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'Tackle climate change, ensure skills development for sustainable growth'

'Tackle climate change, ensure skills development for sustainable growth'

FE REPORT 2019-12-12 13:34:32

Tackling climate change issues and ensuring skills development and employment generation are crucial to attain sustainable growth in the Asia-Pacific countries, including Bangladesh, experts said at a...

Manzur Elahi addresses confce on financing for sustainable dev

Manzur Elahi addresses confce on financing for sustainable dev

-- 2019-12-12 13:28:37

Syed Manzur Elahi, chairman of Apex Footwear Ltd, addressing a plenary session titled ‘inclusive financing for SDGs in Asia and the Pacific’ in a city hotel on Wednesday.

Inclusive finance must for attaining SDGs

Inclusive finance must for attaining SDGs

FE Online Report 2019-12-11 19:01:23

Policymakers and experts on Tuesday stressed the effective mechanism to ensure inclusive financing so that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) could be attained in Asia and the Pacific region. T...

Challenge lies in bridging SDG financing gap: President

Challenge lies in bridging SDG financing gap: President

FE REPORT 2019-12-11 16:58:42

President Md Abdul Hamid said on Tuesday the main challenge for Bangladesh as well as other developing countries is to fill the financing gap before achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It...

Int'l confce on financing for sustainable dev starts today

Int'l confce on financing for sustainable dev starts today

FE REPORT 2019-12-10 13:18:50

A three-day international conference on financing for inclusive and sustainable development is going to start in Dhaka today (Tuesday). The International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh (ICC,B) is or...

Alarms triggered as Sydney choked by bushfire smoke

Alarms triggered as Sydney choked by bushfire smoke

-- 2019-12-10 11:58:35

Smoke from Australia’s fierce bushfires settled over Sydney in still conditions on Tuesday, setting off fire alarms, and halting ferry services as famous landmarks disappeared behind some of the...

BCIC disputes Q1 financial report of Miracle Industries

BCIC disputes Q1 financial report of Miracle Industries

JUBAIR HASAN 2019-12-07 10:18:55

Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC), a major shareholder of publicly listed Miracle Industries Limited, has raised questions over authenticity of the company's financial filing, official...

Huawei launches new legal challenge against US ban

Huawei launches new legal challenge against US ban

-- 2019-12-05 11:24:35

Huawei has launched new legal action against the US over claims the Chinese telecoms giant poses a security risk. It comes after the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) put curbs on rural mobi...

Three-day international conference in Dhaka on December 10-12

Three-day international conference in Dhaka on December 10-12

FE Online Report 2019-12-04 19:48:41

A three-day international conference on financing for inclusive and sustainable development will be held in Dhaka on December 10-12 this year. Titled ‘Asia-Pacific Conference on Financing Inclu...

President calls for trade, investment promotion

President calls for trade, investment promotion

FE REPORT 2019-12-04 17:02:38

President Md Abdul Hamid has urged the country's business leaders to create new entrepreneurs and explore new business areas for the sake of the country's economy and the people. Terming trade and in...

US-China trade deal stalled because of Hong Kong legislation: Axios

US-China trade deal stalled because of Hong Kong legislation: Axios

Reuters 2019-12-02 13:38:52

A trade deal between United States and China was now “stalled because of Hong Kong legislation”, news website Axios reported on Sunday, citing a source close to US President Donald Trump&r...

Barca’s Dembele out for 10 weeks with hamstring injury

Barca’s Dembele out for 10 weeks with hamstring injury

-- 2019-11-30 12:06:20

Barcelona’s France forward Ousmane Dembele has been ruled out for over two months with his third muscle injury of the season, the latest chapter in a career marred by repeated fitness troubles....

Apple to take ‘deeper look’ at disputed borders

Apple to take ‘deeper look’ at disputed borders

-- 2019-11-30 11:00:36

Apple says it is taking "a deeper look" at how it handles disputed borders. Ukraine criticised the tech giant for showing Crimea as part of Russia's territory on its Maps and Weather apps. An Apple...

Firefighter accused of arson amid Australia bushfire crisis

Firefighter accused of arson amid Australia bushfire crisis

-- 2019-11-27 14:21:48

A volunteer firefighter in Australia has been charged with deliberately lighting blazes during the nation's bushfire crisis. Police arrested the man, 19, for seven counts of alleged arson in an area...

Seismic survey in offshore blocks: Norwegian-US JV set to get the job

Seismic survey in offshore blocks: Norwegian-US JV set to get the job

M AZIZUR RAHMAN 2019-11-27 10:53:49

The Norwegian-US joint venture (JV) company TGS-Schlumberger is finally bagging the job of carrying out the non-exclusive multi-client seismic survey in offshore blocks in December nearly four years a...

