FE Report 2018-12-06 10:18:33
Speakers at a programme said effective coordination among the government departments and other stakeholders is the key to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) properly and in time. They...
FE Report 2018-12-06 10:04:18
Bangladesh will sue the Federal Reserve Bank of New York alongside the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) of the Philippines to recover its stolen reserve funds. The case will be filed befor...
Siddique Islam 2018-12-06 09:45:36
The amount of classified loans in the country's banking sector reached an all-time high of nearly Tk 1.0 trillion in September ahead of the upcoming national election. The volume of non-performing lo...
-- 2018-12-05 19:55:58
Euro zone business growth was at its weakest pace in over two years last month as a manufacturing-led slowdown showed further signs of spreading to the service industry. The downbeat survey results w...
-- 2018-12-05 18:47:14
The modification of land for farming and building cities is favouring the same species everywhere, according to a new study. Animals like rats and pigeons are taking over from less common ones, which...
-- 2018-12-05 18:22:42
The European Commission has urged the states and global companies to increase the use of euro in international payments and as a reserve currency. The commission made the call in its non-binding prop...
FE Online Report 2018-12-05 14:56:48
Export earnings from the country's merchandise shipments during the first five months of the current fiscal year (FY) stood at $17.07 billion, marking a 17.24 per cent growth over the corresponding pe...
-- 2018-12-05 13:04:18
India's heaviest satellite has gone into orbit on a French rocket to help boost broadband internet services. Weighing about 5,854kg (12,906lb), the GSAT-11 is India's "most-advanced" multi-band commu...
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South Korea's foreign currency reserves rose to 403 billion US dollars in November due to the weak dollar trend that increased the conversion value of non-dollar assets, according to central bank da...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-12-05 10:32:51
The gap between short and long-term government fixed-income securities yields was steeper during fiscal year 2018 than its previous year, which indicated a 'tightened year" for money market. The cent...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-12-05 09:01:15
Aggregate shortfall in tax revenue collection against the target widened further, marking a deficit amounting to Tk 167.99 billion in the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2018-19. T...
-- 2018-12-04 17:54:30
The general point to point inflation rate in November last further eased to 5.37 percentage point from the previous month due to the slight decrease in non-food inflation. “The general point to...
-- 2018-12-04 13:27:36
Euro zone finance ministers has said that Italy’s draft 2019 budget was breaking European Union rules and they agreed with the European Commission that Rome should amend it. Italy, which alre...
-- 2018-12-04 13:11:13
Bangladesh's foreign exchange reserves reached about 31 billion US dollars by the end of November, central bank data has showed. Bangladesh Bank (BB) data showed the country's foreign exchange rese...
-- 2018-12-04 10:26:26
About 100 million users of Quora were affected by unauthorised access to one of its systems by a “malicious third party,” the knowledge-sharing website said on Monday. Account information...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-12-04 09:28:46
Income tax return submission by individual taxpayers posted a 14 per cent rise this year, mostly contributed by salaried taxpayers. Until Sunday, tax offices received some 1.7 million tax returns and...
-- 2018-12-03 15:19:56
The factory activity of China grew slightly in November, a private survey showed, though new export orders extended their decline in a further blow to the sector already hurt by the Sino-US trade fr...
FE Report 2018-12-03 09:36:01
The flow of inward remittance fell slightly in November over that of the previous month despite the depreciating mode of taka against dollar in recent months. The money sent home by Bangladeshis work...
-- 2018-12-02 17:01:18
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the business community to explore the export and other business opportunities in the global market following country’s graduation as a developing country f...
Xinhua 2018-12-02 15:50:49
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde has said that there is "an urgent need" to de-escalate trade tensions, reverse recent tariff increases, and modernise the rules-based multilat...
-- 2018-12-02 14:33:14
The United States space agency NASA on Thursday announced nine commercial American companies in a partnership to develop lunar robotic landers in the coming decade. NASA would buy space on commercial...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-12-02 09:54:57
Six months after the publication of the 'National Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) and Laboratory Reagents Production and Export Policy by the Ministry of Commerce, the National Board of Revenu...
-- 2018-12-01 15:11:12
Researchers have come up with a new way of tracking elephants, via the vibrations that the animals make. Scientists Dr Beth Mortimer and Prof Tarje Nissen-Meyer discovered that elephants generate vib...
-- 2018-12-01 11:29:24
China's official data showed most production goods monitored by the government posted lower prices in the middle 10 days of November compared with the previous 10 days. Of the 50 major goods monitore...
FE Report 2018-12-01 09:57:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir has said the banking industry is now on stable footing as there is no liquidity shortage in this sector at this moment. "The banking industry in Bangladesh...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-12-01 09:43:13
Dhaka and Delhi are going to review again the progress in execution of projects under the Indian Lines of Credit (LoCs) this month in New Delhi, officials have said. The officials on Friday said a Ba...
-- 2018-11-30 19:36:23
The records of 500 million customers of the hotel group Marriott International have been involved in a data breach. The hotel chain said the guest reservation database of its Starwood division had be...
-- 2018-11-30 17:01:03
A Chinese internet technology firm is planning to launch a constellation of 272 satellites by 2026 with an aim to provide free WiFi service worldwide. LinkSure Network, founded in Shanghai in 2013, &...
-- 2018-11-30 16:36:45
The number of tax return submission has increased by 40 per cent in the past two years, said Sirajul Islam, acting chairman National Board of Revenue (NBR). He gave the information while addressing a...
-- 2018-11-30 15:13:40
The US Army is investing millions of dollars in experimental exoskeleton technology to make soldiers stronger and more resilient, in what experts say is part of a broader push into advanced gear to eq...
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