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Mobile internet suffers disruptions

FE REPORT | 2024-08-03 00:00:00

Users of Facebook and Telegram in Bangladesh have suffered significant internet disruptions with their mobile data connections while a majority of them were unable to access the services of these platforms since the afternoon on Friday.For a majority, the issues...

Wealthy few shoulder most of the tax load

DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-08-03 00:00:00

A small number of wealthy individuals are shouldering the bulk of the income tax burden, while millions of others pay minimal amounts, according to tax administration annual data.Only 2.8 per cent of individual taxpayers contribute 30.6 per cent of the...

Two including cop killed, several hundred injured in fresh flare-ups

FE REPORT | 2024-08-03 00:00:00

At least two people were killed and several hundred injured during clashes across the country in a fresh flare-up Friday and the student protesters escalated their movement with a noncooperation call. One of the two victims is a passer-by killed...

Cargo boxes gathering dust in Ctg port, Dhaka ICD

SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-08-03 00:00:00

Prolonged rail-traffic suspension amid countrywide unrest results in huge export and import containers gathering dust in Bangladesh's prime port and Dhaka depots, sources say and fear its fallout on production, trade and market. Officials say over 1,800 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent...

Parting of Ways

IG Chowdhury | 2024-08-03 00:00:00

I was born in a joint family of three generations. Though we did not live in the same house, we lived in adjacent houses that were almost without walls. It was a happy childhood. The houses are now gone and...

How a traumatised Bangladesh can hope for a recovery

Nilratan Halder | 2024-08-03 00:00:00

It is a traumatised Bangladesh where life has become insufferable. Notwithstanding the daily doses of trials and travails they were subjected to following the Covid-19 epidemic and Ukraine war, even the underprivileged and the marginal people hoped for better days...

Chevron reshuffles top ranks, moving headquarters to Texas

2024-08-03 00:00:00

US oil company Chevron Corp said on Friday it was replacing several long-standing managers in a reshuffle of senior jobs and that it was moving its headquarters to Houston from San Ramon, California, reports Reuters.The changes come as the company...

Imperial Oil posts 68pc jump in second-quarter profit

2024-08-03 00:00:00

Canada's Imperial Oil on Friday reported a 68 per cent jump in second-quarter profit, as the integrated oil firm was helped by higher crude prices and production, reports Reuters.Extension of a production cut by OPEC+, forecast of strong travel demand...

Buffett offloads more Bank of America shares; sales top $3.8 billion

2024-08-03 00:00:00

Berkshire Hathaway run by billionaire Warren Buffett, extended its selling of Bank of America and has shed more than $3.8 billion of the second-largest U.S. bank's stock since mid-July, reports Reuters.Berkshire sold approximately 19.2 million Bank of America shares for...

Dollar drops as jobs growth disappoints, unemployment rises

2024-08-03 00:00:00

NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters): The U.S. dollar dropped on Friday after a weaker than expected employment report for July raised expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates by 50 basis points in September in an attempt to...

US manufacturing contracts sharply in July

2024-08-03 00:00:00

WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (AFP): US manufacturing activity contracted more sharply than expected last month, according to industry survey data published Thursday, deepening a recent slump on continued weak demand and falling output.The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing index was...

Major Oxford Conference to discuss BD blue economy

2024-08-03 00:00:00

The 13th International Conference on the Restructuring of the Global Economy (ROGE-2024) - Promoting Sustainability will be held at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, on August 5 and 6, reports UNB.This prestigious academic conference will gather academics, business...

MSC launches shipping service between China and Chattogram

OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-08-03 00:00:00

CHATTOGRAM, Aug 02: Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world's largest ship company, has launched a direct shipping service between Chittagong sea port and China Port.One ship of the company named 'MSC Jinna' berthed at NCT-2 jetty of Chittagong port...

Global equity funds attract sixth weekly inflow in a row

2024-08-03 00:00:00

Global investors remained net buyers of equity funds for a sixth successive week through July 31, driven by expectations that the US Federal Reserve would signal a rate cut as early as September, which could reduce corporate borrowing costs, reports...

QIO subscription for Brain Station opens Sept 1

FE REPORT | 2024-08-03 00:00:00

Brain Station 23 PLC, a software company, will raise Tk 50 million from the SME market through a qualified investors offer (QIO) to procure computers and IT equipment for facilitating business expansion.Share subscription of the software company will begin on...

