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Social media etiquettes that you must know

Social media etiquettes that you must know

MEGH RAHMAN 2022-01-15 16:06:39

Upon checking your notification bar after waking up, with your utmost irritation, you figure out that one of your Facebook friends tagged you along with 78 other friends on his picture. No wonder th...

Will Quantum Computers finally become useful in 2022?

Will Quantum Computers finally become useful in 2022?

SADMAN FAKID 2022-01-15 15:57:19

Quantum computing is a sort of computing that uses the collective features of quantum states to accomplish calculations, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Quantum computers are ma...

Hyped Korean foods that you can prepare at home

Hyped Korean foods that you can prepare at home

Sirajum Munira 2022-01-15 14:18:53

Along with the popularity of K-Drama and K-Pop, Korean foods has also become hyped in Bangladesh recently.  Sometimes, those foods are introduced through Korean movies or series, sometimes throu...

How international tech reviewers shape our expectations

How international tech reviewers shape our expectations

Fardeen Kabir 2022-01-15 13:33:02

When we think about tech reviewers, who are almost entirely based on YouTube, some very common names pop up such as Marques Brownlee, Linus Tech Tips, Unbox Therapy, Mrwhosetheboss, Dave Lee, Hardware...

Netflix raises subscription prices in US, Canada to compete in streaming TV market

Netflix raises subscription prices in US, Canada to compete in streaming TV market

-- 2022-01-15 10:29:41

Netflix Inc has raised its monthly subscription price by $1 to $2 per month in the United States depending on the plan, the company said on Friday, to help pay for new programming to compete in the cr...

Facebook, Google CEOs aware of formal advertising market deal

Facebook, Google CEOs aware of formal advertising market deal

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-15 09:44:16

Chief executives of Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook were aware of a deal to carve up part of the online advertising market, according to an amended antitrust complaint filed by Texas and 15 other s...

Red blood cell deficiency in astronauts could be a challenge for space missions

Red blood cell deficiency in astronauts could be a challenge for space missions

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-15 09:32:02

The next "giant leap" for humans may be a trip to Mars, but having enough oxygen-carrying red blood cells for the journey might present a challenge, new research suggests. Astronauts are known to exp...

Bangladesh's economic indicators puzzle economists

Bangladesh's economic indicators puzzle economists

JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2022-01-15 09:03:24

Two key indicators in Bangladesh's external trade, export and import, as ratio of GDP remain squeezed somewhere around 10 while that of competing Vietnam's ride over 100 per cent, economists observe....

NASA begins process of bringing James Webb Space Telescope into focus

NASA begins process of bringing James Webb Space Telescope into focus

-- 2022-01-13 18:02:27

NASA on Wednesday embarked on a months-long, painstaking process of bringing its newly launched James Webb Space Telescope into focus, a task due for completion in time for the revolutionary eye in th...

Bangladesh, Singapore eye early conclusion of FTA

Bangladesh, Singapore eye early conclusion of FTA

-- 2022-01-13 17:27:49

Applauding the initiative for a free trade agreement (FTA) between Bangladesh and Singapore, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said FTA would be mutually beneficial by further enhancing t...

When should you upgrade your device?

When should you upgrade your device?

Fardeen Kabir 2022-01-13 17:25:43

The Steam Hardware Survey is a very reliable way of getting an idea about what sort of PC components people are generally using all over the world. According to the latest survey report released in D...

India's TCS, Infosys confident on digital services growth

India's TCS, Infosys confident on digital services growth

-- 2022-01-13 11:17:31

Infosys raised its revenue forecast and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) predicted robust demand on Wednesday as the Indian IT giants said they expect tech spending to continue, particularly for digita...

Bangladesh Bank asks bankers to augment remittance inflow amid dollar crunch

Bangladesh Bank asks bankers to augment remittance inflow amid dollar crunch

SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2022-01-13 08:34:27

The central bank asks top bankers to jumpstart moves to augment remittance inflow immediately for ensuring macroeconomic stability of Bangladesh, evidently amid forex fall. Under the crash course cha...

Bangladesh Bank devalues taka to boost exports, remittances

Bangladesh Bank devalues taka to boost exports, remittances

-- 2022-01-12 17:26:07

The exchange rate of the Taka has depreciated by 25 per cent in the last 13 years against the US dollar, and fell to an unprecedented Tk 86 against the dollar at the start of the week, as the central...

Bangladesh sets $80 billion export target for FY24

Bangladesh sets $80 billion export target for FY24

-- 2022-01-12 16:57:50

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the draft of ‘Export Policy 2021-2024’, setting the US$80 billion export target for FY2024. The approval came from this year'...

