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FE Online Report 2020-07-28 15:56:57
The government on Tuesday in Dhaka endorsed seven development projects at a combine cost of Tk 30.75 billion. Presided over by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Executive Committee of the Nationa...
REUTERS 2020-07-28 13:46:31
China’s economy is expected to recover steadily in the rest of the year, boosted by stimulus measures to reverse the damage from the coronavirus crisis, but weak global demand and rising Sino-US...
-- 2020-07-28 12:51:00
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for efforts to build sustainable cities amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In a video message for the launch of his policy brief on Covid-19 and citie...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-07-28 09:57:11
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is set to launch an automated challan system for income taxpayers from mid-August in a bid to check submission of fake challan. The NBR and Finance Division will j...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2020-07-28 09:38:58
The central bank unveils its monetary policy for this fiscal year tomorrow (Wednesday) aiming to help revamp the economic activities through the implementation of stimulus packages. Bangladesh Bank w...
SYFUL ISLAM 2020-07-28 09:29:52
The government is streamlining five laws as part of its efforts to attract foreign direct investment or FDI, which may shift in the post-pandemic era, officials have said. The laws are the Foreign Ex...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2020-07-28 09:17:53
Bangladesh for the first time is expected to secure US$1.0 billion worth of budget support from Japan next week. The support would help the government weather the impact of the COVID-19 on the econom...
-- 2020-07-27 13:50:34
The danger to the euro zone economy from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is not yet over, European Central Bank board member Fabio Panetta told La Repubblica, adding that he saw no need to make an...
DOULOTAKTER MALA and SYFUL ISLAM 2020-07-27 09:22:48
Bangladesh is set to work out a comprehensive procedure to conduct transshipment of goods with India, Nepal and Bhutan on three routes -- sea, land and air. Following the recent kick-off of the Indo-...
FE REPORT 2020-07-26 10:12:20
Speakers at a dialogue have identified policy uncertainty and unpredictability as the key impediment to attracting increased foreign direct investments in the country. They said the lack of coordinat...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-07-26 10:08:27
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) was the worst performer among the large government agencies in the last fiscal as it could spend less than 60 per cent of its total allocations, officials say. Insiders sa...
FE REPORT 2020-07-26 09:36:15
Bangladesh should defer the LDC graduation process considering the adverse impact of COVID-19 pandemic that has already turned the economy upside down, economists and business leaders said on Saturday...
-- 2020-07-24 18:09:58
Bangladesh Bank has ordered all banks to postpone recovery of loans from flood-hit farmers until the situation improves. The central bank has also ordered disbursement of new farm loans readjusting d...
-- 2020-07-24 16:56:53
The government is going to change the main macroeconomic structure of the 8th Five Year Plan to protect people amid the fast-changing scenario in Bangladesh economy due to COVID-19 crisis. The Planni...
-- 2020-07-24 12:20:35
Singapore Economic Development Board announced on Friday that the country's manufacturing output decreased 6.7 per cent year on year in June, compared to a revised 8.1 per cent decrease in May. In th...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-07-24 10:24:07
The revenue board has instructed taxmen to detect the companies, which evade VAT by declaring the supply of goods to local projects to be exports. A number of big companies are taking this undue VAT...
FE REPORT 2020-07-24 09:22:34
The Covid-19 losses for Bangladesh's economy might have reached between US$9.0 billion and US$21 billion in the just-concluded fiscal year, an economist said on Thursday. However, the country can off...
-- 2020-07-23 15:26:15
Commerce minister Tipu Munshi on Thursday hoped that the economy of the country will bounce back at the end of the year as some export products start seeing good demand in the global market amid the C...
Reuters 2020-07-23 15:16:06
Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts, including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands. In twe...
REUTERS 2020-07-23 12:20:17
China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars on Thursday in its first independent mission to another planet, a bid for global leadership in space and a display of its technological prowess an...
UNB 2020-07-23 12:14:47
UN deputy chief Amina Mohammed has said as many as 100 million people are expected to be pushed back into extreme poverty in 2020, the first rise in global poverty since 1998. “We need all hand...
-- 2020-07-23 10:39:09
South Korea plunged into recession in the second quarter in its worst economic decline in more than two decades as the coronavirus pandemic battered exports and social distancing curbs paralysed facto...
FE REPORT 2020-07-23 10:01:52
Bangladesh International Hotel Association (BIHA) on Wednesday placed a six-point suggestion including allocation of Tk 300 billion under the government-announced incentive package for providing loans...
-- 2020-07-22 17:59:56
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said fish production in the country has increased by more than 50 per cent in the last 11 years. Citing latest report of the Food and Agriculture Organisatio...
FE Online Report 2020-07-22 17:16:20
The central bank on Wednesday set an agriculture credit target of Tk 262.92 billion for the banks to be disbursed during the current fiscal year (FY’21). The loan was estimated to be 8.99 per c...
-- 2020-07-22 12:10:59
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the policymakers to take effective steps to limit the coronavirus pandemic's scarring effects on women. Citing that COVID-19 pandemic threatens to roll...
FE REPORT 2020-07-22 10:38:51
Commerce ministry is set to establish four specialised technology centres (TCs) in economic zones (EZs) with an eye to boosting export earnings through adopting new technologies. Under a project, it...
FE REPORT 2020-07-22 10:35:11
The government has released a sum of Tk 18.31 billion in favour of the Bangladesh Bank for the payment of cash incentives/subsidy to local exporters, officials said. It is the first instalment of c...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-07-22 09:25:08
The revenue board has managed to collect Tk 30 billion more for the public exchequer in the last fiscal year, reducing the extent of shortfall it suffered due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The National B...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-07-21 16:18:11
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday cleared six development projects involving Tk11.37 billion. The approval came from the ECNEC meeting held at NEC Confe...
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