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Bangladesh urged to sign Singapore convention on mediation

Bangladesh urged to sign Singapore convention on mediation

FE REPORT 2021-02-23 08:23:04

Experts have suggested that Bangladesh sign the Singapore convention on mediation to encourage foreign direct investment (FDI) as investors often seek amicable methods of commercial dispute resoluti...

Regulators probe engine blow-outs as older Boeing 777s suspended

Regulators probe engine blow-outs as older Boeing 777s suspended

Reuters 2021-02-22 20:32:30

Showers of jet engine parts over residential areas on both sides of the Atlantic have caught regulators’ attention and prompted the suspension of some older Boeing planes from service. The Satu...

Should you replace Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with S21 Ultra?

Should you replace Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with S21 Ultra?

SHEIKH TAUSIF AHMED 2021-02-22 17:48:32

Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and other big companies launch multiple smartphones every year with huge potentials and variety of price points. And in their lineup, there’s always that flagship phone wi...

Myanmar anti-coup protests shut businesses

Myanmar anti-coup protests shut businesses

-- 2021-02-22 11:28:15

Businesses shut in Myanmar on Monday in a general strike called to oppose the military coup and thousands of protesters gathered despite a threat from authorities that confrontation could cost lives....

Bangladesh plans large-scale commercial coffee production as cultivation gains traction

Bangladesh plans large-scale commercial coffee production as cultivation gains traction

-- 2021-02-21 16:08:14

Buoyed by a surge in interest in coffee farming that had a modest beginning in the Chattogram Hill Tracts back in the 1990s, Bangladesh plans large-scale commercial production of coffee beans. Coffee...

Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing

Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing

-- 2021-02-21 13:29:03

NASA scientists on Friday presented striking early images from the picture-perfect landing of the Mars rover Perseverance, including a selfie of the six-wheeled vehicle dangling just above the surface...

57,000 companies come under tax net

57,000 companies come under tax net

FE REPORT 2021-02-21 09:00:16

An estimated 70 per cent or 57,000 companies have been brought under tax net in just three months, thanks to a document verification system (DVS). A corporate compliance taskforce report of the Nat...

Oil, gas companies in trouble due to tax complexities

Oil, gas companies in trouble due to tax complexities

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2021-02-21 08:36:34

The International Oil Companies (IOCs) as well as local ones are facing complexities in releasing imported supplies and equipment for gas plants from the ports due to imposition of taxes. The IOCs...

Oil, gas companies in trouble due to tax complexities

Oil, gas companies in trouble due to tax complexities

DOULOT AKTER MALA 2021-02-21 08:36:34

The International Oil Companies (IOCs) as well as local ones are facing complexities in releasing imported supplies and equipment for gas plants from the ports due to imposition of taxes. The IOCs...

Bangladesh's publishing industry hit hard by pandemic

Bangladesh's publishing industry hit hard by pandemic

JUBAIR HASAN and SAIF UDDIN 2021-02-21 08:06:53

Country's publishing industry is in dire straits due to the prolonged closure of educational institutions in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. The closure has cut down the sales of publishing h...

NBR seeks budget proposals from chambers, associations for next fiscal

NBR seeks budget proposals from chambers, associations for next fiscal

-- 2021-02-20 19:16:23

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has sought budget proposals from the chambers and associations as the government has started preparations for framing the national budget for fiscal year (FY2021-22...

World Bank may approve $1.6b vaccine funding for Bangladesh, 11 others

World Bank may approve $1.6b vaccine funding for Bangladesh, 11 others

-- 2021-02-20 18:34:26

The World Bank is likely to approve $1.6 billion in vaccine funding for 12 countries, including Bangladesh, the Philippines, Tunisia and Ethiopia, by the end of March. World Bank President David Malp...

World Bank, IMF to consider climate change in debt reduction talks

World Bank, IMF to consider climate change in debt reduction talks

-- 2021-02-20 16:04:38

The World Bank is working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on ways to factor climate change into the negotiations about reducing the debt burdens of some poor countries, World Bank President...

Facebook, Google could lose bargaining power under upcoming US bill to help news outlets

Facebook, Google could lose bargaining power under upcoming US bill to help news outlets

REUTERS 2021-02-20 13:16:25

Bipartisan members of Congress plan to introduce a bill in coming weeks to make it easier for smaller news organisations to negotiate with Big Tech platforms, said Rep. Ken Buck, the top Republican on...

