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-- 2018-03-16 13:28:30
Japan's parliament approved Haruhiko Kuroda for a second term as Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor on Friday, Lower House Speaker Tadamori Oshima said. The central bank governor has been approved for an...
Doulot Akter Mala 2018-03-16 10:06:06
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has run into trouble of setting increased tax collection target after "intentionally" cooking up last fiscal's receipt, people familiar with the situation said. Th...
Siddique Islam 2018-03-16 00:23:00
The volume of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the country's banking system jumped 19.51 per cent or Tk 121.31 billion in the last calendar year (2017) despite close monitoring of the central bank. The...
-- 2018-03-15 18:38:00
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has proposed that Bangladesh's 'Look East Policy' and Thailand's 'Look West Policy' may be synchronised to create new trade and economic connectivity corridors....
-- 2018-03-15 15:18:53
The Bank of France, the central bank of the European country, has revised up slightly its 2018 growth forecast to 1.9 per cent, after the French economy enjoyed its strongest growth in six years in 20...
-- 2018-03-15 11:19:30
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is going to implement two major road and drain development projects with an estimated cost of around Tk 600 million. The development works include 191-kilometre roads...
Siddique Islam 2018-03-14 11:01:56
The central bank has undertaken Investment Promotion and Financing Facility (IPFF-II) project with over US$400 million disbursement target for infrastructure development in nine key sectors. An offic...
Syful Islam 2018-03-14 09:42:09
Government's election-year development programme will be focused on timely implementation of the ongoing projects, instead of undertaking new ones, alongside proper use of resources and optimum outp...
-- 2018-03-13 20:50:38
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to inaugurate a total of 100 development projects during her visit in Mymensingh. The premier is scheduled to visit the district on April 5. According to the offic...
-- 2018-03-13 14:35:26
Indian oil imports from Venezuela have fallen to their lowest levels in over half a decade, as a severe economic and political crisis hits crude output in the South American OPEC member. The oil imp...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-13 12:26:20
SHANGHAI, CHINA - 13 March - Development of plastics and rubber technologies has roared ahead like a tiger in current years. CHINAPLAS, as a leading trade fair, offers a technology-oriented platf...
FE Online Report 2018-03-13 12:22:05
Summit Corporation Ltd, a subsidiary of Summit Power International (SPI) along with Summit Holdings Limited signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japanese Mitsubishi Corporation and its su...
-- 2018-03-13 11:07:31
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday invited the business community in Singapore to be Bangladesh's partners in its journey towards economic development as the country is now transforming. "Bangla...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-03-13 10:22:08
Bangladesh is set to get the qualifying marks for LDC graduation when the UN policy body sits for a review of the country status today (Tuesday). The 20th plenary meeting of the Committee for Develop...
FE Report 2018-03-13 10:11:27
The central bank has strengthened its foreign currency support to the commercial banks to settle their import payment obligations, particularly for fuel oils, officials said. As part of the move, the...
-- 2018-03-12 21:15:26
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Monday said the next national budget will be placed before the parliament on June 7. He also hinted that the next budget will be of Tk 4.75 trillion. The...
-- 2018-03-12 20:09:29
Revenue collection under the Large Taxpayer Unit (LTU) of Value Added Tax (VAT) witnessed a 30 per cent growth in February of the current fiscal (FY18). LTU collection in February of FY18 was Tk 35.6...
-- 2018-03-12 16:31:03
The retail sales of Singapore went down 8.4 per cent in January year-on-year, comparing to a re-calculated 6.3-per cent rise last December, the Department of Statistics of Singapore has said. The...
-- 2018-03-12 14:28:48
The government has realised income taxes of Tk 3.88 billion in the first eight months of the current 2017-18 fiscal year in Rajshahi zone, more than Tk 1.00 billion in the same time of the previous fi...
-- 2018-03-12 12:42:52
The US economy added 313,000 jobs in February, the biggest number of jobs in more than 1-1/2 years, but a slowdown in wage growth pointed to only a gradual increase in inflation this year. Data for...
-- 2018-03-12 11:54:52
Bangladesh has signed two Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) on air service and public private partnership (PPP) with Singapore. The MoU was signed on Monday at the Istana, office of the President of...
Rezaul Karim 2018-03-12 00:27:36
The government will give Tk 20 billion in a latest dollop to state-run banks to meet their capital shortfall, officials said, at a time when reports are rife on irregular big lending. The funds are s...
-- 2018-03-11 21:32:52
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Sunday said there would be no ambitious target in the next national budget. He also said the budget size is likely to be in between Tk 4.60 trillion Tk 4.75 tr...
-- 2018-03-11 19:54:44
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has termed Bangladesh’s businesses too greedy as 'they want to do business without taxes'. The finance minister made the allegation following a meeting w...
-- 2018-03-11 14:57:29
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has ordered the country’s central bank not to bail out any struggling banks as East Africa’s third-largest economy tries to control rising bad debt...
FE Report 2018-03-11 10:41:47
A "stagnant" state of private-sector investment as a ratio to GDP (gross domestic product) would stand as one of major challenges facing Bangladesh for smooth transition from the LDC status. Speakers...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-03-11 10:14:59
Growth of "broad money" continues to decelerate in the country that implies that the money supply to the economy is gradually contracting as the government tightens the purse strings, sources said. E...
-- 2018-03-10 19:04:34
Every year up to two million people add up to Bangladesh’s 165 million population. To feed the yearly add-on, an additional 500,000 metric tons (MT) of food is required to produce. With the cu...
-- 2018-03-10 13:08:17
The Reserve Bank of India has asked commercial lenders to provide it with details of all letters of undertaking - a form of credit guarantee at the centre of an alleged $2 billion fraud - issued by th...
Jubair Hasan 2018-03-10 10:12:57
Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) is in a fix for witnessing a massive loss to the tune of Tk 3.9 billion after making profits in the recent years, said officials concerned. The offic...
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