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Reuters 2018-12-20 10:58:31
Facebook Inc shares sank on Wednesday as concerns about its ability to safeguard user data sparked a government lawsuit, criticism in the US Congress and a New York Times report on how it had shared d...
Yasir Wardad 2018-12-20 10:47:15
Export of cabbage is going to more than double this winter, as the demand for the Bangladeshi produce is growing across the globe. The export volume might multiply in coming years, as local traders e...
Siddique Islam 2018-12-20 10:32:02
The central bank has asked all the scheduled banks for taking effective measures to reduce the volume of classified loans significantly by the end of this year. The bankers have, however, sought judi...
M Azizur Rahman 2018-12-20 10:12:44
The state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) is keeping the country's overall electricity generation below the half mark of the installed capacity under a 'rationing' system in view of the...
FE Online Desk 2018-12-20 10:02:08
The Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) has granted a Limited Work Permit (LWP) for construction of Unit 2 of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (AKKuyu NPP), the first ever nuclear power facility in the c...
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LONDON, Dec 19 (Reuters): Oil stabilised on Wednesday after one of its biggest falls for years, but remained under pressure from oversupply and concern that a slowing global economy would depress dema...
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The European Commission (EU) said it started to implement its preparations for a no-deal Brexit - in case the UK crashes out of the EU without a plan. It announced temporary measures to try to reduce...
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GlaxoSmithKline plans to split into two businesses -- one for prescription drugs and vaccines, the other for over-the-counter products -- after forming a new joint venture with Pfizer's consumer healt...
FE Online Desk 2018-12-19 14:12:51
Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) inaugurated its 121st Branch at Bangla Bazar, Daulatkhan in Bhola on Wednesday. SJIBL Deputy Managing Director M Akhter Hossain formally inaugurated the Branch a...
FE Online Desk 2018-12-19 13:32:34
Green Delta Insurance has taken an initiative titled “Supreme Celebrity” on the occasion of 'victory day'. "We believe the freedom fighters, whose courageous efforts and sacrifice...
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India’s federal drug regulator will seize samples of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder for testing on Wednesday, local media said, following a Reuters report that the company knew for de...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-12-19 10:23:11
Accounting professionals in Bangladesh and across the world need to adopt new technologies to cope with the ever changing business environment, said a top official of a global body for professional ac...
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The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has long been hamstrung by capital shortfall, making it difficult for the agency to carry out timely market intervention, officials said. Supply of key ess...
FE Report 2018-12-19 10:05:27
Majority of the tea plantation workers in the country are being deprived of their rights mainly because of legal bottlenecks and irregularities in government monitoring agencies, a study has revealed....
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The annual financial accounting of the country's scheduled banks will be closed on December 27 instead of December 30. The Bangladesh Bank took the decision as the 11th parliamentary election is sche...
FE Online Desk 2018-12-18 20:34:50
Green Delta Insurance has taken an initiative titled ‘Supreme Celebrity’ on the occasion of the Victory Day. The ‘Supreme Celebrity’ is aimed at making a digital selfie archiv...
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The government on Tuesday honoured 178 businesspersons with Commercially Important Person (CIP) cards for their outstanding contributions to the economy of the country in 2016. Among them, 137 receiv...
-- 2018-12-18 16:14:56
Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) is going to introduce a new internationally recognised accreditation guideline for giving certificates to the interested local and multinational companies. The in...
FE Online Desk 2018-12-18 15:37:04
United Commercial Bank Limited has opened its 186th branch at Sharaf Bhata area in Chattogram. Asifuzzaman Chowdhury, Director of UCB inaugurated the branch today (Tuesday), according to a press stat...
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A judge will decide on Tuesday whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn should be sent to prison for lying to the FBI in a case stemming from the investigation into possible collusion be...
-- 2018-12-18 14:29:48
Oil prices fell more than $1 on Tuesday, dropping for a third session as reports of growing inventory and forecasts of record shale output in the United States stoked worries about oversupply. Concer...
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Japan will accelerate spending on advanced stealth fighters, long-range missiles and other equipment over the next five years to support US forces facing China’s military in the Western Pacific,...
FE Online Desk 2018-12-18 13:29:03
Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation paid tribute to the valiant freedom fighters on the Victory Day by placing wreaths at the National Memorial at Savar and to the portrait of the Father of...
FE Report 2018-12-18 12:17:02
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is now able to put 98 per cent of its own land on record after its three-year efforts, officials said. RHD owns a total of 69794.84 acres of lands in its 10 zonal...
FE Report 2018-12-18 10:49:32
The country's food-grain imports plunged by over 75 per cent to US$ 386 million during the first quarter of this year in terms of letters of credit (LCs) opened after the bumper rice output. LCs wort...
Saif Uddin, back from Kishoreganj 2018-12-18 10:39:58
Despite having immense potential, footwear manufacturing business in Bhairab cannot flourish at the desired level, largely due to lack of both low-cost fund and technical assistance, according to insi...
Arafat Ara 2018-12-18 10:34:22
Bangladesh celebrates the 'International Migrants Day 2018' today (Tuesday) amid substantial fall in overseas jobs and soaring costs of migration. The day is being observed, as also elsewhere in the...
M Azizur Rahman 2018-12-18 10:24:09
Petrobangla is unlikely to utilise the full capacity of the floating LNG import terminal and its re-gasification facility before next few weeks due to the scarcity of imported LNG. But the state-run...
Reuters 2018-12-18 10:12:50
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) on Monday scrambled to contain fallout from a Reuters report that the healthcare conglomerate knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder, tak...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2018-12-18 09:58:13
The government has decided to scrap the Dhaka-Chattogram high speed rail line project as China complained that the signing of a MoU on the scheme between Bangladesh Railway (BR) and a Chinese company...
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