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-- 2019-01-29 20:38:18
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is set to announce its monetary policy for the second half of the 2018-19 fiscal year on Wednesday. The central bank Governor Fazle Kabir will present the monetary policy stateme...
-- 2019-01-29 18:47:13
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is likely to file a lawsuit with a New York (NY) court on January 30 (January 31 in Bangladesh) to recover the money heisted by hackers from the central bank’s account with...
-- 2019-01-29 15:33:21
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved nine projects involving an estimated cost of Tk 164.33 billion. Among the nine projects, it approved a Tk 86.90 billion p...
FE Online Desk 2019-01-29 14:10:33
Bangladesh will remain a priority market for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in 2019 despite infrastructure stakeholders’ concerns about inflationary pressures and their projecte...
Siddique Islam 2019-01-29 10:51:38
The country's core inflation rose by more than 1.0 percentage point last year, posing a challenge for the next monetary policy of the central bank, officials said. The core inflation expanded to 4....
Asjadul Kibria 2019-01-28 22:59:01
At least US$ 5.90 billion flew out from Bangladesh illicitly in 2015 through misinvoicing in international trade with the advanced economies. The amount is closer to around two months' merchandise ex...
-- 2019-01-28 14:03:47
Taiwan’s economic growth probably slowed in the fourth quarter (Q4) as the island’s technology exports were hit by softening global demand and fallout from the US-China trade war. The med...
-- 2019-01-28 13:58:38
China's industrial profits shrank for a second straight month in December, putting pressure on policymakers to support industries hurt by slowing prices and weak factory activity amid a protracted US-...
-- 2019-01-28 13:35:36
Thailand saw a record 38.27 million tourists in 2018, up 7.5 per cent from the previous year, the Tourism Ministry said on Monday. The ministry expects the number of tourists visiting the count...
Reuters 2019-01-28 12:25:39
Central banks may be about to face one of their biggest challenges yet: Global economic growth is slowing, but they have struggled to build up their policy arsenals since the last crisis to effectivel...
Jasim Uddin Haroon 2019-01-27 09:45:11
The government's pension payments are growing at a worrying rate -- nearly 22 per cent annually -- over the past three years for higher life expectancy and the latest rise in basic pay. Such payments...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-01-27 09:33:15
Development projects are set to come under strict monitoring as a high-powered government committee will travel outside Dhaka to oversee the implementation work from early next month, officials said o...
-- 2019-01-26 20:43:35
Bangladesh will import around 1.42 million tonnes of petroleum fuel through government-to-government (G-to-G) initiative from eight state-owned companies of different countries from January to June th...
-- 2019-01-26 18:59:16
The government will increase the number of Commercially Important Person (CIP) status of non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) nearly threefold from this year to encourage the expatriates to send more remi...
-- 2019-01-26 18:54:36
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has identified faulty procedures in the implementation of the wage structure as the main cause of the recent unrest in the garment sector. The research organisati...
-- 2019-01-26 12:46:10
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said that he is confident of keeping the country’s economic growth rate within an appropriate range in spite of multiple risks and challenges in 2019. “China&rs...
FHM Humayan Kabir 2019-01-26 10:10:19
The progress in work on the government's 'fast-track' Padma railway link project is slow and the authorities want to surrender 38 per cent of its allocated funds this year. Officials said on Friday...
Siddique Islam 2019-01-26 09:37:13
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to submit a set of recommendations to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for amending three relevant laws and regulations to help reduce the volume of classified loans...
Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2019-01-26 09:26:28
Bangladesh's economy needs to grow at a rate of 8.0 per cent or more in the coming years to absorb the country's growing labour force, a recent government report has suggested. At the same time, attr...
-- 2019-01-25 18:51:15
The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) is planning to hand over industrial plots to the investors in Mirsarai Economic Zone (EZ) after few months BEPZA General Manager Nazma Binte A...
-- 2019-01-25 13:06:04
Latin American and Caribbean economies face downward risks on several fronts despite a greater growth in 2018, according to a UN report released Thursday. The region's GDP could grow 1.7 per cent in...
Monira Munni 2019-01-25 12:27:34
A government-formed committee will sit next week to finalise the Accord's transition plan so that it can hand over its responsibilities to the authorities concerned, officials said. The committee, he...
FE Report 2019-01-25 12:19:25
Japan has shown interest to sign free trade agreement (FTA) with Bangladesh, officials said on Thursday. Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hiroyasu Izumi expressed his interest when he met Finance Mi...
FE Report 2019-01-25 11:06:31
Former finance minister AMA Muhith suggested that the revenue board recruit university students for conducting door-to-door survey aimed at expanding tax net. He said the university students will col...
FE Report 2019-01-25 10:06:27
Tax revenue collection faced a Tk 280 billion shortfall in the first half (H1) of the current fiscal year (FY), posting a slower growth of 6.36 per cent, in the corresponding period. The National Boa...
Siddique Islam 2019-01-25 10:00:11
The central bank is set to unveil its second half-yearly (H2) monetary policy on Wednesday at 11:30 am, giving top priority to job creation through boosting credit flow to the productive sectors. Ban...
-- 2019-01-24 20:37:02
Bangladesh Customs is going to celebrate the International Customs Day 2019 on January 26. The day will be observed along with a total of 183 member countries of the World Customs Organisation (WCO)....
-- 2019-01-24 18:28:53
Bangladesh Bank (BB) will announce its monetary policy for the second half of the current 2018-19 fiscal year at the end of the month. Central bank Governor Fazle Kabir will unveil the monetary polic...
-- 2019-01-24 11:13:22
India will continue to remain the world's fastest-growing large economy in 2019 as well as in 2020, much ahead of China, a UN's World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report has said. Accordin...
-- 2019-01-23 20:53:21
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to form a taskforce to identify the foreign nationals working in Bangladesh to bring them under the tax net. There will be representatives of Bangladesh I...
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