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-- 2019-01-11 12:53:36
China plans to set a lower economic growth target of 6-6.5 per cent in 2019 compared with last year’s target of “around” 6.5 per cent, policy sources told Reuters, as Beijing gears u...
FE Report 2019-01-11 10:11:03
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Thursday non-performing loan (NPL) will not grow by even a single penny from today, rather it will reduce. He, however, said he would not go for action agai...
-- 2019-01-10 17:23:49
Astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in Canada. The precise nature and origin of the blasts of radio waves is unknown. Am...
-- 2019-01-10 11:49:42
India’s retail inflation in December is expected to have eased to its lowest since June 2017 as food costs fell and fuel prices rose at a slower pace, a Reuters poll showed. Inflation likely co...
-- 2019-01-10 10:52:22
A Philippine court on Thursday held a former bank manager guilty on eight counts of money laundering, the first conviction in one of the world’s largest cyber heists, in which $81 million was st...
FE Report 2019-01-10 09:59:27
The World Bank (WB) has projected a 7.0 per cent economic growth for Bangladesh in fiscal year (FY) 2018-19. The WB has also forecast a 6.8 per cent GDP (gross domestic product) growth for the countr...
Siddique Islam 2019-01-10 09:55:04
The central bank has emphasised improving financial intermediation efficiency by reducing the amount of classified loans in the banking system through better supervision and risk management. "&hellip...
-- 2019-01-09 14:40:45
Global economic growth is projected to slow to 2.9 per cent in 2019 from a downwardly revised 3.0 per cent in 2018 amid rising downside risks, the World Bank said on Tuesday. In its newly-released Gl...
-- 2019-01-09 13:15:27
Hyundai Motors has unveiled the concept for 'walking car' on legs, a small model of a car it says can activate robotic legs to walk at 3mph (5km/h) over rough terrain, at the CES technology fair in La...
-- 2019-01-09 11:54:08
Facebook has violated Vietnam’s new cybersecurity law by allowing users to post anti-government comments on the platform, state media said on Wednesday, days after the controversial legislation...
-- 2019-01-08 17:37:26
The exports from Mongla Export Processing Zone (EPZ) increased 16 times in the past 10 years. Investments also witnessed an eleven-fold rise, while about 4,500 people make a living in the zone. &ldq...
-- 2019-01-08 17:14:10
The World Bank will provide $250 million to support Bangladesh in strengthening its capacity to create more and better jobs for citizens, including women, youth and the vulnerable population. An offi...
-- 2019-01-08 10:42:15
US-based tech giant Intel said that it is working with Facebook to finish a new artificial intelligence chip in the second half of this year. The chips are Intel’s gambit to retain hold of a fa...
FE Report 2019-01-08 09:59:13
Bangladesh's overall balance of payment (BoP) recorded US$ 837 million deficit during the July-November period of this fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, over the corresponding period of the previous fiscal...
FE Report 2019-01-08 09:48:24
Newly-appointed Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal asked the bankers on Monday to go tough on delinquent borrowers to help lower the size of non-performing loans (NPL). He told them to bring down the...
-- 2019-01-07 19:40:51
Nearly nine million British jobs are at risk from robots, with those working in retail, manufacturing and business support services most at risk, figures reveal. The rise of Artificial Intelligence i...
-- 2019-01-07 18:19:54
Companies may increase wages in Bangladesh by 10 percent in 2019, according to a survey by Mercer. The global consulting firm’s 2018 Bangladesh Total Remuneration Survey suggests the rise in sa...
-- 2019-01-07 15:15:04
Samsung Electronics says that it will add an app to its smart televisions in the coming months to let owners watch content bought on Apple's iTunes service, a possible first sign Apple is look...
FE Online Desk 2019-01-07 13:35:37
Bangladesh is the 41st largest economy in the world in 2019, according to a UK-based think tank. It is up by twp steps from last year, when the country was ranked 43rd largest economy, the Centr...
FE Report 2019-01-07 09:33:13
A move is under way to facilitate sending of money back home free of cost by the Bangladeshi migrant workers. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has prepared a concept paper on the issue. The government,...
-- 2019-01-06 21:49:58
The Global Economist Forum (GEF) has said the Bangladesh economy will enjoy one of the happiest years in 2019 in respect to economic freedom, which will help achieve above 7.5 per cent GDP growth. GE...
-- 2019-01-06 20:26:20
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, who is going to take the charge of finance ministry, has said the Ministry of Finance would begin its journey from Monday with a new dimension. Mustafa Kamal also...
-- 2019-01-06 16:15:56
A study published recently in the journal Science Advances has shown that the Sahara desert and North Africa in general swing between wet and dry climates every 20,000 years. Researchers from Massach...
-- 2019-01-05 20:04:14
The export of furniture is getting a boost as it accounted for $33.72 million during the first six months (July-December) of the current fiscal year (FY19), which is 40.56 per cent higher than that of...
-- 2019-01-05 18:47:48
After studying a space rock some 4.0 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft set off on a new hunt for moons in the solar system’s most distant edge, sear...
-- 2019-01-05 18:21:38
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is planning to have own office buildings in every district to increase revenue collection by offering better customer services. The constructions will be done unde...
-- 2019-01-05 16:33:29
A Chinese robotic rover has got its wheels dirty after rolling off its landing craft and onto the lunar soil. The Chang'e-4 spacecraft touched down on the far side of the Moon at 10:26 Beijing time (...
-- 2019-01-05 14:44:05
Southeast University in eastern China's Jiangsu Province recently said that a team has begun to research 6G mobile networks. You Xiaohu, a professor with the university and the team leader, said they...
-- 2019-01-05 13:53:28
German unemployment rate in 2018 has fallen to a record low and the number of jobless people in December 2018 fell more than expected, the Federal Employment Agency (BA) has reported. The number of u...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2019-01-05 09:47:24
The country's tax-GDP ratio continues to miss its target despite a fast-expanding economy. Policymakers and analysts across the globe use the tax-to-GDP ratio to compare tax receipts year on year. I...
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