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FE Report 2017-12-24 12:00:00
Alarm bells rang louder Saturday from economists' meet for immediate reform to restore discipline in Bangladesh's banking system, seen largely ridden with irregularities. Financial-market analysts ma...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
Property market in Beijing held steady in November with second-hand home prices edging for seven consecutive months, according to a government report. The statement was included in a report on the ec...
Agencies 2017-12-24 12:00:00
China has shut down or revoked the licenses of more than 13,000 illegal websites since 2015. Wang Shengjun, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress disclosed the i...
FE Report 2017-12-24 09:40:59
Bad loans and high inflation jacked up bank-interest rates persistently until recently, thus inflating cost of credit and deflating investment and economic growth. A researcher placed such findings i...
-- 2017-12-24 05:34:04
Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a safe, flexible, fast-charging aluminum-graphene battery that can be charged in seconds, instead of hours. The team, led by professor Gao...
FE Report 2017-12-23 12:00:00
The central bank should take stricter stance while dealing with ongoing controversies over some "non-performing" commercial banks, a former Bangladesh Bank governor suggests. In the wake of such deve...
-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00
Women’s lengthy involvement in unpaid care work compared to that of men gets in the way of their economic empowerment, a study has found. Women in Bangladesh engage in 6.3 hours of 'unpai...
-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00
Bruce McCandless, who was captured in a stunning photograph in 1984 as he made the first untethered flight in space, has died aged 80, Nasa said. With a jetpack, McCandless travelled 100m (328ft) fro...
-- 2017-12-23 11:05:32
Hackers tried to steal 55 million roubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the bank said on Thursday, the latest in a string of attemp...
BBC 2017-12-23 10:50:33
Two class action lawsuits have been launched against Apple in the US following the tech giant's admission that it slows down older models of the iPhone as they age. Apple has said that it did this to...
-- 2017-12-23 08:36:12
The government plans to create a hub for generating 9,000 megawatts of electricity at Payra area of Patuakhali to uplift the southwestern region. State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid disc...
-- 2017-12-23 04:01:55
Maize cultivation is increasing every year in all five districts under Rangpur agriculture region, as the char people are earning huge profits to cut poverty and lead better life. The Department of A...
-- 2017-12-23 02:32:13
Turkey’s parliament has approved the country’s 2018 budget, which includes increased spending on defence and projects a rise in the fiscal deficit to 65.9 billion lira ($17.28 billion)....
FE Report 2017-12-22 12:59:34
Prof Dr Rehman Sobhan identified on Thursday a number of areas of ethical failures, including capital market, banking sector and functioning of commodity market. He also found ethical failures in o...
-- 2017-12-22 12:44:34
Venezuela’s economy shrank 16.5 per cent in 2016, the government said on Thursday, as the oil-dependent nation continued to slump as a result of weak crude prices. Venezuela’s governmen...
-- 2017-12-22 12:20:00
Business confidence among British businesses has picked up to its highest level since July as firms expect a busier 2018, though optimism remains well below its level before last year’s Brexit v...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-12-22 12:00:00
The Bridges Division is on the list of the worst performers among the big ministries implementing development projects, as execution of its key Padma Bridge project has faced setback, officials said o...
-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00
Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 Technology has shut down a website that was streaming live video from its cameras in schools, gyms and restaurants. Qihoo shut down the site, called Water Drop, f...
FE Report 2017-12-22 12:00:00
Country's apex trade body Thursday requested India to remove non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and establish direct air connectivity between Dhaka and Assam's capital Guwahati for boosting bilateral trade....
-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00
Get ready to see fewer annoying and intrusive online ads when surfing the web using Google’s Chrome browser. The search giant said that starting on February 15, its Chrome browser would no long...
-- 2017-12-22 07:09:21
The increasing economic activities of the country over the years are working as catalyst in driving the insurance sector forward. The sector, in return, is demonstrating a surge of economic activitie...
-- 2017-12-22 01:24:57
The Federal Reserve, which was at the center of an unsolved $81-million cyber heist nearly two years ago, is ready for further talks with foreign counterparts to address the lingering risks of cyber...
-- 2017-12-22 01:03:09
Japan’s nationwide core consumer price index (CPI) likely rose 0.8 per cent in November from a year ago, unchanged from October’s reading, a Reuters poll found on Friday. The country&rsqu...
-- 2017-12-21 12:00:00
Apple has finally responded to reports claiming that the company is throttling the performance on older models of iPhones. The company confirmed that it was altering the performance of selected iPhon...
-- 2017-12-21 12:00:00
US space agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) announced Wednesday that it has selected two finalist concepts for a robotic mission planned to launch in the mid-2020 to explore t...
-- 2017-12-21 12:00:00
The central bank has asked the all the banks and NBFIs to connect their established Point of Sale (POS) with the National Payment Switch of Bangladesh (NPSB) by December 2018. The banks and NBFIs (no...
-- 2017-12-21 11:58:53
The Finance Minister has said that the directors of The Farmers Bank Limited have destroyed the bank by way of looting. According to Mr AMA Muhith, "It's the directors who destroyed The Farmers Bank...
Reuters 2017-12-21 10:53:43
The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Thursday despite growing signs of strength in the economy, signalling that it was in no rush to edge away from crisis-mode stimulus with inflation stil...
Siddique Islam 2017-12-21 10:38:27
The central bank has increased the allocation of Export Development Fund (EDF) scheme by 20 per cent or US$500 million aiming to facilitate the country's exporters for boosting their business activiti...
Doulot Akter Mala 2017-12-21 10:03:11
Around 95 per cent of the businesses having VAT registration were still conducting import-export and other activities with their old identification numbers (BINs) the validity of which is set to expir...
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