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FE Online Desk 2018-01-18 10:19:37
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has sought financing by development partners for successfully attaining the SDGs. The minister also asked them not to take away their attention from Bangladesh...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-01-18 09:54:52
The revenue authorities will recast the policy on appointment of VAT consultants to prevent alleged abuse of licence for this service and appoint more such go-betweens in the tax collection. Official...
Siddique Islam 2018-01-18 09:36:29
Depreciating trend of the local currency against the US dollar is continuing despite the central bank's foreign currency support to the commercial banks. The exchange rate of Bangladesh Taka (BDT)...
FE Online Report 2018-01-18 06:32:01
The two-day Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF) in the capital ended Thursday seeking higher assistance from the overseas development partners to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). The gove...
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Experts have suggested Bangladesh needs to improve internal domestic efficiency, existing labour force and financial sector to cope with the challenges they might face once it gets out of the status o...
Reuters 2018-01-18 02:41:04
South Korean policymakers joined the global chorus of virtual-coin critics on Thursday, saying Seoul is considering shutting down domestic virtual currency exchanges as the new breed of market exposes...
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WhatsApp has finally rolled out a new feature for iOS users where they can play YouTube videos right within the instant messaging app. Beginning Thursday, when a friend sends a YouTube link on WhatsA...
M Azizur Rahman 2018-01-17 12:00:00
Big entrepreneurs shy away from reinvesting their profit in new ventures or limiting necessary expansions in fear of huge monetary losses under Bangladesh's 'complex' multilayered dividend-taxation sy...
Arafat Ara 2018-01-17 12:00:00
The outflow of Bangladeshi skilled workers surged by more than 36 per cent last year compared with a year ago helped by the government efforts, officials said. A total of 434,344 skilled workers went...
FE Online Report 2018-01-17 12:00:00
The country’s trade deficit with India stood at $5.47 billion in the past fiscal year (FY17) mainly due to a surge in imports from the next door neighbour. Merchandise import from India jumped...
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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered a deposit of $2 billion to be paid into Yemen’s central bank on Wednesday to shore up the weak Yemeni currency, the Saudi government said. The move was...
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Google’s video sharing site YouTube is introducing tougher requirements for video publishers who want to make money from the platform. In addition, it has said staff will manually review all cl...
BBC 2018-01-17 10:46:48
Uber is introducing a new policy on drivers' hours across the UK next week, which it says will help to increase safety for drivers and passengers. A licensed driver on its app must take an uninterrup...
Jubair Hasan 2018-01-17 09:47:53
Seventy nine source points of illegal gas connections in the capital, largely contributing to the ongoing gas crisis, have been untouched due to reasons hitherto unknown. No possibility is seen to ta...
FE Online Report 2018-01-17 09:34:47
World LPG Association (WLPGA) sees Bangladesh as one of the fastest-growing LPG markets across world and predicted that demand for the fuel might reach upto 3.0 million tonnes by 2025. WLPGA director...
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Bangladesh, following its outstanding progress made earlier on the key millennium development goals (MDGs), can make similar progress in line with the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Mission Di...
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Germany and Bangladesh sign €337.2 million deal to support sustainable development. It includes €216 million towards climate smart agriculture programmes and modernising the electricity gri...
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Growth in Singapore’s export sector slowed more than expected in December from a year earlier due to a fall in electronics trade and the first decline in shipments to China in more than a year....
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Russia’s new government should invest more in education and healthcare to help spur the country’s economic growth, the World Bank’s chief executive officer said on Tuesday. Presiden...
FE Report 2018-01-16 12:00:00
Satisfied with the performance of Bangladeshi migrants, Mauritius said it would hire more workers from Bangladesh in different sectors. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) will be signed between the...
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Four members of a family instead of existing two now can be inducted in the board of directors of a bank at a time. The parliament on Tuesday approved the Bank Company (Amendment) Bill 2018, keeping...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-01-16 09:34:29
Growth in this fiscal's government tax-revenue collection may decline substantially, economists predict, as the first-half receipts fell short of target by Tk 126.21 billion. They read a reflection o...
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Nigerian inflation slowed for the 11th month in a row in December, to 15.37 per cent from 15.90 per cent a month before, the head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday. The NBS...
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China is likely set its 2018 economic growth target at around 6.5 per cent as a government-led crackdown on debt risks and factory pollution drag on overall activity, a Reuters poll showed. The poll...
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Software major BlackBerry has unveiled a new cyber security tool called “BlackBerry Jarvis” for automakers that will scan in real-time all software components in an autonomous vehicle to p...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-01-15 12:00:00
Half of the country's non-government organisations (NGOs) are still remained out of the tax net, causing significant losses of direct tax. Of the total 961 NGOs registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau...
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State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company (BAPEX) hopes that natural gas in new-found Bhola field will be nearly 600 billion cubic feet. An exploratory well at Bheduria in t...
FE Online Report 2018-01-15 12:00:00
The government-development partners meeting, Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF), will begin on Wednesday in Dhaka with the presence of high officials from major donor agencies. The government officia...
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WhatsApp is working on a feature in its app which will empower its users to prevent spam messages in the next update version 2.17.430, an app watcher said. According to WABetaInfo, a fan website that...
Siddique Islam 2018-01-15 10:38:49
A declining trend of interest rate spread in the country's banking sector continued until November, as the commercial banks slashed their interest rates more on lending than on deposits, officials sai...
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