Manchester United have agreed to sign Everton striker Romelu Lukaku for £75 million while reportedly ending their interest in Real Madrid’s Alvaro Morata, reports Goal.
Lukaku had seemed destined to move to Chelsea this summer but United have swooped after the Blues struggled to make headway on a deal.
United boss Jose Mourinho is hopeful that the [...]

Syria, the symbol of ancient Arab civilisation, now stands destroyed. There is hardly a city, town, village or habitation that has escaped the carnage and destruction. Nearly 500,000 people, including children, have been killed, more than five million people have moved out and taken refuge in the neighbouring countries - about one-fifth have moved to [...]

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) recently advised all commercial banks to revise their credit card policies. In a meeting held with managing directors (MDs) and chief executive officers (CEOs) of commercial banks, the BB stressed the need for making credit card policies up-to-date. Such a directive is very timely. Credit card is a very sensitive banking [...]

DUBLIN, July 7 (Reuters): Qatar Airways is to press on with plans to build a stake of up to 4.75 per cent in American Airlines in the near future, despite the "categorical" opposition of the US company's management, Qatar Chief Executive Akbar al-Baker said on Thursday.
The state-owned carrier notified American Airlines last month that it [...]

ROME, July 7 (Reuters): World food prices rose 1.4 per cent in June over the previous month and 7.0 per cent over June of last year, the United Nations (UN) food agency said on Thursday.
It said in its monthly World Food Outlook that the rises were driven mostly by relatively large increased in dairy and [...]

Remittances from overseas migrant wage earners have contributed to Bangladesh's economy in various ways. This has reduced unemployment and under-employment in the country. More important is their contribution to foreign exchange earnings that has been playing a crucial role in the surge of foreign exchange reserve of the country. Therefore, the recent slowdown of remittance [...]

The Dhaka bourse Thursday witnessed moderate correction after adding 128 points in the last three sessions amidst short-term 'profit booking' frenzy.
Most of the major sectors declined, contributing to losses in the broad index and turnover value on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE).
At the end of the session, the DSE broad index DSEX shed 0.57 per [...]

The department of Accounting and Information Systems (AIS) of the University of Dhaka has launched a two-year Master of Accountancy in taxation.
The course has been launched aiming to create professionals interested in the areas of auditing, accounting, taxation and bank management.
Dr. Mizanur Rahman, a professor at AIS department made Thursday the announcement of the launch [...]

MUMBAI/KOLKATA, July 6 (Reuters): Ethnic unrest in India's Darjeeling hills has wiped out the harvest of the world's most expensive tea, disrupting supplies to European buyers and potentially pushing prices higher.
Protests by Gorkhas, ethnic Nepalese living India's West Bengal state, halted the plucking of Darjeeling's premium "second flush" tea crop, named for the harvest period [...]

LONDON, July 6 (Reuters): Airbus has signed an agreement to sell 140 aircraft to China, it said on Wednesday, in a deal worth around $23 billion at list prices.
The agreement, signed during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Germany, is for 100 A320 family aircraft and 40 A350 planes, Airbus said.
The planes will [...]