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Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-08-08 09:59:14
Fiscal deficits in developing economies including Bangladesh have direct impact on the current account imbalance, reflecting the 'twin-deficits'. This new relationship was found in the latest study c...
-- 2018-08-07 19:29:35
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved a revised project to acquire additional 500 acres of land for Araihazar Economic Zone in Narayanganj following the...
FE Online Report 2018-08-07 19:06:47
The government on Tuesday approved 11 development projects including the smart electricity bill prepaid meter installation project at a total cost of Tk 64.48 billion. The approval...
FE Online Report 2018-08-07 19:00:42
The point-to-point inflation rate dropped by 0.03 percentage point in the first month of the current fiscal (FY19), according to the official data. As per Bangladesh Bureau of Statistic (BBS) data, u...
FE Online Report 2018-08-07 18:39:54
Bangladesh Bank (BB) will release new currency notes for Taka 10, 20, 50 and Taka 100 in the market from August 13 ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. A press release issued by the central bank said, the new notes...
FE Online Desk 2018-08-07 16:06:57
Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, has launched AIQUA, a proactive marketing automation platform. It launched the platform, now available throughout the Asia-Pacific, on Tuesday,...
-- 2018-08-07 13:15:05
Singapore has started scanning travellers’ eyes at some of its border checkpoints, its immigration authority said on Monday, in a trial of expensive technology that could one day replace fingerp...
Siddique Islam 2018-08-07 10:37:45
The central bank expects the overall inward remittance to cross the $17 billion mark by the end of fiscal year (FY) 2018-19. Multiple moves are already in place to spur inflows. "We've estimated c...
FE Report 2018-08-07 09:58:32
A leading chamber was critical on Monday of recpitalising the state lenders, saying it is one of the biggest downside risks to the economy. The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (M...
-- 2018-08-06 17:39:09
Scientists have made the first radio-telescope detection of a huge free-floating planet beyond our solar system, a new study said. The planetary-mass object, called SIMP J01365663+0933473, is about a...
-- 2018-08-06 12:58:18
The West Zone of Bangladesh Railway has earned revenue worth around Tk 5.9645 billion during the last 2017-18 fiscal year up by Tk 1.1834 billion over the previous 2016-17 fiscal. Of the total earnin...
-- 2018-08-06 12:47:24
German industrial orders plunged record low in June, fell by 4.0 per cent after an increase of 2.6 per cent the previous month, the Federal Statistics Office said on Monday. The orders posted the ste...
-- 2018-08-05 19:44:11
The government along with the assistance from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will invest Tk 9.26 billion (Tk 926.50 crore) or US$ 109.85 million to increase income and food...
-- 2018-08-05 17:38:44
Indonesia lobbied visiting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to keep the Southeast Asian nation on a list of countries that receive preferential trade terms, its foreign and trade ministers said on Su...
-- 2018-08-05 17:07:55
Italian mathematician Alessio Figalli has won the Fields Medal, which is awarded every four years to the most accomplished mathematicians in the world under the age of 40, the International Mathematic...
-- 2018-08-05 15:41:07
Bangladeshi expatriates sent home US $1,316.93 million remittance in the first month of the current fiscal 2018-19, which is 18 per cent higher than the amount received in the corresponding period of...
-- 2018-08-04 13:40:49
It has been called the most successful company in history. And it's just become the world's first public company to be worth $1 trillion (£767bn). So how has it done it? Here's a quick look a...
-- 2018-08-04 11:51:53
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged on Saturday to provide nearly $300 million in new security funding for Southeast Asia, as China forges ahead with plans to bolster its engagement in the reg...
-- 2018-08-03 17:29:54
Almost every species of lemur, wide-eyed primates unique to Madagascar, is under threat of extinction. That is the conclusion of an international group of conservationists, who carried out an assessm...
-- 2018-08-03 17:15:38
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is racing to pull his private space company out of start-up mode and move into production amid signals that his firm’s heavy rocket set for lift-off in 2020 may sli...
-- 2018-08-03 16:27:30
Italian economic growth is likely to weaken in coming months, national statistics office ISTAT said on Friday. In its monthly economic bulletin, ISTAT said its latest composite leading indicator &ldq...
FE Report 2018-08-03 10:20:24
Each bank has to establish a separate internal audit (IA) department, which will speed up the recovery of loan though legal measure, according to a study. The study, conducted by Bangladesh Institute...
-- 2018-08-02 20:42:05
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said the interest rate in the banking sector will come down to single digit from August 9. “The new initiative of the 6.0 per cent deposit rate and 9.0 per cent...
-- 2018-08-02 20:16:27
Britain has hired Jason Furman, chief economist in former US President Barack Obama’s administration, to chair a new panel that will steer its approach to digital technology, the UK government s...
-- 2018-08-02 18:56:46
The investment proposals from both local and foreign entrepreneurs increased by 11.89 per cent in the fiscal year 2017-18 (FY18). In FY18, Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) received...
-- 2018-08-02 14:54:59
Google is developing a version of its search engine that will conform to China's censorship laws, reports say. The company shut down the engine in 2010, complaining that free speech was being limited...
FE Online Report 2018-08-02 14:37:31
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided US$500 million loan to develop a state-of-the-art 800-megawatt (MW) power plant in Khulna. The fund will also be used for power transmission facilities...
-- 2018-08-02 13:55:11
The Bank of England (BoE) looks set to raise interest rates on Thursday to their highest level since the financial crisis almost a decade ago. The fifth largest economy of the world has slowed since...
FE Report 2018-08-02 10:09:48
The amount involving the investment proposals with Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has increased by around 11.89 per cent during the last fiscal year (FY), 2017-18, according to its...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-08-02 09:27:39
Bangladesh will no longer eligible for concessional loan from the World Bank as it has started lending at 2.0 per cent rate. The Washington lender has made the higher rate effective from last month i...
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