Energy: Vital utility for economic development and achieving SDGs

Energy: Vital utility for economic development and achieving SDGs

-- 2022-01-12 16:47:24

Bangladesh has an impressive track record of growth and poverty reduction. It has been among the fastest-growing economies in the world over the past decade, supported by a demographic dividend, stron...

WB projects 6.4pc GDP growth for Bangladesh in 2021-22 FY

WB projects 6.4pc GDP growth for Bangladesh in 2021-22 FY

-- 2022-01-12 16:39:14

The Bangladesh economy is expected to grow by 6.4 per cent in the current 2021-22 fiscal year (FY), while 6.9 per cent in 2022-23 fiscal, the World Bank projected. The World Bank made the projectio...

Gaping finance deficits bode bad for Bangladesh economy: Economists

Gaping finance deficits bode bad for Bangladesh economy: Economists

FE REPORT 2022-01-12 08:37:41

Some macroeconomic and fiscal challenges surface on the Bangladesh economic front, including the fast-growing balance-of-payments (BoP) deficit, economists at a review meet Tuesday cautioned. A gov...

World Bank cuts 2022 growth forecast to 4.1pc

World Bank cuts 2022 growth forecast to 4.1pc

-- 2022-01-11 22:45:30

The World Bank on Tuesday cut its forecasts for economic growth in the United States, the Euro area and China and warned that high debt levels, rising income inequality and new coronavirus variants th...

Several govt websites inaccessible for hours

Several govt websites inaccessible for hours

-- 2022-01-11 20:17:59

A number of major government websites, including that of the ICT Division, have been inaccessible for hours due to what an official described as a problem in the server of the national web portal. Th...

Dependency on borrowed money for implementing development projects not good: Zaidi Sattar

Dependency on borrowed money for implementing development projects not good: Zaidi Sattar

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-11 19:21:58

A senior economist has suggested reducing over-dependence on borrowed money for implementing the development budget, terming it a bad sign for the economy.“All the annual development programmes...

Gloomy outlook for global recovery, World Economic Forum survey finds

Gloomy outlook for global recovery, World Economic Forum survey finds

-- 2022-01-11 16:53:28

Only one in 10 World Economic Forum members surveyed expects the global recovery to accelerate over the next three years, a poll of nearly 1,000 business, government and academic leaders found, with o...

Intel erases reference to Xinjiang after China backlash

Intel erases reference to Xinjiang after China backlash

-- 2022-01-11 11:13:23

US chipmaker Intel has deleted references to Xinjiang from an annual letter to suppliers after the company faced a backlash in China for asking suppliers to avoid the sanctions-hit region. Last month...

Bangladesh to approach ADB for $940m in fresh aid

Bangladesh to approach ADB for $940m in fresh aid

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2022-01-11 08:54:09

The government is trying to get another big chunk of US$940 million in aid package from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for purchasing Covid-19 shots to be used as booster doses, officials said on...

Inflation up, virus down as priorities in US

Inflation up, virus down as priorities in US

-- 2022-01-10 17:25:39

Heading into a critical midterm election year, the top political concerns of Americans are shifting in ways that suggest Democrats face considerable challenges to maintaining their control of Congress...

Bangladesh proposes FTA with Eurasian Union

Bangladesh proposes FTA with Eurasian Union

SYFUL ISLAM 2022-01-10 09:54:52

A vast market appears in sight as Bangladesh has formally proposed to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to strike free-trade agreement (FTA), officials say, as the country prepares for a socioecono...

Bangladesh govt's tax collection rises 14.22pc in July-Dec period

Bangladesh govt's tax collection rises 14.22pc in July-Dec period

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-01-10 09:00:36

Tax-revenue collection grew 14.22 per cent, year on year, in the first six months of the current fiscal year but the amount stood Tk 170.81 billion short of the half-yearly target. The National Board...

World Bank okays $295m to boost Bangladesh’s digital economy

World Bank okays $295m to boost Bangladesh’s digital economy

-- 2022-01-09 20:06:57

The International Development Association (IDA), a concern of the World Bank, will extend USD $295 million Scale Up Facility (SUF) loan to Bangladesh for enhancing digital government & economy (ED...

Per capita income to cross $3,000 this year, minister hopes

Per capita income to cross $3,000 this year, minister hopes

-- 2022-01-09 17:01:19

Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam has expressed hope that the country’s average per capita income would exceed USD 3,000 by this year. The minister said, &ld...

Goods trade with the world crosses $110b in 2021

Goods trade with the world crosses $110b in 2021

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-09 15:42:13

The country’s bilateral trade in goods with the rest of the world crossed US$110 billion in the last calendar year, showed the FE estimation based on statistics of exports receipts and imports p...