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IBBL Rangpur Zone holds clients’ get-together

IBBL Rangpur Zone holds clients’ get-together

FE Online Desk 2018-07-28 13:34:11

Rangpur Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organised a clients’ get-together on Thursday  at Brac Learning Center of Dinajpur. Mohammed Monirul Moula, Additional Managing Director of t...

Half Yearly Biz Review Meeting 2018 of Standard Bank held

Half Yearly Biz Review Meeting 2018 of Standard Bank held

FE Online Desk 2018-07-28 13:23:51

The Half Yearly Business Review Meeting 2018 of Standard Bank Limited was held on Saturday at SBL Training Institute, Dhaka. Managing Director & CEO of the Bank Mr. Mamun-Ur-Rashid was present as...

ICMAB holds seminar on  “sustainability reporting towards achieving SDGs”

ICMAB holds seminar on “sustainability reporting towards achieving SDGs”

FE Online Desk 2018-07-28 13:15:17

 The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) arranged a day-long seminar on “sustainability reporting towards achieving SDGs” at ICMAB Ruhul Quddus Auditori...

ILO trains officials on probing unfair labour practices

ILO trains officials on probing unfair labour practices

FE Report 2018-07-28 10:16:41

Thirty labour officials have received training on principles and techniques of investigation into unfair labour practices to protect workers against discriminations. The five-day residential traini...

RHD adds facilities of a national highway to a regional road!

RHD adds facilities of a national highway to a regional road!

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-07-28 10:04:17

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) will rebuild a 31 km-long existing regional road pouring Tk 300 million (30 core) into each of the kilometres, insiders said on Friday. The RHD has proposed sp...

Veg, chili, broiler prices on upswing in city

Veg, chili, broiler prices on upswing in city

FE Report 2018-07-28 09:59:31

The prices of some green vegetables, green chili and broiler showed an upward trend at different kitchen markets in the capital on Friday. Retailers attributed this hike to wholesalers and claimed th...

July-May imports soar 16.56pc

July-May imports soar 16.56pc

FE Report 2018-07-28 09:55:40

The country's overall import jumped nearly 17 per cent in the first 11 months of the just-concluded fiscal year (FY), 2017-18, mainly due to high import of food grains and fuel oils, officials said....

Australian media giants agree to merge

Australian media giants agree to merge

-- 2018-07-27 20:02:30

Australian media giants Nine Entertainment and Fairfax have agreed to merge, creating what they say will be the nation's "largest integrated media player". The surprise deal, worth an estimated A$4b...

'Failure to launch suitable drugs led to GSK closure'

'Failure to launch suitable drugs led to GSK closure'

-- 2018-07-27 19:45:44

British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) decided to close down its operation in Bangladesh for failure to launch “appropriate” drugs in the market. “It was in our mind h...

Nokia's Q2 profit drops significantly

Nokia's Q2 profit drops significantly

-- 2018-07-27 16:41:04

Nokia's operating profit declined sharply in the second quarter of 2018, announced the Finnish information technology company in its interim report released. Compared with the same period in 2017,...

Petronet submits proposal for Kutubdia LNG terminal

Petronet submits proposal for Kutubdia LNG terminal

-- 2018-07-27 15:59:23

Petronet LNG Limited, the biggest liquefied natural gas importer of India, has submitted a firm proposal to set up an LNG import facility in Bangladesh at an investment of about $1.00 billion, officia...

Reference rate of govt floating  instruments on the decline

Reference rate of govt floating instruments on the decline

FE Online Report 2018-07-27 15:07:06

The 91 Days Bangladesh Compounded Rate (BCR) has been declining for the last couple of days, according to the statistics available with Bangladesh Bank. “This is a reference rate which will be...

Samsung's unbreakable bendy screen gets certification

Samsung's unbreakable bendy screen gets certification

-- 2018-07-27 14:46:54

Samsung Display, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, on Friday said its recently developed unbreakable, bendable screen has passed safety testing in the United States, allowing the firm to beg...

Bangladesh sets record in LC openings

Bangladesh sets record in LC openings

-- 2018-07-27 14:34:33

Bangladesh has set a new record for opening letters of credit (LCs) for imports. In the first 11 months of fiscal 2017-18, $64.4 billion of LCs was opened, up 48.25 per cent year-on-year, according t...

China's June industrial profit  growth eases as trade risks rise

China's June industrial profit growth eases as trade risks rise

-- 2018-07-27 12:52:36

Profit growth for China’s industrial firms eased in June from the previous month, as factory production slowed amid rising trade frictions with the United States and Beijing’s ongoing effo...

