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-- 2017-10-10 12:31:10
The Chittagong Branch Council (CBC) of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) organised a workshop titled 'Cost Audit - A Practical Approach' recently at Agrabad, sai...
Rezaul Karim 2017-10-10 12:30:03
State-run sugar mills' losses are gradually increasing as they are not adjusting production costs with accumulated losses hitting a new high of around Tk 30 billion, officials said. "The cash-strappe...
-- 2017-10-10 12:24:53
There are 600,000 homes in Texas and Florida alone that need re-roofed or repaired and results over the next month will give some sign of how much the resulting squeeze on building materials will bene...
Siddique Islam 2017-10-10 12:00:00
The country's conomy faces some downside risks in the near term predominantly for an upturn in inflation, says a quarterly review by the central bank. The latest Bangladesh Bank Quarterly (BBQ) outlo...
-- 2017-10-10 12:00:00
The government is going to pilot a “Poverty Environment Accounts (PEA)” system to get coherent quantification and practical link between the poverty and environment aimed at formulating po...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2017-10-10 12:00:00
Bangladesh's employment growth almost halved in 2010- 2016 compared to the preceding period since 2003, according to the World Bank (WB) that indicated job-scant economic growth as a major reason. T...
-- 2017-10-10 12:00:00
New fossil evidence has pushed back a key step in the evolution of bird flight by millions of years. Skeletal changes that helped birds take to the air happened 120 million years ago, during the hey...
-- 2017-10-10 12:00:00
With a view to increasing production of crops and bringing agriculture inputs to the purchasing capacity of farmers, the government has invested Tk 603.8 billion in the last eight years. “The A...
BBC 2017-10-10 11:48:15
Google has found evidence that Russian agents spent tens of thousands of dollars on adverts in a bid to sway the 2016 US election, media reports say. Sources quoted by the Washington Post say the adv...
-- 2017-10-10 01:31:23
China will have no problem meeting its economic growth target of around 6.5 per cent this year, and may even beat it, the head of the Statistics Bureau said on Tuesday. Steps taken by the government...
FE Report 2017-10-09 12:00:00
The government should rethink merits of the existing VAT law 1991, including multiple rates and package VAT and tariff value, before the pending switch. Business leaders and economists came up with t...
BBC 2017-10-09 12:00:00
More than 60 per cent of holidaymakers left overseas when Monarch Airlines collapsed have now flown back to the UK, the Civil Aviation Authority says. The CAA stepped in after all of Monarch's flight...
FE Report 2017-10-09 12:00:00
The country's earnings from shipment of merchandise products declined by 9.83 per cent to US$ 2.03 billion in September 2017 over the corresponding month of 2016. The earnings in the third month of t...
Babul Barman 2017-10-09 12:00:00
The government revenue earnings from the Dhaka bourse marked a 174 per cent rise in first quarter (Q1) for July-September period of the current fiscal year compared to the same quarter a year ago as t...
-- 2017-10-09 12:00:00
Growth in China’s services sector fell to the lowest level for 21 months in September as the pace of new business cooled, a private survey showed. The survey was in sharp contrast to an officia...
-- 2017-10-09 12:00:00
US economist Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Economics Prize for his contributions in the field of behavioural economics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday made the announcement....
-- 2017-10-09 11:53:24
The influx of more than half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar since August is having a huge effect on Bangladesh, including on its economy. Many university groups in Bangladesh are protes...
-- 2017-10-09 07:07:52
Facebook will train 10,000 Bangladeshi youths on digital marketing under a 'BoostYourBusiness' programme over the next six months. The Facebook authorities will provide the training to 10,000 IT-trai...
Doulot Akter Mala 2017-10-08 12:00:00
Taxmen will jumpstart scrutiny assessment, dubbed 'return process', just after submission of tax returns in the current fiscal year (FY) to detect any arithmetical flaws. All tax returns must go thro...
-- 2017-10-08 12:00:00
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Friday eased tax rules for small and medium-sized companies, as it rushes to address growing criticism of its stewardship of Asia’s third-large...
-- 2017-10-08 12:00:00
Export earnings of Bangladesh dropped to $2.03 billion last month, which is around 10 per cent less than the same month last year. It also missed the target by 28 per cent, the Export Promotion Burea...
FE Desk 2017-10-08 11:20:36
Experts in a seminar recently said equity market should be a regular source of finance to industrialise the country. As part of observing the World Investor Week, the Institute of Chartered Accounta...
FE Report 2017-10-08 11:06:36
Discussants have said the country's capital market needs listing of more good companies to fetch more foreign investments. They stressed on importance of companies having good fundamentals on Saturd...
-- 2017-10-08 09:04:29
As part of expanding its global footprint, Bangladesh’s fast-growing pharmaceutical sector is looking for opportunities in Qatar, ording to a report by www.thepeninsulaqatar.com. A &l...
-- 2017-10-07 12:40:23
MOSCOW, Oct 6 (Reuters): Saudi King Salman said the kingdom remained keen on the stability of the global oil market in order to balance the interests of consumers and producers, the Saudi news agency...
Rezaul Karim 2017-10-07 12:25:48
The government has borrowed nearly US$ 1.0 billion (100 crore) from international lenders in favour of its different entities, officials said. In late September, the standing committee on non-concess...
Doulot Akter Mala 2017-10-07 12:00:00
Government's revenue authorities have decided to conduct afresh an impact assessment of the new VAT law, pending its now-deferred enforcement, as skepticism cropped up. Sources said the National Boar...
-- 2017-10-07 10:59:21
A woman and her son were electrocuted and three of their family members injured at Betchhari area of Dighinala upazila in Khagrachhari on Friday night. The deceased were identified as Kalamile Chakma...
BBC 2017-10-07 10:30:49
The US is lifting most of the economic and trade sanctions it first imposed on Sudan two decades ago. However Sudan will remain listed as a state sponsor of terror. US officials said Sudan had made...
-- 2017-10-07 09:25:50
When skill shortage is seen a major constraint to steady growth of the country's apparel industry, in-house training for skill development of garment employees and workers has become a panacea bringin...
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