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Uber services to go to Ctg, Sylhet

Uber services to go to Ctg, Sylhet

-- 2017-12-03 12:00:00

Uber plans to expand its services to Chittagong and Sylhet and introduce UberPool that matches a user with riders heading in the same direction. Uber's regional officials came up with the statement a...

Karmasangsthan Bank holds training event

Karmasangsthan Bank holds training event

FE Online Desk 2017-12-03 03:31:10

Karmasangsthan Bank has organised a training programme for its managers and senior officers at the bank head office on Sunday. Parikshit Datta Choudhury, Chairman of Karmasangsthan Bank attended the...

Export, import thru’ Benapole port resumes

Export, import thru’ Benapole port resumes

-- 2017-12-03 03:22:00

Export and import between India and Bangladesh through Benapole land port resumed on Sunday morning. The Indian Transport Workers Union called off their strike on Saturday afternoon. Indian transpor...

BKB holds review meeting in Cox’s Bazar

BKB holds review meeting in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2017-12-03 03:05:40

Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) organised a day-long regional review meeting of the bank's branch managers of Cox’s Bazar region recently. Mohammed Ismail Hossain, Managing Director of BKB, delive...

SoCBs see profit drop or count loss

SoCBs see profit drop or count loss

Jasim Uddin Haroon 2017-12-02 12:00:00

Six state-owned commercial banks (SoCBs) saw their combined net profit erode in the last calendar year, largely for their own shortcomings, sources said. Of them, two scam-hit SoCBs -- Sonali and BAS...

Three Uber security managers resign

Three Uber security managers resign

-- 2017-12-02 12:00:00

Three senior managers in Uber Technologies Inc’s security unit resigned on Friday, an Uber spokesperson said, days after the company’s new chief executive officer disclosed a massive data...

Benapole port trade remains suspended

Benapole port trade remains suspended

-- 2017-12-02 12:00:00

The export-import activities through Benapole Land Port remained suspended for the third consecutive day on Saturday following a strike enforced by five Indian trade organisations at Petrapole. The t...

22 companies win ICSB laurels

22 companies win ICSB laurels

FE Desk 2017-12-02 12:00:00

A total of 22 companies won 4th ICSB National Award for Corporate Governance Excellence, 2016 for complying with corporate governance rules framed by Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission.The...

Chilli prices soar by Tk 60-80 a kg in city

Chilli prices soar by Tk 60-80 a kg in city

FE Report 2017-12-02 09:31:51

The prices of green chilli abruptly jumped by Tk 60-80 per kg at different kitchen markets in the capital on Friday.A kg of green chilli was sold between Tk 180 and Tk 200 on the day, which was Tk 120...

Bitcoin rebounds as US regulator gives hope

Bitcoin rebounds as US regulator gives hope

-- 2017-12-02 05:02:58

Bitcoin rebounded on Friday to hit the day’s highs above $10,500, recovering from an earlier dip below $9,500, after the US derivatives regulator said it would allow CME Group and CBOE Global Ma...

American Air reaches deal with pilots over scheduling error

American Air reaches deal with pilots over scheduling error

-- 2017-12-02 02:56:17

American Airlines has reached an agreement with its pilots union over premium pay for some December flights, both groups said on Friday, after a scheduling snafu gave too many pilots holiday time off...

Fish prices go up in city

Fish prices go up in city

FE Report 2017-12-01 12:37:01

Prices of fish and onion increased again last week, compounding woes of the consumers already hit hard by a surge in the prices of essentials. Prices of fish, especially those of indigenous ones, w...

Ceramic expo begins in city aiming  to further promote sector

Ceramic expo begins in city aiming to further promote sector

FE Report 2017-12-01 12:00:00

The first three-day 'Ceramic Expo Bangladesh-2017' began in the city aiming to create an avenue for both local ceramic makers and global stakeholders for further promotion of the sector. Commerce M...

Bitcoin price plummets to $9,000

Bitcoin price plummets to $9,000

-- 2017-12-01 12:00:00

Bitcoin slid to as low as $9,000 in volatile trade on Thursday, having lost more than a fifth of its value since hitting an all-time high of $11,395 on Wednesday. The cryptocurrency fell as much as 8...

Amu eyes more Indian investment in Bangladesh

Amu eyes more Indian investment in Bangladesh

-- 2017-12-01 12:00:00

Indian entrepreneurs can further invest in the industrial sector of Bangladesh for enhanced co-operation of both countries, hopes Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu. "There exists an investment-fr...