Oil markets inch down after three days of gains

Oil markets inch down after three days of gains

-- 2018-07-27 12:10:19

Oil prices edged down on Friday after three days of gains, but were still supported by Saudi Arabia’s halt on transporting crude through a key shipping lane, falling US inventories and easing tr...

Road Transport Act unlikely before nat'l election

Road Transport Act unlikely before nat'l election

Munima Sultana 2018-07-27 11:57:06

There is no possibility to get the Road Transport Act (RTA) passed by parliament before the next national election, said sources. But it is necessary to pass and implement the much-talked act to brin...

Most garment workers complain about wages

Most garment workers complain about wages

Monira Munni 2018-07-27 10:46:15

The most common complaint the garment workers lodge through a helpline service is about non-payment of wages and compensation, according to the Alliance. The workers in the Alliance-listed garment fa...

Dhaka expresses reservations as New Delhi seeks open skies

Dhaka expresses reservations as New Delhi seeks open skies

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2018-07-27 10:08:37

India is still seeking implementation of an open skies policy with Bangladesh in the civil aviation sector, although Dhaka earlier expressed its reservations to New Delhi to go for such a policy. An...

Banks now can lend more as BB revises ADR calculation

Banks now can lend more as BB revises ADR calculation

Siddique Islam 2018-07-27 10:01:04

The country's commercial banks have been empowered to lend more, as the central bank has revised the advance-deposit ratio (ADR) calculation formula relaxing their reserve requirement. According to t...

Metals gain across the board

Metals gain across the board

-- 2018-07-26 23:00:17

Base metals rose across the board on Thursday after the European Union and the United States agreed to negotiate on trade, easing fears of a trade war, though worries over growth in top consumer China...

GlaxoSmithKline shutting its business in Bangladesh

GlaxoSmithKline shutting its business in Bangladesh

-- 2018-07-26 22:49:27

British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is pulling the plug on its pharmaceutical business in Bangladesh citing ‘commercial unsustainability’. The GSK Bangladesh board of dire...

Uber introduces Dhaka-Gazipur ride

Uber introduces Dhaka-Gazipur ride

-- 2018-07-26 19:03:15

Uber has launched a new service called UberIntercity, allowing commuters to book rides for from Dhaka to Gazipur and Savar. Uber introduced the service to facilitate intercity rides from Dhaka for ro...

‘London Calling with MasterCard’ campaign concludes

‘London Calling with MasterCard’ campaign concludes

FE Online Report 2018-07-26 18:36:56

The two-month long ‘London Calling with MasterCard’ campaign ended with a prize giving ceremony held at a city hotel on Wednesday. The first prize winner Ms Shirin Munir was awarded coupl...

Mastercard CEO terms cryptocurrency ‘junk’

Mastercard CEO terms cryptocurrency ‘junk’

-- 2018-07-26 17:43:31

Describing cryptocurrency as "junk", Mastercard President and CEO Ajay Banga has said an "anonymised" currency that can fluctuate "wildly" does not deserve to be considered as a medium of exchange....

CAB for transparency in gas sector, giving BERC full power to fix price

CAB for transparency in gas sector, giving BERC full power to fix price

FE Report 2018-07-26 15:48:10

The Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) put forward a set of recommendations on Wednesday for development of the country's gas sector that include ensuring transparency and people's ownership of...

SIBL opens branch in Sylhet’s Tuker Bazar

SIBL opens branch in Sylhet’s Tuker Bazar

FE Online Desk 2018-07-26 15:04:09

Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) has opened its 146th branch at Tuker Bazar in Sylhet. Quazi Osman, Managing Director and CEO of the bank inaugurated the branch today (Thursday), according to a pres...

Bond investors shun India, citing lack of reassurance from RBI

Bond investors shun India, citing lack of reassurance from RBI

-- 2018-07-26 15:01:19

Amid all the noise about an increasingly hawkish US Federal Reserve, a trade war and higher oil prices, the Reserve Bank of India’s silence is deafening, say investors piling out of the country&...

Emirates wins inflight entertainment award again

Emirates wins inflight entertainment award again

FE Online Desk 2018-07-26 14:24:45

Emirates has won the World's Best Inflight Entertainment award for a record 14th year at the prestigious Skytrax World Airline Awards 2018. The airline also picked up a service excellence award for...

FBCCI seeks single-digit interest rate on SME loans

FBCCI seeks single-digit interest rate on SME loans

FE Online Desk 2018-07-26 13:47:50

The business leaders has urged for bring down the interest rate of SME loan at single digit to develop the country’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). They also requested the concern...