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BSS 2019-10-30 20:07:15
Leaders of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) and the South East Asian Cooperation (SEACO) Foundation have highly praised Bangladesh’s impressive economic progress in the last one decade....
Reuters 2019-10-30 17:21:31
Telecom network equipment maker Nokia has hired hundreds of engineers in Finland this year to speed up its 5G development, the company said on Wednesday. The Finnish company, rival to Sweden’s...
Reuters 2019-10-30 17:15:22
Facebook has agreed to pay a 500,000 pound ($644,000) fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Britain’s information rights...
Xinhua 2019-10-30 16:28:24
China's first X-ray space telescope has helped scientists open a new window to observe and better understand bizarre celestial bodies like black holes and neutron stars. The Hard X-ray Modulation Tel...
-- 2019-10-30 14:47:35
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group, alleging the firm was behind cyber-attacks that infected devices with malicious software. WhatsApp accuses the company of sendi...
-- 2019-10-30 13:57:45
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a boost in funding for clean energy production in order to lower power prices and avoid blackouts. Morrison said on Wednesday that the CEFC woul...
-- 2019-10-30 13:51:43
Bangladesh on Wednesday signed a $100 million financing agreement with the World Bank to ensure improved water supply, sanitation, and drainage system in 30 selected municipalities, benefitting about...
-- 2019-10-30 13:09:54
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has assured the country’s businesspeople of extending all-out cooperation to them in producing diversified products and exporting those to new markets across the wor...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2019-10-30 10:02:16
Foreign aid received by Bangladesh from development partners has dropped by US$56 million in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 compared to that of the same period in the previo...
-- 2019-10-29 21:05:31
A large ancient wetlands region spanning northern Botswana - once teeming with life but now dominated by desert and salt flats - may represent the ancestral homeland of all of the 7.7 billion people o...
AZM Anas, from Manila 2019-10-29 16:51:31
Asia and the Pacific nations, including Bangladesh, need to pump as much as US$42 billion into the agriculture sector by 2030 to eliminate hunger from the region, an authoritative study has reckoned....
-- 2019-10-29 13:50:47
The core consumer prices in Japanese capital Tokyo, a leading indicator of nationwide inflation, rose 0.5 per cent in October from a year earlier, data showed on Tuesday. The data offered the first c...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2019-10-29 09:38:42
The government borrowed nearly Tk 280 billion from the country's banking system in more than 100 days of the current fiscal year (FY) to meet the budget deficit, partially. A falling trend in sales o...
BSS 2019-10-28 16:36:06
Like the previous years, weeklong Income Tax Fair will begin across the country from November 14 aiming to extend tax-related services and raise awareness on paying tax. National Board of Revenue (NB...
A.Z.M. ANAS from Manila 2019-10-28 16:30:03
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lauded Bangladesh for achieving self-sufficiency in rice output, but voiced worry over falling income of farming community. “This progress was largely drive...
-- 2019-10-28 13:47:32
Iran’s economy is expected to shrink by 9.5 per cent this year, compared to a prior estimate of a 6.0 per cent contraction, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. However, the IMF sa...
SYFUL ISLAM 2019-10-28 09:55:05
Bangladesh looks to sign a free trade area (FTA) deal with the United States as it failed to get restored the generalised system of preferences (GSP) facility. The Bangladesh Tariff Commission (BTC)...
FE Online Report 2019-10-27 16:58:34
Agriculture is no more dominating the country as farmer families comprise only 47 per cent of its total households, a new government census says. The information was revealed from the report of Agric...
-- 2019-10-26 18:35:12
Describing the government's move to provide 2.0 per cent incentive on sending remittance through legal channel as unprecedented example, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said such facility does...
-- 2019-10-26 17:13:08
Scientists have named a species after teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg in recognition of her 'outstanding contribution' to raising awareness of climate change, reports bdnews24.com citing The D...
-- 2019-10-26 16:42:25
Microsoft Corp. has won the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defence Department said on Friday, beating out favourite Amazon.com Inc. The contracting process had long been m...
-- 2019-10-26 13:32:03
The US federal budget deficit reached 984 billion US dollars in the fiscal year 2019, up by 26 per cent year-on-year, and is the highest since 2012, the Treasury Department has said. The federal defi...
FE REPORT 2019-10-26 11:09:44
The money loan courts (Artha Rin Adalat), which were created in 2003 to help expeditious resolution of disputes between banks and their clients over loan repayment, are overburdened. These courts are...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2019-10-26 09:49:21
With sales sliding by nearly 60 per cent, the government measures intended to contain transactions of savings instruments have started making an impact. The sales of four popular savings instruments...
-- 2019-10-25 13:34:52
Singapore Economic Development Board said on Friday that the country's manufacturing output grew 0.1 per cent year-on-year in September, compared to a revised 6.4 per cent decrease this August. Exclu...
FE REPORT 2019-10-25 11:10:18
In the High Court hearing on a writ petition on Thursday, Advocate Manzill Murshid said 'headstrong loan defaulters' are taking advantage of the circular issued by the Bangladesh Bank. The circular a...
Siddique Islam 2019-10-25 10:36:44
The Bangladesh Bank has sought explanation from 49 banks for the alleged harassment of their customers in opening fresh accounts, officials said. The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has been i...
-- 2019-10-24 14:49:46
The recent truce in the US-China trade war is not an economic turning point and has done nothing to reduce a significant risk that the United States could slip into recession in the next two years, a...
-- 2019-10-24 13:17:01
Bangladesh will secure a place among the top 99 countries in the global ease of doing business rankings by 2022, said Prime Minister’s Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman Fazlur Rahma...
-- 2019-10-24 13:08:42
South Korea’s economy grew at a slower pace of 0.4 per cent in the third quarter (Q3) from the previous quarter, slightly missing market expectations, preliminary central bank estimates showed o...
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