Sports Reporter Five athletes left Dhaka for Malaysia on Thursday to receive advanced training at the IAAF-High Performance Training Centre as part of the preparation ahead of the 11th SA Games to be held in Bangladesh.
Month: September 2009
22 chosen for GP-BCB Academy
Sports Reporter Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) yesterday picked twenty-two players to join the GP-BCB National Cricket Academy’s (NCA) training camp. The camp will begin on Sunday and the selected cricketers have been asked to report at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur by
Ecstasy school hockey sponsor
Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) got a sponsor to bring the National School Hockey Tournament back on to the field after a five-year break. A fashion house, Ecstasy, came forward to revive the school competition by providing Tk 10 lakh as sponsorship money.
Zia, Razib earn full two points
Grand Master Ziaur Rahman and Grand Master Enamul Hossain Razib earned full two points at the end of the second round of 4th Kolkata Open International Grandmasters Chess Tournament on Wednesday.
Attack on Anu Muhammad appals civic leaders
Civic leaders and left politicians have strongly condemned the police attack on Professor Anu Muhammad and leaders and activists of a conservationists’ platform, saying that allowing the police to
Train rams car
Fatal accident narrowly averted at city crossing A speeding train rammed a private car yesterday morning, leaving one injured, as it attempted to cross the Karwan Bazar level crossing defying the signal in the
Common flu patients crowd hospitals
Only 25 swine flu cases admitted Public hospitals in district towns are swamped with people suffering from common flu and seeking test for swine flu, but most of the patients are being sent home with advice to take rest in isolation,
BNP ask govt: Withdraw charge sheets against Khaleda, Tarique
Opposition BNP on Thursday asked the government to immediately withdraw ‘conspiratorial’ charge-sheets and politically motivated cases against party chairperson Khaleda Zia, senior
Tuku’s call to outlaws for surrender yet to produce results
As the drive to nab the activists of the outlawed extremist groups based in the southwestern region, particularly in Khulna and Kushtia districts is in progress, the appeal issued by state minister for
Upazila doctors to visit schools
The government will ask the doctors at upazila level to visit all schools in their respective localities to protect students from swine flu infection. Officials of the education ministry Thursday told New Age that they requested the health secretary in a
Rid Pharma officials defy court order
Warrant issued for third time as they do not show up in court A Brahmanbaria court yesterday re-issued arrest warrant against five Rid Pharma officials for not showing up at the hearing of a case filed against them for producing toxic paracetamol syrup that claimed
BB suspends 9 officials for torn note scam
Bangladesh Bank (BB) yesterday suspended nine officials including a general manager of its Khulna branch on charges of involvement in smuggling out torn notes worth about Tk 28 lakh from the
Sircar’s writ on jurisdiction of JS body
HC appoints 3 amici curiae The High Court (HC) yesterday appointed three amici curiae for their expert opinions on the legality of formation of a parliamentary committee to investigate into corruption allegations against the former
Blind, yet they set green mark
Group of blind people team up to plant trees along Nilphamari road since 2007 They can’t see the world and all its treasures because of their visual impairment. Yet they’ve all the eagerness to do their bits in making the globe
Shortage of eye donations limits corneal transplants
Sumiya waits to get back her lost vision Thirteen-year-old Sumiya Akhter frequents the Sandhani National Eye Donation Society (SNEDS) with the hope that a corneal transplant will restore her lost
Reform body for decentralising Nat’l University
6 divisional centres to control affiliated colleges The high-powered committee in a report on National University (NU) reform has recommended decentralisation of the university by forming six regional centres in six divisions and bringing the
Andhra Pradesh CM killed in chopper crash
Rescuers today retrieved the bodies of a powerful Indian politician and four others whose helicopter crashed in dense jungle in southern India during a pounding
13 workers fall sick in cold storage
Thirteen workers fell unconscious at a cold storage at Gudaraghat Farashganj in the city’s Sutrapur early yesterday due to accumulation of a huge quantity of ammonia
Each migrant remits Tk 1 lakh year: WB
A migrant worker annually remit Taka 101,595 on an average in four to five instalments which is 2.4 times per capita GDP (gross domestic product), a World Bank study
1.66 lakh children get life skill education
A total of 1,66,000 urban working children, including 60 percent girl, are being provided with quality life skill education by the government to help them get rid of risky and hazardous