JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2022-09-08 09:06:14
Lower-denomination coins, stretching from Poisha 01 to Poisha 50, which are in vogue but already driven out from the market, are equivalent to around Tk 570 million. Officially they are valid and leg...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-09-08 08:48:02
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has launched a digital system to verify the authenticity of tax-return submissions and expedite service delivery by the authorities concerned. Its income-tax wing...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2022-09-08 08:31:22
The central bank seeks explanation from six more banks over their alleged involvement in bagging windfalls from 'unethical' dollar dealings, which hit all in knock-on impact, officials said Wednesday....
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-07 18:37:04
India has agreed to sell surplus fuel to Bangladesh to help it stabilise the domestic energy prices during the bilateral meeting held in New Delhi between the two countries, said the joint statement i...
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More than 90 per cent of medium-sized German companies see rising energy and raw materials prices as a major or existential threat, a survey showed on Wednesday, highlighting the growing risks for Ger...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-07 15:49:13
A technical team, led by DNCRP, will visit leading FMCG companies' factories amid the rocketing trend of many personal care toiletries products. The team, comprising the Directorate of National Consu...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-07 12:45:34
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) on Wednesday hiked the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by Tk 1.33 per kg. This effectively means that a 12kg container will now cost a househ...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-07 10:26:51
A vessel named ‘MV Trans Samudera’ arrived in Chattogram Port on Tuesday carrying Indian transit container to be transported to the Northeastern State of India (Assam) via the territory of...
FE REPORT 2022-09-07 09:48:44
The move to further amend the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act of 2005 (Amended in 2013) has evoked mixed reaction. Stakeholders concerned believe that the adoption of the proposed am...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2022-09-07 09:03:02
Import clearing needs to hop over 25-32 stops at major ports in Bangladesh for lack of coordination among authorities, says a study report, thus slowing the delivery of goods. Importers have to compl...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2022-09-07 08:46:19
Forhad Hossain goes to Dhaka's Kaptan Bazar kitchen market almost every passing day for shopping. There he has been facing severe shortages of lower-denomination coins and currencies for long. The cr...
FE REPORT 2022-09-07 08:32:38
The government is preparing to buy more food grains from the global market to cope with a possible fall in rice output in this Aman season, Food Minister Shadhan Chandra Majumder said at a press brief...
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The super shops across the country are taking around 30 per cent higher prices of rice after packaging those compared to the same loose rice of kitchen market. The impact of charging higher pri...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-06 17:47:34
Nagad, the digital financial service of Bangladesh Post Office, has opened 11 more 'Nagad Sheba' points across Bangladesh. With the opening of these service centres, Nagad services are now available...
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Companies in the Group of Seven (G7) economies are failing to meet Paris Climate Agreement objectives, non-profit disclosure platform CDP and global management consultancy Oliver Wyman said on Tuesday...
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Selling rice and flour through the open market sale (OMS) programme will continue until the rice market is stable, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder said on Tuesday. “The government o...
-- 2022-09-06 16:17:37
Bangladesh Bank has ordered banks to halt evening services from any branch in an effort to save electricity amid the lingering energy crisis. The central bank announced the decision on Tuesday, sayin...
REUTERS 2022-09-06 12:26:41
The secret behind Elon Musk's goal of selling 20 million Tesla's a year by 2030 lies in its pioneering battery technology. The good news is that by using bigger cells and a new process to dry-coat el...
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Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi on Monday, pledging to start power supply to Bangladesh by December. Adani praised Hasina for her “inspirationa...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL 2022-09-06 10:39:35
CHATTOGRAM: The World Bank has expressed its interest to invest in the under-construction multi-billion taka Bay Terminal project, an official at the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) said on Monday....
OUR CORRESPONDENT, CHATTOGRAM 2022-09-06 10:21:42
Kabir Steel Re-Rolling Mills (KSRM), one of the leading business conglomerates in the country, awarded a special increment to its 4,000 low-income employees to help them cope with ongoing inflation an...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-09-06 10:15:42
The average time from arrival to release of sea cargoes is more than 11 hours in Bangladesh, while it is seven days for air freight and over 10 days for land cargoes, according to a recent study. A...
MUNIMA SULTANA 2022-09-06 10:01:39
Metro-rail fare has been set at Tk 5.0 per kilometre per ride, more than double the bus fare and less than half the fare declared for auto-rickshaws. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina approved the fare po...
SYFUL ISLAM 2022-09-06 09:24:44
BASIC Bank, the scam-hit government bank, considers creating more than a thousand new posts in its organogram, but the finance ministry has found the recruitment plan "not feasible", considering its o...
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OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, made a small trim in their supplies to the global economy Monday, underlining their unhappiness as recession fears help drive down crude pric...
REUTERS 2022-09-05 13:31:50
Japan's Toyota Motor Corp will suspend some evening shifts at three plants in western Japan due to an approaching typhoon, it said on Monday. Toyota will suspend Monday night shift production startin...
FE REPORT 2022-09-05 11:07:33
Uber, a US-based ridesharing service, contributed approximately Tk 45 billion to Bangladesh's economy alone in 2021, according to a survey by the company. The survey showed that the company has been...
FE REPORT 2022-09-05 09:37:01
The government has taken a move to slash the interest rate or service charge of microcredit operations from the existing 24 per cent, as imposed by the micro-finance institutions (MFIs), to give poor...
FE REPORT 2022-09-05 09:19:14
Unbalanced use of fertiliser against the government's recommendations might cause crop yield gap as well as an impediment to food security, experts observed at a national level research review worksho...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL, CHATTOGRAM 2022-09-05 09:06:29
Construction of the Single Point Mooring (SPM) in Maheshkhali, aimed at offloading imported fuel oils and petroleum products at reduced cost and time, is likely to end this year as 88 per cent works h...
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