Just a day after making a flying start to the U-19 World Cup with a 25-run win over Sri Lanka, the Bangladesh U-19s were brought down to earth by a massive 135-run defeat by favourites South Africa. Despite winning the first match batting first at the same Allan Border Field in Brisbane, Bangladesh skipper Anamul ... Read more
Month: August 2012
Barnes blames players’ fitness, skill for debacle
Bangladesh ‘A’ team coach Stuart Barnes pointed out that fitness and skill-level of the players were not up to the mark in order to be successful and was the reason for their dismal performance in the Shafi Dharashah tournament in India. The second-string Bangladesh side started off the four-day competition on a positive
Tamim shines in SLPL
Bangladeshi opener Tamim Iqbal’s blistering knock of unbeaten 93 gave his franchise Wayamba United a flying start in the Sri Lankan Premier League as they earned a comprehensive nine-wicket win against Uthura Rudras on Sunday. The dashing left-hander, Tamim, clobbered seven fours and six sixes in his 61-ball
Women’s cricket team to tour Ireland
All-rounder Salma Khatun will lead the Bangladesh women’s cricket team on their tour of Ireland as the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced a 15-member squad on Sunday. Salma will have Ayasha Rahman Shuktara as her deputy during the tour where they will participate in a tri-nation one-day international and Twenty20 international series featuring the
Bangladesh moving slowly up in ICT
Analysts say weak regulatory regimes cast a blight on the sector Bangladesh is moving slowly up in ICT advancement, ranking 113th in the “networked readiness index” this year among 142 countries. In the previous three years, Bangladesh progressed from 130th to 118th to 115th, according to the Global Information Technology Report: Living in a Hyperconnected ... Read more
Greens urge govt to use renewable energy
Environment activists on Saturday said the Bangladesh government should take initiative to use renewable energy for a prosperous economy and to be self-reliant in energy. The speakers also urged the people concerned to make people aware about renewable energy in a seminar at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban at Dhaka University, said
Meter means nothing
CNG-run vehicles violating all rules Hop on an auto-rickshaw, tell the driver where you want to go in the capital, go there and pay him what the meter says. This was probably the original idea behind installing meters in every CNG-run auto rickshaw in the capital. The authorities had presented city dwellers with a rosy ... Read more
No int’l treaties placed in JS
All governments overlooked the constitutional provision None of the international treaties that Bangladesh signed with different countries over the last three decades has been placed in parliament. This clearly undermines article 145A of the constitution that says: “All treaties with foreign countries shall be submitted to the President, who shall cause them to be laid ... Read more
Dealers unwilling to take delivery
Substandard TCB Goods Dealers unwilling to take delivery Most of the dealers of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh across the country are unwilling to take commodities from the corporation because of their low quality and high price. The corporation is supplying five products – soya bean oil, gram, date, sugar and red lentil during the ... Read more
Shafaet Jamil passes away
Freedom fighter Shafaet Jamil Bir Bikram, a retired Colonel, passed away on Saturday. He was 71. His nephew Atiqul Hafiz, a retired Major, told the news agency that Jamil died of heart attack around 2:30am on Saturday at his home in Uttara’s sector 4. Shafaet Jamil was decorated with Bir Bikram title for his gallantry and ... Read more
Tailback to snarl on few points
Eid Rush on Highways Tailback to snarl on few points Although the highways connecting the capital with the rest of the country are in better condition than last year, people going home for Eid might face agonising delays due to tailbacks. Hundreds of kilometres of pitted and potholed roads in all directions from the capital ... Read more
Save Grameen Bank: 201 citizens
Two hundred and one citizens in a statement on Saturday called on all to save the Grameen Bank and demanded cancellation of the ‘motivated and illogical’ government decision of curtailing the authority of the bank’s board and vesting of authority in its chairman to appoint the managing director. They called on the people to raise ... Read more
Govt to build 3 new bridges
Dhaka-Ctg Highway Govt to build 3 new bridges The government will construct three new bridges on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway as the existing Kanchpur, Meghna and Meghna-Gumti bridges have become risky for vehicular movement. All the three new bridges, to be constructed parallel to the old ones, will have four lanes. The construction of the bridges ... Read more
Eid vacation suits early trip
Rush of home-bound people from the capital before Eid-ul-Fitr on August 19 or 20 depending on sighting of the moon at the end of Ramadan appears not so intense this year unlike in the previous years. Transport operators and home-goers attributed this to a 10-day virtual holiday for the Eid. This facilitated home-going of scores ... Read more
GD filed over threat to NHRC chief’s life
National Human Rights Commission chairman Mizanur Rahman on Friday filed a general diary with Dhanmondi police station against the threat on his life he received on his cell phone on Thursday night. His private secretary Kazi Arfan Ashique filed the GD on his behalf at around 9.30 AM. Dhanmondi police station officer-in- charge M Anwar ... Read more
Bappa buzzes with new album
Four years after popular singer Bappa Mazumder has released his ninth solo studio album early this month, which has already created a buzz in the Eid market. The album, titled Bechey Thak Sabuj, features12 tracks including a Tagore song as a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore marking his 71st death anniversary observed last week
Eid for Shakila Zafar
Versatile singer Shakila Zafar has not lost an iota of her excitement for Eid even as she recovers from a bout of viral fever, which has slowed her down somewhat. Though she is not recording for any special TV show or albums at the moment, she spoke to The Daily Star about her Eid plans: ... Read more
Tarin acts in a dozen TV plays in Eid
Popular small screen actress Tarin is now working in full swing to complete plays and tele-films scheduled to be screened on different channels in the upcoming Eid. Tarin will be appeared in a dozen of single-episode TV plays and tele-films during the Eid festivity. ‘I am playing diverse
Munmun to host ‘Cricket Extra’
Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) 2012 began yesterday. Besides Indian and Pakistani cricketers, Bangladeshi cricket players Mushfiqur Rahim, Tamim Iqbal, Nasir Hossain and Elius Sunny have been playing in this T-20 event. As a result, the tournament has a special significance to the Bangladeshi cricket fans too. That’s why Gazi Television is telecasting
Atique directs four plays for Eid
Noted playwright-director Nurul Alam Atique will offer four tele-films in different channels in the upcoming Eid-Ul Fitr. Atiq, who does not usually go after the quantity, has written and directed ‘Naa Kamola Naa Meherjan, Television Majid, Shahed Holo Nurul and Nolok for the Eid celebrations. ‘I have worked a lot