Google fires another AI ethics leader amid dispute over research, diversity

Google fires another AI ethics leader amid dispute over research, diversity

Reuters 2021-02-20 12:10:49

Alphabet’s Google fired staff scientist Margaret Mitchell on Friday, they both said, a move that fanned company divisions on academic freedom and diversity that were on display since its Decembe...

The first cloned ferret spurs hope for endangered US species

The first cloned ferret spurs hope for endangered US species

REUTERS 2021-02-20 10:47:38

US scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret using frozen cells from a long-dead wild animal, the first time any native endangered species has been cloned in the United Sta...

Dhaka objects to Delhi's fresh non-tariff barriers

Dhaka objects to Delhi's fresh non-tariff barriers

SYFUL ISLAM 2021-02-20 08:26:35

Bangladesh has raised an objection to India's request for increased verification of country-of-origin (CoO) certificates and attachment of a questionnaire to those since those will be in violation of...

The South-South Matchmaker 2019-2020 Best Practices launched

The South-South Matchmaker 2019-2020 Best Practices launched

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-02-19 14:36:34

The South-South Matchmaker, 2019-2020 Best Practices was launched to promote the best practices in the South and encourage innovating and adopting innovative solutions for a better world. The South-S...

NASA's Perseverance makes historic Mars landing

NASA's Perseverance makes historic Mars landing

Reuters 2021-02-19 09:15:04

NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely inside a vast crater, the fir...

Farm credit grows by 8.0pc in Jul-Jan

Farm credit grows by 8.0pc in Jul-Jan

FE REPORT 2021-02-19 08:44:05

The farm credit disbursement grew by nearly 8.0 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2020-21, as the demand for such loans is picking up gradually due to seasonal effect...

How to fix common smartphone problems

How to fix common smartphone problems

Maisha Fairooz Khan 2021-02-18 14:06:45

Technology is not infallible. It does not matter how much is spent on smartphones; they are bound to function erratically after a certain period of usage. It is a quite common practice to replace phon...

Bangladesh among likely 'the fastest growing' economies in 2021

Bangladesh among likely 'the fastest growing' economies in 2021

JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-02-18 08:32:55

Bangladesh and Vietnam out of six Asian frontier markets are expected to remain among the fastest-growing world economies in 2021. The Washington-based International Institute of Finance (IIF) has ma...

Facebook developing smartwatch with cellular connection, health features

Facebook developing smartwatch with cellular connection, health features

-- 2021-02-17 21:06:46

Facebook Inc is building a smartwatch that will let users send messages and also offer health and fitness features, people with direct knowledge of the device have said. The social media giant plans...

Big Tech's Democratic critics discuss ways to strike back with White House

Big Tech's Democratic critics discuss ways to strike back with White House

Reuters 2021-02-17 17:47:38

Congressional Democrats have begun discussions with the White House on ways to crack down on Big Tech including making social media companies accountable for the spread of disinformation on matters su...

Tiny Hungarian water-tracker aims to rove the Moon

Tiny Hungarian water-tracker aims to rove the Moon

-- 2021-02-17 11:27:26

A miniature rover being developed to explore the Moon’s surface is on track to join the search for water there, its Hungarian inventors believe - using a device that weighs less than a bag of su...

Goldman Sachs unveils robo-adviser in consumer push

Goldman Sachs unveils robo-adviser in consumer push

-- 2021-02-17 11:08:37

Goldman Sachs Group Inc is launching an automated wealth-management platform to invest customer funds across managed portfolios made up of exchange trade funds for stocks and bonds, the bank has said....

ECNEC approves project to develop Dhaka-Sylhet road

ECNEC approves project to develop Dhaka-Sylhet road

-- 2021-02-16 18:19:34

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a Tk 169.19 billion South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Dhaka-Sylhet Corridor Road Development proj...

Australia to amend laws to make Google and Facebook pay

Australia to amend laws to make Google and Facebook pay

AP 2021-02-16 17:46:27

Australia’s government said on Tuesday it will amend draft laws that would make Google and Facebook pay for news to clarify that publishers would be paid in lump sums rather than per click on ne...

Robots at South African hotel reception

Robots at South African hotel reception

Reuters 2021-02-16 11:04:15

Staff at Hotel Sky in Johannesburg’s wealthy Sandton district adhere to strict Covid-19 protocols, wearing masks and physically distancing from guests as much as possible; all, that is, except L...

Parler back online on 'independent technology'

Parler back online on 'independent technology'

-- 2021-02-16 10:59:32

Parler, a social media service popular with American right-wing users that virtually vanished after the US Capitol riot, re-launched on Monday and said its new platform was built on “sustainable...