The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in Bangladesh in partnership with Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka recently organised the finale and award giving ceremony of the "Business Case Competition 2022".Three teams from Bangladesh were selected as the...
Engr. Md. Anwarul Haque has been elected as Chairman of Executive Committee of Mercantile Bank Limited in its 402nd board meeting held recently. He is also a Sponsor Director of the bank. Md. Anwarul Haque is an eminent businessman and...
National Life Insurance Company Ltd (NLI) donated Tk 0.5 million to SWID Bangladesh, a national organisation for the persons with intellectual disability. Alhaj Morshed Alam, MP, Chairman of National Life Insurance, handed over a cheque to Jowaherul Islam Mamun, former...
FE Report | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
The central bank Governor Fazle Kabir at a programme on Saturday identified inflation, forex market volatility and negative trade balance as some of the key economic challenges.Keeping this in view, he urged the banking communities to act on the government...
FE Report | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has disbursed Tk 2.05 billion to the capital market refinancing scheme to enhance liquidity support in the capital market through market operators, officials said.The central bank on Thursday disbursed the fund on receipt of a letter from...
UNITED NATIONS, May 28 (AP): China and Russia blocked the U.N. Security Council from issuing a statement Friday expressing concern at the violence and serious humanitarian situation in Myanmar and the "limited progress" on implementing a regional plan to restore...
KYIV, May 28 (Reuters): Ukrainian forces may have to retreat from their last pocket in the Luhansk region to avoid being captured, a Ukrainian official said, as Russian troops press an advance in the east that has shifted the momentum...
MOSCOW, May 28 (AFP): Russian forces Saturday announced a latest successful test of their Zircon hypersonic cruise missile as Moscow steps up its Ukraine offensive.The missile was fired from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate stationed in the Barents Sea and "successfully...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
The balance of payments (BOP) is the record of a country's monetary transactions with the rest of the world. Balance of payments difficulties usually develop slowly over time. They may result from developments such as a high and rising import...
For different indigenous hill peoples, Jhum cultivation (slash and burn method) is like part of their life and livelihood. Both Mro and Tripura communities actually live on Jhum yields in Lama upazila of Bandarban. However recently, a rubber company has...
The gun culture in the USA has cost lives of another 19 children and two teachers. This tragic incident shocked not only America but the whole world. A crazy teenage boy reportedly wreaked the carnage on his 18th birthday. But...
Menstruation is an essential process for each and every woman. And it deserves enough attention. One can suffer from a variety of health problems if one fails to follow good menstrual hygiene. Dealing with the menstrual cycle is never easy,...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
The world created yet another history on two days in 1977 in its space explorations. Humanity made a small leap towards a series of seemingly endless expeditions, when it landed on moon. It occurred July 20, 1969. The 1977 space...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
Around six and half years back, members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) met in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, to negotiate a series of unfinished multilateral trade agendas. Three proposed mega-regional trade deals had cast a shadow on...
Bangladesh has achieved a sort of miracle in the production of some major food items, including cereals, fish, milk and poultry. And all that happened during the last three decades, to be precise. Though there is immense potential of the...
It is irrational to compare Bangladesh's situation with the internal crisis of Sri Lanka, said LGRD Minister Md Tajul Islam on Friday, reports UNB.He made the remarks while speaking at the concluding ceremony of a two-day 'Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100...
BRAHMANBARIA, May 27 (BSS): Law Minister Anisul Huq said BNP has not been able to digest the fact that Bangladesh can construct Padma Bridge with its own fund and that is why they are spreading propaganda against it."They (BNP) do...
BNP has announced an eight-member partial committee of its youth wing, Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, as part of its move to overhaul the party and its associate bodies before the next general election, reports UNB.Sultan Salahuddin Tuku and Monayem Munna were...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-05-28 12:00:00
A slow but sure change in the pattern of seasonal cycle is taking place in this part of the world. Climatologists have sounded alarm bell ringing about the rising temperature, only more so for countries in the South Asian region....
Living in Dhaka city is becoming costlier day by day. House rent, food prices, and travel expenses are alarmingly high. And they are only soaring by the day. However, of all factors that contribute to our living costs, it is...
Myanmar's central bank has ordered ministries and local governments not to use foreign currencies for domestic transactions, to help relieve pressure on the kyat currency, reports Reuters.The Southeast Asian country's economy has been in crisis since the military seized power...
BNP Secretary General expressed disappointment as the chief justice (CJ) did not issue any statement condemning the Wednesday's violence on the High Court premises by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), reports UNB.Speaking at a discussion programme, he also said the BCL's...
BERLIN, May 27 (AFP) : Japan on Friday for the first time joined fellow members of the Group of Seven industrialised nations in pledging to end public financing for fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of the year to...
State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali thinks many Biman Bangladesh Airlines staff members are linked to the last gold smuggling incident at Dhaka airport, reports bdnews24.com. Upon visiting the Biman Flight Catering Centre or BFCC at...
SUVA, Fiji, May 27 (AFP): Australia urged South Pacific nations to spurn China's attempts to extend its security reach across the region Friday, seeking to fend off a high-level charm offensive by Beijing.Foreign Minister Penny Wong was in Fiji on...
RUSSELS, May 27(AFP): The EU is working on centralising purchases of vaccines and treatments for monkeypox, with details to be agreed in the "coming days," the European Commission told AFP on Thursday.The push, through the commission's Health Emergency and Preparedness...
The Bangladesh government is considering proposing a fresh reduction of corporate tax rates levied on businesses for the third time in a row in the draft national budget, reports bdnews24.com.At present, listed companies are levied corporate tax at 22.5 per...
Bangladesh registered 23 new Covid cases in 24 hours till Friday morning taking the country's total caseload to 1,953,379, health authorities said.With no new Covid deaths reported during the period, the total fatalities from the pandemic have so far remained...
FE Report | 2022-05-28 00:00:00
The country's mobile network operators (MNOs) lost 0.69 million internet subscribers in April this year after gaining 1.21 millions in the month before (March), according to fresh data released by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).The operators registered 0.46 million subscribers...
It is the season of palm fruit, so its supply is abundant. The photo shows traders buying this summer fruit from a wholesale market at Shyambazar on the bank of the Buriganga on Friday — FE photo
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