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  Britain unemployment hits 5pc on virus fallout

  AFP | Updated at 10:57pm on January 26, 2021

  Britain’s unemployment rate hit 5.0 per cent at the end of 2020, the highest level for more than four-and-a-half years, as coronavirus lockdowns destroyed jobs,...

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  Govt changing policy to open up gold ore import    

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:49pm on January 26, 2021

  The government has initiated a move to amend the Gold Policy 2018 to pave the way for import of gold ore as well as establishment...

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  Bangladesh for 30 per cent value addition criterion for LDCs

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 10:48pm on January 25, 2021

  Bangladesh will reaffirm its proposal for amendments to the D8 Preferential Trade Agreement seeking a 30-percent local value addition criterion for least developed countries on...

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  Working hour losses highest in lower-middle-income states: ILO

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:44pm on January 25, 2021

  Lower-middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, witnessed the highest losses in working hours in 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to a latest report of the...

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  Austrian motorcycle brand KTM launched in Bangladesh

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:43pm on January 25, 2021

  Runner Automobiles Limited on Monday launched two models of Austrian motorcycle brand KTM — KTM 125 Duke and KTM RC 125 — in Bangladesh. Runner...

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  US housing boomed in 2020 even as pandemic slammed economy

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:49pm on January 23, 2021

  The US housing market boomed in 2020 even as the coronavirus pandemic caused one of the worst economic contractions of modern times, as Americans took...

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  Poverty, inequality surge in Bangladesh: SANEM

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:35pm on January 23, 2021

  The rate of poverty in the country has surged due to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a survey conducted by the South Asian Network on...

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  US jobless claim data underscores employment crisis awaiting Biden

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:42pm on January 22, 2021

  US government data released the day after Joe Biden entered the White House made clear the scale of the employment crisis facing the new president...

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  Asia to dominate Davos virtual forum as virus-hit West struggles

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 10:40pm on January 22, 2021

  Emerging stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic, Asia is set to dominate this year’s virtual World Economic Forum as a virusbattered West struggles and a new...

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  UK economy faces another recession on virus curbs: survey

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:38pm on January 22, 2021

  Britain’s private sector activity shrank in January due to another coronavirus lockdown and the Brexit fallout, survey data showed on Friday, placing the economy on...