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-- 2018-06-29 20:31:42
Sophia, the famous artificial intelligence (AI) humanoid robot, has arrived in Ethiopia – but without some of her body parts. A bag containing some of the robot was lost at Frankfurt airport, w...
-- 2018-06-29 17:22:10
Scientists have found complex carbon-based molecules in the waters of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Compounds like this have only previously been found on Earth, and in some meteorites. They are thought...
-- 2018-06-29 15:16:13
A science fiction-inspired robot hardwired to assist astronauts will launch from Florida early Friday morning to become the first personal, artificial intelligence-powered companion in space. The C...
-- 2018-06-29 14:36:39
Twitter Inc renowned online news and social networking service on Thursday made it easier for users to identify political campaign ads and know who paid for them, as social media platforms faced the t...
-- 2018-06-29 14:19:49
The consumer price index (CPI) of Vietnam rose 3.29 per cent on-year in the first half of 2018, the country's General Statistics Office said on Friday. In June alone, the index increased 0.61 per cen...
FE Report 2018-06-29 12:04:07
The net sale of state-run savings instruments increased by 2.0 per cent during the last 11 months of fiscal year (FY) 2017-18 compared to the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, official fi...
Rezaul Karim 2018-06-29 11:56:42
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) will print 1,200 million pieces of currencies and banknotes of various denominations in the next fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, officials said. The target is up by 5.44 per cent...
M Azizur Rahman 2018-06-29 11:27:21
The government eyes launching a new bidding round within the next couple of months as the draft of a new model production sharing contract (PSC) is awaiting final approval, said officials. State-run...
Asjadul Kibria 2018-06-29 10:47:06
The amount of Bangladesh-linked funds in the banks of Switzerland dropped 27 per cent last year (2017), according to the latest data released in Zurich on Thursday. The report titled 'Banks in Switze...
FE Report 2018-06-29 10:27:00
The central bank has relaxed regulations, allowing commercial banks to issue guarantee on behalf of foreign-controlled firms favouring the local authorities against counter-guarantee from foreign bank...
-- 2018-06-28 19:41:21
The government on Thursday signed two financing agreements totalling $715 million with the World Bank (WB) to improve the primary education sector, and to help the country produce timely and quality s...
-- 2018-06-28 16:34:04
The volume of industrial production in Mongolia grew 23.3 per cent in the January-May period compared to the same period last year, amounting to $2.439 billion US dollars. The Ministry of Mining an...
-- 2018-06-28 15:39:46
Chinese electric carmaker BYD Co Ltd has opened a new lithium battery plant in the northwestern province of Qinghai, which will be the world’s biggest when construction is fully completed next y...
-- 2018-06-28 14:58:04
The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) today passed a Tk 4.64 trillion national budget for fiscal year 2018-19 setting the GDP growth target at 7.8 per cent in a bid to further alleviate poverty, reduce inequalities...
FE Report 2018-06-28 11:33:23
The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) passed the Finance Bill 2018 on Wednesday, bringing a number of changes in taxes/duties proposed earlier in the finance minister's budget speech. The bill was passed by voic...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-06-28 10:34:19
The ministry-wise allocation for climate change-related projects has hardly increased during the last five years despite the country's high vulnerability to climate change, the government's climate bu...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2018-06-28 09:56:47
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the establishment of a regional power grid interconnection involving seven countries will be nailed down shortly. The deal will be signed in the upcoming summi...
-- 2018-06-27 16:31:40
A Japanese spacecraft has arrived at its target - an asteroid shaped like a diamond or, according to some, a spinning top. Hayabusa 2 has been travelling toward the space rock Ryugu since launching f...
-- 2018-06-27 14:06:48
Facebook has decided to allow certain ads promoting cryptocurrency and related content from pre-approved advertisers, official said in an official blog post. The social media on Tuesday decided to al...
-- 2018-06-27 13:34:34
South Korea's households bank lending rate hit a 44-month high in the previous month on rising expectations for the policy rate hike in the near future, Bank of Korea (BOK) data showed Wednesday. A...
-- 2018-06-27 12:58:43
The industrial profits of China grew 16.5 per cent in the first five months of 2018, quickening from the 15-per cent expansion for the January-April period, official data showed Wednesday. In May alo...
Munima Sultana 2018-06-27 10:52:35
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has shown interest in financing two projects in the country's transport sector for improving regional connectivity as well as boosting trade and busin...
FE Report 2018-06-27 10:13:05
The finance bill of proposed budget for the fiscal year, 2018-19, is expected to be passed today (Wednesday), two days ahead of the schedule. The budget will be passed the next day. Finance Minister...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-06-27 10:05:02
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has taken up a road upgradation project at a bloated cost despite its 'unviability', official said on Monday. Project insiders said the RHD itself has shown th...
-- 2018-06-26 17:30:19
The company behind the photo-editing program Photoshop says it has developed a tool that can detect if an image has been tampered with. Vlad Morarium, an Adobe researcher, employed artificial intelli...
FE Online Desk 2018-06-26 15:22:37
The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) organised a Post-Budget Discussion Session on National Budget 2018-2019 on Monday at the ICMAB Ruhul Quddus Auditorium, Dhaka. &...
-- 2018-06-26 15:14:28
A WhatsApp text circulating in some districts of India’s central Madhya Pradesh state helped to inflame a mob of 50-60 villagers into savagely beating up two innocent men last week on suspicion...
-- 2018-06-26 13:33:03
The manufacturing output of Singapore grew 11.1 per cent year on year in May, compared to the 9.1 per cent increase in April, the country’s economic development board (EDB) said on Tuesday. The...
-- 2018-06-26 12:13:40
Video makers with millions of subscribers on YouTube expressed frustration at a trade show last week that the service notifies only a portion of their followers about new posts, causing declines in vi...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-06-26 10:18:20
The government liabilities, in terms of borrowing through domestic debt securities, are likely to be 13 per cent lower in the next fiscal year (FY) over those of the outgoing fiscal. The domestic deb...
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