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S Africa launches Africa's most advanced nanosatellite

S Africa launches Africa's most advanced nanosatellite

-- 2018-12-29 16:28:21

Africa's most advanced nanosatellite, developed by South Africa, was successfully launched on Thursday, the South African Department of Science and Technology said. "Today marks another historic mile...

India to contribute Rs 45b to Bhutan’s economic plan

India to contribute Rs 45b to Bhutan’s economic plan

-- 2018-12-29 13:36:08

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that India would contribute Rs 45.0 billion to Bhutan’s 12th five-year economic plan. Narendra Modi announced the contribution after a meeting...

Some PCBs earn higher operating profit in 2018

Some PCBs earn higher operating profit in 2018

Siddique Islam 2018-12-29 10:48:43

The operating profits of the country's private commercial banks (PCBs) witnessed a healthy growth in the outgoing year, even if soured loans are on the rise, bankers said. Most of the banks, exceptin...

NASA finds signs of water in asteroid

NASA finds signs of water in asteroid

-- 2018-12-28 20:35:23

Data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveals that water mixed in with clay minerals has been discovered in the asteroid Bennu. As reported by NASA, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Re...

BD witnesses high investment flow in 10 years

BD witnesses high investment flow in 10 years

-- 2018-12-28 17:05:58

Bangladesh witnessed high volume of investment from both local and foreign sources over the last 10 years as the government offered a number of incentives by adopting a time-befitting industrial polic...

New technology moves "solar windows" closer to reality

New technology moves "solar windows" closer to reality

-- 2018-12-28 15:11:02

Chinese scientists have said they have come up with a more efficient luminescent solar concentrator (LSC), which can be made into "solar windows" that turn sunlight into electricity. Researchers at t...

Vietnam's industrial production up 10.2pc in 2018

Vietnam's industrial production up 10.2pc in 2018

-- 2018-12-28 11:46:20

Vietnam's national index of industrial production advanced 10.2 per cent on-year in 2018, according to the country's General Statistics Office on Friday. Main driver of the surge, the processing and...

BD exports can fetch add’l $17.4b with existing ability

BD exports can fetch add’l $17.4b with existing ability

FE Report 2018-12-28 09:49:51

Bangladesh has the potentials of earning an additional amount of $17.4 billion from the global market with its existing export capacity, of which $11.4 billion can come from the European Union (EU)...

Foxconn to begin assembling high-end iPhones in India

Foxconn to begin assembling high-end iPhones in India

-- 2018-12-27 19:13:56

Apple Inc will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019, the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made the product in the co...

BD to emerge as 24th economy in 2032: WELT

BD to emerge as 24th economy in 2032: WELT

FE Online Report 2018-12-27 17:03:09

Within a decade and three years, Bangladesh is set to enter the league of top 25 largest economies of the world, according to an international projection unveiled Thursday. It projects that the count...

Bangladesh bags nine int'l awards for digital innovations

Bangladesh bags nine int'l awards for digital innovations

-- 2018-12-27 14:14:53

The Access to Information (a2i) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has won nine international awards in different categories and a national award this year for various digital innova...

US trade delegation to travel to China in early Jan

US trade delegation to travel to China in early Jan

-- 2018-12-27 14:08:58

A US trade team will travel to Beijing the week of Jan. 7 to hold talks with Chinese officials, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The delegation will be led...

'Brexit, Trump's policies biggest risks to German economy'

'Brexit, Trump's policies biggest risks to German economy'

-- 2018-12-26 16:48:40

Germany’s leading industry groups have said Britain’s departure from the European Union and trade disputes triggered by US President Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ polici...

NPL ratio in Albanian banks down: BoA

NPL ratio in Albanian banks down: BoA

-- 2018-12-26 13:59:33

The quality of loan portfolio in Albania improved in 2018 and in November alone the non-performing loans (NPL) ratio of the country’s banking system dropped to 12.7 per cent of all loans, the Bo...

Govt launches 16 digital services in 2018

Govt launches 16 digital services in 2018

-- 2018-12-26 13:52:16

The government has launched 16 digital services and platforms this year in line with its vision of transforming the country into ‘Digital Bangladesh’ to render services to the citizens thr...

