Prime Minister’s Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, among others, at media fellowship programme on disaster risk reduction award giving ceremony organised by Poriprekshit in DRU auditorium on Sunday.

Wealth of richest 1,000 Britons ‘rises 15pc in a year’

The 1,000 richest people in Britain have enjoyed a “phenomenal” increase of 15 percent in their wealth in the past year, according to the annual Rich List compiled by the Sunday Times newspaper.Together they are worth 518.975 billion (637.387 billion euros, $872.838 billion), an increase of 15.4 percent on last year’s total of 449.654 billion.Even accounting for inflation, this is well above the 412.846 billion recorded before the 2008 financial crisis.“I’ve never seen such a phenomenal rise in personal wealth,”...

19 May 2014, 12:00 am