Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam gave selectors a sweet headache before the World Cup picking up a hat-trick on his one-day international debut to set up a five-wicket win over Zimbabwe in Dhaka on Monday. Bangladesh completed 5-0 sweep in the five-match series thanks to this win but gained more than what they have expected with Taijul ... Read more
Month: December 2014
Tigers ready for bigger challenge
Bangladesh one-day international skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza believes that the Tigers are ready for the bigger challenges in the upcoming days after their triumph over Zimbabwe in the five-match series that ended on Monday. Mashrafee, who took over the ODI captaincy from Mushfiqur Rahim recently, guided Tigers to a clean sweep 5-0 win in the series ... Read more
Jamal-Pune King’s Cup final today
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club are eager to erase the memory of IFA Shield and return on a winning note when they take on Indian side Pune FC in the final of the King’s Cup in Thimphu today. The Bangladesh champions reached the final of the three overseas tournaments in the recent time but they could come ... Read more
No rise in individual taxpayer number in a year
Only 8.35 lakh people paid income tax by Nov 30 deadline The National Board of Revenue found the number of individual income taxpayers for the current fiscal year totally unsatisfactory, officials said. They said there was virtually no growth in the number of income tax returns submitted by the taxpayers by the deadline that ended on ... Read more
Money changers must report real-time transactions to BB
Central bank to introduce software to check money laundering Bangladesh Bank is going to take strict regulations for currency exchange firms from this month to check money laundering, said officials of the central bank. The BB will introduce a software in this regard and will initially operate it on test-run basis by this month. After ... Read more
B’desh should increase co-op with East Asia: Tofail
Bangladesh should increase its bilateral and regional cooperation activities in the East Asian countries as the Western countries were not keeping their promises, commerce minister Tofail Ahmed said on Monday. ‘Those who are vocal about our labour rights and workers’ safety, they are not giving us tariff-free facilities which would help the country and our workers. ... Read more
Salahuddin presents Dhaka as city of dreams, nightmares
Dhaka as the city of dreams and of nightmares has been presented in a series of 77 mixed media works in artist Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed’s ongoing solo at Shilpangan Gallery at Dhanmondi. The changing city has been an inexhaustible theme in Salauddin’s works for well over the last two decades. The artist has focused on the ... Read more
Tigers await one last roar
Bangladesh will not give Zimbabwe an inch concession as they seek 5-0 clean sweep when they take on the visitors in the fifth and final one-day international in Dhaka today. The match will pull down the curtain of the month-long home series which featured three Test matches and five ODIs. If Bangladesh come out victorious today,
Mashrafee indebted to Sakib, Mushfiq
Bangladesh’s one-day international skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza said on Sunday that he is leading the Tigers successfully due to a combined effort put in by Test skipper Mushfiqur Rahim and his current deputy Sakib al Hasan. Mashrafee, who succeeded Mushfiq as ODI skipper in this series, said the duo are playing a major role in making ... Read more
Legends protest SBNS snub
Defending Dhaka Premier League champions Legends of Rupganj demanded their crucial eighth round match against Prime Bank Cricket Club to be played at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium instead of BKSP on December 3. In a letter to the Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan on Saturday, Legends said being the defending champions they deserve to play ... Read more
Zimbabwe’s last chance for a consolation win
Zimbabwe stand with their last chance to pull off a consolation win when they face Bangladesh in the fifth and final one-day international in Dhaka today. Zimbabwe are still winless in the tour having lost the Test series 0-3 before defeats in all four ODIs they played so far. Batsman Hamilton Masakadza, who
BTRC must pay Tk 269cr VAT of 4 telcos, decides NBR
2G Spectrum Charge BTRC must pay Tk 269cr VAT of 4 telcos, decides NBR The National Board of Revenue has decided that Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission would have to pay Tk 269.17 crore in value-added tax on the third instalment of spectrum charge paid by four mobile phone operators to the telecom regulator for renewal ... Read more
Buyer groups promoting certain fire door vendors
Allege garment factory owners but Alliance, Accord deny Garment factory owners have alleged that in the name of ensuring fire and structural safety in the country’s apparel units the two platforms of North American and European buyers — Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and Accord on Fire and Building Safety — are promoting certain vendors ... Read more
IDRA fines five insurers Tk 1.35cr
Policy Opening On Credit IDRA fines five insurers Tk 1.35cr The Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority has fined five insurance companies Tk 1.35 crore for opening policies on credit for clients and providing margin to unlicensed agents, violating insurance laws, said an IDRA news release issued on Sunday. The penalised companies are Standard Insurance Company,
50 orgs get ICAB awards
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh on Sunday awarded 50 organisations including banks, financial institutions, manufacturing companies, non-government organisations and public sector entities for their ‘best presented annual reports’ in 2013. The 14th ICAB National Awards were handed over to the winners
Rush for income tax returns submission as deadline ends
Scope for filing income tax returns by individual taxpayers for the current fiscal year ended on Sunday as the National Board of Revenue did not extend the deadline. Officials of the revenue board said that they faced huge rush of the taxpayers as many people crowded the field-level income tax offices at the last moment ... Read more