- Thursday, 3 October 2024 |
- Today's FE |
- e-Paper |
- Beta Website
-- 2019-07-24 13:03:27
Egypt’s economic growth is expected to slow to 5.5 per cent in the current fiscal year that began this month, below the government’s target, and 5.8 per cent the following year, a Reuters...
Reuters 2019-07-24 12:05:51
The Federal Trade Commission is set to announce today (Wednesday) that Facebook has agreed to a sweeping settlement of significant allegations it mishandled user privacy and pay $5 billion, two people...
FE Report 2019-07-24 11:24:55
Crop insurance in haor (wetland) area might begin this fiscal year (FY), 2019-20, under a public-private partnership (PPP) mechanism, said people familiar with this development on Tuesday. In June, t...
-- 2019-07-23 16:28:17
The Bangladesh Bank has raised the agriculture and rural loan disbursement target by 10.66 per cent for the current fiscal year (FY2019-20), compared to the immediate past fiscal year. The central ba...
-- 2019-07-23 13:57:08
Another feather has been added to the crown of Wasik Farhan Roopkotha, a teenage Bangladeshi computer sensation, as an arcade game developed by him was released recently from Google Play Store. &ldqu...
-- 2019-07-23 13:22:12
The core inflation of Singapore hit a more than two-year low in June as electricity and gas prices declined, firming bets among economists that its central bank will ease monetary policy in October....
FE Report 2019-07-23 09:42:45
The volume of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the state-owned banks (SoBs) declined in the second quarter of the calendar year 2019, finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Monday quoting provisiona...
-- 2019-07-22 20:58:12
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has reiterated that those who are involved in the banking sector irregularities would not be spared. “We’re already taking steps under the existin...
-- 2019-07-22 18:07:34
India has successfully launched its second lunar mission a week after it halted the scheduled blast-off due to a technical snag. Chandrayaan-2 was launched at 14:43 local time (09:13 GMT) on Monday f...
-- 2019-07-22 14:39:27
Malaysia’s consumer prices likely rose at their fastest pace in more than a year in June, a Reuters poll showed on Monday, as the effects of tax policy changes introduced in 2018 lapsed. Inflat...
FE Online Desk 2019-07-22 14:24:38
Xiaomi Corporation has for the first time made the Fortune Global 500 list, nine years after its iteration. The Beijing-based global technology leader announced this in a media statement received tod...
Siddique Islam 2019-07-22 09:51:29
Country's top bankers Sunday proposed amending the existing loan write-off policy so that they could rid themselves of bad loans that, according to them, were not recoverable, officials said. Under t...
-- 2019-07-21 20:29:56
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) earned Tk 24.13 billion in the last two fiscal years by disposing of some 345 revenue-related cases through the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system. Accord...
-- 2019-07-21 18:29:59
South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) SDG Centre hosted its first workshop on “Three Pillars of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” on July 20, 2019 at SANEM office, Dhaka. T...
-- 2019-07-20 13:34:41
Lebanon’s parliament passed a “reforming” 2019 state budget on Friday, Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said. However, the Prime Minister did not give any details on its deficit target...
Talha Bin Habib 2019-07-20 10:50:25
The Ministry of Industries (MoI) has prepared a draft of the Industrial Biotechnology Policy Guidelines 2019 with an objective to explore and utilise biotechnological knowledge for ensuring due contri...
-- 2019-07-19 20:29:20
France will coordinate European talks on the choice of the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund with the aim to find a candidate by the end of the month. French Finance Minister...
-- 2019-07-19 16:01:33
Britain’s budget deficit swelled in the first quarter of the tax year due to higher debt interest payments and rising spending on services, placing the public finances on a less solid footing ah...
FE Report 2019-07-19 09:44:43
The revenue officials have strongly opposed the recent proposal of the deputy commissioners (DCs) under administration cadre to involve them in the government's tax revenue collection process. Both B...
-- 2019-07-18 12:12:20
The Bank of Korea, the central bank of the Republic of Korea, on Thursday cut its policy rate for the first time in three years, and shaved this year’s growth forecast to the lowest in a decade....
FE Report 2019-07-18 11:43:41
The central bank has allowed Private Foreign Currency (PFC) account-holders to use their accounts' balance for making import payment obligations, officials said. "….funds from PFC accounts may...
Reuters 2019-07-18 11:30:43
The Asian Development Bank said on Thursday developing Asia is on track to meet the lender’s growth expectations for this year and next, even as trade tensions between the United States and Ch...
-- 2019-07-17 19:11:26
Bangladesh needs to be serious to get the fourth pillar for its growing economy giving much importance to financial sector development to successfully make the country one of the top 20 economies of t...
-- 2019-07-17 16:13:51
Michael Collins, 88, one of the surviving crew members of the first manned mission to the Moon - Apollo 11 - has returned to the site where the mission set off 50 years ago. He visited Florida's Kenn...
-- 2019-07-17 11:22:55
Singapore’s exports fell more than expected in June, marking their biggest decline in six years, as the city-state struggles against tepid global demand and the Sino-US trade war. The grim trad...
FE Report 2019-07-17 10:12:24
Country's imports grew by nearly 6.0 per cent in the first 11 months of fiscal year (FY) 2018-19, riding on higher construction material imports, officials said. The actual import in terms of the set...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-07-17 09:57:13
Bangladesh received foreign assistance amounting to US$ 6.21 billion in the last fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, which was nearly $150 million lower than that of the previous fiscal, official data showed o...
-- 2019-07-16 18:22:13
Computer pioneer Fernando Corbato, who first used passwords to protect user accounts, has died aged 93. Dr Corbato introduced the basic security measure while developing methods that let more people...
-- 2019-07-16 16:07:31
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved eight projects involving an estimated cost of Tk 51.42 billion. Among the nine projects, the ECNEC approved Tk 26.06 bill...
-- 2019-07-16 13:12:39
As NASA scrambles to meet US President Donald Trump’s mandate to return humans to the moon by 2024, two longtime heads of NASA’s human exploration wing were demoted Wednesday in a slew of...
© 2024 - All Rights with The Financial Express
