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JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2019-10-18 10:21:07
A new strategic Chattogram-Chennai-Europe shipping route is likely to commence next month which is expected to reduce lead time. Currently, Chattogram-Colombo, Chattogram-Singapore and Chattogram-Por...
Xinhua 2019-10-17 17:22:14
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland expanded 6.5 per cent year on year to 683.21 billion yuan in the first three quarters of the year, an official with the Ministry of Commerce (...
FE Online Report 2019-10-17 16:47:28
Share of income has concentrated and centralised among the richest groups and the distribution of income is becoming progressively unequal in the country, according to a study. The study, conducted r...
-- 2019-10-17 13:56:45
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank of the country, skipped open market operations via reverse repos on Thursday. The PBOC announced the move in a statement on its website, citing rea...
-- 2019-10-17 12:56:42
World Bank President David Malpass said the development lender will likely again downgrade its global growth outlook amid uncertainty over falling trade and investment flows. “As we look at the...
FE Report 2019-10-17 12:24:48
The next eighth five-year plan (FYP) is set to deal with multiple challenges to be faced by Bangladesh after its graduation to a middle-income status in 2024. A review meeting on the apex national pl...
-- 2019-10-16 18:59:23
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Md Jahurul Haque has said the fifth generation (5G) mobile network service will be available in the country by 2021 to 2023. Jahurul...
BBC 2019-10-16 17:50:45
Germany will not exclude Chinese tech giant Huawei from its 5G mobile networks, saying it wants to create "a level playing field" for vendors. The US has banned Huawei from selling 5G equipment to it...
Xinhua 2019-10-16 17:26:43
The US space agency NASA unveiled on Tuesday the next-generation spacesuits to be used in its Artemis programme that will send the first woman and next man to the Lunar South Pole by 2024. NASA Admin...
-- 2019-10-16 15:32:57
Google unveiled its latest family of hardware ranging from smartphones, ear buds to laptops at a major product launch event in New York on Tuesday (local time), with its new Pixel 4 phone featuring fa...
FE Report 2019-10-16 10:44:08
The Annual Development Programme (ADP) implementation rate fallen to 8.06 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY) 2019-20. During the same period (July-September) of FY 201...
FE Report 2019-10-16 10:06:39
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecasted a 7.8 per cent economic growth for Bangladesh in 2019. The October 2019 version of the World Economic Outlook (WEO), released on Tuesday morning i...
FE REPORT 2019-10-16 09:59:47
The net inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh increased by 50.71 per cent in the last fiscal year (FY'19), according to the latest statistics released by the central bank on Tuesday....
-- 2019-10-15 21:03:05
State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub Ali has said Muslim-friendly environment across the Bangladesh can be a great source to meet the growing demand of Muslim travellers. “Mus...
-- 2019-10-15 20:14:41
The general point-to-point inflation rate reached 5.54 per cent in September last from 5.49 per cent in the previous month. The information was revealed on Tuesday at the ECNEC meeting based-on the m...
-- 2019-10-15 17:11:02
Google is expected to unveil a new Pixel phone with an updated camera and an emphasis on artificial intelligence features. Google has already announced many details of the Pixel 4, including motion-s...
-- 2019-10-15 16:01:23
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved two mega MRT projects -- Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Project (Line-1) and Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Develop...
Xinhua 2019-10-15 14:54:16
China has decided to further open up its insurance and banking sectors to foreign investors by revising related regulations. Revisions to the regulations on foreign-invested insurance and banking fir...
FE Online Report 2019-10-14 20:40:47
A three-day exhibition of Bangladeshi products is going to kick off in Qatar on December 10 with the aim to strengthen local trade and investment with the host country. The ‘Bangladesh Forum Qa...
-- 2019-10-14 16:41:29
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics of this year on Monday for research on alleviating global poverty. Indian-born Abhijit Banerjee is an Ameri...
-- 2019-10-14 14:05:11
Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry has announced that based on advance estimates, the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the third quarter of 2019 grew 0.1 per cent year on year....
Xinhua 2019-10-14 13:50:34
China's trade with countries along the Belt and Road (B&R) posted robust growth in the first three quarters of this year, official data showed Monday. Trade with B&R countries totalled 6.65 t...
Reuters 2019-10-14 13:06:57
British finance minister Sajid Javid said on Monday he planned to deliver the first post-Brexit budget statement on November 6, less than a week after the country’s deadline for leaving the Eu...
Xinhua 2019-10-13 17:24:46
Vietnam's gross domestic product (GDP) expansion is projected to decelerate from 7.1 per cent in 2018 to 6.6 per cent in 2019, due to slower export growth and weaker agricultural production growth, ac...
Xinhua 2019-10-12 18:14:28
Two US astronauts wrapped up a spacewalk out of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, the second in a series of five spacewalks in October to replace batteries on the far end of the station...
-- 2019-10-12 18:07:32
Speakers at a roundtable have urged the government to take swift measures to reform the banking sector and set up a dedicated commission to this end. Noted economist Prof Dr Mainul Islam presented th...
Reuters 2019-10-12 16:20:23
Facebook Inc’s ambitious efforts to establish a global digital currency, called Libra, suffered severe setbacks on Friday, as major payment companies including Mastercard and Visa Inc quit the g...
-- 2019-10-12 16:00:46
Canada’s opposition Conservatives on Friday promised to balance the budget in five years without slashing government jobs if they win an election this month, but the ruling Liberals insisted the...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2019-10-12 09:59:32
The government is going to take out US$1.87 billion in costlier loans from the World Bank (WB) to implement six projects, officials said. The decision on securing the hard-term loans from the bank's...
FE Online Report 2019-10-11 18:08:46
The country is going to be self-sufficient in egg production this financial year (FY20) with an expected output of 17.81 billion eggs, according to the government.The egg sector’s turnover is li...
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