Stocks deepen losses as investor confidence wanes

FE REPORT | 2024-08-03 00:00:00

Stocks extended its losing streak for a third straight week to Thursday as investors have been unnerved by the prospect of economic uncertainties stemming from ongoing nationwide student protests.As the students' movement turned out deadly leading to imposition of curfew,...

Women investors outperform men, challenging stereotypes

JASIM UDDIN HAROON and FARHAN FARDAUS | 2024-08-03 00:00:00

Women's intelligence is disastrous: the Bengali adage is old, snugly fits with the conventional wisdom of patriarchal Bangladesh and is comforting to those who explain the gender gap in financial affairs. But the problem is that the country's small number...

Italian Boxer quits bout, sparking furor over gender at Olympics

2024-08-03 00:00:00

An Italian boxer abandoned her bout at the Paris Olympics after only 46 seconds on Thursday, refusing to continue after taking a heavy punch from an Algerian opponent who had been disqualified from last year's world championships over questions about...

Afghanistan sprinter shows how women are treated in her country

2024-08-03 00:00:00

SAINT-DENIS, France, Aug 02 (AP): To get a sense of the real race Afghanistan's lone woman at the Olympic track meet is running, one only needed to look at the back of her bib.On it, in handwritten script, were the...

France's rebooted Olympic medals strategy pays off with home advantage

2024-08-03 00:00:00

PARIS, Aug 02 (Reuters): A French strategy to boost its medal count after years of sporting underachievement has begun to pay dividends at the Paris Olympics as rapturous home crowds propel its athletes up the medals table, although keeping up...

Alcaraz storms into Olympics tennis final

2024-08-03 00:00:00

PARIS, Aug 02 (AP): Carlos Alcaraz moved one win away from becoming the youngest man to win an Olympics tennis singles gold medal by beating Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 6-1 in the Paris Games semifinals on Friday.Alcaraz is a 21-year-old from...

Ledecky prepares to write more history in pool

2024-08-03 00:00:00

PARIS, Aug 02 (Reuters): Katie Ledecky may be the most decorated female Olympic swimmer of all time but the American great is not ready to rest on her laurels until she has completed her quest for a ninth gold.Ledecky has...

Russia exported record high grain volume last season: ministry

2024-08-03 00:00:00

MOSCOW, Aug 2 (TASS): Grain exports from Russia in the past agricultural season [July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024] amounted to more than 70 mln metric tons, Agriculture Ministry's press service told TASS."Grain exports in the past season stood...

Hyundai, Tata, others lobby Indian state against hybrid support as Toyota rivalry deepens

2024-08-03 00:00:00

NEW DELHI, Aug 2 (Reuters): Hyundai, Kia Motors, Tata and Mahindra are lobbying India's most populous state not to offer incentives for hybrid cars, saying the move - set to help rivals Toyota and Maruti Suzuki - would hit targets...

China's State Council issues plan to create carbon control system

2024-08-03 00:00:00

BEIJING, Aug 2 (Reuters): China's cabinet on Friday issued a work plan to accelerate the development of a carbon emissions control system to help China meet its target of hitting peak carbon emissions by 2030.It will create a so-called "dual-control"...

China sets renewable energy targets for aluminum production

2024-08-03 00:00:00

BEIJING, Aug 2 (Reuters): China's state planner has set targets for the use of renewable energy for aluminium production, it said in a statement on Friday.Shandong province, China's biggest aluminium producer, has been set a target for renewables to account...

Gold jumps after cooling US jobs report boosts rate cut hopes

2024-08-03 00:00:00

Gold prices hit their highest in over two weeks on Friday as Treasury yields and the dollar declined after data showed U.S. economy created fewer jobs than expected in July, boosting hopes of rate cuts by the Federal Reserve this...

Oil prices fall for fourth week as US job growth disappoints

2024-08-03 00:00:00

LONDON Aug 2 (Reuters): Oil prices fell by more than $1 on Friday, remaining on course for a fourth successive weekly drop after data showed the U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected in July, further clouding the outlook for...

News in Brief -2024-08-03

2024-08-03 00:00:00

Saudi FM, Blinken discuss Mideast tensions over phoneRIYADH, Aug 02: Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed regional developments in the Middle East over the phone on Thursday, the Saudi...

10 killed by Myanmar airstrikes on border hospital near China

2024-08-03 00:00:00

BANGKOK, Aug 02 (AFP): Myanmar military airstrikes hit a hospital in a city controlled by an ethnic minority armed group close to the China border killing 10 people, local media reported on Friday.Military planes carried out at least two air...