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Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-01-16 12:00:00
Local shipping firms have expressed fear over detention of 13 vessels as they thought it would affect the country's external trade, particularly of perishable commodities like potatoes. Executives at...
Siddique Islam 2018-01-16 12:00:00
The board of directors of the troubled Farmers Bank Limited (FBL) witnessed a reshuffle again as it got a new chairman only after a short tenure of one and half month of the outgoing chairman. It was...
FE Report 2018-01-16 12:00:00
The Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) will upgrade technology-based banking in 2018 to make financial services more accessible to the mass people. The Shariah-based leading bank will also give em...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-16 12:00:00
Regency Hospitality Training Institute (RHTi) became the first and only institute in Bangladesh to settle official tie-up as Global Academic Partner (GAP) with AHELI (American Hotel and Lodging Educat...
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US-Bangla Airlines has become the sponsor of the biggest tourism fair in Bangladesh, ‘Dhaka Travel Mart 2018’, which is going to be held at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel in Dhaka from Ma...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 12:00:00
Government has undertaken a plan to construct warehouse having a capacity of 10,000 tonnes food-grains in the regional offices of the Bangladesh Trading Corporation (TCB). The plan is initially for C...
FE Report 2018-01-15 11:57:40
The daily per capita deficiency of vegetables in the people's diet is 158 gm, experts said, pointing to the need for raising the production of vegetables significantly in the country. The experts cam...
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Bangladesh now grows 16.04 million (160.42 lakh) tonnes of vegetables annually in the country, according to sources at the agriculture ministry, reports UNB. During the ongoing three-day National Veg...
Reuters 2018-01-15 11:36:36
Volkswagen’s (VOWG_p.DE) core autos division increased vehicle sales to a record 6.23 million cars last year, as rising demand for VW brand models in the Americas and the key Chinese market offs...
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Two ministers of the cabinet have claimed that the commodity prices in kitchen market are now normal following various government initiatives. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed and Food Minister Qamrul...
-- 2018-01-15 09:30:32
The country has clocked 51.33 per cent of rice import target so far in fiscal year 2017-18. Food Minister Advocate Quamrul Islam said this on Monday while responding to a query in parliament by lawma...
FE Online Report 2018-01-15 05:21:29
Two million Bangladeshi tourists visited India in 2017, posting a record 47 per cent growth over the year 2016. Latest statistics, released by the Indian tourism ministry today, showed that 19 per ce...
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Media OutReach, the Asia Pacific's first full-service newswire, has entered into an exclusive content partnership with Business Insider for its Malaysia and Singapore editions. A fast-growing global...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 01:50:12
Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd (SPL), the largest pharmaceuticals company of Bangladesh, has made its first international investment through its 100 per cent-owned subsidiary Square Pharmaceuticals Kenya...
FE Online Report 2018-01-14 12:00:00
Country's maritime court has issued an arrest warrant against 13 container vessels following a lawsuit filed by a private commercial bank. This is for the first time in the country's maritime histor...
FE Online Report 2018-01-14 12:00:00
Merchandise imports from China crossed $10 billion mark in the past fiscal year (FY17), according to the latest statistics released by Bangladesh Bank last week. It showed that the country paid som...
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The government has formed a new wage board to review the existing wages of the garment industry workers. Senior District Judge Syed Aminul Islam has become the wage board head. Labour adviser of Ban...
Arafat Ara 2018-01-14 10:48:06
The authorities concerned are seeking to weigh up a certain provision of Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB) Act-2010 for converting the bank into a commercial one instead of amending the law. To this effe...
FE Report 2018-01-14 10:27:15
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has sought a sum of Tk 25.60 billion from the government to meet the demand for cash incentive/subsidy made by local exporters, officials have said. The central bank recent...
Kamrun Nahar 2018-01-14 09:58:47
State-run carrier Biman has taken initiatives including purchase of new aircraft and change in networking approach to raise its market share to 30 per cent from the present 20 per cent by 2027, a Bima...
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Ford Motor Co on Sunday will officially take the wraps off its long-awaited Ranger midsize pickup truck, a year ahead of its arrival in showrooms, as rivals consolidate positions in a segment Detroit...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-14 02:15:39
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited Chairman Arastoo Khan distributed blankets among the cold affected destitute people at the Garpara Bahumukhi High School of Manikganj Sadar Upazila Saturday. Md. Aminur...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-13 12:56:10
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) has organised a two-day business development conference at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka. Arastoo Khan, Chairman of the IBBL bank, addressed the concludin...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-13 12:40:16
Honor, a leading smartphone e-brand, announced on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), that the AI-powered Honor View10 will go on sale in overseas markets from January 8, 2018 and released...
FE Report 2018-01-13 12:28:55
Daily life of the city dwellers is severely disrupted in many areas in recent days because of sudden fall in pressure of piped gas supplied to the households. The disruption of the key necessity is n...
Ismail Hossain 2018-01-13 12:27:12
The social obligation fund of around Tk 13.80 billion, contributed by the telecom operators, has remained unutilised under the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) largely because...
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Farmers in Barind area are now getting irrigation facilities round the year, thanks to solar-powered pumps, reports BSS. Zahaurul Islam, a farmer of Jagpur village under Godagari upazila, said more t...
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The fuel economy of new US cars and trucks hit a record 24.7 miles per gallon in the 2016 model year, a government report said, even as some automakers had to buy credits to meet federal requirements,...
FE Report 2018-01-13 12:00:00
Dhaka trade fair gathered momentum on Friday, the second weekly holiday since the fair began, with increased buy and sell of products. According to the exhibitors, like every year, home appliances, p...
-- 2018-01-13 10:48:48
Bangladesh and India are now in negotiations to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) soon for cooperation in the field of medicinal plants. Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringl...
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