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-- 2019-01-05 16:21:55
Work on a set of infrastructure development projects aimed at increasing the capacity of Mongla Port, the second largest seaport of the country, is likely to begin in the first quarter of this year....
-- 2019-01-05 13:50:03
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed a revenue warning from Apple Inc that cited slowing sales in China and said China’s weakening economic growth puts the United States in a strong posit...
-- 2019-01-05 13:12:44
Ericsson India Private Limited has petitioned the Supreme Court (SC) to arrest Reliance Communications (RCom) chief Anil Ambani over recurring delays in payment of its dues worth Rs 5.50 billion. The...
Syful Islam 2019-01-05 11:22:59
Bhutan is pressing its case seeking to furnish a customs guarantee instead of a bank guarantee for transit of its goods through Bangladesh. Bhutan fears that the issuance of any bank guarantee would...
Kamrun Nahar 2019-01-05 10:50:35
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is conducting a feasibility study on its freighter operation, a senior Biman official said. A five-member committee, formed on December 12 last, has been assigned to do the...
Arafat Ara 2019-01-05 10:25:12
Visa trading goes uncontrolled badly affecting the lives of Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait as many of them still remain jobless there, victims and insiders said. In addition, they said, many workers a...
Ismail Hossain back from Beijing 2019-01-05 10:02:31
Chinese face recognition technology firms look to expand their business in South Asian countries including Bangladesh following the omnipresence of the tech across China. Chinese public and private...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-01-05 10:01:49
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has sought more than twice the funds it had originally asked for building its 12-storied headquarters (HQ). The BIDA wants to make the building...
FE Report 2019-01-05 09:57:13
Rice prices have gone up further in the retail market in less than two weeks, but reasons behind such a surge remain unascertained. As always, millers and traders play a trump of increased prices o...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2019-01-05 09:50:56
A report of World Bank (WB) has suggested the government to overhaul its current insurance act to make way for launching a diverse line of agri-insurance schemes. At the same time, it has proposed fo...
-- 2019-01-04 20:51:46
Gold discounts in India widened to a two-month high this week as prices surged to a more than six-month peak and demand remained subdued due to New Year holidays, reports Reuters. Benchmark spot gold...
-- 2019-01-04 18:09:02
A US delegation will visit China next week for talks aimed at defusing the trade war between the world's two largest economies. The closely watched meeting follows a dismal week for US markets, with...
-- 2019-01-04 17:56:29
Two Huawei employees who sent a message from the Chinese telecom firm's Twitter account using an iPhone device have been punished, a memo says. The tweet, posted on New Year's Day, wished followers a...
-- 2019-01-04 15:44:12
Sterling rose on Friday after suffering heavy losses spurred by fears of a global economic slowdown, but uncertainty about Brexit kept its gains in check. The pound sank to its lowest since April 201...
-- 2019-01-04 13:24:57
Ousted Nissan Motor Co Chairman Carlos Ghosn is set to appear in court within five days after he requested an open hearing to hear the reason for his detention, Japan's NHK reported on Friday. It wou...
-- 2019-01-04 13:24:27
Weak sales at Apple and Cargill, US giants of technology and agriculture, may be the clearest sign yet that President Donald Trump’s quest to reset world trade carries costs at home and could is...
Our Correspondent 2019-01-04 13:08:25
CHATTOGRAM: Work on the construction of a bus-truck terminal and the digging of a new canal start next month to address the port city's perennial gridlock and waterlogging. The Chattogram City Corpor...
-- 2019-01-04 12:54:34
Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) will launch online banking services in rural areas as part of its implementation of core banking solution (CBS). In this regard, RAKUB signed an agreement with Le...
-- 2019-01-04 12:39:32
Asian shares found a crumb of comfort on Friday as Beijing announced a new round of trade talks with Washington, though recession fears still had markets betting the next move in US interest rates mig...
FE Online Report 2019-01-04 12:35:42
Two flights of Biman Bangladesh Airways have failed to meet their arrival schedules at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka on Friday. BG 144 from Kuwait was scheduled to arrive at...
-- 2019-01-04 11:48:00
US job growth likely picked up in December with wages expected to have increased solidly, which could help to allay a recent upsurge in fears about the economy’s health that have roiled financia...
-- 2019-01-04 11:27:38
The safe-haven yen weakened versus the dollar on Friday on hopes upcoming US-China trade talks would make some progress, but broader market confidence remained weak amid worries over slowing global gr...
-- 2019-01-04 11:14:43
Oil prices dropped on Friday after the United States followed most other major economies into a manufacturing downturn, although supply cuts by producer club OPEC kept declines in check. Internationa...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-01-04 10:16:33
Bangladesh's use of Indian transshipment facility will boost the country's international trade and enhance competitiveness, economists and business leaders told the FE on Thursday. They gave the opin...
-- 2019-01-04 10:00:27
The prices of ginger, one of the main cooking ingredients, witnessed a big rise at city markets last week, augmenting woes of the consumers further. The prices of onion also considerably increased la...
M Azizur Rahman 2019-01-04 09:42:03
The country's overall electricity and natural gas production fell drastically over the past several days following a low demand and sloth business activities centering the eleventh parliamentary elect...
-- 2019-01-03 21:02:30
Johnson & Johnson's sales in India dipped 3.0 per cent in the year to March 2018, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday, as the US drugmaker grappled with the country's stringent medical device p...
-- 2019-01-03 20:58:10
Motorola's new smartphone 'MotorolaOne' will be available in Bangladesh from January 5. The phone runs on AndroidOne and packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 chipset and an octa-core processor under the h...
-- 2019-01-03 20:58:02
The tax at source in the export-oriented RMG sector has been reduced to 0.25 per cent from the existing 0.6 per cent in a bid to enhancing the competitive edge of the sector. The National Board of Re...
-- 2019-01-03 20:44:31
Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is expected to cut February prices for heavier crude grades sold to Asia due to weaker fuel oil margins, respondents to a Reuters survey said on Thursday, reports Reuters...
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