Bangladesh national hockey players lacked international basic skills and they need to play more international matches to improve their standard, Bangladesh national hockey team’s German coach Gerhard Peter Rach said on Monday. “We realized very bitterly in the 8th Asia Cup that the Bangladesh players lacked basic skills. The time we got before the Asia ... Read more
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Mehrab to lead Bangladesh A
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 15-member Bangladesh A team for the three-match one-day series against Maharashtra Cricket Association. Left-handed Mehrab Hossain will lead the team while all-rounder Sohrawordi Shuvo has been named his deputy. The Rafiqul Alam-led selection panel included players like Nafis Iqbal and Hannan Sarker, who were out-of-favour for a long time, ... Read more
Bashar’s belated wisdom
Former national skipper Habibul Bashar urged the new generation of cricketers to think twice before moving away from the mainstream. “Over the last eight months I realised the pains of staying away from the mainstream,” Bashar said explaining the reasons behind his decision to cut ties with the unapproved Indian Cricket League (ICL). It was ... Read more
BCB XI earns 2nd successive win in T20 Cricket, beating Maharashtra CA by 46 runs
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Eleven earned second successive victory in the three-match Twenty20 Cricket series beating Indian Ranji Trophy side Maharashtra Cricket Association by 46 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Monday. Hosts BCB Eleven, studded with the cricketers of Bangladesh national team for the next month’s ICC Twenty20 World Cup ... Read more
Ansar win Women’s v’ball title
Bangladesh Ansar & VDP team clinched the EXIM Bank 20th National Women’s Handball title beating hosts Faridpur DSA by 23-14 goals in the final at the Faridpur Stadium on Monday, reports UNB. The winners led the first half by 14-7 goals. This was the 14th national crown for the Ansar & VDP team including 11 ... Read more
Aishwarya Ruins Sonam’s Red Carpet Dream
Aishwarya Rai has apparently killed off Sonam Kapoor’s dreams of walking the red carpet at Cannes by refusing to let her walk for L’Oreal, the brand they both endorse. We told on Friday how both were set to walk the Red Carpet in Cannes but Aish has apparantly made sure this didn’t happen. A source ... Read more
Angels & Demons Review
Cast: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgaard Dir: Ron Howard Angels & Demons comes just three years after the box office success of The Da Vinci Code that, despite not being a hit with the critics, was one of the biggest grossing movies of 2006. Tom Hanks is back to have another crack ... Read more
Beyonce Knowles Learning To Race
Beyonce Knowles has been taking driving lessons from Lewis Hamilton. The ‘Halo’ singer and her rapper husband Jay-Z enjoyed private sessions with the Formula One World Champion racing driver at Monaco’s Grand Prix track following their recent arrival at the Cannes Film Festival. A source said: “Beyonce’s so excited to be learning from him. And ... Read more
Tamil Tiger leader killed by Sri Lankan troops
COLOMBO – The leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was shot dead Monday while trying to flee advancing troops, defence officials told AFP. Prabhakaran was in a small convoy of a van and ambulance along with several close aides which tried to drive out of the battle zone, but was attacked and killed, ... Read more
Cybercriminals In The Cloud
So-called reputation services can weed out suspicious IP addresses and behaviors. Security breaches continue to plague organizations, causing CIOs to question whether their traditional network security solutions are adequate for protecting against increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. Recently, it was reported that foreign hackers broke into the Pentagon’s $300 billion fighter plane weapons program, a security breach ... Read more
Shakila Zafar celebrates 30 years of music
Celebrating thirty years in the music scene, noted singer Shalika Zafar delighted the audiences by performing in a solo musical programme. Amra Surjomukhi, a cultural organisation, arranged the programme at the auditorium of the Bangladesh National Museum on Saturday evening. Eminent cultural personality Syed Hasan Imam inaugurated the programme while journalist Rahat Khan was present ... Read more
Ballads of the Agonised Souls
Photo exhibition on thalassaemia at Zainul Gallery Images at the exhibition, titled “Ballads of the Agonised Souls,” are quite expressive with smiling faces of children, but a strange silence pervades on the whole. The photographs explore the lives — little joys and agonies — of thalassaemia patients in our country. Thalassaemia is an inherited blood ... Read more
Major juice manufacturers flout BSTI rules
Some of the major juice manufacturers are flouting the rule by not marking the juice packs with maximum retail price. The rule of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution clearly states that every 250ml juice pack should have been marked with MRP. But, visiting some city outlets that sell packed juices it was found that some ... Read more
BCB XI’s huge win
The England-bound national cricketers warmed up well with a comfortable 63-run victory against Maharashtra Cricket Association in the first T20 match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The most encouraging factor for the Tigers, who are scheduled to fly for England on May 23 to take part in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup, ... Read more
Bashar first at BCB door
Habibul Bashar was the first to come forward to take the opportunity of “amnesty” announced by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) for the players who joined the unauthorised Indian Cricket League (ICL). The former national skipper submitted a letter to BCB president Lt Gen Sina Ibn Jamali yesterday mentioning that he wanted to avail the ... Read more
Ashgabat through
Abahani down but not out Ashgabat FC of Turkmenis-tan emerged as the champions of the AFC President’s Cup Group B after playing out a goalless draw with Dhaka Abahani at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. The draw put Ashgabat level with Abahani on four points at the top but the Turkmenistan side won the ... Read more
Mashrafe’s losing debut
Indian Premier League Mashrafe’s losing debut Deccan Chargers climbed one place to third in the Indian Premier League table after a thrilling six-wicket win over struggling Kolkata Knight Riders at Wanderers on Saturday. Kolkata made 160-5 after they lost the toss and were sent in to bat and Deccan reached 166-4 off the last ball ... Read more
Ruling party members blamed for the trouble
RED ALERT IN GARMENT SECTOR Ruling party members blamed for the trouble Abdur Rahman Khan County’s export oriented garments industries have been facing grave uncertainty posing a threat to the vital foreign currency earnings and job opportunity of the huge female workers. It is the law and order situation that has been causing concern for ... Read more
35,000-year-old statue thought to be world’s first nude sculpture
A 35,000 year-old buxom statuette has been unveiled by scientists as the world’s earliest sculpture of the naked female form. The sexually explicit figurine was carved out of mammoth ivory and was given huge breasts and private parts along with a bloated belly and thighs that by today’s standards “could be seen as bordering on ... Read more
Woman hunter kills elephant with bow and arrow
Female hunter Teressa Groenewald-Hagerman has become the first woman in the world to shoot an elephant dead with a bow and arrow. Groenewald-Hagerman, 39, she sneaked into the animals herd and killed the creature with one shot from just 12 yards. The woman, from Kansas, was inspired to go on the safari after being challenged ... Read more