Former caretaker government adviser Akbar Ali Khan has suggested the government reset diesel price in line with the global market and increase allocation for infrastructure by reducing spending on unproductive sector in the upcoming budget. The government should consider it with priority to reset the price of diesel in the budget, he told a roundtable ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Ziaur gem stuns Abahani
Dhaka Sports Club meet BU in final today An astonishing 78 off 31 balls by Ziaur Rahman stunned Chittagong Abahani as Dhaka Sports Club snatched a win from their grasp with three-wicket semi-final victory to reach the final of the Port-city Cricket League at the MA Aziz Stadium on Saturday. In the final, the Dhaka ... Read more
BCB puts BNS saga to rest
Opts for SBNS, Fatullah for WC matches The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Saturday ruled out the chance of holding any World Cup 2011 matches at the Bangabandhu National Stadium and instead chose Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium and Fatullah Stadium for the event. The BNS, however, has been retained as the venue for the opening ceremony while ... Read more
Nafis carries BU thru’
PCL T20 Chittagong 2009 Nafis carries BU thru’ Local boy Nafis Iqbal led from the front to steer Brothers Union to the final of the Habib Group PCL Twenty20 tournament in the exciting first semifinal where they beat Dada Warriors by six wickets at the MA Aziz Stadium here yesterday. Batting first, Dada Warriors scored ... Read more
Shirin, Taslima steal the show
Shirin Akhtar and Taslima Akhtar of BKSP stole the opening day’s show in the Dhaka Bank 25th National Junior Athletics Championship which began at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. Both Shirin and Taslima earned a couple of gold medals out of 12 events decided on the first day. Taslima became first in the juvenile ... Read more
Bangladesh hammered by Japan 5-0
Bangladesh slumped to a 0-5 defeat against Japan in its first match of the 8th Asia Cup hockey at Kuantan Stadium, Malaysia on Saturday. Bangladesh put up a miserable show against Japan and conceded two goals before the break. Japan with its spirited display took the command of the game and shot into the lead ... Read more
Amit steers Bangladesh U-19
Promising youngster Amit Mojumdar struck a brilliant 102 runs to anchor Bangladesh Under-19 team to secure a thrilling three-wicket win over visiting Sri Lanka Under-19 team in the last match of the five-match one-dayer series at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Saturday. With the win, the host comfortably sealed the five-match series by 4-1. ... Read more
Asian Beach Volleyball from today
The 2nd Asian Beach Volleyball Tournament organised by Bangladesh Volleyball Federation (BVF) gets underway tomorrow at the Cox’s Bazar Laboni Point. In this connection, the draw of the competition held at local hotel at Cox’s Bazar on Saturday in presence of all the teams. All the attendees observed a minute’s silence in the memories of ... Read more
Seven-a-side Rugby final today
Bangladesh Boys and Khilgaon Pragoti Sangsad reached the final of the first ever Seven-a-side Rugby Tournament on Saturday. The final will be held at 5 pm today (Sunday) at the outer stadium. National Sports Council (NSC) director (sports) Abdur Rahman will
GM Ziaur Rahman finishes 14 in Mayor’s Cup Open International Chess
GM Ziaur Rahman of Biman finished 14th in the 2nd Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Open International Chess Tournament held in Mumbai, India on Saturday. GM Niaz Murshed of Leonine Chess Club became 23rd in the meet. Zia and Niaz both earned eight points each after end of the 11th round matches. In the last round matches, ... Read more
Noted nuclear scientist Dr M A Wajed Mia passes away
Noted nuclear scientist and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s husband Dr M A Wajed Mia passed away at the city’s Square Hospital yesterday afternoon at the age of 67 following protracted illness, hospital officials said. “He passed away at 4.25 pm on Saturday,” Square Hospital director Dr Sanwar Hossain
Fresh plan to replace job scheme with lesser coverage
Economists term the move unwise After dithering over the 100-day employment generation scheme for about three months, the Awami League-led government is set to replace it with a programme of lesser coverage — a move that economists term a backward journey in view of the necessity of wider coverage of areas and population. Sources in ... Read more
Secret burial of BD swine flu victim at home
The body of the ill-fated Bangladeshi expatriate who died of swine flu in Mexico a few days back arrived in the country four days ago and even laid to eternal rest at his village in Tangail but the government is maintaining mysterious silence about the matter. This was confirmed on condition of anonymity by government ... Read more
Meghnaghat IPP unit trips
Causes drop in generation by 300MW Power crisis turned severe in the country again on Saturday as electricity generation was dropped by 300MW when one unit of the 450MW Meghnaghat independent power plant was shut down after it developed technical faults. The 225MW steam turbine unit of the combined cycle IPP tripped at around 4:00pm ... Read more
Gas emission posing risk for 4 years but no remedial step yet
Emission of natural gas continues through six tube-wells and hundreds of holes at Shyampur and Anandapur villages, Titas River and Loiska Beel near Location No 3 of Brahmanbaria Titas Gas Field, posing serious risk for the locals. After such emission started noticeably about four years ago, a number of holes
Khaleda hugs Hasina in consolation
A heart rendering scene emerged when the leader of the main opposition and the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia embraced her arch political rival Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to condole latter at the sad demise of her husband nuclear scientist Dr Wazed Mian. The former prime minister arrived at the Sudha Sadan at 8.55pm with a ... Read more
BCB offers amnesty to ICL cricketers
The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Saturday offered an amnesty to the Indian Cricket League players asking them to terminate their contracts with the unofficial Twenty20 competition by June 15 if they want their bans to be withdrawn. ‘The players have to terminate their contracts by June 15 to apply for withdrawal of their bans,’ Jalal ... Read more
Brisk coaching business in city
Low quality of education frustrates students The number of coaching centres in our country has increased rapidly like mushrooms. Most of the coaching centres try to influence the students claiming to be the best. The HSC exam will be over very soon. At this time these coaching centres try to attract students through various leaflets. ... Read more
Organised gangs active in begging
Several organised gangs are active in Dhaka city to earn money by forcing the physically challenged poor men and women to take to begging on the streets of the capital. The leaders of these gangs take away bulk of the money earned by the beggars defying scorching heat of summer, braving blinding rainfall and ignoring ... Read more
Int’l Mother’s Day today
International Mother’s Day is being celebrated today when children will pay homage and shower love to their mother who brought them to the earth and nourished. Mother gets a special treatment from her children on this day. BNP chairperson and opposition leader Khaleda Zia in a message on the eve of the Mother’s Day has ... Read more