Japan wants to promote free and fair trade

Japan wants to promote free and fair trade

-- 2018-12-26 12:56:22

Japan’s top government spokesman said on Wednesday his government wants to promote rules that protect free and fair trade for the global economy. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, speakin...

Intel to get $185m grant for Israel expansion

Intel to get $185m grant for Israel expansion

-- 2018-12-25 17:46:02

Israel will give Intel Corp a $185 million (700 million shekel) grant in return for a planned $5 billion expansion of its production operations in Israel. Intel is one of the biggest employers and ex...

Grameen Foundation Scotland collapses

Grameen Foundation Scotland collapses

-- 2018-12-25 17:12:00

The Grameen Foundation Scotland, a Scottish charity which provided micro-credit business loans in deprived communities, has collapsed under debts. The initiative was launched in 2012 with the inspira...

Rouhani presents Iranian budget, says US sanctions to bite

Rouhani presents Iranian budget, says US sanctions to bite

-- 2018-12-25 14:38:10

President Hassan Rouhani presented a state budget of 4,700 trillion rials to parliament on Tuesday, saying US sanctions would affect Iranians’ lives and economic growth but not bring the governm...

Australia plans drone-identifying system

Australia plans drone-identifying system

-- 2018-12-25 14:33:55

Drone "hot spots" in Australia are getting sensors to automatically identify the aircraft and their pilots. Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) said it would install the equipment at t...

H2 MPS to focus on job creation

H2 MPS to focus on job creation

Siddique Islam 2018-12-25 09:53:14

The central bank has started taking preparations to formulate its next monetary policy, giving top priority on creating employment opportunities through boosting financing in the productive sectors....

PC starts revising ADP amidst its poor execution

PC starts revising ADP amidst its poor execution

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-12-25 09:37:45

The Planning Commission (PC) has started work on revising the Tk 1.7 trillion Annual Development Programme (ADP) amid unsatisfactory execution of the ongoing projects during last five months of the cu...

SpaceX launches first US national security space mission

SpaceX launches first US national security space mission

-- 2018-12-24 15:23:24

A SpaceX rocket carrying a US military navigation satellite blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Sunday (local time), marking the space transportation company’s first national secu...

Italy's 2019 budget wins Senate approval amid outcry

Italy's 2019 budget wins Senate approval amid outcry

-- 2018-12-24 10:42:17

The Italian government won a gruelling vote of confidence on its 2019 budget in the upper house in the early hours of Sunday, as it races to get the package approved before a year-end deadline. The b...

Remittance likely to grow by 15.59pc this year

Remittance likely to grow by 15.59pc this year

FE Report 2018-12-24 10:32:38

The country's inward remittance is expected to increase by 15.59 per cent in 2018 compared to that of the previous year, a trend report said. Remittance showed such an upward trend as an increasing n...

Spacex halts launch of US military satellite due to winds

Spacex halts launch of US military satellite due to winds

-- 2018-12-23 11:36:55

Elon Musk’s SpaceX scrapped Saturday’s launch of a long-delayed navigation satellite for the US military due to strong upper level winds. The next launch attempt will be on Sunday at 8:51...

Export earnings from plastic products up by 30pc

Export earnings from plastic products up by 30pc

-- 2018-12-22 20:11:00

Export earnings from plastic products have risen by 30 per cent during the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY19), according to statistics of Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) and Bangladesh...

Streamlined tax system by next year: NBR chief

Streamlined tax system by next year: NBR chief

-- 2018-12-22 19:04:08

Bangladesh will take steps to seal loopholes in the tax system within the next year to boost revenue collection, National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said on Saturday. "...

Cuba expects 1.5pc economic growth in 2019

Cuba expects 1.5pc economic growth in 2019

-- 2018-12-22 14:27:46

Cuba's economy is expected to expand 1.5 per cent in 2019 after a 1.2-per cent growth in 2018 which is below the government's previous forecast of 2.0 per cent, the country's economy minister has said...

Russian spacecraft brings ISS astronauts safely back

Russian spacecraft brings ISS astronauts safely back

-- 2018-12-22 14:20:02

Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 has successfully landed in Kazakhstan, bringing back the three astronauts who have completed their missions on the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian mission...