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India’s Delhi to induce artificial rain

India’s Delhi to induce artificial rain

-- 2018-11-20 16:22:00

The scientists, for the first time in India, are going to induce artificial rain over Delhi this week to wash away toxic pollutants from the air and provide residents respite from the poor air quality...

China sends five satellites into orbit via single rocket

China sends five satellites into orbit via single rocket

-- 2018-11-20 14:09:14

China has launched a new space environment research satellite and four nanosatellites on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:40am Tuesday. The sate...

Nissan shares slump after Ghosn's arrest

Nissan shares slump after Ghosn's arrest

Reuters 2018-11-20 14:00:57

Nissan Motor Co’s shares fell more than 6 percent on Tuesday as Chairman Carlos Ghosn’s arrest a day earlier sent shockwaves through the business world and threw into doubt the future of J...

French jobless rate steady in third quarter

French jobless rate steady in third quarter

-- 2018-11-20 13:08:06

France’s jobless rate held steady in the third quarter (Q3) despite recent employment gains, according to data published by the INSEE national statistics office. The INSEE said that the unemplo...

Google to invest $690m in Danish data centre

Google to invest $690m in Danish data centre

-- 2018-11-20 12:52:04

Alphabet Inc’s Google will invest 4.5 billion Danish crowns ($690 million) in building a new data centre in Fredericia, Denmark, its Danish unit announced on Tuesday. Besides its plot in Freder...

Facebook donates $6m to fund local newspapers in UK

Facebook donates $6m to fund local newspapers in UK

-- 2018-11-20 12:22:48

Facebook Inc has announced a donation of 6 million US dollars to support local newspapers in Britain in the next two years. The fund, which will be made available through the National Council for t...

Govt to borrow Tk 20b more from banks

Govt to borrow Tk 20b more from banks

Siddique Islam 2018-11-20 09:35:16

The government revised its auction calendar on Monday keeping an option for borrowing Tk 20 billion more for financing budget deficit ahead of the December general elections, officials said. Under th...

Tax collection in fairs rises 11.35pc

Tax collection in fairs rises 11.35pc

FE Online Report 2018-11-19 22:10:14

The week-long income tax-fairs, which concluded on Monday, collected Tk 24.68 billion in taxes. The collection from this year’s taxes is 11.35 per cent more than that of the previous year&rsquo...

Japan's trade deficit widens; exports up

Japan's trade deficit widens; exports up

-- 2018-11-19 12:52:46

Japan's trade deficit grew to its largest since July 2015 in October as a gain in exports was outpaced by a nearly 20 per cent jump in imports. The Ministry of Finance said Monday that exports grew a...

Tax fairs pick up further momentum

Tax fairs pick up further momentum

FE Report 2018-11-19 09:46:12

Income tax fairs gained further momentum on Sunday in eight divisional headquarters including the capital city. On the sixth day of the week-long tax fairs, there was mad rush of visitors and taxpaye...

Polls prod govt to borrow more from banks

Polls prod govt to borrow more from banks

Siddique Islam 2018-11-19 09:30:42

The government is set to boost its bank borrowing significantly in November mainly due to the upcoming general elections, officials have said. The net borrowing from the banking system is on track to...

Researchers find world’s smallest dinosaur tracks in S Korea

Researchers find world’s smallest dinosaur tracks in S Korea

-- 2018-11-18 15:38:31

Dinosaur tracks uncovered in South Korea have been identified as belonging to sparrow-sized dinosaur raptors, marking the smallest prints of their kind, according to latest Australian-linked research....

BD youth jobless rate rises by 6.4 percentage points: ILO

BD youth jobless rate rises by 6.4 percentage points: ILO

FE Report 2018-11-18 09:52:28

The rate of youth unemployment in Bangladesh remained one of 'the most worsening' situation among the countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The country's overall unemployment rate rose by 1.0 percent...

China top FDI source in FY '18

China top FDI source in FY '18

Asjadul Kibria 2018-11-18 09:43:59

China became the top source of foreign direct investment (FDI) for Bangladesh last fiscal year (FY), the central bank said. The net inflow of FDI from the world's second-largest economy reached US$ 5...

Amazon will fail, predicts Bezos

Amazon will fail, predicts Bezos

-- 2018-11-17 21:13:10

A company doesn't get as big as Amazon as quickly as it has without the CEO thinking a little differently to everyone else, and in the case of Jeff Bezos, that thinking extends to predicting when his...

