India will organise a major part of cricket’s World Cup in 2011 after Pakistan was stripped of co-hosting rights, the International Cricket Council said on Tuesday. The showpiece event awarded to South Asia was thrown into turmoil earlier this month after the ICC removed Pakistan as a host nation due to security concerns, following the ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Clarke leads Australia to beat Pakistan
Michael Clarke’s all-round performance helped his team give Pakistan a dose of their own medicine as Australia won the third day-night international by 27 runs at Abu Dhabi Stadium here on Monday. The 28-year-old hit a fighting 66 to anchor an otherwise struggling Australian innings which helped them reach 198-7 in their allotted 50 overs ... Read more
Pathan powers Rajasthan
Yusuf Pathan hammered an unconquered 30-ball 62 as Graeme Smith anchored the Rajasthan Royals chase with an unbeaten 44 to romp to a five-wicket win over the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in Pretoria on Tuesday. The brutal innings from Pathan, sedate but no less important knock by Smith and another typically ... Read more
‘Anyone can be captain’
Ray Jennings, the Bangalore Royal Challengers coach, says he has yet to decide who will captain the embattled franchise once Kevin Pietersen departs for England after Wednesday’s match against Kolkata. Jennings’s comments come as a major surprise, given Bangalore had previously nominated South African Jacques Kallis to take over from Pietersen when the England batsman ... Read more
Tendulkar, Jayasuriya win it for Mumbai
Senior pros Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya produced vintage strokeplay to give Mumbai Indians a key victory in the Indian Premier League here on Monday. The ageing duo hammered 127 for the first wicket from just 12.2 overs as Mumbai scored 187-6 in 20 overs after electing to take first strike and then bowled out ... Read more
Wasa water poses danger
It fails to treat polluted river water; over 10,000 ended up in diarrhoea hospital In the broiling midday sun, Rashida Khatun was standing in the queue in front of the Sabujbagh Buddha Temple with two big plastic jars and a steel pitcher in her hands. The temple authorities were providing drinking water from their own ... Read more
50 hurt as CNG drivers, police clash in Ctg
100 vehicles damaged The agitated drivers of CNG-run autorickshaws vandalised more than hundred vehicles in the port city today. At least 50 people including eight policemen were injured in clashes between the agitated drivers and police and owners of the car centres. Police arrested a total of 15 people for damaging vehicles from different spots ... Read more
Law must check unnatural death
574 workers killed, 713 injured at workplaces last year As many as 547 workers met tragic end of lives and 713 received injuries at different workplaces including garment factories, due to lack of adequate preventive measures and frequent clashes between workers and owners of the factories last year. This was revealed at a press conference ... Read more
Ultimate motive of BDR carnage: Killing army officers, giving disciplined forces bad name
The ultimate motive of the Peelkhana carnage on 25 and 26 February last was to simply kill Army officers commanding BDR as a result of which 54 Army officers were killed. The actual planners of the massacre instigated common BDR soldiers and generated heat against Army officers. The geo political securities analysts said that the ... Read more
Boat-chain in Ctg to save Karnaphuli
Boatmen on the Karnaphuli River yesterday formed a boat-chain with a call to save the river from pollution and illegal encroachment. Environmentalists at a rally on a boat during the programme at 11:30am urged the government to improve navigability of the river through capital dredging on which the premier seaport, the lifeline of the country, ... Read more
All Dhaka rivers left ‘dead’
Industrial pollution goes unabated on docile action Soft attitude of the government towards polluters and lack of awareness among city dwellers have literally left dead all the rivers and other surface waters in and around the capital. Over the years the government agencies conducted small-scale drives against the polluters without yielding any major success. The ... Read more
Dhaka gone crazy
Heat, outage, water crisis cripple city life Life in the capital has become utterly miserable over the last ten days due to a severe heat wave accompanied with repeated load shedding, an acute water crisis, shortage of gas supply, infestation of mosquitoes, and the resultant near epidemic of diseases like diarrhoea. Other diseases like typhoid, ... Read more
Paddy Tk 14, rice Tk 22 per kg: Boro procurement price announced
The government will procure Boro rice at Tk 22 per kilogram and paddy at Tk 14 from May 1. The Food Planning and Monitoring Committee (FPMC) yesterday fixed the procurement price of boro rice and paddy at a meeting. Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Finance Minister AMA Muhit, Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque ... Read more
People wilt in searing heat
People huffed and puffed in the sweltering heat as meteorologists on Sunday warned the heatwave might hang on for another day or two. They said that there were little chances of rain in the next two or three days. The day’s highest temperature of 42.2 degrees Celsius was recoded in Jessore, while Dhaka Met Office ... Read more
Jobseekers return home dead
Crooked agents to blame for woes A large number of Bangladeshi workers are still being subjected to inhuman torture in different countries. Hundreds of the Bangladeshi youths who went to different countries like Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and other Middle East and European countries spending big money returning home empty-handed many of them dead. Falling ... Read more
Travellers to be screened for swine flu
The government is likely to start testing travellers for swine flu, particularly those who are coming from the newly infected countries. The decision may be enforced from tomorrow in all the three international airports of the country, and within the next seven days at the seaports, said a high official of the health and family ... Read more
Jalil issue: All eyes fix on Hasina
Party unlikely to take action against him All eyes are fixed on Awami League President Shiekh Hasina as to whether or not any action would be taken against party’s sidelined General Secretary Abdul Jalil for his volatile remarks made recently against some senior AL leaders as well as and some cabinet members. The government and ... Read more
Atiur made BB boss
Noted economist and Dhaka University teacher Dr Atiur Rahman is going to be appointed governor of Bangladesh Bank. Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday told journalists that an announcement in this regard might be made today. Finance ministry sources also said an order in this regard is likely to be issued today. The tenure of Bangladesh ... Read more
Public spaces are dens of criminals
Parks, gardens and other public places in the capital Dhaka have turned into dens of criminals as law and order situation there remains in the doldrums. There are around 54 parks under the DCC, a zoo under fisheries and livestock ministry and a botanical garden under the environment & forest ministry in the capital. Parks ... Read more
Grameen America gives NY women a boost
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, known as the ‘microfinance guru’, is now doing business in the centre of capitalism — New York City. In the past year the first US branch of his Grameen Bank has lent $1.5 million, ranging from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars, to nearly 600 women ... Read more