FE REPORT 2023-02-15 09:03:01
Containing inflation and taking it to the previous (tolerable) level as much as possible is a major challenge for the country's economy at present, State Minister for Planning Dr Shamsul Alam said o...
FE REPORT 2023-02-15 08:59:49
Over 0.1 million Bangladeshi workers found jobs in different destination countries in the first month of the current calendar year (2023). The number is the fourth highest in the past 13 months, show...
JUBAIR HASAN 2023-02-15 08:39:00
After months of continuous fall, the spread between the banks' lending and deposit rates went up slightly in December last apparently due to unofficially relaxing the rate cap on consumer loans four m...
-- 2023-02-14 19:25:42
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) is making radical changes in the inflation calculation considering the present financial situation and the IMF suggestions. The inflation will be calculated for...
-- 2023-02-14 19:19:05
Remittances sent by overseas Pakistani workers decreased 9.9 per cent in January on a month-on-month basis, the State Bank of Pakistan said on Monday. The workers' remittances recorded an inflow of 1...
FE REPORT 2023-02-14 08:50:58
The government has formed a National Pension Authority to administer universal pension scheme which aims to support country's growing elderly population by providing annuity. The ministry of finance...
JUBAIR HASAN 2023-02-14 08:38:00
Liquidity crunch in Bangladesh's banking system shows signs of improvement as key indicators are showing positive signs, largely following monetary interventions, officials and bankers said. Such a t...
-- 2023-02-13 19:48:05
The businessmen of the steel and rod manufacturing sector have sought the government's support on an urgent basis to deal with the crisis surrounding the industry amid the price hike of raw materials...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-13 12:16:48
European countries' bill to shield households and companies from soaring energy costs has climbed to nearly 800 billion euros, researchers said on Monday, urging countries to be more targeted in their...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-13 11:11:00
Microsoft-backed OpenAI has kept its hit ChatGPT app off-limits to users in China, but the app is attracting huge interest in the country, with firms rushing to integrate the technology into their pro...
FE REPORT 2023-02-13 09:13:26
Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Abdur Rouf Talukder on Sunday said the central bank will take various measures to make 75 per cent of the country's overall transaction cashless by 2027. The governor te...
FE REPORT 2023-02-13 08:19:32
Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) has placed a set of proposals to the National Board of Revenue (NBR) for inclusion in the fiscal budget 2023-24. The proposals include requests to permit 1.0-per...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2023-02-13 08:12:02
Cost of a foreign-aided Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-5 project, estimated at US$5.5 billion, comes under scrutiny on afterthought as official circles find it highest in the region. Sources said in a...
-- 2023-02-12 20:47:45
National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem has said that some sectors should be conserved for small businesses to boost the country’s Small and Medium Enterprises. &ld...
-- 2023-02-12 19:37:00
The impact of last week's earthquake on Turkey's growth domestic product (GDP) is unlikely to be as pronounced as after the earthquake that hit the country in 1999. IMF Executive Director Mahmoud Moh...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-11 12:11:07
Pakistan's Economic Co-ordination Committee on Friday approved a plan it is negotiating with the International Monetary Fund to slash its circular debt, a form of public debt that builds up in the pow...
REUTERS 2023-02-11 11:22:00
The boss of Google's search engine warned against the pitfalls of artificial intelligence in chatbots in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, as Google parent company Alphabet battles to...
REZAUL KARIM 2023-02-11 08:59:52
A latest policy preparation facilitating Bangladeshis making offshore investment in foreign countries gets into a dilemma as some officials mentioned that an already-existing law on 'Capital Account T...
-- 2023-02-10 21:01:40
The Japanese government plans to appoint Kazuo Ueda, an economist and former member of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) Policy Board, as the central bank's next governor after Haruhiko Kuroda's resignation, lo...
-- 2023-02-10 20:02:24
The World Bank has said it is providing Turkey with $1.78 billion in relief and recovery financing assistance as the country struggles with the aftermath of an earthquake that has killed over 20,000 p...
-- 2023-02-10 16:40:36
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes ChatGPT, a chatbot that gives strikingly human-like responses to user queries, is as significant as the invention of the internet, he told German business dail...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-10 14:34:55
Blue Origin, the private space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was awarded its first interplanetary NASA contract on Thursday to launch a mission next year to study the magnetic field aroun...
Reuters 2023-02-10 09:12:37
Posts and Telecommunication Minister Mustafa Jabbar on Thursday said gambling and fraudulent activities using mobile financial services (MFS) have become a grave concern towards building 'Smart Bangla...
-- 2023-02-09 22:04:40
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and all matters over the bailout programme are settled, local broadcaster Geo said on Thursday,...
-- 2023-02-09 21:00:24
The businesses of Saudi Arabia is very much interested to invest in Bangladesh as a high-profile delegation of the Kingdom, led by Minister of Commerce of Saudi Arabia Majed Bin Abdullah Alkassabi, wo...
-- 2023-02-09 18:44:10
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has expressed interest in setting up another fertiliser factory like Ghorashal Fertilizer Factory in Ashuganj, Bangladesh. The JBIC has also shown...
-- 2023-02-09 18:11:37
Pakistan's finance minister was quoted on Thursday as saying he expects talks with a visiting International Monetary Fund mission to be settled today (Thursday). "It is expected matters will be settl...
-- 2023-02-09 16:56:48
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon Japanese investors to come up with robust investment in Bangladesh's various sectors as Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) Governor Nobumitsu...
FE REPORT 2023-02-09 11:14:35
Many deliberate defaulters have got scope to reschedule their loans again and again with undue grace from banks, causing a setback to the financial sector, said a former governor of the country's cent...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON and JUBAIR HASAN 2023-02-09 10:36:49
Under a contingency measure, the government opts for higher emergency borrowing with two debt instruments that can yield Tk 160 billing daily in need. To this effect, the government is set to raise t...
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