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NASA to launch first manned SpaceX mission

NASA to launch first manned SpaceX mission

-- 2019-10-11 17:24:59

SpaceX's new Crew Dragon astronaut capsule will be ready for its first manned flight into orbit in the first quarter of next year provided "everything goes according to plan" in upcoming tests, NASA c...

Early humans store bone marrow like canned soup: Study

Early humans store bone marrow like canned soup: Study

-- 2019-10-11 16:45:49

An international team of researchers found prehistoric humans some 400,000 years ago were able to store bone marrow for later consumption, which is believed to be the earliest evidence of such an inno...

Current account returns to green zone

Current account returns to green zone

SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2019-10-11 10:07:33

The country's trade gap with the rest of the world narrowed during the first two months of the current fiscal year, aided by a surplus in current account balance. Negative growth in both export and i...

WB warns of curtailing BB autonomy

WB warns of curtailing BB autonomy

FE REPORT 2019-10-11 09:52:31

After projecting lower growth rate, the World Bank (WB) has said curbing the central bank's autonomy poses risk to the economy. "Reform reversals such as easing of loan classification standards, ceil...

Outlook for Chinese banks stable: Moody's

Outlook for Chinese banks stable: Moody's

Xinhua 2019-10-10 16:55:06

Global credit rating agency Moody's has maintained its stable outlook for the Chinese banking system, citing stable liquidity and adequate capitalisation. Accommodative government policies will suppo...

WB predicts 7.2pc GDP growth for FY 2019-20

WB predicts 7.2pc GDP growth for FY 2019-20

FE Online Desk 2019-10-10 13:19:14

The World Bank has forecast a growth of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) at 7.2 per cent for 2019-20 fiscal year. The financial institution made the projection in statement on its website s...

Sour loans could derail growth momentum: BB

Sour loans could derail growth momentum: BB

Siddique Islam 2019-10-10 10:07:04

Managing higher troubled loans and tight liquidity condition on the domestic front alongside external challenges are likely to pose downside risk to the growth momentum, the central bank has said. Th...

IMF's new head warns of 'painful Brexit'

IMF's new head warns of 'painful Brexit'

BBC 2019-10-09 18:23:48

The new head of the International Monetary Fund has warned that Brexit in whatever form will be "painful", adding to the effects of a global slowdown. Kristalina Georgieva said the split will hurt no...

GDP growth rate likely to reach targeted 8.20pc in FY20: BB

GDP growth rate likely to reach targeted 8.20pc in FY20: BB

FE Online Report 2019-10-09 13:06:29

Bangladesh Bank is expecting that the growth rate of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will achieve 8.20 per cent target in the current fiscal year (FY20). The Bangladesh Bank Quarterl...

Singapore overtakes US as most competitive economy

Singapore overtakes US as most competitive economy

FE Online Report 2019-10-09 12:49:33

Singapore is the world’s most competitive economy now, according to the Global Competitiveness Index 2019 released today. Singapore overtookd the United States (US) which fell to second place i...

Moderate optimism on improvement of business environment

Moderate optimism on improvement of business environment

FE Online Report 2019-10-09 12:15:42

Problems in the banking sector will have significant adverse impact in the country’s domestic businesses, according to the majority of the businessmen and entrepreneurs surveyed by a local think...

Bangladesh to seek better terms for Chinese financing

Bangladesh to seek better terms for Chinese financing

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2019-10-09 10:28:47

Bangladesh will seek relaxation of the terms and conditions of Chinese financing and a revision of the list of China-funded projects at the first meeting of the 'Bangladesh-China Working Group on Inve...

Facebook to settle advertiser lawsuit for $40 million

Facebook to settle advertiser lawsuit for $40 million

-- 2019-10-08 17:49:11

Facebook has agreed to pay $40 million to advertisers who said it inflated the amount of time its users watched videos. The San Jose Mercury News says the California-based social media giant denied a...

Japanese cos showing greater interest in BD

Japanese cos showing greater interest in BD

UNB 2019-10-08 13:04:51

Bangladesh’s continuous efforts to improve infrastructural facilities and the ease of doing business will encourage Japanese companies to invest in Bangladesh in a bigger way, says a top Japanes...

