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Migrant workers who are willing to apply for skill migration to Korea can pay their registration fees through bKash.

The tourism industry in India’s northeastern state Assam is taking a hit right now as violent anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests by various oraganisations against the controversial act continue.

French firm Technip, which is keen to clinch the contract for building the country’s second crude oil refinery, has revised down the estimated cost of its construction to US$ 2.23 billion.

Britain’s Brexit-facing economy avoided recession in the third quarter with stronger growth than previously thought, official data showed on Friday.

Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited’s revenue slumped 22.23 percent to Tk 886.81 crore last fiscal year, in yet another emblem of the steady decline of the once hugely profitable state-owned enterprise.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir said concerted efforts of all the academics, scientists and researchers concerned is very crucial to supplement the government relentless efforts of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the time-frame.

The Economic Community of West African States, known as ECOWAS, on Saturday urged members to push on with efforts to establish a common currency, optimistically slated to launch next year.

Scope abounds for a whacking $10-billion investment in nine projects under public-private partnership (PPP) with the government-to-government (G2G) arrangement.

Irregularities and problems of various nature in the country’s banking and financial sector have hit its growth, as the sector’s expansion rate has fallen in the last fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, for the second consecutive year, analysts said.

Farm credit disbursement grew by more than 11 per cent in the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, as demand for such loan has been picked up due to seasonal effects.