DHAKA: BRAC Bank Limited has appointed the young talented national team cricketer Taskin Ahmed as its Brand Ambassador.An agreement in this regard was signed by BRAC Bank and Taskin Ahmed on July 6 at BRAC Bank Head Office in Dhaka. Zara Jabeen Mahbub, Head of Communication & Service

DHAKA: Greece’s banks are quickly running out of cash, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras prepares to take his latest bailout proposal to the country’s eurozone creditors, days after Greek voters overwhelmingly rejected their latest bailout offer.Officials on Monday announced that the

DHAKA: Westin offers special discount to Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) priority customers and premium cardholders.EBL consumer banking head M Nazeem A Choudhury and The Westin Dhaka general manager Daniel Muhor signed a customer benefit agreement in Dhaka recently.Under the agreement EBL

DHAKA: Share price indices at the country’s twin bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed negative trend in opening hour’s trading on Monday, the second trading day of the week. The DSE benchmark index, DSEX went down 13.41 points or

DHAKA: Country's stock market marked fall again in its price indices on Sunday the first trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed over 36.58 points only to stand at 4536.00 at the close of day’s trading. Trade deals stood at 118282 with volume of

DHAKA: Private airliner US-Bangla Airlines will start flights between Dhaka, Barisal Rajshahi from next week.The flights between Dhaka and Barisal will begin on July 10 and Dhaka and Rajshahi on July 11.A press conference held at Sonargaon Pan Pacific hotel in city made the announcement

DHAKA: Share price indices at the country’s both bourses --- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- slipped in early hours of trading on Sunday, the first trading day of the week. DSEX, the Broad Index of the DSE, went down by 11.75 points or 0.25 per cent to

DHAKA: Enamul Haque has been elected as chairman in the board of directors of Federal Insurance Company.Moreover, Ilias Siddique has been reelected vice-chairman and Alhaj Sabirul Haque as chairman of executive committee.Enamul Haque, a senate member of Chittagong University, is also

DHAKA: Airtel Bangladesh Limited, the fastest growing telecom operator of the country, received the Asia Communication Awards (ACA) 2015 in ‘Customer Experience Initiative’ category at a gala award ceremony in Singapore.The Asia Communication Awards recognize outstanding performance

DHAKA: Share trading and official activities at Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges will remain closed from July 15, 2015 to July 20, 2015 for holidays of "Eid-ul-Fitr". Trading and official activities of two Stock Exchanges will resume to its previous time schedule from July 21, 2015.A

DHAKA: The Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Wednesday ordered all the scheduled banks to keep their branches in areas adjacent to ready made garments (RMG) factories open on July 11 (Saturday) to ease the payment of salary and allowances of RMG workers.A notification, signed by BB deputy general

DHAKA: An eleven member Executive Committee of Bangladesh Association of Call Center & Outsourcing (BACCO) has been formed in a recent election with Ahmadul Hoq of Virgo and Towhid Hossain of FIFOTech as President and Secretary General respectively for the term 2015-2017.The newly elected

DHAKA: The government has asked all factories including garments to pay salaries by July 10 and bonuses by July 14 to the workers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.The decision was taken at a meeting with garments owners and workers at secretariat on Thursday.However, the exact date or duration of Eid

DHAKA: Airtel Bangladesh Limited, the fastest growing telecom operator in Bangladesh is offering ‘R Ke Dei’ offer which includes half paisa/sec in Airtel and one paisa/sec in other local numbers for its valued prepaid customers.On recharge of BDT 26 customers will be enjoying this

DHAKA: Bangladesh will get benefit of LDC (least developed countries) for more than four years though the country has achieved a lower middle-income country status.Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith made the observation while talking to reporters at the secretariat in city on

DHAKA: Bangladesh received over 15 billion US Dollar in inward remittance, marking the highest growth ever, during 2014-15 fiscal year.While the remittance, growth has been marked 7.60 percent, confirmed AFM Asaduzzaman, General Manager of Bangladesh Bank on Thursday.He added remittance

DHAKA: The regulation was issued by Indonesia’s Central Bank on March 31, and dictates that the Indonesian Rupiah must be used for all cash or non-cash transactions.The Indonesian Central Bank issued a new regulation that took effect on July 1, which dictates the mandatory use of the

CHITTAGONG: A Court here granted 10-day remand to three officials of Cosco Shipping and Mondol Group over smuggling of cocaine in a container at the port.Metropolitan Judge Farida Alam passed the order following a remand plea of police on Thursday.On June 30, Customs intelligence

DHAKA: Bangladesh Petroleum Corp (BPC) has finalised term contracts with 13 companies, including Malaysia’s Petronas, for refined oil product imports in the second half of 2015 at lower premiums than currently.Two company sources with the direct knowledge of the matter said the premium

DHAKA:  Investors witnessed minor fall in benchmark indices of the country’s bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) --on Thursday.DSEX, the key index of DSE, shed over 10.52 points only to stand at 4572.58 at the close on the last trading day of the