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FE Online Desk 2018-02-17 20:40:49
The revenue authority has planned to go tough against foreign nationals who are working in Bangladesh for long, but not paying income tax. National Board of Revenue (NBR) has chalked out the plan in...
-- 2018-02-17 20:22:18
The central bank is going to honour two eminent personalities with 'Bangladesh Bank Award-2017' in recognition of their contribution to economy. A BB media release said Professor Emeritus of Universi...
-- 2018-02-17 18:28:16
Mobile phone tower company edotco Bangladesh has decided to help the country materialise the government’s vision of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. In compliance with th...
FE Online Report 2018-02-17 14:47:27
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has asked the bankers to properly scrutinise all the project proposals they get and follow the know-your-client formula to make the loans risk-free. "There are two major...
-- 2018-02-17 13:08:24
China's housing rental market was estimated at 1.3 trillion yuan (about 205 billion US dollars) in terms of revenue last year, according Liu Zhifeng, head of China Real Estate Association. With a gov...
-- 2018-02-17 12:33:36
Japan has okayed plans to let people choose to start drawing their state pensions beyond the age of 70 as it grapples with severe labor shortages, ballooning welfare costs and a shrivelling tax base s...
-- 2018-02-17 11:42:27
A deal on oil output cuts between OPEC and non-OPEC countries along with weaker demand for natural gas shipped from Russia may hit the growth of Russia’s economy in 2018, the central bank said i...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2018-02-17 10:35:18
An international survey finds Bangladesh's institutional quality and business environment deficient in weathering potential economic shocks while assessing 25 frontier markets' potential vulnerabiliti...
Syful Islam 2018-02-17 09:55:53
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has started realising 15 per cent VAT on tariffs of all 60 types of services it provides to port-users, with consent from the shipping ministry, officials said. In...
Rezaul Karim 2018-02-17 00:06:29
A hefty amount of over Tk 1.70 trillion of different banks remained stuck in 0.127 million money suits while a good number of them are facing liquidity crunch, sources said. ...
-- 2018-02-16 14:26:43
Hackers stole $ 6.0 million (339.5 million rubles) in an attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging system in Russia last year, the Russian central bank said on Friday. The disclosure, buri...
-- 2018-02-16 13:53:55
Japan has reappointed central bank chief Haruhiko Kuroda for another term, amid heightened anxiety in Japanese and global financial markets. The government on Friday nominated Kuroda, a 73-year-old...
-- 2018-02-16 13:34:41
Colombia’s gross domestic product rose 1.8 per cent in 2017, the lowest in eight years, the government’s DANE statistics agency said. The Latin America’s fourth largest economy ex...
-- 2018-02-16 11:49:06
India's Punjab National Bank, the second-biggest state-run lender, stunned the country's financial sector when it announced this week it had discovered fraudulent transactions worth $1.77 billion at a...
FE Online Report 2018-02-16 11:12:28
The third annual economists’ conference of the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM) will kick off on Saturday morning in Dhaka. The theme of the two-day event is: ‘Leave no o...
FE Report 2018-02-16 10:41:27
Bangladesh Railway (BR) authorities have been asked to speed up the implementation work of four projects, including the Akhaura-Agartala rail link project, financed by the Indian grant and the first L...
FE Report 2018-02-16 10:04:55
The current volume of non-performing loan (NPL) is not a big problem for the economy as it still remained at a lower level than many other countries, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said Thursday....
FE Report 2018-02-16 09:48:29
A leading trade body has stressed ensuring political harmony in the country apart from facing properly the challenges of rising geo-political tensions and the Rohingya refugee crisis to achieve the co...
Ismail Hossain 2018-02-16 00:33:58
Authorised persons involved in managing 'deposit insurance fund' at the central bank will get indemnity under a proposed law styled, the Deposit Protection (DP) Act, 2017. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) ha...
-- 2018-02-15 21:24:25
The European economy, in the strongest expansion in a decade, registered 2.5 per cent gross domestic product growth in 2017, the Eurostat agency said on Wednesday. That's the growth rate for bot...
-- 2018-02-15 21:12:34
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to provide additional cash to banks if needed ahead of March-end to give flexibility to lenders to manage their liquidity mismatches. The RBI said on Tue...
-- 2018-02-15 20:19:43
Bank Indonesia (BI) has kept its policy rate unchanged on Thursday as expected, as it looks to maintain stability in the struggling rupiah currency following an unexpected spike in global volatility....
-- 2018-02-15 20:04:36
Remittance inflow through the proper channels has increased owing to initiatives taken by the central bank. Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir made the remark when the Board of Di...
-- 2018-02-15 19:51:00
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the central bank of the Philippines, has announced Thursday a 1 percentage-point cut on banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR). The central bank red...
-- 2018-02-15 12:34:52
Total contributions by countries participating in Kuwait International Conference on Reconstruction of Iraq (KICRI) reached 30 billion US dollars, Kuwait Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister She...
FE Online Report 2018-02-15 12:21:21
The inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) increased slightly in the first half (H1) of the current fiscal year (FY18). In gross terms, it increased to $1.75 billion in July-December period of 201...
Munima Sultana 2018-02-15 11:48:05
A special contact point may work for Japan following an opportunity created for receiving private investment from that country in some big PPP projects through government-to-government (G2G) arrange...
-- 2018-02-15 11:14:47
Just when many Indian banks thought the worst of their bad debt woes were behind them, new central bank rules are stoking fears that the worst of the soured-loans buildup is yet to come. The central...
-- 2018-02-15 10:42:23
The Consumer Price Index grew by 0.5 per cent against forecasts of a 0.3 per cent rise in United States. The report followed earlier data showing accelerating US wage growth. That raised concerns the...
M Azizur Rahman 2018-02-15 10:29:14
The government contemplates doling out around Tk 9.80 billion in annual subsidy to civil servants to help them buy homes, which drew critical appreciation, though. Sources said the ceiling of home lo...
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