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Private land, water transportation add almost 11pc to GDP

Private land, water transportation add almost 11pc to GDP

FE Report 2021-02-16 10:13:29

The private sector commercial land and water transportations added 10.96 per cent value to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), an official study showed. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (B...

CPD concerned over fall in export, expenditure  

CPD concerned over fall in export, expenditure  

-- 2021-02-15 18:30:50

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Monday said the decline in government expenditure and fall in export are the major concerns and discomfort for the country's economy. The civil society think tank...

Japan’s economy expands more than expected as exports, capex shake off pandemic hit

Japan’s economy expands more than expected as exports, capex shake off pandemic hit

-- 2021-02-15 12:21:58

Japan’s economy expanded more than expected in the fourth quarter, extending the recovery from its worst postwar recession thanks to a rebound in overseas demand that boosted exports and capital...

NASA's rover faces 'seven minutes of terror' before landing on Mars

NASA's rover faces 'seven minutes of terror' before landing on Mars

REUTERS 2021-02-15 10:26:44

When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, it is set to emit a radio a...

Bangladesh’s growth journey threatened by inequality, low tax: Economists

Bangladesh’s growth journey threatened by inequality, low tax: Economists

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-02-14 18:38:34

Bangladesh has made progress historically denying odds and eventually allowing a class to exploit public resources but a redistributive mechanism to address disparity is largely absent, say some senio...

‘Bangladesh, Brazil to build stronger economic ties in post-Covid era’

‘Bangladesh, Brazil to build stronger economic ties in post-Covid era’

-- 2021-02-14 18:36:09

Brazilian Ambassador to Bangladesh Joao Tabajara de Oliveira Junior has said Bangladesh and Brazil can make a stronger alliance on trade and economic front getting out of the current pandemic situatio...

Alphabet, Microsoft, Qualcomm protest against Nvidia's acquisition of Arm

Alphabet, Microsoft, Qualcomm protest against Nvidia's acquisition of Arm

Reuters 2021-02-14 10:52:52

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an in-depth probe into Nvidia Corp’s agreement to acquire Arm Ltd, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing a source. The FTC has sent information demands...

Merger & acquisition or closure considered only way-out for troubled banks

Merger & acquisition or closure considered only way-out for troubled banks

FE REPORT 2021-02-14 08:31:19

The government is unwilling to go for merger and acquisition (M&A) in the banking sector though the latter needs it most, speakers at a webinar said on Saturday. The need has become even stronger...

US 'back at the table' to help global economic recovery

US 'back at the table' to help global economic recovery

-- 2021-02-13 10:49:33

US President Joe Biden’s administration told allies on Friday it was re-engaging with them to help steer the global economy out of its worst slump since the Great Depression, a contrast with the...

Domestic funding for development budget unlikely to be cut

Domestic funding for development budget unlikely to be cut

SYFUL ISLAM 2021-02-13 08:21:09

The government has decided to keep the domestic resource allocation in the annual development programme (ADP) for the current financial year unchanged. The budget for the FY2021 is now undergoing a r...

Record $58.1b pours into global equity funds: BofA

Record $58.1b pours into global equity funds: BofA

Reuters 2021-02-12 20:19:32

A record $58.1 billion poured into global equity funds over the past week as investors pulled money out of cash funds and had a lighter exposure to bonds, BofA’s weekly fund flow data showed on...

UK economy slumps by record 10pc in 2020

UK economy slumps by record 10pc in 2020

-- 2021-02-12 18:20:04

Britain's coronavirus-ravaged economy suffered its biggest crash in output in more than 300 years in 2020 when it slumped by 9.9 per cent, but it avoided heading back towards recession at the end of t...

Littoral countries' debt burden surges

Littoral countries' debt burden surges

FE REPORT 2021-02-12 10:28:44

One of the major impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the countries in the Bay of Bengal region is a surge in debt burden, economists told a dialogue on Thursday. Countries like Bangladesh, India, Sri...

Minister annoyed with poor tax-GDP ratio as NBR awards top taxpayers

Minister annoyed with poor tax-GDP ratio as NBR awards top taxpayers

FE REPORT 2021-02-12 10:07:19

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday asked the taxmen to refrain from physical inspection as it may cause harassment to the taxpayers. He also instructed them to automate the tax administra...

IMF's own currency likely to get G7 backing

IMF's own currency likely to get G7 backing

Reuters 2021-02-12 09:54:02

Group of Seven finance ministers are likely to back a new allocation of the International Monetary Fund’s own currency, or special drawing rights, at an online meeting on Friday to help low-inco...

