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Monira Munni 2017-11-28 12:00:00
Some 513 or one-third of the readymade garment (RMG) factories inspected under the national initiative (NI) have faced closure as they might have failed to compete in the market and comply with the re...
-- 2017-11-28 12:00:00
Indian finance ministry said that the government wants a rate cut sooner than that, putting a focus on the MPC meeting on Dec. 5-6, or when it next convenes in February. “We expect the RBI to c...
FE Report 2017-11-28 12:00:00
The government is all set to begin the construction phase of the 2,400 megawatt (MW) Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) with pouring the first nuclear concrete on Thursday (November 30). Prime Minist...
FE Online Report 2017-11-28 12:00:00
The government has approved a Tk 23.12 billion project to rehabilitate Rohingyas at Bhasanchar of Hatia in Noakhali district. The Rohingyas will be rehabilitated at Bhasanchar on a temporary ba...
-- 2017-11-28 12:00:00
Nearly 90 million people have been alleviated from poverty line in the last eight years, claims Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday. "We've brought around 90 million people out of poverty line. B...
-- 2017-11-28 09:39:17
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has said poverty alleviation and gender discrimination are the main barriers to achieving SDGs. To address these two key challenges he highlighted the involvement...
-- 2017-11-27 12:22:11
China's major industrial firms saw stronger profit growth, rose 23.3-per cent from one year earlier, in the first 10 months of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Monday. Industr...
Doulot Akter Mala 2017-11-27 12:00:00
Tax-revenue collection fell short of the target by Tk 33.55 billion in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (FY). All of the three wings of the revenue board missed their respective targets i...
Jubair Hasan 2017-11-27 12:00:00
Rural or agriculture tourism has emerged as China's most effective weapon to fight out poverty by the target-year 2020, helping myriad people out of the vicious circle of misfortune. Not only is it i...
-- 2017-11-27 12:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the government is always playing supportive role to promote the sector. Sheikh Hasina made the remarks while receiving blankets from the private sector com...
-- 2017-11-27 12:00:00
International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh (ICC,B) President Mahbubur Rahman has said continuous increase in bad loans is very alarming for the banking sector as well as the economy. "Because of b...
FE Report 2017-11-27 10:58:49
The rise in default loans is "alarming", says a study that favours effective use of audit committees by the private commercial banks and enlargement of their boards with experienced members as a remed...
-- 2017-11-27 09:49:08
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has revealed that the government is going to issue licenses for setting up three new banks. Removing all confusion over the permission of new banks, he categorically said,...
Reuters 2017-11-27 01:46:58
Businesses are heading into 2018 in a pretty optimistic mood, surveys will more than likely show in the coming week, pointing to a potential boost for already solid growth in the world’s biggest...
-- 2017-11-26 12:00:00
Finance Minister AMA has said that the outlay of the budget for the ensuing 2018-2019 financial year (FY19) may stand at Taka 4,680 billion. "We announced Taka 4,002.66 billion budget for the current...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2017-11-26 12:00:00
Government subsidies shrank in 2016-17 for subdued demand from some sectors to the relief of fiscal administrators from budget-deficit burden, but economists foresee a reversal this year. Officials c...
Doulot Akter Mala 2017-11-26 12:00:00
Government's revenue authority plans a search as many foreign companies, including liaison and representation offices, allegedly dodge submission of tax returns despite doing income-generating activit...
-- 2017-11-26 12:00:00
China is cutting import tariffs on 187 consumer goods from whisky to cashmere clothing to help spur spending and economic growth. The Finance Ministry said tariffs will drop from an average 17.3 per...
-- 2017-11-26 12:00:00
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has claimed that gold market is dependent on smuggling. TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman made the remarks while addressing a press conference at...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-25 12:08:42
MUMBAI (S&P Global Ratings) Nov 25, 2017--S&P Global Ratings affirmed its unsolicited long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on the Republic...
FE Report 2017-11-25 12:02:42
Bangladesh needs to increase its spending on water-related projects by more than three times or could face an annual GDP loss of 1.6-2 per cent due to climate change, a recent government planning docu...
-- 2017-11-25 12:00:00
Settling maritime disputes with India and Myanmar opened up new potentials for Bangladesh to tap ‘blue economy’. But, according to a UNB report, no substantial progress has been mad...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-25 12:00:00
"Fake data" is as much of a threat to economic and financial stability as "fake news" is to politics, a leading European central banker said on Friday, reports Reuters. European Central Bank boar...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-25 12:00:00
The Annual Banking Conference, 2017, arranged by Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) begins Sunday. Governor of Bangladesh Bank Fazle Kabir will inaugurate the two-day event as the chief...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2017-11-25 09:54:51
The current fiscal year's first quarter saw a budget surplus worth Tk 42.64 billion mainly as the government couldn't go by its spending plans, sources said. As of September last, government mobilise...
-- 2017-11-25 08:34:32
The Bangladesh Jewellers Samity has hiked gold prices, to be effective from Sunday, as the winter season approaches. During the winter season, the wedding season in the country, demand for gold norma...
-- 2017-11-24 12:27:18
South Korea’s consumer confidence rose hit the highest in almost seven years amid eased geopolitical risks on the Korean Peninsula, central bank data showed Friday. The composite consumer senti...
-- 2017-11-24 12:03:27
British consumer confidence slipped after last year’s Brexit vote, partly because of this month’s interest rate hike and further signs of a slowdown in the housing market, a survey sh...
-- 2017-11-24 12:00:00
Singapore's manufacturing output rose 14.6 per cent in October compared to a year ago, driven by growth in electronics output, data from the Singapore Economic Development Board showed on Friday. The...
-- 2017-11-24 01:06:21
Malaysia's annual inflation rate in October was 3.7 per cent from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, moderating from the previous month and lower than forecasts. A Reuters poll had pre...
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