Still hope for US-China trade deal this year: US official

Still hope for US-China trade deal this year: US official

-- 2019-11-24 12:56:56

United States national security adviser Robert O’Brien said on Saturday that an initial trade agreement with China is still possible by the end of the year, but warned Washington would not turn...

Size of ceramic industry may double by 2023

Size of ceramic industry may double by 2023

Monira Munni 2019-11-19 10:31:18

The country's ceramic industry is estimated to be doubled in size by 2023, aided by the growing domestic real estate industry, rising demand for products in the EU markets and the trade tension betwee...

US expected to grant Huawei 90-day license extension

US expected to grant Huawei 90-day license extension

-- 2019-11-18 11:04:56

The Trump administration is set to issue a 90-day extension of a license on Monday allowing US companies to continue doing business with China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, two sources familiar...

US, S Korea postpone joint exercise criticised by N Korea

US, S Korea postpone joint exercise criticised by N Korea

-- 2019-11-17 13:52:06

The United States and South Korea on Sunday said they were postponing a joint military air exercise that North Korea has criticised as provocative. US Defence Secretary Mark Esper and his South Korea...

Bushfire conditions worsen in east, west Australia

Bushfire conditions worsen in east, west Australia

-- 2019-11-17 11:42:37

Rising temperatures, lightning strikes and gusty winds further raised fire danger on both coasts of Australia on Sunday as the country already battles more than 120 bushfires and firefighters work day...

Facebook removes 3.2b fake accounts

Facebook removes 3.2b fake accounts

-- 2019-11-14 11:36:44

Facebook Inc removed 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September this year, along with millions of posts depicting child abuse and suicide, according to its latest content moderation report...

Nusrat murder: 12 condemned convicts shifted to Cumilla central jail

Nusrat murder: 12 condemned convicts shifted to Cumilla central jail

-- 2019-11-12 14:01:09

Twelve of the 16 condemned convicts in Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case were shifted to Cumilla central jail from Feni distirct jail on Tuesday. They were shifted to Cumilla as per the directive from In...

Poland reacts angrily to Netflix Nazi documentary

Poland reacts angrily to Netflix Nazi documentary

-- 2019-11-12 12:11:20

Poland's prime minister has written a letter to the streaming company Netflix insisting on changes to a documentary about the Nazi death camps. Mateusz Morawiecki said a map shown in the series locat...

Attack in Damascus kills two, wounds six

Attack in Damascus kills two, wounds six

-- 2019-11-12 11:20:46

At least two people were killed and six wounded in an attack in the early hours of Tuesday that targeted a building in Damascus, the Syrian capital, state television said. The building, which state m...

Australian bushfires kill two, 150 homes destroyed

Australian bushfires kill two, 150 homes destroyed

-- 2019-11-09 14:07:32

Two people have died, five are missing and at least 150 homes have been destroyed as bushfires rage across eastern Australia, authorities said on Saturday. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW...

PABL-FE Roundtable on Insurance Industry’s  Expectations and Attainments in the Budget 2019-2020

PABL-FE Roundtable on Insurance Industry’s Expectations and Attainments in the Budget 2019-2020

-- 2019-08-08 20:51:18

Date: July 31, 2019 • Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. • Venue: Purbani International Hotel, 1 Dilkusha, Dhaka Chief Guest: Mr. M A Mannan, MP, Honorable Minister, Ministry of Planning, Govt...

Ekushey: A guiding philosophy for any people's movement

Ekushey: A guiding philosophy for any people's movement

Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2018-02-20 21:43:47

The Bengali Language Movement which gave birth to the incident of 21st February in 1952, known popularly as Ekushey, sixty six years ago was a socio-political-cultural attempt in the then  East P...

International Mother Language Day - its significance & glory

International Mother Language Day - its significance & glory

Forqan Uddin Ahmed 2018-02-20 21:25:03

Since 2000, February 21 is observed globally as the International Mother Language Day. This follows the decision made at the 30th General Conference of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cul...

Random thoughts on the occasion of Ekushey February

Random thoughts on the occasion of Ekushey February

Muhammad Quamrul Islam 2018-02-20 21:19:35

History was on the making when students in Dhaka, capital of erstwhile East Pakistan, brought out processions on February 21, 1952, demanding Bengali as a state language, which was spoken by the major...

Police nab two drug peddlers

Police nab two drug peddlers

-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00

Police arrested two drug peddlers from the campus of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia on Tuesday. The arrestees were identified as Mustafizur Rahman (25), son of Nur Muhammad, a resident of Vazonda...