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SYFUL ISLAM 2020-01-25 10:48:43
India has turned down a Bangladesh's request to withdraw anti-dumping duty imposed on the exports of Bangladesh's jute goods, hydrogen peroxide, and fishing net. The giant neighbour made the refusal...
-- 2020-01-24 13:24:01
Sri Lanka's Tourism Ministry is aiming to attract four million tourists in 2020, Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga has told local media. The minister said they have fixed a target of five billion U...
-- 2020-01-24 13:12:24
Singapore’s manufacturing output declined 1.4 per cent year on year in 2019, said the Economic Development Board on Friday. Last December, the country's factory output declined 0.7 per cent yea...
-- 2020-01-24 13:06:14
The number of initial jobless claims in the United States rose last week, according to a report released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday. The number of people filing for US unemploym...
FE REPORT 2020-01-24 10:39:13
The National Board of Revenue, or NBR, will take stern action against its "greedy" officials, its chief warned on Thursday. Newly-appointed NBR chairman Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem said since the g...
FE REPORT 2020-01-24 10:34:31
Adviser to the prime minister on economic affairs Dr Mashiur Rahman on Thursday said statistics should not be altered to make them soothing to the ears of key policymakers. The policymakers do also...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2020-01-24 10:23:24
The government's net bank borrowing crossed Tk 500 billion until middle of this month, compelled by the need for meeting budget deficit, officials said. Falling trend in sales of national savings cer...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-01-23 21:39:50
Bdstall, a popular online marketplace, has released PC Builder as new year's special feature. The PC Builder option at the Bdstall website will allow visitors to build own PC with required components...
-- 2020-01-23 15:25:20
The Philippines's gross domestic product (GDP) posted a year-on-year growth of 6.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2019, resulting in the 5.9 per cent full-year growth for 2019. Philippines Statist...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-01-23 11:08:15
The government and donors will gather in the capital next week in a traditional parley to discuss national and global agenda, officials said on Wednesday. The Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF), sche...
-- 2020-01-22 13:21:30
Sri Lanka earned a record 5.3 billion US dollars from its apparel exports in 2019, showing a 5.1 per cent year on year increase, according to the Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF). However, a sl...
FE REPORT 2020-01-22 10:05:19
Discussants at a dialogue held in Dhaka on Tuesday suggested the government not judging the country's macroeconomic scenario only by the growth rate but also by the generation of new jobs. The sugges...
BSS 2020-01-21 18:46:27
More than 6.60 million trained workers got employments abroad in the last one decade, from 2009 to 2019, and they remitted around $153.13 billion during the period. Expatriates’ Welfare and Ove...
-- 2020-01-21 16:36:23
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a Taka 205.26 billion project to set up some 329 technical school and colleges at upazila level in a bid to build s...
-- 2020-01-21 13:56:19
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut global growth projections on Monday, citing negative surprises in a few emerging markets, notably in India, and increased social unrest. However, the IMF als...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2020-01-21 10:37:28
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to cut duty-free benefit on import of 21 types of power plant equipments, categorising them 'locally available and consumable products.' The decision has...
FE REPORT 2020-01-21 10:34:33
State-owned enterprises (SoEs), which will deposit their funds in private commercial banks (PCBs) and financial institutions (FIs), will get interest at 6.0 per cent rate, and at 5.5 per cent from sta...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-01-21 10:11:01
The government has alerted its ministries and divisions to avoid spending beyond the original budget allocations as resource mobilisation becomes slower. The push comes at the meetings on budget revi...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-01-20 19:30:20
Adopting circular economic principles can address overall climate crisis, global inequality and alleviate poverty. Experts came up with the remark on Monday at a panel discussion titled 'Circular Eco...
FE Online Report 2020-01-20 18:59:05
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) across the world dropped by 1.0 per cent last year, according to a primary estimation of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). UNCTAD’...
-- 2020-01-20 17:37:48
The government has allowed state-owned companies to deposit up to 50 per cent of their surplus funds in private banks and non-bank financial institutions. The finance ministry’s Financial Insti...
FE Online Desk 2020-01-20 13:37:34
A Discussion Workshop on Outsourcing in Financial Service Sector (in association with BACCO & LICT) will be held at the auditorium of Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management on January 21. Mr. Zu...
Reuters 2020-01-20 13:00:40
The world’s richest 2,153 people controlled more money than the poorest 4.6 billion combined in 2019, while unpaid or underpaid work by women and girls adds three times more to the global econom...
FE REPORT 2020-01-20 11:25:30
Bangladesh's exports to India crossed US $ 1.0 billion mark in the last calendar year (2019), said Gurvinder Singh, Director (exhibitions) of Engineering Export Promotion Council of India (EEPC Indi...
FE Report 2020-01-20 10:00:36
Higher borrowing of the government during the first half (H1) of the current fiscal year (FY20) compelled the central bank to revise the growth rate of the borrowing significantly upward for the secon...
FE Online Report 2020-01-19 14:24:27
Masatsugu Asakawa has assumed office as the 10th President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), an ADB press statement said. "I am honoured to assume the role of ADB President and to begin working in...
JUBAIR HASAN 2020-01-19 10:35:20
The declining trend in the net inflows of foreign direct investment, or FDI, in the country sustained until the third quarter of the immediate past calendar year, according to government data. The...
Asjadul Kibria 2020-01-18 17:35:15
Growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Bangladesh may decline to 7.80 per cent in the current fiscal year (FY20) from 8.10 per cent in the previous fiscal year. Nevertheless, the projecte...
-- 2020-01-18 13:45:58
The newly signed China-US phase-one trade deal will reduce the uncertainty that has impeded global economic growth, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said. He s...
-- 2020-01-18 13:20:43
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to destroy one of its own rockets on Saturday to test a crucial emergency abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, the company’s final milestone test...
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