DUBAI, Aug 3 (Arabian Business.com): The initial public offering (IPO) market in the Middle East and North Africa continued its recovery to end the first half of the year strongly, according to Ernst & Young. Its MENA IPO Update Q2...
NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (PTI): As it goes after fraudsters who dupe gullible investors of their hard earned money, capital markets regulator Sebi has launched an all-out mass media campaign to make the public aware about troubles of investing on...
Ziaur Rahman | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has directed the commercial banks to provide "Block Account" loan facilities to private jute millers and exporters with a view to helping them to overcome the acute liquidity crisis, which put most of the mills in dire...
NEW YORK, Aug 3 (AFP): Crippled by lawsuits linked to the 2007-2008 financial crisis, American banks are grappling with an exodus of its best bankers and traders, lured by the huge salaries of little-regulated hedge funds. Michael Cavanagh (48) was...
LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters): After the Federal Reserve maintained its path towards raising US interest rates next year, other major central banks will jostle for space on a crowded stage this week. The European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank...
KATHMANDU, Aug 3 (AFP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Nepal on Sunday to try to speed up progress on power agreements while also aiming to counter rival giant China's influence in the region. Modi flew into Kathmandu for...
BEIJING, Aug 3 (Xinhua): China's power consumption, an important indicator of economic activity, is expected to rise 6.5 per cent in the second quarter, bringing the annual rate for 2014 to around 6 per cent, according to a report released...
KATHMANDU, Aug 3 (AFP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Nepal on Sunday to try to speed up progress on power agreements while also aiming to counter rival giant China's influence in the region. Modi flew into Kathmandu for...
Major General Humayan Khaled (retd) has got two years extension as chairman of Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC), said a press release. After retiring from the Bangladesh Army, Mr Khaled joined the BJMC on July 30, 2012. Mr Khaled got...
FE Report | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Brazilian ambassador in Dhaka Wanja Campos Nobrega emphasised Sunday the need for working together to take the bilateral relations between the two countries to a new height and explore new avenues of cooperation in the coming days. Speaking at the...
KHULNA, Aug 3 (BSS): Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) in Khulna regional office has set a target to disburse agricultural loans worth Tk 5.90 billion in five districts under Khulna division during the current fiscal year (FY) 2014-15. Regional office in...
WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) : As US lawmakers headed home for the August recess, small-business owners, labor unions and other supporters of the Export-Import bank were preparing to spend the five-week break making their case to re-authorize the endangered lender....
NEW DELHI, Aug 3(PTI): Amid fears of poor monsoon impacting food inflation, the Reserve Bank may opt for status quo on interest rate in its bi-monthly monetary policy review to be unveiled on Tuesday. The food inflation remaining over 8...
BERLIN, Aug 3 (AFP): The European Central Bank is unlikely to take new policy action at its monthly meeting on Thursday, despite a lingering threat of eurozone deflation and geopolitical risks, analysts said. For now, the ECB is in "wait-and-see"...
WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters): The United States will announce nearly $1 billion in business deals, increase funding for peacekeeping and commit billions of dollars to expanding food and power programmes in Africa during a summit this week, US and development...
NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (PTI) : Korean car major Hyundai is looking to tap new customers in rural areas and corporate segment to increase its market share in the Indian automobile market. The company's wholly-owned arm Hyundai Motor India Ltd...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Business leaders of BCIM countries will push for finalising the establishment of economic corridor as they meet in Dhaka in October to boost regional trade and investment, officials said. The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) will...
GAIBANDHA, Aug 3 (BSS): Harvesting of summer bean, successfully produced in Sadullapur upazila here for the first time, has been continuing for a few weeks amid much enthusiasm to the growers. The harvest of the bean has also usher in...
Stressing the need for strengthening Bangladesh Bank's (BB) supervision to check financial irregularities, Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman Sunday said BB's special supervision had helped detect some financial scams in banking sector, reports BSS. "Such financial irregularities have been...
LONDON, Aug 3 (AFP) : A report commissioned by London Mayor Boris Johnson has concluded that a British exit from the European Union would be better for the city than remaining in an unreformed EU. Johnson is likely to give...
YANGON, Aug 3 (AFP) : Qatari telecoms firm Ooredoo began selling low-cost SIM cards in Myanmar on Saturday, opening up access to mobile services in one of the world's last virtually untapped phone markets. Less than 10 per cent of...
State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan said Sunday that destructive activities in the name of movement by the BNP would not be tolerated, reports UNB. "There'll be zero tolerance when it comes to destructive activities in the name of...
Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram, said BNP created confusion among the people by not spelling out its agitation programmes after threatening to begin a movement against the government after Eid, reports BSS. "They are confusing the...
Some 0.5 million people in Bangladesh enclaves have been deprived of being voters for the last 24 years - meaning they have missed out on the advent of democracy in the country that followed the overthrow of the Ershad regime...
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