Bangladesh
BACCO has elected Faisal Alim president and Nahid Hossain secretary general for 2026–28
The association speaks for the BPO, IT and ITES firms that sell Bangladeshi services abroad — a sector whose pricing is now in question.
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World
$4 petrol turned Americans towards hybrids. Detroit had almost none to sell, so Asian brands took the quarter
Hyundai’s hybrid sales rose 39 per cent and Kia’s 152 per cent. Ford has one hybrid pickup and GM one hybrid model. Asian brands sold more…
World
Ford’s Dagenham engine output halved in a decade. Its plan is to build military vehicles instead
Output at Ford’s Dagenham plant has fallen from 90,000 engines a year to about half that. The company is bidding, with General Dynamics and…
World
A robot learned to walk, see a bottle and pick it up in minutes — because it practised millions of times in a simulation
At a Cambridge start-up, Freddo the robot takes a plastic bottle from a staff member. The skill took minutes to develop, because it was…
World
One chemical tank nearly exploded in California — and aircraft window production has still not fully restarted
A tank holding 7,000 gallons of toxic material began heating up at a GKN Aerospace site. Fifty thousand residents were evacuated, and one…
Technology
Huawei brings battery storage to Bangladeshi factories — the arithmetic that makes it work, and the four specifications that decide whether it pays
Solar is the easy part; the sun sets before the evening shift does. Storage competes against diesel, not against the grid — which is why…