Asian markets extended their losses yesterday with virus and vaccine fears returning to haunt investors as Europe faces fresh infection spikes and lockdowns that could knock the economic recovery off course.

US chip titan Intel said Tuesday it will invest $20 billion in building two new plants in Arizona as part of a plan to ramp up production in the United States and Europe.

The world’s leading banks have provided the fossil fuel industry with $3.8 trillion in financing in the five years following the signing of the Paris climate accord, a group of non-governmental organisations said on Tuesday.

One in five of the world’s 2,000 largest publicly listed companies have now committed to a “net-zero” emissions target to help tackle climate change, researchers said on Tuesday.

The government yesterday approved the import of 50,000 tonnes of rice from India in order to increase the country’s food stock and control spiralling prices.

Twenty years ago, Abdul Gafur Sheikh was a poor day-labourer and debt-ridden and found it difficult to feed a family of six.

The government and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have agreed on short and medium-term roadmaps for 2021-2022 to further accelerate the implementation of ADB-assisted projects.

Despite repeated complaints of call drops from users, the telecom regulator today said the percentage of call drop in the country is still within the limit.

Bangladesh would have emerged as the fifth Asian Tiger in the next five years if it had not suffered economic losses due to the coronavirus, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

The Government of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank (ADB) at a tripartite portfolio review meeting (TPRM) today assessed the 2020 performance and agreed on short- and medium-term roadmaps for 2021-2022 to further accelerate implementation of ADB-assisted projects.

The next budget to be presented at the parliament will make it clear whether the scope for whitening the black money will be there in the next fiscal year or not, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad today said they have set a target to establish branches of Probashi Kallyan Bank in each upazila of the country.

The Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) has won the World Bank’s Directors Award for Most Innovative, Collaborative and Impactful Governance Global Practice Operations for its “Digitising Implementation Monitoring and Public Procurement Project (DIMAPPP)”.

The government will buy another 50,000 tonnes of rice from India.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today put emphasis on constructing necessary infrastructures to reap the highest benefits from the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) signed between Bangladesh and Bhutan.

NRB Bank has recently appointed a new deputy managing director (DMD). The appointee, Md Shakir Amin Chowdhury, was previously Dhaka Bank’s DMD, says a press release.

Coal India Ltd, the world’s largest coal miner, could venture into solar wafer manufacturing and wants to “aggressively” participate in the country’s solar energy auctions, its chairman told Reuters on Tuesday.

Britain’s unemployment rate dipped to 5.0 per cent in the three months to the end of January, remaining close to five-year highs on the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Tuesday.

The US recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic “looks to be strengthening,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Monday, but vowed the central bank would continue its efforts to aid racial minorities and other groups hurt most by the downturn.

Microsoft Corp is in talks to buy messaging platform Discord Inc for more than $10 billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.