April2018

Careem, the Middle East ride-hailing app, said on Tuesday it would appeal after a Jordanian court banned its services in the capital Amman. Jordan’s telecommunications regulator said in a statement on its website that the app...

Not content to stop at slipping packages inside customers’ front doors, Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday started a new program to deliver packages to its members’ parked cars. The world’s largest online retailer is rolling the program...

Malaria is spreading rapidly in crisis-hit Venezuela, with more than an estimated 406,000 cases in 2017, up roughly 69 percent from a year before, the largest increase worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday....

Electromagnetic fields produced by motors in electric cars don’t appear strong enough to interfere with implanted heart devices like pacemakers and defibrillators, a small German study suggests. All electric motors can produce electromagnetic fields. If these...

Beximco Pharmaceuticals has started the export of its third item -Methocarbamol (500mg and 700mg) to the United States. Following the successful marketing of Carvedilol and Sotalol in August 2016 and November 2017, respectively in the world’s...

Japan’s Softbank Group and Alphabet Inc’s venture capital fund CapitalG are among investors pouring $1.9 billion into a truck hailing service platform Manbang, the Chinese company said in a statement on Tuesday. Manbang, formally known as...

Bus services on Bangladesh-India-Nepal route on trial basis have been flagged off in Dhaka on Monday, reports UNB. Two buses carrying 25 Bangladeshis, 12 Indian and six Nepal representative led by Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC)...

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will be honored with the ‘Global Women’s Leadership Award’ for what is said as her outstanding leadership in advancing women education and women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, Asia and Asia-pacific region.   The...

Ekushey Padak winning poet Belal Chowdhury died at a city hospital on Tuesday. He was 79, reports UNB. The prominent poet breathed his last at 12:30pm at Anwar Khan Modern Hospital in Dhanmondi, Abdullah Pratik Chowdhury,...

Facebook said Tuesday it will give users the right to appeal decisions if the social network decides to remove photos, videos or written posts deemed to violate community standards. Plans to roll out an appeals process...