Bangladeshi spinners were the deciding factor in the just concluded three-match Test series against Zimbabwe that the host swept away by 3-0 margin, said Zimbabwean skipper Brendon Taylor on Sunday.The Tigers won the third Test by 186 runs to complete a remarkable feat that was well dominated by the spinners from the very beginning until ... Read more
Month: November 2014
Abahani beat Assam Electricity in King’s Cup
Abahani Limited kicked-off their campaign in the King’s Cup in Bhutan on a winning note when they beat Assam Electricity Ltd of India 1-0 at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu on Sunday. Guinean striker Ismael Bangoura scored the all important goal for the Bangladesh Premier League runners-up in the 20th minute. Abahani take on Ugyen Academy of ... Read more
Fin min to seek PM’s directive
Sim Replacement Tax Fin min to seek PM’s directive The finance ministry will seek prime minister’s instruction on a long-standing dispute between the National Board of Revenue and four mobile phone operators over SIM replacement tax worth Tk 3,062.20 crore, officials concerned said. Finance minister AMA Muhith will also discuss the matter with prime minister Sheikh ... Read more
Millers ignore 23pc int’l price fall of soya bean oil
Govt to conduct fresh cost analysis of bottled soya bean oil The commerce ministry on Sunday asked the Tariff Commission to conduct a fresh cost analysis of packed soya bean oil amid complaints that the commodity is selling at high prices. The prices of soya bean oil decreased by 23.80 per cent on the international ... Read more
Scam-hit BASIC plagued by highest defaulted loans in 9 months
Overall banking sector defaulted loans rise by 16708cr in Jan-Sept The scam-hit BASIC Bank topped the list of banks that accumulated highest defaulted loans of in the first nine months of 2014 as the overall defaulted loan in the banking sector soared by Tk 16,707.88 crore during the period. According to the Bangladesh Bank data released ... Read more
BSEC’s latest move also fails to stop Shahjibazar’s surge
The latest move taken by the market regulator has also failed to stop the unprecedented rise in the share prices of Shahjibazar Power Company with the company’s share prices reaching the single-day maximum limit in the last three trading sessions. According to the data of Dhaka Stock Exchange, SPCL shares closed at Tk 286.60 on Sunday, ... Read more
Stocks decline as investors switch to few shares
Dhaka stocks declined on Sunday as investors went for selling their holdings to buy a handful of shares. Due to the investors’ move, three top traded shares — DESCO, Jamuna Oil, and Western Marine Shipyard — held significant amount of the day’s turnover. The benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange,
IFAD holds workshop on ‘Learning Route’
The International Fund for Agricultural Development on Sunday in collaboration with INAFI Bangladesh and PROCASUR Corporation organised a follow-up workshop on ‘Learning Route’ to fine tune the action plans of development projects. A news release of IFAD, a specialised body of United Nations, and International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions on the
CPD for raising awareness on MDGs
Centre for Policy Dialogue chairman Rehman Sobhan on Sunday emphasised on raising concerns and awareness on Bangladesh’s status and progress as regards the Millennium Development Goals and the Post-2015 International Development Agenda that follows the MDGs. Sobhan, also an eminent economist, was addressing
DuPont top exec visits Dhaka
DuPont president (south Asia and ASEAN) Balvinder Singh Kalsi is in Dhaka on a three-day official visit starting today, said a news release. DuPont is focused on growth on the emerging markets and Balvinder’s visit marks company’s efforts for strengthening presence in Bangladesh, it said. During his visit, Balvinder will meet business leaders, partners, customers and
Nabanno celebrated
It is the age old tradition to celebrate Agrahayan, the seventh month of Bangla year, which is associated with new harvest. Following the tradition, the urban troupes these days also organise programmes celebrating the month. Like the previous years, Jatiyo Nabanno Utsab Udjapan Parisad organised a day-long programme at the Bakul Tala of the Faculty ... Read more
Drishtipat Theatre festival ends at Shilpakala
The six-day theatre festival organised by Drishtipat Natya Dal ended through staging of two plays on Friday at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The troupe organised the festival in celebrating its 30th founding anniversary. Eleven local and one Kolakata based troupe staged one production each at the festival that began on November 9, two days before anniversary date ... Read more
Dhaka Theatre promotes young directors
Dhaka Theatre has come up with an innovative programme to promote young theatre practitioners of the troupe as theatre directors. As part of the programme, four activists of the troupe named Rubayet Ahmed, Esha Yousuf, Wasim Ahmed and Samiun Jahan Dola will direct iconic playwright Al Deen’s plays titled Iti Potromita, Golpo Niye Golpo, Amrita Upakkhyan ... Read more
Julianne Moore wins Hollywood Actress Award
Julianne Moore won the Hollywood Actress Award for her work in Still Alice, reports Hollywood Reporters. Her performance as a linguistics professor with Alzheimer’s Disease is winning the four-time Oscar nominee significant awards buzz. She stars in Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s film with Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart, who presented her with the award. ‘Spending five ... Read more
Tigers nine wickets shy of 3-0
Bangladesh’s bid for 3-0 series sweep against Zimbabwe remained firmly on course after they set up the visitors a world record 449-run winning target in the third Test in Chittagong on Saturday. The Tigers began their victory charge already reducing Zimbabwe to 71-1 at stumps on the fourth day, which left them with nine wickets required ... Read more
Sister Momo inspires Mominul to ton
Bangladesh batsman Mominul Haque has his younger sister Momo to thank for giving him some extra motivation to get his fourth Test century in the third Test in Chittagong on Saturday. Mominul wanted to give her a gift on her birthday after the first Test in Dhaka – especially since he could not recall the date ... Read more
Rookie Jubair gets ODI nod
Selectors on Saturday have rewarded leg-spinner Jubair Hossain with a place in the 13-man squad for the first two one-day internationals of five-match series against Zimbabwe. The 19-year old Jubair has been impressive in the three-match Test series by taking nine wickets so far including 5-96 in the first innings of the ongoing third Test
Jamal off to a flier in King’s Cup
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club got off to a flying start in Bhutan’s King’s Cup with a thumping 3-0 win over local side Druk United at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu on Saturday. Their newly recruited Gambian midfielder Landing Darboe, Nigerian forward Wedson Anselme and Rubel Miah each struck a goal as Jamal overcame freezing temperature and ... Read more
Accord, Alliance responsible for negative export growth: Tofail
Commerce minister Tofail Ahmed on Saturday said the global retailers’ groups — Accord and Alliance — were responsible for the negative growth in the country’s export earnings in the last couple of months of the current financial year. ‘Industrial accidents occur in many countries in the world but there are no operations of Accord on Fire ... Read more
FBCCI wants amendment to tax card policy
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry has demanded that the National Board of Revenue should amend the existing National Tax Card Policy-2010, claiming that many of the actual and the highest taxpayers were deprived of recognition because of limitations of the policy. FBCCI, the apex trade body of the country, made a proposal ... Read more