Facebook building Clubhouse-like audio chat product

Facebook building Clubhouse-like audio chat product

-- 2021-02-11 10:41:05

Facebook Inc is building a new audio chat product similar to audio-based social network Clubhouse, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Clubhouse, launche...

India slams Twitter amid face off over content

India slams Twitter amid face off over content

Reuters 2021-02-11 10:15:02

India rebuked Twitter on Wednesday for not complying with its orders to take down certain content and warned the social media giant that it needs to obey local laws, even as Indian lawmakers urged the...

Freelancers allowed to bring earnings through MFSs

Freelancers allowed to bring earnings through MFSs

FE REPORT 2021-02-11 09:07:13

The IT freelancers will now be able to bring home their small-value earnings through mobile financial services (MFSs). Previously, they had to bring the money through banks. Local people, especially...

Anti-graft body asks taxmen to probe legalising black money

Anti-graft body asks taxmen to probe legalising black money

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2021-02-11 08:44:39

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has warned the taxmen against black money accumulation by some people, showing income from fake fish, poultry and dairy farms or other businesses relating to stock...

Bangladeshi banks in artificial comfort zone

Bangladeshi banks in artificial comfort zone

SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-02-11 08:11:30

The provisioning shortfall against loans in the country's banking system fell by over 98 per cent in the last quarter of the year 2020 as the non-performing loans (NPLs) declined to some extent, offic...

COVID, climate, tax feature at first post-Trump G7 talks

COVID, climate, tax feature at first post-Trump G7 talks

Reuters 2021-02-10 23:17:49

The new administration of US President Joe Biden joins international talks on the global economy this week with other rich nations expecting a decisive break from the "America First" nationalism of...

Microfinance operators seek ‘zero interest’credit from BB to support Covid-hit poor

Microfinance operators seek ‘zero interest’credit from BB to support Covid-hit poor

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-02-10 20:33:31

The national forum of microfinance institutions has demanded simplification of the process for disbursing loans from the government’s stimulus packages to help the poor recover Covid-19 losses t...

Telesat taps Thales Alenia Space for $3.0b deal to build low earth orbit satellites

Telesat taps Thales Alenia Space for $3.0b deal to build low earth orbit satellites

Reuters 2021-02-10 14:48:15

Canadian satellite company Telesat on Tuesday tapped Thales Alenia Space to build 300 low earth orbit (LEO) telecommunications satellites in a contract worth about $3 billion, saying the first launch...

Facebook to remove posts with false vaccine claims

Facebook to remove posts with false vaccine claims

-- 2021-02-10 13:15:42

Facebook is expanding its efforts to remove more Covid-19 conspiracies that discourage vaccination against coronavirus, according to an announcement by the company. "Since December, we've removed fal...

UAE's Hope Probe enters orbit in first Arab Mars mission

UAE's Hope Probe enters orbit in first Arab Mars mission

-- 2021-02-10 11:16:59

The United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars reached the red planet and entered orbit on Tuesday after a seven-month, 494 million-km (307 million-mile) journey, allowing it to start sending d...

Pandemic job pain fell unevenly on minorities, the poor

Pandemic job pain fell unevenly on minorities, the poor

-- 2021-02-10 10:08:44

Black workers, women and others in low-paying jobs were more likely to become unemployed during the pandemic, faced greater health risks if they did keep working and are being pushed out of the labour...

Bangladesh's imports picking up

Bangladesh's imports picking up

JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-02-10 08:22:38

Bangladesh's imports have started picking up for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic paralysed the national economy, according to shipping executives. Imports surged in January by 5.0-6.0 pe...

Banks’ non-performing loans shrink, thanks to moratorium

Banks’ non-performing loans shrink, thanks to moratorium

SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-02-10 08:13:23

The size of the banks' non-performing loans (NPLs) shrank further at the end of the fourth quarter of 2020. The suspension of the usual practice of classifying loans that had been put into effect by...

Mask making helps rural women earn livelihood 

Mask making helps rural women earn livelihood 

-- 2021-02-09 18:25:13

Amid the tough time of coronavirus, women in Bangladesh's rural areas are making biodegradable, reusable Ella masks from garment scraps to cope with the pandemic-induced new social lifestyle and ensur...

Windows 10 to get new look this year

Windows 10 to get new look this year

-- 2021-02-09 16:18:09

Windows 10 has a major design overhaul inbound for later in 2021, at least in theory, and we’ve caught a number of glimpses of what interface changes might be in store – with another one j...