FE REPORT 2022-12-21 09:13:31
The government has announced a 102 per cent hike in minimum monthly wages to Tk 10,520 for the workers of fishing trawlers. Earlier in 2015, the government had fixed Tk 5,200 as the minimum monthly w...
FE REPORT 2022-12-21 09:12:01
The government should take the responsibility of returnee female migrant workers' children born out of sexual abuse in job-destination countries. Migrant rights activists on Tuesday made the demand a...
FE REPORT 2022-12-21 08:56:21
A number of traders want to import 160 million pieces of egg from India, sources said, although price of the item has witnessed a slight fall on the domestic market. Some trading houses - namely Chee...
MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-12-21 08:47:42
Country's maiden metro rail is set to be inaugurated apparently without certification of standard of operations for lack of expertise in the regulatory authority to certify such a highly technical p...
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China's crude oil imports from Russia rose 17 per cent in November from a year earlier, as Chineserefiners rushed to secure more cargoes ahead of a price cap imposed by the Group of Seven nations...
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Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has called for increasing capacity of land ports on India-Bangladesh border. "India is a close friend and major trading partner of Bangladesh. There is a huge dema...
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All services of Padma Bank Limited will be closed for the next four days to coordinate banking activities with new software. “The banking transactions of Padma Bank will be temporarily suspende...
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Nagad, one of the leading mobile financial service providers in the country, has announced that all types of services will be free of charges for members of Bangladesh Police force. Nagad, an arm of...
FE Online 2022-12-20 18:35:30
Bangladeshi transport-tech startup Shuttle has announced USD 1.5 million in new funding, bringing its total investment to USD 2.5 million to date. The company charges less than one-third the price of...
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Workers of a garment factory at Fatullah in Narayanganj staged a protest on Tuesday against the retrenchment of workers without notice and demanding payment of two months' arrears. The workers...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-20 15:22:54
BAT Bangladesh has acquired Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) core certification for its environment-friendly facilities in Dhaka and Kushtia that has made it the first Bangladeshi company to secur...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-12-20 09:02:37
Amid soaring prices of coal in the local market, the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) has found no reason behind such a price movement and recommended taking necessary measures to rein in...
FE REPORT 2022-12-20 09:01:27
Dearth of piped natural gas for lax exploration is driving liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) demand growth by 30-40 per cent annually as industries starve for fuel. Speakers at a seminar Monday made such...
FE REPORT 2022-12-20 08:59:34
The government has moved to centrally store the data of 10 million low-income card-holder families benefiting from the sales drive of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), in order to check irr...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-19 11:09:34
Oil prices reclaimed ground on Monday after tumbling more than $2 a barrel in the previous session as optimism from China's reopening and oil demand recovery outweighed concerns of a global rece...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-19 11:06:59
China's business confidence hit its lowest level since at least January 2013, a survey by World Economics showed on Monday, reflecting the impact of surging COVID-19 cases on economic activity a...
FE REPORT 2022-12-19 09:06:36
Flat prices and house rents will increase manifold due to the newly-introduced detailed area plan (DAP), the Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) said on Sunday. "The middle clas...
MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-12-19 08:58:22
Dhaka metro rail company is going to hire a good number of foreign technical persons to manage operations of a part of the country's first metro rail scheduled to be inaugurated on December 28. Sou...
FE REPORT 2022-12-19 08:48:08
There is an urgent need to ensure socio-economic safety of the returnee migrants in the country, speakers told a discussion on Sunday. They also suggested introducing forced saving schemes and insura...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2022-12-19 08:41:49
Overdue government payments and LC problem stall the import of furnace oil by the owners of private-sector power plants, shifting the burden of fuelling their units to the public exchequer. Sources s...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-12-18 19:38:23
Crony Group has set up a ‘fair price shop’ at its factory premises to sell daily commodities at a discounted rate for some 10,000 workers. The move came in collaboration with Apon Wellb...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-18 15:34:35
Md Saiful Islam has been re-elected the president of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) for the year 2023. The members of the Board of Directors unanimously re-elected hi...
FE Online Desk 2022-12-18 12:13:04
Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Sumaiya Aziz has been elected an executive member of the Business and Professional Women’s Club (BPW), Dhaka for the term 2023-25. Founded in 1960 at the heart of...
FE REPORT 2022-12-18 10:07:38
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) recommended an integrated participation of the private sector entrepreneurs and the related government institutions for flouris...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2022-12-18 09:59:32
The Dutch government is planning to invest Euro 7.0 million to help 90,000 small farming households in rural Bangladesh grow as agro entrepreneurs under a project, said a top regional boss of Solidari...
YASIR WARDAD 2022-12-18 09:15:24
Bangladeshi startup Aqualink has locally developed an IoT gateway - 'Sensometer' - which could bring a revolutionary change in the country's agricultural and industrial sectors by minimising operating...
FE REPORT 2022-12-18 09:10:59
A total of 37 companies received the Ninth ICSB National Award for their outstanding corporate governance practices as well as transparency and accountability in overall management. The Institute of...
FE REPORT 2022-12-18 09:03:53
The government has given employment permits to 115,541 Malaysia-bound workers after the resumption of recruitment by the host country earlier this year, officials said. Among them, 35,000 workers hav...
REZAUL KARIM 2022-12-18 09:00:42
The export of agriculture products through the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital is being hampered due to a number of factors, including lack of separate scanning system, in...
Doulot Akter Mala 2022-12-18 08:56:30
The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of Bangladesh has decided to conduct a performance audit of the existing VAT Management and Automation system and assess the outcome of the Tk...
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