Bangladesh are all set to play two FIFA friendly matches against India and Pakistan in England in June, said Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin on Friday. Celebrity Management Group, an India-based sports management company, which earlier arranged the Argentina-Nigera friendly in Dhaka, will organise the matches, said Salahuddin.
Month: April 2013
State of swimming and athletics in dire straits
Athletics and swimming, the two key disciplines of the forthcoming Bangladesh Games, are unlikely to match international standard due to a lack of proper equipment and poor venue management. The Games, scheduled from April 20 to 28, will begin with track and field, breaking a long tradition which saw the events being taken place always ... Read more
Mixed day for Siddik
Bangladesh’s ace golfer Siddikur Rahman made an inconsistent start in the Panasonic Open at the Delhi Golf Club in New Delhi as he was jointly sharing the seventh spot with four other golfers after the end of the second round’s play on Friday. Siddik fired one-under-par 71 in the four-day long US$ 300,000 event,
Sajidul eager to make up for lost time
Left-arm paceman Sajidul Islam was a surprise inclusion in the 15-member Test squad announced by the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Friday for the forthcoming tour of Zimbabwe later this month as he was handed a comeback to the national fold after five years. Sajidul made his debut along with opener Tamim Iqbal and Junaed Siddique
Football League resumes today
The Bangladesh Premier League will resume today after a gap of one and a half months with the Independence Cup champions Sheikh Russell facing Brothers Union at the Bangabandhu National Stadium at 7:00pm. Russell have a good chance of taking the top position in the points table if they can beat Brothers Union as they have ... Read more
T20 WC ’14 logo launches today
The members of the International Cricket Council and Bangladesh Cricket Board will host a colourful programme today at a city hotel to launch the logo of the ICC World Twenty20 2014 to be hosted in Bangladesh. The one-and-a-half hour programme will have several segments that include music and dance from renowned artists along with a magic ... Read more
Bangladesh crush Kazakhs 26-1 in U-16 Asian hockey
Bangladesh junior hockey team continued their winning run in the U-16 Asia Cup Hockey as they crushed Kazakhstan by 26-1 goals in their third group match held in Singapore on Friday. Apart from Dwin Islam scored five goals, Rezaul Karim Babu, Nayeem Uddin, Ashik Mahmud Sagar netted four goal each while Ashraful Islam
Natural fishing grounds continue shrinking
Domestic production of fish fails to meet demand, Bay fishing grounds remain unidentified Fisheries department officials say that the country will only be able to fulfil the population’s demands for fish when fishermen modernise their fishing practices in internal waters and the government obtains better equipment so that the potential new fishing grounds in the ... Read more
Locals move to widen road as DNCC sits idle
Local people with businesses and homes alongside a three-kilometre road in Mirpur have given up land for free in order to allow the road to be widened by ten feet so that vehicles can pass each other with ease. ‘We started the demolition of the structures two years back and so far we have convinced ... Read more
Science and ICT fair begins in Barisal
Speakers at the inaugural ceremony of a three-day science and ICT fair in Barisal Thursday afternoon urged the students to be scientifically-minded to take Bangladesh forward as a technology and knowledge-based nation. The district administration has organised the fair with 25 stalls
E-commerce fair begins in Sylhet
A three-day e-commerce fair began in Sylhet on Thursday. The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, inaugurated the first ever e-commerce fair in Sylhet through video conference from his office in Dhaka in the morning. The district administration and Computer Jagath, a monthly
JUJA observes 40th founding anniversary
The 40th founding anniversary of Jahnagirnagar University Journalists’ Association was observed on Thursday on at the campus amid much enthusiasm and fanfare. With the slogan ‘Eksahte Jegesi Muktir Sarathi’, the university wore a festive look with colors festoons and lightings to mark the day.
52,000 diploma students receive stipend
Around 52,000 diploma students from the 93 polytechnics institutions in the country have received stipends under the Skills and Training Enhancement Project financed by the World Bank. Nearly nine per cent of the stipend-recipient students are female. Out of the 93 polytechnics, 43 are public and 50 are private institutions, according to a World Bank ... Read more
Banking sector reeling from political unrest
The country’s banking business has severely been affected due to political unrest and frequent shutdowns in the last few months, said top executives of some commercial banks. They said that both collection of deposits and disbursement of loans had decreased alarmingly amid lower presence of clients in the bank due to the unrest.
Investors dejected by banks’ poor dividends
Listed banks are declaring ‘poor dividend’ for investors for the last year dashing the retail investors’ hope of recovering some losses incurred in the downtrend of the market. Investors at different brokerage houses said most of the banks, which hold the large portion of the capitalisation of the Dhaka Stock Exchange, had records of declarations
BARVIDA wants end to ‘discriminatory’ valuation method
The Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicle Importers and Dealers Association on Thursday demanded an end to ‘discriminatory’ valuation method in calculating customs duty on import of reconditioned vehicles and sought introduction of a rational method to save the sector. The BARVIDA also demanded that the National Board of Revenue reduce
Food inflation rises slightly in March
The overall point-to-point food inflation rose to 7.50 per cent in March from 7.45 per cent in February because of price hike of some food items, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday. The point-to-point inflation and non-food inflation decreased in the month, the data published by the BBS on the day showed.
Bangladesh to continue to get Canada GPT: official
Bangladesh’s extensive diplomatic efforts and constant lobbying have helped ensure the export of $1 billion readymade garments export to Canada, and paved the smooth way for future export, said an official release on Thursday. Canadian Parliament has recently decided to amend the relevant
Atiur gets 3-year extension
The government has extended the tenure of Atiur Rahman as the Bangladesh Bank governor for another three years. Atiur, whose current tenure expires on May 1, will now serve as the central governor till August 2, 2016. An official order to this effect was issued by the public administration ministry
DSE demands Tk 5,000cr budgetary allocation
Urges policymakers to stop blame-game The Dhaka Stock Exchange on Thursday demanded Tk 5,000 crore budgetary allocation for the stock market in next budget and suspension of banks’ stock loss provisioning until 2014. ‘The finance ministry needs to allocate Tk 5,000 crore in the next budget to support the market in its crisis situation,’ DSE ... Read more