Oil prices gain after OPEC extension of production cut

Oil prices gain after OPEC extension of production cut

Reuters 2017-12-01 10:49:56

Oil futures rose on Friday after OPEC and other major producers agreed to extend their production curbs in a widely expected move aimed at ending a persistent glut in global supplies. The Organisatio...

Nissan sues India over unpaid incentives

Nissan sues India over unpaid incentives

-- 2017-12-01 03:30:43

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor has begun international arbitration against India to seek more than $770 million in a dispute over unpaid state incentives, according to a person familiar with the matt...

Global oil markets on edge

Global oil markets on edge

Reuters 2017-11-30 12:00:00

Oil markets opened cautiously on Thursday ahead of the outcome of an OPEC meeting in Vienna later in the day, with members set to debate the path for an extension of the group’s supply-cut agree...

BB urges banks to train outgoing workers

BB urges banks to train outgoing workers

-- 2017-11-30 08:55:05

Bangladesh Bank (BB) urged all commercial banks to provide training to the unskilled workers who are going abroad under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to increase the inflow of remit...

Farmers to get higher rice price this year

Farmers to get higher rice price this year

-- 2017-11-30 06:51:49

Farmers will get higher price for rice in the current Aman procurement season than last year. An inter-ministerial meeting decided to offer rice growers Tk. 39 a kg. It is Tk. 6 higher than last year...

Nilphamari Darwani Textile Mill resumes operation

Nilphamari Darwani Textile Mill resumes operation

Our Correspondent, Nilphamari 2017-11-30 06:17:30

State-owned Darwani Textile Mill in Nilphamari has resumed operation recently after remaining closed for more than 21 years. The mill, situated at Nilphamari municitality area, was established in 198...

Metal Agro clinches Agro Award

Metal Agro clinches Agro Award

-- 2017-11-30 03:51:44

Metal Agro Limited (MAL) has achieved ‘The Honorable Mention as the Best Agricultural Organisation in Research and Innovation 2017’ for its outstanding performance. Standard Chartered Ban...

American Airlines faces pilot shortage

American Airlines faces pilot shortage

-- 2017-11-30 01:52:24

All American Airlines wants for Christmas is… some pilots. It has been revealed that an estimated 15,000 of the company's flights scheduled to run over the festive period do not have an assign...

Strike halts export-import at Benapole

Strike halts export-import at Benapole

-- 2017-11-30 01:06:29

Export and import between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port  halted due to an indefinite strike. The Indian truckers called the strike from Thursday morning. They stopped carrying...

All eyes on OPEC Meeting

All eyes on OPEC Meeting

-- 2017-11-29 12:59:02

Oil price observers all around the world are keeping their eyes on the OPEC meeting, which is scheduled to be held in Vienna, Austria on Thursday. Oil prices in the international markets dipped sli...

BIGTEX 2017 begins Thursday

BIGTEX 2017 begins Thursday

FE Online Desk 2017-11-29 12:38:31

A four-day BIGTEX 2017 - Bangladesh Int’l Garment & Texstyle Expo 2017, arranged by Red Carpet 365 Limited begins Thursday at International Convention City Bashundhara - ICCB, Dhaka. CTMA...

Traders fear cost rise as new rules take effect in December

Traders fear cost rise as new rules take effect in December

Doulot Akter Mala 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Trade bodies and apparel makers have opposed the mandatory use of electronic seal and lock services on the transportation of goods in Chittagong port, fearing an increase in cost of doing business. T...

One bitcoin now worth more than $10000

One bitcoin now worth more than $10000

-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00

The value of one bitcoin has gone past $10,000. The virtual currency reached the benchmark for the first time on Wednesday, just days after it passed $9,000. It caps a remarkable rise in value for t...

Biman gets poor response to fleet expansion bidding

Biman gets poor response to fleet expansion bidding

-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has got poor response from bidders as it moved to spread its wings to more destinations abroad. The national flag carrier plans to bring on board two 737-800 aircraft to it...

'Go-Jek invests $2m in Pathao'

'Go-Jek invests $2m in Pathao'

FE Online Report 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Indonesian unicorn Go-Jek is learned to have picked up a relatively small stake of around $2 million in Pathao, a two-wheeler riding startup app based in Bangladesh. These companies are understood t...