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FE Online Desk 2020-06-25 16:40:21
Unilever Bangladesh Limited (UBL) announced on Thursday the next step in the evolution of its skin care portfolio, with the rebranding of its flagship brand Fair & Lovely. Taking forward the brand...
-- 2020-06-25 13:51:04
Real gross domestic product (GDP) of Canada's natural resources sector was down 0.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, the third consecutive quarterly decline, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. T...
UNB 2020-06-25 11:48:15
About 13 per cent people have become unemployed in the country due to Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). The survey titled “Coping w...
REUTERS 2020-06-25 10:52:49
South Africa’s budget deficit will be the highest in the post-apartheid era, and the finance minister warned in his emergency budget speech on Wednesday that debt had become a hippo eating their...
-- 2020-06-25 10:08:16
The Indian government has approved a proposal for an additional 121.27 million US dollar investment to be made by ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) in the development of an oil and gas project in Myanmar. The de...
FE REPORT 2020-06-25 09:32:10
The government has substantially increased the allocation on the social safety net programmes mainly due to supporting the coronavirus affected people. It allocated Tk. 955.74 billion or nearly 17 pe...
-- 2020-06-24 22:59:59
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) retained its first place ranking in the 2020 Aid Transparency Index (ATI), an independent measurement of aid transparency released on Wednesday at the Brookings Instit...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-06-24 21:08:41
The International Monetary Fund has projected that global economy could shrink 4.9 per cent in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, 1.9 percentage points below than its previous forecast. IMF’s World...
-- 2020-06-24 14:25:34
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed canceling the current flat income tax rate and introducing differentiated tax for richer people with the proceeds to be channeled for the treatment of chi...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-06-24 13:42:54
Bangladesh’s foreign exchange (forex) reserve on Wednesday crossed the US$35 billion-mark -- for the first time in its history, following lower import payment obligations and steady growth of in...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-06-24 12:48:24
The World Bank (WB) has approved 500 million US dollar to help Bangladesh improve road connectivity along the Jashore-Jhenaidah corridor covering four western districts. “The western region of...
FE REPORT 2020-06-24 10:32:31
Income tax on the compensation amount of immovable properties acquired by the government is likely to be tripled in the upcoming fiscal year. In the proposed Finance Bill-2020, the rate of Advance In...
Doulot Akter Mala 2020-06-24 09:21:30
The government's revenue collection in the current fiscal year is likely to contract for the first time since the country's independence in 1971. The slump in tax collection as the fallout of the cor...
FE Online Desk 2020-06-23 17:49:22
A total of 12 video conference sessions have been conducted among Chinese medical expert team and departments of Bangladesh government, its medical institutions, designated hospitals and relevant Unit...
FE Online Desk 2020-06-23 16:47:45
Consumers in Asia Pacific are rapidly going digital with purchases of everything from groceries to movies in a shift that looks set to become a permanent habit after the pandemic passes, Maste...
-- 2020-06-23 14:30:12
The US economy is expected to grow more slowly than people had hoped months ago as the country cannot stop the community spread of Covid-19, a senior US Federal Reserve official said on Monday. "Some...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-06-23 11:51:08
Budgetary allocations for health, agriculture, social protection and education have not been sufficient and visionary in view of the Covid-19 crisis, the Centre on Budget and Policy (CBP), University...
FE Report 2020-06-23 09:55:12
The central bank has relaxed regulations, allowing banks to discount usance export bills in foreign exchange with their own source of funds, to facilitate exporters. Under the relaxations, the author...
Doulot Akter Mala 2020-06-23 09:43:14
The National Board of Revenue's (NBR) Customs Wing is eyeing an additional Tk 20 billion import duty with the withdrawal of fiscal incentives on furnace oil import. In the Finance Bill 2020, the fina...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2020-06-23 09:33:36
Bangladesh needs massive administrative reforms and provisions for increased incentives to leverage the shifting global supply chain, which is likely to move out of China. Since many top multinationa...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-06-22 20:40:42
Some 74 per cent of returnee migrant workers failed to bring back remittances from their job destination countries, according to a study. The study, conducted by Refugee and Migratory Movements Resea...
-- 2020-06-22 16:07:15
The contribution of the tourism industry to the Philippine economy increased to 12.7 per cent in 2019 from 12.3 per cent in 2018, the country's Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said on Mond...
FE Online Desk 2020-06-21 15:04:22
The world is facing a severe and acute public health emergency and economic threat due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which originated in Wuhan Province of China in last December. The World Health Organiza...
MONIRA MUNNI 2020-06-21 09:26:30
Textile and clothing manufacturers of least-developed countries (LDCs), including Bangladesh, are likely to face a significant fall in export earnings in 2020. The World Trade Organisation (WTO), i...
FE REPORT 2020-06-21 09:22:58
Carrying out necessary reform in the financial sector and addressing health crisis are crucial to financing the budget while preventing economic growth from tumbling, economists say. They also put em...
-- 2020-06-20 16:16:29
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it is expected to deploy emergency financing for 70 countries by Friday as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ripple across the globe. IMF spokesperson...
-- 2020-06-20 14:16:22
The US unemployment rate will remain in double digits by the end of this year as efforts to contain Covid-19 so far have not been particularly successful in the country, a senior US Federal Reserve...
-- 2020-06-20 12:14:37
The World Bank has approved $1.05 billion for three projects to help Bangladesh create quality jobs and accelerate economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic as well as build resilience to future cr...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-06-20 09:24:26
The government has allocated a significant amount of fund in the proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2020-21 to recapitalise the state-owned banks at a time when budget financing remains a big challe...
FE Online Desk 2020-06-19 13:35:34
Motorcycle Manufacturers and Exporters Association of Bangladesh (MMEAB) reiterated its demand to the government to continue its supportive policies for the development of the industry and its backwar...
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