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FE Online Desk 2018-04-10 14:49:19
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will observe revenue Halkhata on April 15 next, on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh, in a bid to encourage taxpayers clear their long-pending dues on that day. Md M...
-- 2018-04-10 14:16:19
Technology giant Apple Inc on Monday said it had achieved its goal of powering all of the company’s facilities with renewable energy, a milestone that includes all of its data centres, offices a...
-- 2018-04-10 13:46:38
Chinese investment in the US plunged last year as tensions between the two countries mounted. The value of deals announced in 2017 fell by more than 90 per cent from the year before, according to joi...
-- 2018-04-10 13:44:06
Facebook founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg’s No. 1 mission during his appearance before US lawmakers on Tuesday and Wednesday will be to defend against calls to regulate...
FE Report 2018-04-10 10:17:55
The budget for the upcoming fiscal year, 2018-19, would explore ways for 'rationalising' the existing corporate tax rate in the country, Finance Minister A M A Muhith said in the capital on Monday. "...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-04-10 10:11:29
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has issued a show cause notice on Agrani Bank following the state-owned bank's failure to pay value added tax (VAT) and excise duty worth Tk 400 million to it (NBR)...
Siddique Islam 2018-04-10 09:31:06
The central bank has asked the banks to submit their specific action plans to its department concerned by April 30 to help bring down the advance-deposit ratio (ADR) limit at required level, officials...
-- 2018-04-09 19:04:53
The World Bank is set to provide a loan of $515 million financial assistance for two projects in the power transmission and insurance sectors in the country. To this end, two separate agreements will...
FE Online Report 2018-04-09 18:29:14
The World Bank (WB) on Monday has expressed doubts about the Bangladesh’s 7.65 per cent GDP growth projection for the current fiscal raising questions regarding some government data. The Washin...
-- 2018-04-09 15:58:35
A Smartphone-based security app ‘Self Protect’, developed with an aim to reduce crimes in the society, has been launched in Meherpur. Saddam Hossien, a local youth developed the app that...
-- 2018-04-09 14:56:10
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Chinese multinational e-commerce, retail, Internet, AI and technology conglomerate, created over 36.8 million jobs last year via its expansive retail ecosystem. The com...
-- 2018-04-09 14:32:40
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has launched an innovative online platform in Bangkok aiming to support countries building inclusive social protection systems th...
-- 2018-04-09 14:27:13
German exports plunged unexpectedly in February, posting their biggest monthly drop in 2-1/2 years and narrowing the trade surplus, data showed on Monday. Seasonally adjusted exports of the fourth la...
-- 2018-04-09 12:44:12
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will hold meetings with some US lawmakers on Monday, a day before he is due to appear at Congressional hearings over a political consultancy’...
FE Report 2018-04-09 10:28:39
Government secretaries have requested the finance minister to raise the ceiling on investment in savings tools to help them during their old age, sources said. They made the request at a pre-budget d...
M Azizur Rahman 2018-04-09 09:43:15
The government has moved afresh to carry out seismic survey in offshore blocks to acquire data on hydrocarbon deposits to chalk out future steps for ensuring the country's energy security. State-run...
-- 2018-04-08 18:40:48
Economists said interest rate should come down to single digit soon as the recent downward adjustment of cash reserve requirement (CRR) and the decision to keep 50 per cent of state agencies&rsq...
FE Online Report 2018-04-08 16:49:52
Country’s hotel and restaurant sector is going to post higher growth in the ongoing fiscal year. Provisional estimation of the national income, released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (...
-- 2018-04-08 10:05:39
Scientists in developing nations plan to step up research into dimming sunshine to curb climate change, hoping to judge if a man-made chemical sunshade would be less risky than a harmful rise in globa...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-04-08 09:43:55
The government is considering chopping its tax revenue collection target by nearly Tk 280 billion after the receipt dropped in the seven months to February. The National Board of Revenue's tax collec...
-- 2018-04-07 18:49:51
Next decade for Bangladesh economy looks bright as diversification in local businesses beyond the RMG sector is shaping the country for a better future. Bangladesh Bank's Chief Economist Faisal Ahmed...
-- 2018-04-07 17:28:28
Facebook will introduce an unsend button in Messenger, which would let a user erase an unwanted message from their recipient’s inbox, as well as their own. The development immediately follows b...
-- 2018-04-07 14:38:38
Myanmar has earned over 1.11 billion US dollars from rice and broken rice export in the fiscal year 2017-2018 which ended in March, the Myanmar Rice Federation said Saturday. From April 1, 2017 to M...
-- 2018-04-07 12:56:27
Facebook Inc backed for the first time on Friday proposed legislation requiring social media sites to disclose the identities of buyers of online political campaign ads and introduced a new verificati...
-- 2018-04-07 12:51:11
The US economy created 103,000 jobs in March while the wage growth picked up a bit. Average hourly earnings rose eight cents or 0.3 per cent last month after edging up 0.1 per cent in February. Nonfa...
FE Online Report 2018-04-07 12:24:57
The government has no plan to cut yield rates on state-owned savings certificates, said National Board of Revenue (NBR) chairman Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Saturday. Despite the interest payments b...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-04-07 09:27:11
The government is likely to earmark more than Tk 600 billion as project aid in the development budget for the next financial year (FY) 2018-19, up 16 per cent from the outlay for the current FY, offic...
Syful Islam 2018-04-07 00:08:34
Bangladesh achieved considerable progress in utilising Japan's aid loan in the Japanese financial year ending in March, data shows. The disbursement of overseas development assistance loan from JICA...
-- 2018-04-06 20:28:52
Black holes are hanging out at the centre of our galaxy by the thousands, according to scientists who have detected a bunch of them in the neighbourhood of a supermassive black hole already known to r...
-- 2018-04-06 19:38:39
Remittance inflow in the first nine months rose by 17.04 per cent to that of the corresponding period of the previous fiscal. As per Bangladesh Bank (BB) data, expatriate Bangladeshis sent US $10,761...
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