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REUTERS 2021-04-27 21:03:27
The space race between the world's two richest men went into hyperdrive on Tuesday after Tesla chief Elon Musk took a swipe at Jeff Bezos' attempt to challenge a major NASA contract. The two billiona...
Global Times 2021-04-27 15:36:00
The application of China's Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DC/EP), also known as digital yuan, which has already been on a fast development track since last year, is taking another critical step...
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A boost in e-commerce business fuelled by the trend of staying home amid the coronavirus pandemic has generated jobs in the sector while other areas of the economy are struggling to cope up with the s...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-04-27 09:32:43
The central bank has amended its policy allowing all banks to form their own start-up fund with 1.0 per cent of net profits instead of operating ones earlier, officials said. To provide start-up entr...
TALHA BIN HABIB AND YASIR WARDAD 2021-04-27 09:28:13
The government's target to procure 1.8-million tonnes of Boro rice this year may not be achieved as the millers find the prices offered unattractive. On Monday, food minister Shadhan Chandra Majumder...
Debapriya Bhattacharya, Towfiqul Islam Khan, Estiaque Bari, Fahim Subhan Chowdhury, Sarah Sabin Khan 2021-04-26 21:12:16
The impact of the pandemic continues to be visible in every aspect of human life. With the new wave of COVID-19, the marginalised communities are most at risk. A recent study titled "Marginal Communit...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-04-26 10:29:41
The yield on treasury bills (T-bills) dropped further on Sunday as the commercial banks having excess liquidity rushed to offer bids in the auction due to the ongoing lockdown, bankers said. The cut-...
FE REPORT 2021-04-26 10:28:45
A total of over 12 million families would be benefited from the government's financial allocation of over Tk 5.74 billion during the Covid-19 pandemic, said the State Minister for Disaster Management...
UNB 2021-04-25 21:35:07
Nikkei Asia, in its recent article, praised Bangladesh's growth describing how the economy has boomed and exports soared. The article also described how Bangladesh's economy has even exhibited resili...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2021-04-25 10:02:15
A Bangladeshi leading IT firm, Synesis IT, is introducing a ‘world class’ virtual office platform named Convay to accommodate as many as 1200 people at a time to meet the need of changing...
REUTERS 2021-04-24 11:33:57
Facebook Inc on Thursday said it will begin testing ads on its TikTok clone Instagram Reels in India, Brazil, Germany and Australia, as the social media giant aims to make money from its short-form vi...
REUTERS 2021-04-24 11:22:54
NASA and Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut team on a flight to the International Space Station on Friday, the first crew ever propelled into orbit by a r...
FE REPORT 2021-04-24 10:58:11
Despite having potentials, the aquaculture sector in Bangladesh has been affected badly in the wake of the pandemic mainly due to the increased cost of fish feed and sluggish demand, according to a st...
FE REPORT 2021-04-24 09:35:59
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) intends to expand the VAT (value-added tax) net instead of raising the VAT rate in the budget for the next fiscal year (FY), said its VAT (policy wing) member Md...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-04-24 09:18:35
The interest rate of the country's many foreign borrowings is likely to go up, as the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) will cease to be effective in the case of most currencies, including the U...
REUTERS 2021-04-23 10:50:58
The global economy will recover this year from its coronavirus slump at a pace not seen since the 1970s as strong momentum builds in most major economies, according to Reuters polls of over 500 econ...
Doulat Akter Mala 2021-04-23 09:31:48
The tax revenue target and the capacity of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) are ill-matched. That is one of the major reasons for the widening shortfall in revenue collection, Mr Farid Uddin, a f...
-- 2021-04-22 15:44:39
NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said on Wednesday,...
FE REPORT 2021-04-22 09:12:37
Revenue collection should not be the main goal of the government under the prevailing circumstances. Instead, it should think about how best it can save life and livelihood, Dr A. K. Enamul Haque, Pro...
Kazi Golam Tashfiq 2021-04-21 20:47:15
As the salt production season approaches its halfway this year, the clouds of frustration, sorrow, and fear of the coastal salt farmers of Cox's Bazar begin to be evident. Cox's Bazar district is the...
Global Times 2021-04-21 19:27:29
Thousands of households in the Gazipur district, on the outskirts of Dhaka, have become better off after a Chinese-invested shoemaking factory opened there in 2012. Panda Shoes Industries Ltd. has no...
FE Online Desk 2021-04-21 13:56:01
Analysts have identified the prevailing coronavirus pandemic as a turning point in world history, with ramifications for everything from climate change to the global balance of power, according to ICC...
Reuters 2021-04-21 09:34:06
Apple announced on Tuesday (US standard time) a range of new computers, a paid podcasting service and devices for finding lost items, signalling the continued expansion of its once-simple product...
UNB 2021-04-20 17:58:15
With just over 41 per cent VAT collection target met in the first seven months of this fiscal year, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is mounting pressure on its field offices to boost the collectio...
FE Online Desk 2021-04-20 16:49:39
The army of the ‘new poor’, struggling to return to pre-Covid occupations and income levels, is in danger of being stuck in a poverty trap, says a joint survey released on Tuesday. It est...
REUTERS 2021-04-20 15:52:47
China's southern space port of Wenchang will build a $3 billion supercomputing centre by year-end to analyse data obtained from space, according to state media on Tuesday. With a planned investment o...
Reuters 2021-04-20 11:50:23
NASA scored a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment on Monday as it sent its miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity buzzing above the surface of Mars for nearly 40 seconds, marking the first powered contr...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2021-04-20 09:22:42
Firefighting and recovery efforts on both health and economic fronts ought to be the central features of the budget for the next fiscal year (FY 2021-22), Dr Zahid Hussain, one of the country's leadin...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2021-04-20 09:16:01
Three sectors - cigarette, pharmaceuticals and mobile phone - made an impressive contribution to the government's revenue collection efforts during the first three quarters of the current fiscal yea...
Reuters 2021-04-19 17:47:11
NASA's miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of anothe...
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