NASA astronauts complete seven-hour spacewalk

NASA astronauts complete seven-hour spacewalk

Xinhua 2019-10-07 13:47:05

Two US astronauts completed a spacewalk out of the International Space Station on Sunday, the first in a series of five spacewalks in October to replace batteries on the far end of the station's port...

Drop in German industrial orders adds to recession signs

Drop in German industrial orders adds to recession signs

-- 2019-10-07 13:15:41

German industrial orders fell slightly more than expected in August on weaker domestic demand, data showed on Monday, adding to evidence that a manufacturing slump is pushing Europe’s largest ec...

CPD to launch BD Business Environment Study

CPD to launch BD Business Environment Study

FE Online Desk 2019-10-07 13:14:53

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) will release the Global Competitiveness Report 2019 (GCR 2019) and present the findings of the Bangladesh Business Environment Study 2019 (whic...

'Honorarium' culture eats up sizeable funds of projects

'Honorarium' culture eats up sizeable funds of projects

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2019-10-07 09:59:32

The government agencies are spending a sizeable amount of taxpayers' money every year offering 'honorarium' to the participants of project meetings, defying Prime Minister's order, officials said. Th...

Bangladesh now glittering in international index, finance minister says

Bangladesh now glittering in international index, finance minister says

BSS 2019-10-06 18:37:49

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said that Bangladesh is now glittering in the international index of trade and commerce as the country had been on the peak of successes in social indexes for th...

China, Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits

China, Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits

BBC 2019-10-06 17:21:25

Ask Google or Siri: "What is Taiwan?" "A state", they will answer, "in East Asia". But earlier in September, it would have been a "province in the People's Republic of China". For questions of fact...

China’s infrastructure investment reports faster growth

China’s infrastructure investment reports faster growth

-- 2019-10-06 13:27:38

China's infrastructure investment rose 4.2 per cent year on year in the first eight months of 2019, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The growth rate was 0.4 percentage points hig...

Jamalpur Economic Zone ready for factory building

Jamalpur Economic Zone ready for factory building

BSS 2019-10-04 20:41:23

The interested investors can start setting up industrial units in Jamalpur Economic Zone (JEZ) as all development works have almost been completed.  “Land development works will be complet...

IMF focuses five issues for sustainable growth of BD

IMF focuses five issues for sustainable growth of BD

BSS 2019-10-04 17:32:09

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has prioritised five issues to sustain Bangladesh’s economic growth and ease transformation to higher middle income country from the present position. &ldq...

Moderate US job growth expected in September

Moderate US job growth expected in September

-- 2019-10-04 13:25:24

US job growth likely picked up in September, with wages increasing solidly, which could assuage financial market concerns that the slowing economy was teetering on the brink of a recession amid linger...

Foreign loan fuels bank liquidity

Foreign loan fuels bank liquidity

FE Report 2019-10-04 10:24:44

The growth of liquidity in the country's banking system is positively linked with the change in foreign credit flow, according to a study conducted by some researchers of the Bangladesh Bank (BB). Th...

11m people send names to Mars on NASA's rover

11m people send names to Mars on NASA's rover

Xinhua 2019-10-03 19:45:25

Nearly 11 million people have participated in a NASA public event, through which they can send their names, stenciled on chips, to Mars along with NASA's Mars 2020 rover. The event started in late Ma...

Microsoft returns with smartphone after high-profile flops

Microsoft returns with smartphone after high-profile flops

-- 2019-10-03 16:52:24

After high-profile flops, Microsoft is getting back into smartphones with a dual-screen Android device that won’t be out for another year. Microsoft unveiled the Surface Duo as part of a new li...

Facebook fined $282,000 over privacy breach

Facebook fined $282,000 over privacy breach

-- 2019-10-03 14:24:08

Turkish authorities have fined Facebook Inc 1.6 million lira ($282,000) for violation of data protection laws which affected nearly 300,000 people, the Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) said on Th...

India Economic Summit kicks off

India Economic Summit kicks off

-- 2019-10-03 11:41:19

A two-day India Economic Summit-2019 began in New Delhi on Thursday under the theme “Innovating for India: Strengthening South Asia, Impacting the World”. The World Economic Forum (WEF) i...

Govt starts giving 2.0pc incentive on remittance

Govt starts giving 2.0pc incentive on remittance

-- 2019-10-02 19:50:56

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said the government has started giving 2.0 per cent cash incentive on money remitted by expatriate Bangladeshis to remove the burden of increased expens...