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-- 2019-01-28 13:51:58
French engineering consulting firm Altran Technologies was the target of a cyber attack last Thursday that hit operations in some European countries, it said. Altran said on Monday it had shut down i...
-- 2019-01-28 13:35:36
Thailand saw a record 38.27 million tourists in 2018, up 7.5 per cent from the previous year, the Tourism Ministry said on Monday. The ministry expects the number of tourists visiting the count...
Reuters 2019-01-28 12:25:39
Central banks may be about to face one of their biggest challenges yet: Global economic growth is slowing, but they have struggled to build up their policy arsenals since the last crisis to effectivel...
-- 2019-01-27 14:20:42
China's major train maker on Saturday tested a new generation of maglev train with a designed speed of 160 km per hour, about 60 per cent faster than the current model, in Changsha, capital of central...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2019-01-27 09:45:11
The government's pension payments are growing at a worrying rate -- nearly 22 per cent annually -- over the past three years for higher life expectancy and the latest rise in basic pay. Such payments...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-01-27 09:33:15
Development projects are set to come under strict monitoring as a high-powered government committee will travel outside Dhaka to oversee the implementation work from early next month, officials said o...
-- 2019-01-26 20:43:35
Bangladesh will import around 1.42 million tonnes of petroleum fuel through government-to-government (G-to-G) initiative from eight state-owned companies of different countries from January to June th...
-- 2019-01-26 18:59:16
The government will increase the number of Commercially Important Person (CIP) status of non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) nearly threefold from this year to encourage the expatriates to send more remi...
-- 2019-01-26 18:54:36
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has identified faulty procedures in the implementation of the wage structure as the main cause of the recent unrest in the garment sector. The research organisati...
-- 2019-01-26 13:41:04
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is planning to unify the underlying messaging infrastructure of the WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger services and incorporate end-to-end encrypti...
-- 2019-01-26 12:46:10
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said that he is confident of keeping the country’s economic growth rate within an appropriate range in spite of multiple risks and challenges in 2019. “China&rs...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-01-26 10:10:19
The progress in work on the government's 'fast-track' Padma railway link project is slow and the authorities want to surrender 38 per cent of its allocated funds this year. Officials said on Friday...
Siddique Islam 2019-01-26 09:37:13
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to submit a set of recommendations to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for amending three relevant laws and regulations to help reduce the volume of classified loans...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2019-01-26 09:26:28
Bangladesh's economy needs to grow at a rate of 8.0 per cent or more in the coming years to absorb the country's growing labour force, a recent government report has suggested. At the same time, attr...
-- 2019-01-25 18:51:15
The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) is planning to hand over industrial plots to the investors in Mirsarai Economic Zone (EZ) after few months BEPZA General Manager Nazma Binte A...
-- 2019-01-25 18:06:32
Met Office researchers expect to record one of the biggest rises in atmospheric concentrations of CO2 in 2019. Every year, the Earth's natural carbon sinks such as forests soak up large amounts of CO...
-- 2019-01-25 14:53:35
Amazon is experimenting with delivery robots, starting with a little truck called Scout which is taking to the pavements in Washington State. Six of the autonomous electric trucks will deliver parcel...
-- 2019-01-25 13:06:04
Latin American and Caribbean economies face downward risks on several fronts despite a greater growth in 2018, according to a UN report released Thursday. The region's GDP could grow 1.7 per cent in...
Monira Munni 2019-01-25 12:27:34
A government-formed committee will sit next week to finalise the Accord's transition plan so that it can hand over its responsibilities to the authorities concerned, officials said. The committee, he...
FE Report 2019-01-25 12:19:25
Japan has shown interest to sign free trade agreement (FTA) with Bangladesh, officials said on Thursday. Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi expressed his interest when he met Finance Mi...
FE Report 2019-01-25 11:06:31
Former finance minister AMA Muhith suggested that the revenue board recruit university students for conducting door-to-door survey aimed at expanding tax net. He said the university students will col...
FE Report 2019-01-25 10:06:27
Tax revenue collection faced a Tk 280 billion shortfall in the first half (H1) of the current fiscal year (FY), posting a slower growth of 6.36 per cent, in the corresponding period. The National Boa...
Siddique Islam 2019-01-25 10:00:11
The central bank is set to unveil its second half-yearly (H2) monetary policy on Wednesday at 11:30 am, giving top priority to job creation through boosting credit flow to the productive sectors. Ban...
-- 2019-01-24 20:37:02
Bangladesh Customs is going to celebrate the International Customs Day 2019 on January 26. The day will be observed along with a total of 183 member countries of the World Customs Organisation (WCO)....
-- 2019-01-24 18:28:53
Bangladesh Bank (BB) will announce its monetary policy for the second half of the current 2018-19 fiscal year at the end of the month. Central bank Governor Fazle Kabir will unveil the monetary polic...
-- 2019-01-24 18:09:25
India is due to launch what it says is the world's lightest satellite ever to be put into orbit. Weighing only 1.26kg (2.6lb), the Kalamsat-V2 has been made by students belonging to a space education...
-- 2019-01-24 14:38:09
China’s cyber watchdog said on Thursday it has deleted close to 8,000 ‘malicious’ mobile apps including a video game distributed by tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, as regulators ste...
-- 2019-01-24 11:13:22
India will continue to remain the world's fastest-growing large economy in 2019 as well as in 2020, much ahead of China, a UN's World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report has said. Accordin...
-- 2019-01-24 10:05:31
Microsoft Corp’s Bing search engine is currently inaccessible in China and the company is exploring its next steps, a company spokesperson was quoted by Reuters as saying in a statement.
-- 2019-01-23 20:53:21
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to form a taskforce to identify the foreign nationals working in Bangladesh to bring them under the tax net. There will be representatives of Bangladesh I...
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