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-- 2021-12-07 17:13:28
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved a Tk 25.41 billion Enhancing Digital Government and Economy (EDGE) project in a bid to create the necessary environment fo...
-- 2021-12-07 15:31:20
The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday it would transition to a four and half-day working week starting next year, with the full weekend falling on Saturday and Sunday in a move aimed at better alig...
FE REPORT 2021-12-07 09:00:27
Bangladesh's progress may have exceeded Bangabandhu's expectations in the course of these 50 years thanks to the emergence of a dynamic entrepreneurial class, noted economist Professor Rehman Sobhan...
Siddique Islam 2021-12-07 08:55:41
Government bank borrowing sees a sudden surge amid bid for turning its accounts position positive from the negative as fund deficit doubled in a day, officials said. Deficit amount in the governmen...
-- 2021-12-06 19:24:40
Canada's tight labour market is forcing many companies to offer regular Covid-19 testing over vaccine mandates, while others are reversing previously announced inoculation requirements even as omicron...
-- 2021-12-06 18:50:08
Prime Minister's Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman has expressed his optimism that the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Bangladesh would increase two to three times within the...
-- 2021-12-06 17:13:45
Sri Lanka's tea exports will earn 1.3 billion US dollars in 2021, state media citing a top government regulator reported on Monday. The tea exports had surpassed $1.2 billion by the end of November a...
-- 2021-12-05 21:27:10
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has urged the World Bank to extend loans against projects under budget support to ensure speedy implementation of development schemes. The minister made the call in...
-- 2021-12-05 16:02:36
The youth in Bangladesh should opt for entrepreneurship, which will ensure self-employment and create employment for others, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said. They should not run after jobs after fi...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2021-12-05 08:46:44
Being one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, Bangladesh is going to make compliance with a disaster verification tool mandatory for assessing risks of the development projects acro...
-- 2021-12-04 18:10:03
The International Monetary Fund is likely to lower its global economic growth estimates due to the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, the global lender's chief said on Friday in another sign of t...
FE REPORT 2021-12-04 08:39:38
The poverty alleviation efforts in rural Bangladesh have floundered following the country's rapid shift from agrarian economy to service and industry sector-led economy, according to a study. High...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2021-12-04 08:32:18
Financial progress on two China-funded power- transmission projects, initiated several years ago, is less than 15 per cent now, though electricity supply in Bangladesh is far behind the generation cap...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-03 21:02:22
Bangladesh needs to be cautious for sustainable economic growth as rapid growth is quite common among developing countries, but it is rarely sustainable and equitable, experts said citing studies. E...
-- 2021-12-03 10:35:40
China will cut to no more than 10 days the time required for approval of travel by US business executives, its ambassador to the United States said on Thursday, promising to turn "an attentive ear" to...
FE REPORT 2021-12-03 09:41:57
Despite significant improvement in handling childhood under-nutrition situation over the last one and a half decades, socioeconomic inequalities have long been widening in the country, according to...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2021-12-03 08:57:54
Bangladesh would seek extended budgetary support from the World Bank (WB) to expedite the process of economic recovery from the fallouts of coronavirus pandemic, officials have said. They said the...
MUNIMA SULTANA 2021-12-03 08:33:12
Highly Dhaka city-concentrated development and population share cast adverse impact on Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP), reducing its growth by 6.0 per cent or more, according to findings rev...
FE REPORT 2021-12-03 08:29:06
A technical glitch in a server of the central bank hampered Bangladesh's foreign trade for nearly a week by slowing export-import operations, bankers said. The Bangladesh Bank (BB), however, was able...
-- 2021-12-02 20:48:59
The investment proposals registered by Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) grew by 46.33 per cent in July-September 2021. This is a marked improvement from the corresponding period of...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-02 20:29:10
As the SME sector is struggling to survive amid the Covid-19 crisis, speakers at a discussion called for supporting the enterprises, particularly the women-led ones, for the national interest. Women-...
-- 2021-12-02 19:00:02
Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in South Asia need more growth capital to boost the sub-region’s resilience to shocks in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a repo...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-02 16:04:27
The export earnings in November grew more than 31 per cent year-on-year to US$4.04 billion, riding on the readymade garments (RMG) sector in the pandemic. Bangladesh fetched $3.07 billion from mercha...
-- 2021-12-02 16:00:47
Bangladesh has become the 8th largest remittance-receiving country and the 6th largest migrant-sending country globally, according to the World Migration Report 2022. The report focuses on developmen...
FE REPORT 2021-12-02 08:43:12
Remittance inflow to Bangladesh dived further in November as money transfers through byways like hundi might have gathered speeds with the easing of pandemic restrictions worldwide. The money sent...
FE REPORT 2021-12-02 08:26:20
Shadow banking is fast growing in Bangladesh partly because of new normal created by the pandemic but its monitoring needs to be tightened to avert any chaos on the financial market, BIBM rings the...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-01 22:35:34
Non-tariff barrier supply-side constraint, and logistics were identified by the experts as key barriers to explore the true potential of Indo-Bangladesh bilateral trade. They were addressing a dialog...
-- 2021-12-01 21:48:44
Bangladesh received (USD) $1553.70 million in remittance in November, the lowest amount in 18 months. In November last year, expatriates had sent $2078.74 million amid the lockdown due to the Covid-1...
-- 2021-12-01 20:42:20
Around 1.85 million Taxpayer's Identification Number (TIN) holders submitted their return till November 30 in this fiscal 2021-22. Around Tk 24.56 billion has been collected from the returns, reports...
-- 2021-12-01 20:18:41
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said he does not have any mechanism to glean information about money laundering. “I don’t have any mechanism of my own. I’ve received some inf...
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