price hits new record again

Jewellers are selling each bhori of gold at Tk 119,637 from 7pm today
18 April 2024, 14:15 PM

Govt raises bottled soybean oil price to Tk 167 a litre

But cuts loose soybean oil price by Tk 2 a litre
18 April 2024, 11:04 AM

‘Farmer, RMG workers, migrants main drivers of Bangladesh economy in first 50 years’

However, their contribution would not remain the same in the years to come, says a book published from London
18 April 2024, 10:05 AM

China and EU trade tensions risk a full trade war

China and Europe face a "slow motion train accident" as a rising tide of protectionism threatens to become a full trade war, the head of a European business lobby group warned on Wednesday, a day after Germany's chancellor conveyed European concerns to Beijing.
17 April 2024, 15:20 PM

Another garment factory receives LEED green certification

Bangladesh now has 215 LEED-certified factories
17 April 2024, 14:31 PM
17 April 2024, 11:52 AM

Import of another 124,000 tonnes of rice given go-ahead

Some 91,000 tonnes will be parboiled rice and 33,000 tonnes sunned rice
17 April 2024, 11:09 AM