-- 2017-12-02 11:34:09
The Canadian economy slowed in the third quarter after a hot first half of the year as exports tumbled, but an acceleration in hiring and wage growth last month was seen giving the central bank reason...
FE Report 2017-12-02 09:47:19
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) received over Tk 42.81 billion (4,281.32 crore) as income tax until November 30, 2017, up by 28.37 per cent over the corresponding time of 2016. A total of 15,56,6...
FE Report 2017-12-01 12:00:00
Speakers at a roundtable recommended Thursday the government to offer uniform incentives, including the bonded warehouse facility, to the non-readymade garment sector to help diversify export items....
FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-12-01 12:00:00
The World Bank (WB) would assist in rebuilding the system of government cash transfers under the social-safety-net programme (SSNP), introducing direct delivery by banks to recipients to end irregular...
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Many goldsmiths and artisans are leaving their job or migrating to India as the demand for gold ornaments falls and the wages decline. The mass opt-out of the goldsmiths and artisans has put the coun...
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The core consumer prices in Japan rose in October from a year earlier, marking the 10th straight month of gains, but a narrower measure that excludes energy showed inflation has not accelerated for th...
Reuters 2017-12-01 11:47:06
Amazon.com Inc this week announced a flurry of new machine learning features for its Amazon Web Services cloud computing business, raising its challenge to Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms fo...
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The world's largest lithium ion battery has begun dispensing power into an electricity grid in South Australia. The 100-megawatt battery, built by Tesla, was officially activated on Friday. It had in...
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Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Friday urged private sector entrepreneurs to add-on to the government's efforts to build a self-sufficient economy. The minister said it while speaking as chief gue...
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To begin with, one first needs to understand what blockchain technology is. The Blockchain is the main technological innovation of the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. In short, it is a digitised, decentralis...
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In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft to explore interstellar space. The Voyager 1 and 2 contained the Golden Record which is a collection of sounds and images to explain Earth to alien beings...
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Ireland’s manufacturing output growth accelerated in the three months to November, surged to an 18-year high, a survey showed on Friday. The output seen higher, with strong new orders at home...
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China’s manufacturing activity grew at the weakest pace in five months in November as input costs remained high and tougher pollution measures weighed on business confidence, survey showed. The...
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India's economic growth bounced back in the second quarter (July-September), grew 6.3 per cent in the Q2 from a year earlier, government data showed on Thursday. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew fas...
Reuters 2017-11-30 12:00:00
In a major step toward creating artificial life, US researchers have developed a living organism that incorporates both natural and artificial DNA and is capable of creating entirely new, synthetic pr...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2017-11-30 12:00:00
Country's revenue from the second-biggest source shrank in 2016-17 as receipts from dividends and profits of the state-owned enterprises (SoEs) fell over 29 per cent short of Tk 323.50-billion target....
Md Ziaur Rahman 2017-11-30 12:00:00
In a country where digital transformation is embedding itself fast, parents have enough to worry about their children left to fend for themselves for lack of any tool to monitor them on the virtual wo...
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US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen reiterated that the low inflation might reflect transitory factors and expected inflation will move up to 2.0 per cent target over the medium term. She said that...
FE Online Report 2017-11-30 12:00:00
Bangladesh should discuss its advantage as both an Least Developed Country (LDC) and non-LDC prospective in the upcoming WTO ministerial in Buenos Aires, said participants at a dialogue on Thursday. &...
M Azizur Rahman 2017-11-30 11:44:21
Bangladesh has selected 30 firms and their consortia from different countries across the globe to source LNG (liquefied natural gas) from spot markets to ensure availability of the energy. The Rupant...
BBC 2017-11-30 10:52:41
Google is being taken to court, accused of collecting the personal data of millions of users, in the first mass legal action of its kind in the UK. It focuses on allegations that Google unlawfully ha...
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Up to 800 million global workers will lose their jobs by 2030 and be replaced by robotic automation, a new report from a consultancy has found. The study of 46 countries and 800 occupations by the Mc...
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Asian countries can achieve higher economic growth if they take innovation steps to develop Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), said Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu. "SMEs considered as a vital...
-- 2017-11-30 06:45:32
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has secured the copyright of 'Tax ID Card', a creative innovation of the revenue authorities to honour taxpayers in the country. The copyright office of the Cultu...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-30 03:52:08
A United Nations high official has said that Bangladesh seems to be on the right track to graduate from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status within the targeted timeframe. Fekitamoeloa Utoikamanu...
BBC 2017-11-29 12:00:00
Apple has said it is working to fix a serious bug within its Mac operating system. The flaw in MacOS High Sierra - the most recent version - makes it possible to gain entry to the machine without a p...
Reuters 2017-11-29 12:00:00
Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab has never been asked by Russian intelligence services to spy on targets in the West and the company's founder and the chief executive said he would move his company out of t...
Reuters 2017-11-29 12:00:00
SWIFT, the global messaging system used to move trillions of dollars each day, warned banks on Wednesday that the threat of digital heists is on the rise as hackers use increasingly sophisticated tool...
Monira Munni 2017-11-29 12:00:00
Local apparel makers are banking on green technology heavily in running their factory operation to brighten the image of the readymade garment sector and the country abroad after the recent industrial...
FE Online Report 2017-11-29 12:00:00
The time for submission of tax returns by individual taxpayers is set to expire tomorrow (Thursday). The individual category taxpayers will have to pay 2.0 per cent monthly interest on the payable ta...
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