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-- 2021-02-15 19:50:09
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Monday said they are working with the Local Government Ministry to speed up the introduction of trade license for the industry so that e-commerce businesses could acce...
REUTERS 2021-02-15 18:10:50
Three months after the Trump administration rejected her, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is set to receive unanimous backing on Monday to become the first woman and first African...
Reuters 2021-02-15 14:12:44
Over half of Japanese firms believe the Tokyo Olympic Games should be cancelled or postponed, a survey by think tank Tokyo Shoko Research showed on Monday, casting further doubt over the fate of the t...
-- 2021-02-15 10:11:34
Bitcoin hit a new record high and approached $50,000 on Sunday, building on its record rally as Wall Street and Main Street increasingly adopt the world’s biggest cryptocurrency. Bitcoin recent...
FE Report 2021-02-15 09:36:42
A Chinese biotechnology firm will start constructing its plant for plasma fractionation in Bangladesh soon. This will be the first biotechnology plant in the country. The biotech plasma fractionati...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2021-02-15 09:13:08
The government prefers delaying further to launch a fresh bid round to offer offshore blocks fearing lukewarm response from the potential global players due to the coronavirus pandemic. State-run Pet...
FE REPORT 2021-02-15 09:05:37
Swadhinata Parishad, a panel consisting of garment makers, has announced it will contest the upcoming elections to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), the apex trad...
FE Report 2021-02-15 09:02:27
The central bank is set to introduce an automated trading platform for the country's interbank money market before March 31 to boost its monitoring and supervision on the market, officials said. Co...
FE REPORT 2021-02-15 08:40:33
The government has provided Tk 2.5 billion to state-owned Palli Sanchay Bank (PSB) to meet its capital shortage, officials said. The finance division has recently issued an order setting some conditi...
Doulot Akter Mala 2021-02-15 08:34:20
The majority of small and medium scale shopping outlets are yet to install the automated sales transaction system despite repeated reminders coming from the National Board of Revenue (NBR) since 2009....
-- 2021-02-14 22:50:26
Bangladesh Bank has approved a Tk 10.0 billion refinancing scheme to provide long-term soft loans for the construction of modern movie theatres and renovation of old ones. Theatre owners will get loa...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-02-14 17:39:28
ACI Motors on Sunday launched Yamaha’s 1000cc motorcycle R1M through a special event on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. Mr Hiroshi Setogawa, Senior General Manager of Yamaha Motor Co in...
REUTERS 2021-02-14 11:45:19
Robinhood, the trading app popular with young investors, could have better explained why it restricted the buying of heavily shorted stocks caught up in the social media-fuelled trading frenzy around...
-- 2021-02-14 11:16:17
Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, according to a government document seen by Reuters on Saturday. &ldqu...
MUNIMA SULTANA 2021-02-14 08:56:14
A Japanese company is interested in developing a multimodal transport hub at the airport rail station on condition that it operates the third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Off...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2021-02-14 08:50:20
Industries ministry has suggested that the National Board of Revenue (NBR) take its recommendations before allowing the import of any type of salt. It sought detailed information regarding the salt i...
-- 2021-02-13 20:59:03
The members of Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (BARVIDA) called upon the authorities to resolve the custom valuation problems for both new and reconditioned cars, f...
Kyodo News 2021-02-13 20:13:06
Global air passenger traffic in 2020 sank a record 65.9 per cent from the year before amid tighter border controls due to the coronavirus pandemic, with a rebound to around half of 2019 levels expecte...
REUTERS 2021-02-13 15:03:38
China’s ByteDance is said to be exploring the sale of the India operations of TikTok to rival unicorn Glance, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. The discussions, initiated by Japan’s So...
-- 2021-02-13 11:07:56
L’Oreal, the world’s biggest cosmetics group, forecast a strong rebound in makeup sales when the Covid-19 pandemic gives way to a “roaring 20s” when people get dressed up and g...
Reuters 2021-02-13 10:39:52
Alphabet’s Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show. The agreem...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL 2021-02-13 10:23:01
CHATTOGRAM: The trade and business of commercial hub Chattogram is suffering a lot, as the local businesses cannot supply the imported goods to other parts of the country smoothly due to the restric...
REZAUL KARIM 2021-02-13 10:06:40
The government plans to import or buy locally around 0.143 million tonnes of key essential items to face any crisis or price spiral in future especially during the holy month of Ramadan, officials s...
ARAFAT ARA 2021-02-13 10:01:39
Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB) would increase the ceiling of income generation loans for migrant workers to Tk 5.0 million from existing Tk 1.0 million, official sources said. The products are 'Rehabi...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-02-13 09:57:50
Mr Uzzal Dhar and Chinese citizen Mr Peter, now in their mid-30s, had planned to start a business in 2014 at a time when they were studying at Buckinghamshire New University of the UK. They were in...
FE REPORT 2021-02-13 09:14:17
The government received a price quotation from the bidder concerned to purchase liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the spot market for early March delivery after two months of delay. Singapore-based Vi...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2021-02-13 09:10:45
The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) mulls establishing a separate specialised bank to help grow the country's cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) sector....
YASIR WARDAD 2021-02-13 08:28:21
The country's floriculture industry is struggling even in February this year, the peak trading month for cut flower and foliage trade, as the Covid-19 pandemic has squeezed the number of customers. F...
MONIRA MUNNI 2021-02-12 10:08:24
More than 40 global apparel brands, local manufacturers and recyclers have joined a new initiative to capture and reuse textile waste in Bangladesh, sources said. The initiative is focusing on Bangla...
YASIR WARDAD 2021-02-12 09:48:54
The prices of rice and edible oil continued to rise in the city's wholesale and retail markets last week hitting people's pockets. According to trading sources, the prices of common course rice, me...
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