September2018

Popular online ride-sharing and ticketing platform Shohoz raised US$15 million pre-series B investment led by Singapore’s Golden Gate Ventures. It will use the fresh capital for customer acquisition and retention of its ride-sharing business, and expand...

Marriott International has brought back ‘Run to Give’ charity run on September 23, 2018. This year Le Méridien Dhaka and Four Points by Sheraton joined efforts for ‘ASHIC Foundation’, a non-profit organization, which has been dedicating...

India’s 100th airport, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the northern-eastern state of Sikkim on Monday, is arguably one of the world’s most beautiful. Sikkim, a tiny former kingdom in the Himalayas, is home to...

Two separate studies on Monday report successes with epidural electrical stimulation in helping paralyzed patients regain the ability to walk. As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers enrolled four patients who experienced spinal...

Ride-hailing firm Grab said on Wednesday it would stop offering car-pooling services during late-night hours in Singapore after drivers complained about some passengers being drunk and argumentative. Citing feedback from drivers who described intoxicated commuters vomiting...

U.S. regulators are considering banning the online sales of e-cigarettes, the head of the Food & Drug Administration Scott Gottlieb said on Tuesday. Gottlieb, speaking on a panel discussion on vaping that was arranged by Axios,...

Daimler, the German car maker that owns Mercedes-Benz, will be run by a non-German for the first time next year. Dieter Zetsche, 65, will be replaced by Ola Kaellenius, a 49-year-old Swede, as chief executive in...

Saudi Arabia will begin issuing visas to visitors to attend sporting and cultural events from December, officials said on Tuesday, a first for the kingdom as it seeks to kickstart tourism. “Saudi Arabia will open up...

Nearly half of South Asia’s population, including more than three-quarters of Bangladesh’s population, is at risk of declining living standards due to rising temperature and erratic rainfall from climate change, says a new World Bank Report....

A plane of US Bangla Airlines, which was flying from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar today executed an emergency landing in Chattogram due to nose gear issues. No casualties or fatalities have been reported so far. Quamrul...