Scientists vote to redefine kilogram, other standard units

Scientists vote to redefine kilogram, other standard units

-- 2018-11-17 17:42:23

Scientists have redefined the kilogram and three other standard units of measure at the General Conference on Weights and Measures recently. Dozen nations voted at the conference the Palace of Versai...

Pumpkin farming changes lot of 25,000 char families

Pumpkin farming changes lot of 25,000 char families

-- 2018-11-17 16:28:18

Some 25,000 char families, mostly victims of river erosion and landless, changed fortune through farming pumpkin on sandbars in Rangpur agriculture region over the last nine years. Earlier, these hav...

California unemployment rate holds at record low

California unemployment rate holds at record low

-- 2018-11-17 14:40:16

California's unemployment rate held at the record low of 4.1 per cent in October as employers added 36,400 nonfarm payroll jobs, the state Employment Development Department said Friday. The rate fi...

Plants can offer protection against terror attacks: Study

Plants can offer protection against terror attacks: Study

-- 2018-11-17 14:22:05

Plants can offer protection against terrorist attacks in cities, a study published on Friday by the Bundeswehr University Munich, a higher education institution of the German Armed Forces, found. Acc...

Middle-income status hinges on higher investment: MCCI

Middle-income status hinges on higher investment: MCCI

FE Report 2018-11-17 10:19:45

Bangladesh needs to catalyse more foreign and domestic investments if the country wants to attain the middle income status by 2021, a leading chamber has said. "There is no alternative to raising the...

Google gives up on rescue robots

Google gives up on rescue robots

-- 2018-11-16 13:57:39

Google-owner Alphabet is giving up the development of bipedal robots after five years. The company had been developing large industrial robots since it bought two start-ups - Schaft and Boston Dynami...

India house prices to rise 2pc in 2019: Reuters poll

India house prices to rise 2pc in 2019: Reuters poll

-- 2018-11-16 12:11:21

India house prices will rise 2.0 per cent in 2019, at half the rate of consumer price inflation, hit by dwindling credit supply, according to a Reuters poll of housing market experts. House prices ha...

US imports, exports prices rise in Oct

US imports, exports prices rise in Oct

-- 2018-11-16 11:30:24

US import and export prices both increased in October, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. Prices for US imports increased 0.5 per cent in October after advancing 0.2 per cent in S...

NBR bags Tk 2.44b on third day of income tax fair

NBR bags Tk 2.44b on third day of income tax fair

FE Report 2018-11-16 10:06:06

Submission of income tax returns in the tax-fair across the country grew by 87 per cent on Thursday, the third day of the event, compared to that of the corresponding day last year. National Board of...

Greenland ice sheet hides giant 'impact crater'

Greenland ice sheet hides giant 'impact crater'

-- 2018-11-15 17:57:00

What looks to be a large impact crater has been identified beneath the Greenland ice sheet. The 31km-wide depression came to light when scientists examined radar images of the island's bedrock. Inve...

‘AI brings both benefits and challenges to banking’

‘AI brings both benefits and challenges to banking’

-- 2018-11-15 15:04:07

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in banking industry could bring benefits and challenges to consumers, bankers and regulators, US Federal Reserve (Fed) Governor Lael Brainard said...

IMF expects Qatar economy to grow 2.4pc in 2018

IMF expects Qatar economy to grow 2.4pc in 2018

-- 2018-11-15 11:54:03

Qatar’s GDP growth is projected to rise to 2.4 per cent in 2018 from 1.6 per cent in 2017 on the back of higher energy prices, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. The country h...

Fairs fetch over Tk 5.5b in income tax on 2nd day

Fairs fetch over Tk 5.5b in income tax on 2nd day

FE Report 2018-11-15 10:02:35

National Board of Revenue (NBR) received Tk 5.51 billion income tax on Wednesday, the second day of tax fairs that kicked off Tuesday. Tax fairs took place in a total of 62 areas across the country o...

Accelerated investment prerequisite for higher growth: ICCB

Accelerated investment prerequisite for higher growth: ICCB

FE Online Desk 2018-11-14 17:58:46

Bangladesh will emerge as the biggest driving force in the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2030 as predicted by HSBC Global Report “The World in 2030”. The country is going to beco...

EE names six UK cities pioneer in 5G

EE names six UK cities pioneer in 5G

-- 2018-11-14 17:16:43

EE, a British mobile network operator, has announced that six UK cities will be the first to get faster 5G mobile networks. Building on existing trials, EE will turn on 5G in London, Cardiff, Edinbur...