Sakib al Hasan returned to cricket after a long injury lay-off to inspire the Bangladesh cricket team to a 49-run victory over the Bangladesh A team in the third warm-up match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Thursday. Sakib took the ball after the Tigers had suffered two embarrassing defeats to their second fiddles in ... Read more
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Ashgabat FC demolish Sri Lanka Army
Ashgabat FC of Turkmenis-tan demolished Sri Lanka Army 5-1 on Thursday to get the ideal warm-up before playing Dhaka Abahani in the AFC President’s Cup Group B deciding match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. The first-half was almost a one way traffic as the tall and physically stronger players of the Turkmenistan side ... Read more
India drubs Bangladesh 11-1
Bangladesh finished seventh in the 8th Asia Cup hockey tournament after a 11-1 defeat against India in the classification match at Wisma Belia Stadium of Kuantan, Malaysia on Thursday. India, which surprisingly failed to make it to the last four, started the game with an aggressive note and swooped on the Bangladesh team from the ... Read more
Farmers achieve success in cultivating sweet jumbo grass in char areas
Profit of taka 50,000 per acre possible The char people have been attaining remarkable success in eradicating poverty by farming Australian hybrid variety sweet jumbo grass in the sandy char areas on the country’s Brahmaputra basin during the past two years. The distressed char people have been achieving their faster economic self-reliance side by side ... Read more
JMB’s explosives expert Boma Mizan captured
Wife explodes bomb to escape arrest; finally surrenders to Rab with severe injuries after 4-hr midnight raid at a Mirpur house After years in the hunt for him, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) last night captured ‘Boma Mizan’, explosives expert of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), at Taltola in the city’s Mirpur area. ... Read more
CID investigation into BDR mutiny may take this year
Political complicity not ascertained yet CID investigation into BDR mutiny and killing of army officers may take this year as the matter is too complicated to complete it quickly. Although report of CID investigation will be the basis of trial of BDR mutineers in the court but it will not be possible to be completed ... Read more
Counter-offensive not allowed: Army officers were killed when peace process was on, negotiators lacked professionalism; It may be revenge action by some quarter
The army led court of enquiry identified several reasons for the carnage at the Peelkhana BDR headquarters on February 25 and 26, the foremost being the deep resentment of BDR jawans against the ” Dal Bhat operation” launched during the last caretaker government. More facilities for the army personnel compared with BDR jawans, non-payment of ... Read more
City gets panicky in petty crime spurt
Petty crimes — mugging, extortion and burglary — have spurted in the capital in the last few days and the criminals are having a free run in the absence of proper policing. It does not matter whether you are walking alone or in a crowd in the city, during the day or at night. Or ... Read more
JS panel summons Sircar, Akhtar and Delwar
A parliamentary panel on Thursday summoned the speaker, deputy speaker and chief whip of the eighth parliament early next month to defend themselves against charges of corruption being investigated by the panel. ‘We have decided to invite former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, former deputy speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui and former chief whip Khandaker Delwar Hossain to ... Read more
Govt trying to hide real plotters: BNP
MASSACRE AT BDR HQ Govt trying to hide real plotters: BNP The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday vowed to continue movement until the real plotters and perpetrators of the Pilkhana massacre were identified and tried by way of impartial investigation. The party demanded that the probe reports of the killings at the BDR headquarters on ... Read more
Food procurement drive too slow
Deal with millers yet to be signed The procurement of rice and paddy would not be completed during this season, as the food ministry as well as food department is yet to sign agreement with millers, said a source at the ministry. “The government had started countrywide procurement drive through local millers from May 1 ... Read more
Muhith hints at Tk 100,000cr budget next fiscal
Tax holiday to go gradually Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to gradually scrap the tax holiday for the benefit for various sectors. Addressing the pre-budget consultation meeting organised by the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), the finance minister said that the sectors that had been awarded tax holiday for ... Read more
Bangladesh introduces first-ever sexual harassment ban
Bangladesh’s high court moved Thursday to plug a gaping hole in the country’s laws by introducing a first-ever ban on sexual harassment, an official said. The decision was immediately hailed by activists as a major step forward for the protection of women in the South Asian nation. Deputy Attorney-General Rajik Al Jalil told AFP the ... Read more
500 more BDR soldiers held outside Dhaka for mutiny
Five hundred more soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles were arrested in different districts outside Dhaka and sent to jails on Thursday in connection with the February 25-26 rebellion. Satkania police in Chittagong arrested 100 soldiers from Baitul Ijjat Training Centre, Feni police arrested 64 jawans of 19 Rifles battalion at Jaylaskar, Jessore police detained 43 ... Read more
ACC power to be curtailed
A provision of the Anti-Corruption Commission law is likely to be reinstated to curtail its power so that the watchdog body could not issue any arrest warrant against a government official without informing his higher authority. The country’s top bureaucrats, mainly the secretaries of different ministries, yesterday discussed the issue and adopted a proposal to ... Read more
40 gangs active in city carjacking
Carjackers mostly work on greed of drivers, apply newer techniques, steal over 60 vehicles a month Over 60 carjacking incidents happen in the capital on an average month and those are used in various criminal activities including mugging, robbery and drug peddling while some are sold or disassembled and then sold in parts. During the ... Read more
Indian village with 250 sets of twins
Doctors are trying to unravel the mystery of an Indian village boasting 250 sets of twins born to just 2,000 families Baffled doctors are trying to unravel the mystery of an Indian village boasting more than 220 sets of twins born to just 2,000 families Photo: BARCROFT 78 pairs of twins Photo: BARCROFT The phenomenon ... Read more
Shilpa To Star With Cricketers
Shilpa Shetty has managed to secure the services of some of her cricket team, The Rajasthan Royals, in a new movie. That’s one benefit of been an owner we suppose! Producer Bobby Bedi approached some of the team’s players, including Shane Warne, about appearing in a new film alongside Shilpa. A source revealed: “Bedi was ... Read more
Bipasha Basu Out Of The Race
Bollywood star Bipasha Basu will not reprise her role from Race for the sequel but she has revealed she is not too upset about it. Bipasha said: “I heard even [directors] Abbas-Mustan are not doing Race 2. If the original directors are not doing the sequel, who am I? I haven’t been approached for Race ... Read more
An offering of music and dance to Tagore
Cultural programme by VCARE at Sheraton On the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore’s 148th birth anniversary, a cultural programme was held at the Ball Room, Hotel Sheraton on May 11. The programme, arranged by VCARE, featured recitation of Tagore’s writings, rendition of Rabindra Sangeet, and staging of the Tagore dance-drama “Shyama.” Manzur-Ur-Rahman, former senior vice-president of ... Read more