FE Report 2017-10-18 12:00:00
The point-to-point inflation rate hit the two-year-high of 6.12 per cent in last month (September), mainly due to rise in the prices of some food and non-food items, officials said. The Bangladesh Bu...
FE Online Desk 2017-10-18 12:00:00
An agreement was signed between Jamuna Bank and Silkways Card & Printing Ltd. (Silkcard) recently for Card Personalising Service. Under this agreement, Jamuna Bank will personalise all types...
FE Online Desk 2017-10-18 12:00:00
A group of high officials from Mastercard’s Member Banks and Financial Institutions in Bangladesh recently attended the Mastercard Global Risk Leadership Conference-Asia Pacific at Capella Sento...
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Bangladesh ICT Expo 2017 started from Wednesday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) to inform the people about remarkable successes achieved so far in ICT sector. Bangladesh Hi-tech...
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President Xi Jinping said China has maintained its position as the world’s second largest economy and contributed more than 30 per cent of global economic growth. China’s GDP rose from 54...
Doulot Akter Mala 2017-10-18 10:37:43
The revenue board found its online system for submission of income-tax returns largely forlorn and went on a mass campaign for teaching taxpayers how to do it. Sources said less than 100 taxpayers s...
AP 2017-10-18 10:22:25
A Kenyan electoral commissioner has announced her resignation and says the presidential vote just eight days away cannot credibly proceed as planned. Roselyne Akombe spoke Wednesday from New York but...
FE Report 2017-10-18 09:31:16
Income inequality in Bangladesh has widened further despite decline in the rate of poverty, dropping to 24.3 per cent last year from 31.5 per cent six years back. Official findings in the Household I...
Reuters 2017-10-18 02:24:46
China will deepen economic and financial reforms and further open its markets to foreign investors as it looks to move from high-speed to high-quality growth, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday....
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SEOUL, Oct 17 (Reuters): The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has a compliance rate with their output cut pledges of about 86 per cent, Fatih Birol, the executive director of the I...
S. M. Formanul Islam 2017-10-17 12:33:10
Mr. X is a very smart senior officer in a company. His room is well decorated, air conditioned, brightly lit, and glass windows are covered by expensive blinders. The air conditioner (AC) of his room...
Tanzeem Chowdhury 2017-10-17 12:31:53
There is ample opportunity to bridge the nation's gas crisis with alternate fuels. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is the greenest form of alternate fuel as LPG produces low carbon footprint when burned...
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Demand for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) risen significantly in Bangladesh with growth of over 42 per cent to 45 per cent. Eleven private sector companies are working in the LPG sector with Bashundhar...
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The beginning, in the year of 1999, Bashundhara LP Gas Limited, started off as the First Private LP Gas importing, bottling and marketing company in Bangladesh.The company has a state-of-the-art LP Ga...
FE Online Desk 2017-10-17 12:00:00
A high level policy workshop, held in Dhaka recently urged for greater support for fisheries and aquaculture sector in Bangladesh. The workshop was held in connection with the dissemination of a compr...
Siddique Islam 2017-10-17 12:00:00
The central bank has strengthened its foreign currency support to the commercial banks for settling import payment obligations, particularly of food grains and fuel oils. As part of the move, the Ban...
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The rate of inflation in the month of September has witnessed a rise by 0.59 percentage point, according to the latest data of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). As per BBS statistics, inflation...
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Experts called for making Regulatory Impact Assessment Policy to reduce unpredictability of rules and regulations that stymies investment and innovations in the country. Conducting a regulatory impac...
Doulot Akter Mala 2017-10-17 10:20:09
Income tax collection from the large corporate taxpayers posted 20.55 per cent growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (FY) largely because of higher financial contribution of the comme...
Reuters 2017-10-17 09:57:36
The US Department of Homeland Security on Monday warned of cyber risks associated with a widely used system for securing Wi-Fi communications after Belgian researchers discovered a flaw that could all...
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A Chinese space station will crash into Earth in a matter of months - and it could kill anyone who is standing beneath. The 8.5-ton Tiangong-1, or ‘Heavenly Palace’, satellite is now out...
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The poverty rate in the country came down to 24.3 per cent although it is still high at rural level with 26.4 per cent while 18.9 per cent at urban level. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) on Tue...
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The UK's key inflation rate hit its highest for more than five years in September, driven up by increases in transport and food prices. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) climbed to 3 per cent, a level...
Reuters 2017-10-17 01:48:46
Singapore’s exports unexpectedly fell from a year earlier in September, data showed on Tuesday, their first on-year contraction in five months as electronics shipments posted their first decline...
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A tigress that killed four people in the west Indian state of Maharashtra died on Saturday, days after a court upheld an order to kill it. The animal was electrocuted by a fence erected by a farmer t...
Munima Sultana 2017-10-16 12:00:00
A massive fundraising campaign got underway for mobilising over US $190 billion to elegantly improve Dhaka's transport network with metro rails, expressways and bus-franchise services. Dhaka Transpor...
Reuters 2017-10-16 12:00:00
The leaders of the world’s top central banks who risked trillions of dollars and their reputations to rescue the global economy are now set to walk off stage at a time when the lingering effects...
FE Report 2017-10-16 12:00:00
The government has been urged to ensure easy-term housing loans for the low-income group of people to achieve the SDG 11. According to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), adequate, safe and affor...
FE Online Report 2017-10-16 12:00:00
Disbursement of the industrial term credit declined by 5.16 per cent in the past fiscal year (FY17), according to the latest statistics of the central bank. It showed that some Tk 621.54 billion was...
FE Online Desk 2017-10-16 12:00:00
The proportion of businesses in Asia Pacific reaping the rewards of embracing cloud infrastructure services has increased significantly in the last quarter, according to a global survey of 1,610 IT pr...
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