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-- 2018-04-14 15:15:50
WASHINGTON: The US Treasury added India to its watch list of countries with potentially questionable foreign exchange policies, joining China and four others, according to a report issued Friday, acco...
-- 2018-04-14 14:59:47
LONDON: Members of the UN International Maritime Organisation on Friday (Apr 13) struck a deal to halve carbon dioxide emissions from shipping by 2050 in a deal that will force the industry to redesig...
FE Online Report 2018-04-14 13:27:19
Deficit financing of the country’s budget in the first seven months of the current fiscal year jumped by 73 per cent over the same period of the past fiscal year. Statistics available with Bang...
-- 2018-04-14 11:59:10
Greece's annual EU-harmonised inflation rate slowed in March, the reading in March was 0.2 per cent from 0.4 per cent in February, statistic service ELSTAT data showed on Friday. The data also showed...
-- 2018-04-14 11:46:56
China’s Sina Weibo will remove gay and violent content, including pictures, cartoons and text posts, during a three-month clean-up campaign, the microblogging platform said. Friday’s anno...
-- 2018-04-14 10:56:59
PANCHAGARH: Farmers are expecting a bumper groundnut production in all the five upazilas of Panchagarh district in the current season. Sources with the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sai...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2018-04-13 21:14:15
In Bangladesh, three calendars are followed: the Gregorian solar calendar (used officially for all purposes), the Islamic lunar calendar (for religious purposes) and the Bangla calender (used for soci...
Maswood Alam Khan 2018-04-13 21:11:15
The first day of Bangla New Year, Pahela Baishakh stands before us like the first blank page of the first chapter of a 365-page book waiting to be written. It's the day to dust away the forgotten memo...
FE Online Report 2018-04-13 20:38:39
Country’s current account deficit crosses $6.0 billion in the first eight months of the current fiscal year (FY18). Latest statistics, released by Bangladesh Bank, showed that current account d...
-- 2018-04-13 15:24:01
The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (CRBP), the central bank of the South American country, held the benchmark interest rate at 2.75 percent as expected on Thursday, reports Reuters. A majority of ana...
-- 2018-04-13 15:00:13
In the not too distant future, surveillance cameras sitting atop over 100,000 lampposts in Singapore could help authorities pick out and recognise faces in crowds across the island-state. The plan to...
FE Report 2018-04-13 10:38:14
Microcredit has failed to play any effective role in alleviating poverty from the society, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday. But there is no denial of the fact that microcredit programme...
Siddique Islam 2018-04-13 10:20:36
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has included the asset, lying with International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the form of its currency-SDR (special drawing rights), in the country's foreign exchange reserve calculatio...
FE Online Report 2018-04-12 20:08:11
The government is unlikely to take any new initiative in the upcoming budget as it is election year, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday. “It is not possible to take new initiatives in...
-- 2018-04-12 20:04:43
The High Court has ordered authorities concerned to collect tax from the revenues earned by international online platforms through Bangladeshi advertisements. The court mentioned search engines Googl...
-- 2018-04-12 16:21:26
The UK has conducted a "major offensive cyber-campaign" against the Islamic State group, the director of the intelligence agency GCHQ has revealed. The operation hindered the group's ability to co-or...
-- 2018-04-12 15:50:01
The Bank of Korea (BOK), the central bank of South Korea, has forecasted 3.0 per cent economic growth for the country. The BOK on Thursday forecasted that the country's gross domestic product (GDP)...
-- 2018-04-12 15:26:09
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday opened Bheramara 410-MW Combined Cycle Power Plant and cent per cent electrification in 15 upazilas renewing her call to the people to be economical in using e...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-04-12 09:49:26
The government's development project implementation capacity has not improved over the years, as the budget spending rate of its agencies is almost stagnant compared to the previous years, analysts sa...
FE Report 2018-04-12 09:33:45
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is considering carrying out an 'experiment' to increase revenue earning by lowering corporate income tax, said its Chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan. He also p...
-- 2018-04-11 19:58:45
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said that the government may publish the detail identities of bank loan defaulters in the newspapers. The minister made the remarks while responding to a s...
FE Online Report 2018-04-11 18:43:32
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal strongly protested the World Bank (WB)’s comments on the growth of Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (GDP) and asked the institution to amend its rece...
-- 2018-04-11 18:01:20
Now that Bangladesh has met all the criteria for graduating into a developing country all efforts should be made to strengthen the banking sector. The requirements and challenges of many to a d...
FE Online Report 2018-04-11 17:33:11
The World Bank (WB) would provide $55 million additional funds to expand Bangladesh’s renewable energy in rural areas as the global lender approved the loan on Wednesday. The loan will be addit...
agencies 2018-04-11 13:35:01
After a couple of rescheduling, Bangladesh's first commercial satellite Bangabandhu-1 will be flying to space on May 4. The satellite will be launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, BTRC Chairm...
-- 2018-04-11 13:19:39
Kenya’s economy will grow by 5.5 per cent in 2018, up from the 4.8 per cent growth it had projected for last year, the World Bank (WB) said on Wednesday. The East Africa country’s econo...
-- 2018-04-11 11:46:55
Hackers have attacked several government websites, including those of the prime minister's office, the home ministry and the president's office, purportedly in support of the reforms in the government...
FE Online Report 2018-04-11 11:19:17
Bangladesh economy is likely to grow by 7.0 per cent in the current fiscal year, according to the latest projection of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Manila-based international lender organisa...
-- 2018-04-11 09:42:18
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two US congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the so...
-- 2018-04-11 09:39:14
Chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has said that people who are paying tax at source will be brought under the net in the next financial year. The majority of such taxpayers go traceless...
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