Promising Bangladesh Under-19 footballer Hemanta Vincent Biswas has been invited by Dutch top-flight club FC Twente for a trial, national team’s Dutch coach Lodewijk De Kruif said on Thursday. Hemanta, who led the Bangladesh Under-19 national team in the AFC Under-19 Championship in Iraq last month, got the chance along with Nepalese
Month: November 2013
Tendulkar promises grand exit
A deafening roar greeted Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday at his home ground as India’s favourite son walked out to bat in his farewell Test to a guard of honour from his opponents. Tendulkar’s 200th Test match, against West Indies, at the Wankhede Stadium will also be his last, as the ‘Little Master’ brings the curtain ... Read more
Russell complete transfers, eye quadruple
Treble winners Sheikh Russell Krira Charka completed their player-transfer formalities on Thursday and expressed confidence that they could enjoy even more success than that of last season. Sheikh Russell completed their formalities in a low-key manner, arriving at the Bangladesh Football Federation House without any players.
Shane Deitz appointed Women’s Team coach
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has appointed former South Australian batsman Shane Alan Deitz as the head coach of the national women’s team, this was announced on Thursday. Under the initial agreement, 38-year-old will Deitz will stay in charge of the Bangladesh Women’s Team until the end of the ICC World Twenty20, 2014.
Walton new sponsor of Fed Cup
Walton will sponsor the 28th edition of the Federation Cup this year after signing a Tk 20 lakh deal with the Bangladesh Football Federation on Thursday. The season’s curtain-raiser Federation Cup will get underway on November 20. Walton extended their support to football’s
Strict regulations for money exchange firms in offing
Bangladesh Bank is going to take strict regulations for currency exchange firms to check money laundering, said officials of the central bank. The central bank is going to make mandatory for money exchange firms to provide the clients with receipts when they will purchase or sell any foreign
Aviation ministry lobbies with BSEC to relax bar for United Airways
Shareholding By Directors Aviation ministry lobbies with BSEC to relax bar for United Airways The civil aviation and truism ministry has asked the capital market regulator to relax the company directors’ shareholding rules for United Airways Ltd as the rules bars the company from issuing rights shares. The aviation ministry letter, signed by assistant secretary Abdur ... Read more
Deduct AIT from payment against local LCs
NBR asks banks The National Board of Revenue has instructed the commercial banks to ensure deduction of the advance income tax from the payable amount of import bills against local letters of credit. The revenue board last week issued a special order asking the banks to deduct AIT at the time of bill payment against ... Read more
Govt mulls bringing DPI under institutional mechanism
Tax Evasion Prevention Govt mulls bringing DPI under institutional mechanism The government is weighing up the scope to bring direct pro-forma invoice issuing companies under an organisational mechanism in a bid to prevent tax evasion through under-invoicing in the DPI system, said National Board of Revenue officials. The NBR is now working on ways to bring ... Read more
Myanmar trades the least with Bangladesh
Myanmar exchanged the least border trade with Bangladesh among its four neighbouring countries in this fiscal year, according to the former’s Ministry of Commerce. Myanmar’s border trade with four neighbouring countries — China, India, Thailand and Bangladesh —between April 1 and November 11 was worth $2.7 billion,
Walmart’s US sales miss mark as shoppers visit less
Walmart Stores on Thursday reported its third straight quarterly decline in US comparable sales, hurt by a drop in shopper visits, and the world’s largest retailer gave a disappointing profit forecast for the holiday season, reports Reuters. The company said comparable sales at its US stores, its biggest unit, fell 0.3 per cent in the third ... Read more
Stocks maintain gain with increased turnover
Dhaka stocks maintained gain for the second day on Thursday with increasing turnover as the investors are buying shares in a hope to book profit after political unrest ends. DSEX, the benchmark general of Dhaka Stock Exchange, gained 0.68 per cent or 28.81 points, to close at 4,241.54 points. The bluechip index of
Banglalink employees stage sit-in
Employees of private cellular phone operator Banglalink on Thursday staged a sit-in in front of the company’s headquarters at Gulshan in the city, demanding regularisation of their job and wage increase as per the labour law. A total of 92 employees of Banglalink’s maintenance and operation section staged the demonstration that started at 11:00am and
Trade unions in EPZs from Jan
The government has decided in principle to allow factory workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) to conduct trade union activities from January 1, 2014, as part of its measures to fulfil the conditions set by the United States Trade Representative (USTR). It has been decided that workers can observe
RMG owners agree on Tk 5,300 minimum pay
Despite their preliminary opposition, garment factory owners on Wednesday night agreed to pay workers Tk 5,300 as the minimum monthly wage fixed by the government. Representatives of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association
Foreign businesses avoiding B’desh as their destination
The arrival of foreigners, mostly business representatives and apparel buyers, into the country has dropped sharply in 2013, causing an adverse impact on the country’s over US$22 billion apparel industry, according to a report prepared by the government security agency concerned. People familiar with this aspect said arrivals of
BNP may call 3-day hartal next week
The main Opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance is likely to call hartal again for three days next week to force the government to concede to their demand of holding the general election under a non-party caretaker government (CG). “Another nationwide hartal for three consecutive days from Monday may be enforced as we have not seen any ... Read more
Hartal ends amid death, violence
One person was killed, around 350 people including law enforcers were injured while over 300 opposition activists were arrested across the country during the 84-hour hartal enforced by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led 18-party alliance to realise their demand for holding the next general election under the caretaker government. During the hartal
Hay Festival begins today
The festival of words and imagination begins today at Bangla Academy, bringing renowned writers and thinkers from different parts of the world closer to their readers and connoisseurs. Hay Festival Dhaka 2013 will open with renditions of spiritual songs at 9:00am on the Bangla Academy lawn. Then the inaugural ceremony will
Verdict on Nizami any day
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday announced that the verdict in the war crimes case against Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami would be delivered later. The three-judge ICT gave the decision after the senior defence lawyers failed to turn up for the fourth consecutive day to submit their closing arguments.