-- 2018-12-12 12:30:30
The ADB expects developing Asia to meet its growth forecasts for this year and next on strong domestic demand and easing inflation pressures. The Manila-based institution, the Asian Development Ban...
-- 2018-12-11 15:01:32
Nasa says it has detected the first signs of significant melting in a swathe of glaciers in East Antarctica. The region has long been considered stable and unaffected by some of the more dramatic cha...
-- 2018-12-11 13:18:36
Mexico will invest more than $30 billion (23.57 billion pounds) in its poor southern states over the next five years to boost the region economically, the country’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebra...
Siddique Islam 2018-12-11 09:30:27
Overall shortfall in provisioning against loans in the country's banking system swelled by over 20 per cent or Tk 13.60 billion during the first nine months of the year. The total amount of provision...
Syful Islam 2018-12-11 09:27:51
None of the state-owned banks (SoBs) and financial institutions have displayed the list of top loan defaulters on their notice boards and posted the same on websites, defying a directive of the minist...
-- 2018-12-10 17:16:42
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has accelerated its investments in technology and is keeping the door open to strategic partnerships for technology investments. QIA's CEO Mansour Ibrahim al-Mahm...
-- 2018-12-10 14:39:56
The growth domestic product (GDP) of France will grow 1.5 per cent this year, a slower-than-expected, the country’s deputy finance minister said on Monday. The GDP will grow at the weaker tha...
-- 2018-12-09 19:38:54
Bangladesh has been ranked third among remittance-receiving countries in South Asia with a cash inflow of US$15.9 billion this year, according to a World Bank report. Moreover, the country became the...
-- 2018-12-09 17:36:00
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is hopeful of achieving 100 per cent implementation rate of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the current fiscal year. The minister came up with the projec...
-- 2018-12-09 16:56:55
China on Saturday launched a first probe ever to explore the dark side of the Moon, marking another milestone in its ambitious space programme, reports Reuters citing official Xinhua News Agency. Th...
-- 2018-12-09 16:55:46
Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Debapriya Bhattacharya has said eligible and honest candidates are not getting nominations as the election has become a big investment. He...
-- 2018-12-09 14:24:15
Mizanur Rahman Mizan, locally known as a motor mechanic, has turned out to be a very inspiring man as he achieved the national acclaim through inventions of new devices and machines. Mizan, who has a...
-- 2018-12-09 13:46:08
The World Bank (WB) has approved $500 million to improve livestock and dairy production in Bangladesh under the project titled ‘The Livestock and Dairy Development Project’. The lender...
-- 2018-12-09 12:24:25
India will retain its position as the world's top recipient of remittances this year with its diaspora sending a whopping 80 billion US dollar back home, the World Bank has said. India is followed...
FE Report 2018-12-09 10:53:06
For the first time, two projects prepared by Bangladeshi teams have been named at the top four in two separate categories of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s international challe...
FE Report 2018-12-09 09:50:40
Experts at a seminar in the capital on Saturday called for finding ways to keep the banking sector away from "patronage politics". The central bank needs to come out of the grip of the government and...
-- 2018-12-08 19:01:27
Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya on Saturday urged the political parties to pledge in their manifestos, to be announced for the 11th parliamentary...
-- 2018-12-08 14:50:38
China’s exports increased far less than expected in November, apparently indicating that slowing global demand outweighed any gains from a rush to ship goods to the United States ahead of a now-...
-- 2018-12-08 13:33:22
China launched two satellites for Saudi Arabia on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:12 pm on Friday. Each weighing 425 kg, the two low orbit rem...
FE Report 2018-12-08 10:23:19
The country should create new entrepreneurs, giving priority to knowledge and technology, experts said on Friday. To become a developed economy by 2041, there is no alternative to Bangladesh for fost...
Syful Islam 2018-12-08 10:00:01
Bangladesh is yet to find the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's involvement in the reserve heist though it plans to sue the US-based bank, a top official said on Friday. "We are yet to get anything...
-- 2018-12-07 16:25:34
A talented young student of Kurigram Polytechnic Institute has come up with a novel invention that can put a check on reckless driving on the country's roads induced by drug or alcohol abuse, and even...
-- 2018-12-07 13:58:01
A rural youth lacking higher education and enduring various odds has embarked on a successful mission of innovating an environment-friendly technology of generating fuel from plastic wastes such as po...
Reuters 2018-12-07 13:15:23
Japan’s household spending unexpectedly fell in October and real wages slipped for a third straight month, adding to concerns about the strength of the economy as global trade frictions cloud...
-- 2018-12-07 11:58:48
US trade deficit widened for a fifth consecutive month and reached a 10-year high in October, the government reported Thursday. The total trade gap increased 1.7 per cent to 55.5 billion US dollars i...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-12-07 09:58:03
The central bank has drafted a law meant to recognise movable properties as collaterals against loans from the banking system. The Bangladesh Bank has already posted the draft on its official website...
Siddique Islam 2018-12-07 09:37:26
The central bank has so far sold nearly US$1.0 billion this fiscal year directly to the commercial banks for settling their import payment obligations, officials said. "We're providing such foreign c...
Jubair Hasan 2018-12-07 09:33:29
Major economic activities, especially trade and investments, have slowed down in recent times as many investors are adopting a go-slow policy in their new and expansion plans ahead of the national ele...
-- 2018-12-06 14:40:38
Google's parent company, Alphabet, will test its drone delivery service in Finland next year, it has announced. Helsinki will be the first European location for Wing, which has been testing drones in...
-- 2018-12-06 13:30:18
Laos' electricity exports will hit 14,600 MW by 2030, the country’s Energy and Mines Minister Khammany Inthirath, said. He said at the 6th Ordinary Session of National Assembly's 8th Legislatu...
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