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-- 2020-01-18 12:59:00
Italian exports fell by 4.2 per cent in November 2019 compared to the previous month, and by 3.2 per cent compared to November of 2018, ISTAT national statistics agency has reported. The year-on-year...
FE Online Report 2020-01-18 12:13:35
The central bank of Bangladesh has underscored branding of local varieties of tea to access the global market. “Branding is a vital factor for marketing the product in the international market,...
SYFUL ISLAM 2020-01-18 10:19:28
The fund disbursement for 31 projects under the 41st Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme in nine months was only 42 per cent of the target which Japanese officials termed as unsatisfactory...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-01-18 10:10:47
Dozens of projects for which the Indian government extended three credit lines over the past decade shows a dismal picture in project management, according to the latest review. According to the docu...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-01-18 09:56:21
The government's non-bank borrowing from unconventional sources has been growing fast, driven by its needs to meet higher public spending. Apart of savings tools, non-bank instruments include provide...
-- 2020-01-17 13:59:30
Amazon.com Inc said on Friday it planned to create 1.0 million jobs in India by 2025. The announcement came a day after the country’s trade minister said the e-commerce giant’s recently u...
-- 2020-01-17 13:01:43
India's telecommunication satellite "GSAT-30" was successfully launched into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) on Friday. The satellite was launched from the Kourou launch base, French Guiana, by...
-- 2020-01-17 12:39:47
Bangladesh and India have discussed a number of issues of mutual interest including border haats and joint study for the proposed 'Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement' between the two countri...
FE Report 2020-01-17 10:21:01
The execution of a longer-term development blueprint will raise Bangladesh's annual economic growth by 1.5 percentage points, considering the impact of climate change. But if the government's Delta P...
UNB 2020-01-15 17:23:06
Bangladesh has urged the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to make an official declaration on opening of recruitment for Bangladesh nationals in all sectors in the UAE. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen me...
-- 2020-01-15 12:10:35
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh is now on right track to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) due to her government’s time-befitting initiatives. “We achieved...
FE REPORT 2020-01-15 10:02:20
The country's top bank executives evinced on Tuesday their grave concern over the 6.0 per cent interest rate on bank deposits as they believe such a poor rate will be "challenging" for mobilising fund...
FE Online Report 2020-01-14 17:32:02
Increased private sector credit flow will ensure more investment and economic growth, said the newly elected Board of Directors of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) on Tuesday. They als...
REUTERS 2020-01-14 11:13:09
The US Treasury Department on Monday dropped its designation of China as a currency manipulator days before top officials of the world’s two largest economies were due to sign a preliminary trad...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-01-14 10:09:11
The World Bank, or WB, is likely to provide US$4.50 billion in loans to Bangladesh over the next three-years, officials said on Monday, the same level as the current portfolio. Although the total aid...
FE Online Report 2020-01-13 14:44:14
The government has appointed Nazrul Huda, a former deputy governor of the central bank, as a member of Bangladesh Bank's Board of Directors. With 35 years of central banking experience, Mr Huda...
FE REPORT 2020-01-13 11:02:21
Leather and footwear, plastics and light engineering have been identified as the potential sectors, which can help diversify the country's export basket. The sectors will also create greater access t...
-- 2020-01-11 11:33:52
The United States has imposed more sanctions on Iran in retaliation for its missile attack on US forces in Iraq this week. The US on Friday also vowed to tighten the economic screws if Tehran continu...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-01-11 09:53:25
The government's deficit financing grew by 130 per cent in the first four months of the current fiscal year compared to that of the same period of last fiscal, driven by a fall in resource mobilisatio...
Xinhua 2020-01-10 18:26:31
China is capable of maintaining steady economic growth in the year to come and beyond, buoyed by multiple driving forces, despite mounting downward pressure, economists have said. "The gross domestic...
UNB 2020-01-10 17:13:29
The World Bank has projected 7.2 per cent GDP growth for Bangladesh in the current fiscal year, FY 2019-20, while 7.3 per cent in the following fiscal year. Bangladesh, the third-largest economy in t...
-- 2020-01-10 15:13:32
The number of initial jobless claims in the United States dropped last week, according to a report released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday. The number of people filing for US unempl...
FE Report 2020-01-10 10:33:31
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has cancelled all the orders and circulars for transfer, posting and promotion of nearly 350 officials of the customs, VAT and income tax wings. The NBR cancelle...
ARAFAT ARA 2020-01-10 10:07:59
More than 100,000 Bangladeshi workers were sent back from abroad last year due to a host of reasons such as overstay and scarce jobs. Of the total, some 62,000 workers were deported from different co...
Atiur Rahman 2020-01-09 21:17:25
Bangabandhu is, in fact, a namesake of Bangladesh. He created the concept Bangladesh for which millions shed blood in 1971. He was a born leader who could inspire his fellow countrymen and women with...
Faruq Aziz Khan 2020-01-09 21:13:00
While handing over the office of the president to Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto on December 19, only three days after his army surrendered to the joint command in Dhaka, Yahya Khan passed on to Bhutto a sealed...
Xinhua 2020-01-09 16:59:53
Global economic growth is projected to recover to 2.5 per cent in 2020, up slightly from the post-crisis low of 2.4 per cent registered in 2019, but downside risks persist, the World Bank said on Wedn...
-- 2020-01-09 15:50:41
US crude oil imports increased while exports decreased during the week ending Jan. 3, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Wednesday. US crude oil imports averaged 6.73 million barr...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-01-09 11:37:50
The central bank of Bangladesh issued a circular on Wednesday pertaining to e-KYC (know your customer) applied to the country's financial institutions. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) released an e-KYC gu...
FE REPORT 2020-01-09 11:33:36
Emerging economies like Bangladesh can benefit to a great extent from the rapid global changes against backdrop of information technology (IT)-based services, Italian economist Nicolo Andreula has obs...
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