The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Saturday announced a 32-member preliminary squad ahead of their forthcoming home series against Zimbabwe and A team’s tour to India. Apart from suspended Sohag Gazi, all players, who toured West Indies, made it into the preliminary squad that will undergo a fitness test today. The preliminary squad
Month: October 2014
Mamunul not even on bench for Atletico in ISL opener
Bangladesh captain Mamunul Islam will not be making his debut for Atletico de Kolkata when they take on Mumbai City FC in the opening match of the inaugural Indian Super League game at the Salt Lake Stadium today. Antonio Lopez Habas, the coach of Atletico de Kolkata, confirmed Mamunul that he will not consider the Bangladesh ... Read more
Sohag confident of quick return
Suspended off-spinner Sohag Gazi said on Saturday that he is confident of returning to international cricket in less than three months by remodeling his action. ‘I don’t think it will take me a long time and I am sure of making a comeback quickly,’ Sohag told reporters in Mirpur. ‘I heard that I have 25 degrees, ... Read more
India square off series against WI
Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami shared seven wickets between them as India beat West Indies by 48 runs in the second one-day international to square off the five-match series 1-1 in New Delhi on Saturday. Chasing a target of 264 runs, West Indies seemed heading towards an easy win when Dwayne Smith played an explosive innings of ... Read more
Tsukitate unveiled as women’s coach
The Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday formally unveiled Japanese Norio Tsukitate as the head coach of women’s national team. Tsukitate arrived on October 4 to take charge of the women’s team ahead of third Women’s SAFF Championship, scheduled in Pakistan from November 11-20. The Japan Football Association will bear the salary of Tsukitate, an AFC A
NBR against India proposal for travel tax exemption
The National Board of Revenue has recommended that the government should not accept a request from India seeking travel tax waiver for its nationals, officials said. They said that the revenue board could not exempt any citizen of any particular country as it collected the tax from all outgoing passengers. The Indian
Minimum wage for sawmill workers set at Tk 6,850 amid labour leaders’ rejection
The government has recently increased the minimum wages for the sawmill workers to Tk 6,850 from Tk 4,120 as monthly payment. Labour leaders of the sector, however, have rejected the minimum wages for the workers awarded on September 25 by the minimum wages board. They alleged that the board had set the wages as per the
Power ministry seeks more time for availing tax benefits
Start Of Electricity Generation By Ipps Power ministry seeks more time for availing tax benefits The power, energy and mineral resources ministry has sought time extension by two years for starting commercial operation by the independent power plants for availing tax benefits, officials of the National Board of Revenue said. According to the existing rule, the ... Read more
CSE launches two new indices today
Chittagong Stock Exchange introduced today two new indices — CSE 50 and CSE All Shariah Index. The base point of the two indices will be 1000. Top 50 of the companies listed with CSE have been selected for the CSE 50 index on the basis of their market capital, liquidity position and financial viability. Initially, the ... Read more
BTRC’s flawed bidding process delays projects
Flawed tendering and evaluation process of the country’s telecom regulator is delaying several projects that witnessed repeated rescheduling in the last one and half years. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission officials said inefficiency of the officials concerned was the core reason for re-tendering of several projects
Tea-workers present Shakespeare play
Most of Shakespearean plays have been staged in Bangladesh by local troupes, either in pure translation or in contextual adaptation. Many of these productions are still regularly staged and some of the major Shakespearean plays are, now and then, produced in new styles and adaptations by the theatre troupes. Dhaka audiences are quite familiar with seminal ... Read more
From Mr Finisher to Mr Finished!
The dip in form for the last few months could cost Nasir Hossain his place finally in the Test squad as selectors are seriously considering his axe from the squad for the forthcoming home series against Zimbabwe. Selection panel will sit with head coach Chandika Hathurusinghe today to finalise the probable squad for the crucial ... Read more
Six teams so far in Bangabandhu Cup
The much-talked about Bangabandhu Gold Cup Football Tournament saw some light finally as six teams confirmed their participation, said a top official of the Bangladesh Football Federation on Friday. BFF president Kazi Salahuddin said that Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Bahrain and Laos have agreed to join hosts Bangladesh in the tournament, scheduled to be held
Vegetable prices go up in dull market
The prices of vegetables went up in the city’s kitchen markets over the week ending Friday due to a supply shortage after Eid-ul-Azha as many traders are still enjoying Eid vacation. Traders said that despite low turnout of customers at the kitchen markets after the religious festival celebrated on Monday the market witnessed an acute ... Read more
BB to ask banks to extend co-op to farmers in getting loan
Bangladesh Bank will ask scheduled banks to distribute farm loan application forms among farmers as it has recently received allegations that some banks did not give the forms to the clients to avoid disbursement of the agriculture credit, said officials of the central bank. The BB will issue a circular to all banks in the
Investors suffer due to abnormal price movement of newly-listed cos
A section of investors, mostly retailers, lose their fund as share prices of almost all the newly-listed companies plunge within few days after skyrocketing on their debut. Experts said that due to small paid-up capital of the newly-listed companies, in most of the cases, it had become easy for manipulators to gamble
‘Sohag extends elbow to 25 degrees’
Suspended off-spinner Sohag Gazi will need to make drastic change to his action in order to return to international cricket as independent analysis showed he extended his elbow more than 25 degrees during the recent biomechanical test, said a Bangladesh Cricket Board official on Thursday. The International Cricket Council on Wednesday banned
No more inaction against illegal action
The Bangladesh Cricket Board moved to reactivate the bowling action review committee after the International Cricket Council banned its main off-spinner Sohag Gazi for an illegal action, said an official on Thursday. The ICC banned Sohag from bowling in international cricket after he was found to have extended his elbow for almost 25 degrees during the ... Read more
Telcos to pay BTRC system set-up cost for NID database access
Info Verification For Sim Registration Telcos to pay BTRC system set-up cost for NID database access The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has decided that the mobile phone operators would bear the cost for installation of a system for access to national ID database for SIM registration verification. BTRC officials said the commission had also decided that ... Read more
BSEC to impose lock-in on sponsors’ shares
Re-Listing Of Otc Cos BSEC to impose lock-in on sponsors’ shares The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission has planned to impose lock-in on shares of the sponsor-directors of the companies which will be re-listed with the stock exchanges from the over-the-counter market, a BSEC senior official told New Age. The commission made the move in ... Read more