DHAKA: Britain’s biggest bank helped wealthy clients cheat the UK out of millions of pounds in tax, the BBC has learned.Panorama has seen thousands of accounts from HSBC’s private bank in Switzerland leaked by a whistleblower in 2007.They show bankers helped clients evade tax and

DHAKA: Country’s one of the top telecom operators Grameenphone (GP) declared 65 percent cash dividend for the year 2014.The announcement, however, came on Monday through Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE).The declared dividend will be a part of the total 160 percent dividend, in which 95

DHAKA: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed MP had a meeting with Director General of World Trade Organization Roberto Azevedo Friday. During the discussion with DG, WTO, they exchanged views on the outcome of the High Level Meeting on Service and progress in developing work programme for

DHAKA: Bangladesh Bank (BB), the central bank of the country, fixed Tk 20 as the charge for using ATM both of other banks from February 1.A gazette notification, signed by General Manager of BB Payment System Department KM Abdul Wadud, made the disclosure on Tuesday.The notification says

DHAKA: Sayeman, a popular landmark of Cox’s Bazar, has recently opened a new chapter with launching a five star beach front hotel named Sayeman Beach Resort at Marine Drive in Cox’s Bazar.Civil Aviation and Tourism minister Rashed Khan Menon and Public Works and Housing minister

DHAKA: The indices of key share prices both at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed a negative trend from the early hours of trading on Tuesday.DSEX, the prime index of country’s major bourse – Dhaka Stock Exchange – went down to 4,857.50 points

DHAKA: Chain shop ‘Daily Shopping’ has been inaugurated two more outlets at 775 Begum Rokeya Sarani, Shewrapara and 24/1 Pallabi, Mirpur, Dhaka. Galib Farrokh Bakht, Operation Manager of Daily Shopping informed all grocery and household products like rice, dal, sugar, milk, ghee,

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday retreated from his Sunday’s stance of making the denomination of taka one and two obsolete.He said the government is not going to make the denomination of taka one and two obsolete right now. The notes and coins of taka one and two will

DHAKA: Agricultural Marketing Company Ltd AMCL (PRAN) has declared 32 per cent dividend to its shareholders for the year 2013-2014, said a press release.The announcement came from the 29th Annual General Meeting of Agricultural Marketing Company Ltd held at Trust Milonayaton, 545 Old

DHAKA: Bangladeshi-Canadian Shahidul Islam Mintu was elected as director of Beaches-East York Riding Association of the ruling party of Canada and chairman of Public Relations and Communications. Association President Gord Baker announced the names of elected director and committee

DHAKA: Godrej Household Products (Bangladesh) Pvt. Ltd., one of the leading FMCG companies in the country, launched the Good Knight Advanced Fast Card - a new mosquito repellent format, the first of its kind - on Friday.The Fast Card will provide effective protection from mosquitoes

DHAKA: A high level delegation consisting of Kathy B Wong, Senior Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Asia Pacific; Francois de Maricourt, CEO, HSBC Bangladesh and Talukdar Noman Anwar, Head of Communications, HSBC Bangladesh paid visit to HSBC Water Programme (HWP) supported

DHAKA:  Investors witnessed minor fall in benchmark indices of the country’s bourses on Thursday. DSEX, the broad index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed over 10 points only to stand at 4933 at the close on the last trading day of the week. Trade deals stood at 65,102 with volume of

DHAKA: Trading on the country’s two bourses is underway with downward trend of share-price indices on Thursday.DSEX, the prime index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed over six points to stand at 4,937 at 12:50pm.Trade deals stood at 31531 with volume of transactions at Tk 516 million.Of the

DHAKA: Nissan Motor Co said on Thursday that it would recall around 152,000 cars worldwide that carry potentially defective Takata Corp air bags.Japan’s No. 2 automaker said it was recalling cars using Takata’s passenger side air bags, including its Presage minivan models.Nissan said

DHAKA: Former foreign secretary and ambassador Faruque Chowdhury has been reelected as Delta BRAC Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DBH) for the next two years.A recent DBH directorial board meeting reelected the former envoy as its chairman.Faruque, a member of BRAC directorial board

DHAKA: A daylong program on ‘Prevention of Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing’ was held in Barisal recently. Skaikh Abdul Aziz, Managing Director and CEO of Uttara Bank Limited, inaugurated the function, said a press release of the bank.Deputy Managing Directors M Fazlur Rahman &

DHAKA: Investors witnessed minor fall in benchmark indices of the country’s bourses on Wednesday.DSEX, the broad index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed over zero points only to stand at 4,943 at the close on the fourth trading day of the week.Trade deals stood at 94,904 with volume of

DHAKA: Key share price indexes at both the bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- witnessed a mixed trend also on Tuesday, maintaining continuity with the past day.Sources told banglanews that though, the indexes of the both bourses were

DHAKA: A three-day ‘Business Software Showcase’, to be organized by Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) in cooperation with ICT Business Promotion Council (IBPC), will begin in the city from December 11.A press conference, held at BASIS office in