Asian markets mostly rose on Friday, taking a strong lead from Wall Street as investors became a little more upbeat about the US economy ahead of the release of crucial jobs data later in the day. The euro held up...
A Sylhet court has sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for killing a man about 15 years ago. The court also fined the convict, Fajar Ali, 40, Tk 1,000, in default, to suffer two months more rigorous imprisonment. According...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel recovered nine petrol bombs and eight crude bombs from a house at Mohammadur in the city on Thursday night. Additional Superintendent of Police Raihan Uddin of Rab-2 said being tipped-off, a team of Rab-2 conducted...
FE Report | 2014-02-06 00:00:00
The country's telecom regulator has moved to formulate a new policy guideline to make the rapidly growing transactions through mobile banking more secured and transparent. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) formed two separate committees in this regard after instructions...
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-02-06 00:00:00
Australia is interested to further enhance its trade and investments in Bangladesh to the mutual benefit of the two countries, a senior Australian trade official has said. Australian entrepreneurs are eager to explore business opportunities in Bangladesh in areas like...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-02-06 00:00:00
3500 tonnes of locally produced raw rubber worth Tk 630 million has long been lying unsold, officials close to the sector said. Besides, the domestic rubber industry is lately facing a threat due to the rampant import of raw rubber...
FE Report | 2014-02-06 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has awarded the teams of three best performing projects in Bangladesh under various ministries as part of its efforts to promote efficient project implementation. The award winning projects are 'second crop diversification project,' executed jointly...
NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (AFP): Global car manufacturers jostled for attention at the opening of the Indian Auto Expo on Wednesday, attempting to revive buyers' interest in a local market that is contracting for the first time in a decade....
NEW YORK, Feb 5 (AFP): JPMorgan Chase will pay $614 million to settle US charges that it approved thousands of bad loans that wrongly qualified for federal insurance, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. The big US bank approved thousands...
BIA urges Jamaat to suspend hartal Bangladesh Insurance Association (BIA) has urged Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to postpone Thursday's hartal for greater interest of the nation. BIA president Sheikh Kabir Hossain in a press release said large-scale destruction during hartals causes significant...
FE Report | 2014-02-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh's exports to Turkey crossed US$1.0-billion mark for the first time in 2013 following a significant rise in the shipment of garment products despite having safeguard measures there. Increased shipments of some other products including non-knitted products, jute yarn and...
Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) has been urged to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DCCI to accelerate bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Japan. President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) Mohammad Shahjahan Khan made the appeal...
A three-day international tourism fair titled Chittagong Travel Mart-2013 begins at The Peninsula Chittagong today (Thursday), said a press release. The Bangladesh Monitor, a travel publication, is organising the fair for the fifth time. Participants from home and abroad, including...
BANGKOK, Feb 5 (Reuters): State-owned Islamic Bank of Thailand has swung to profit in 2013, as it continues to trim its bad debt portfolio while growing deposits and expanding small-business lending. The only sharia-compliant lender in the country made an...
FE Report | 2014-02-06 00:00:00
Speakers at a meeting Wednesday strongly emphasised on taking free legal aid services to the doorsteps of country's workers, especially in the readymade garment (RMG) sector. They also suggested creation of awareness among the workers and the mid-level employees on...
NICOSIA, Feb 5 (AFP): Banks in recession-hit Cyprus, reeling from a financial crisis, are struggling with non-performing loans that make up nearly half their lending and are hampering efforts to finance a cash-starved economy. The central bank says banks' liquidity...
MUMBAI, Feb 5 (AFP) : India on Wednesday celebrated the appointment of Satya Nadella as the new chief executive of Microsoft, seeing it as another endorsement of home-grown talent that has risen to the top of the US corporate world....
Emirates will expand its presence in Africa's most populous country Nigeria, with the start of a daily linked service to Abuja and Kano from August 1, 2014. .Emirates presently operates double daily service to Lagos of Nigeria. On Mondays, Wednesdays,...
BRUSSELS, Feb 5 (AFP): Eurozone private sector business activity in January showed the best performance since June 2011, fresh evidence that a modest recovery is gaining traction, a key survey showed on Wednesday. Markit Economics said its Eurozone Composite Purchasing...
Mumbai, Feb 5 (PTI): The Indian rupee Wednesday trimmed its initial gains against the American currency, but was still quoted higher by 8 paise to 62.41 per dollar on selling of the US unit by banks amidst firm dollar overseas....
JAKARTA, Feb 5 (AFP): Indonesia's economy, Southeast Asia's biggest, grew at its slowest pace in four years in 2013, data showed Wednesday, but beat expectations and showed signs of improvement despite being hard hit by emerging market turmoil. Growth for...
TOKYO, Feb 5 (AFP) : Sony is in talks to sell its personal computer business to a Japanese investment fund as part of the electronics giant's wider restructuring, reports said Wednesday. The leading Nikkei business daily said Sony was looking...
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (AFP): The decade-long adventure since the founding of Facebook has been an "amazing journey," but the best is still to come, Mark Zuckerberg said. The founder and chief executive of the world's biggest social network celebrated...
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