Abu Sufian, a director of the company that owns the chain, told bdnews24.com that their revenue has come down by about 70 per cent. “I cannot even begin to calculate the loss we have suffered in the last seven years. We sold all our tangible and intangible assets just to keep the lights on,” he […]
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin earned the breakthrough for India in the second over of the day by dismissing opener Najmul Hossain lbw for five runs. Seamer Mohammad Siraj removed Mominul Haque, whose 84 was the highest score in Bangladesh’s first innings total of 227.
On a day when many batsmen lost starts, Mominul was the brilliant exception who dug his heels in and kept the scoreboard ticking. Bangladesh lost both their openers in the morning session after Shakib won the toss and elected to bat at the Shere Bangla National Stadium. India dropped spinner Kuldeep Yadav for his eight-wicket […]
Remembering the martyred intellectuals
Leg-spinner Jubair Hossain has been included in the 14-member team for the first Test against Zimbabwe which begins in Mirpur on October 25. The Bangladesh Cricket Board announced the team yesterday evening. His selection goes against the recent trend of picking domestic experienced players, as Jubair has played only two first-class matches. Shahadat Hossain and […]
Bangladesh is going to host T – Twenty world cup next year. Ten countries will participate in the men’s world cup. Top eight countries according to ICC ranking will have the opportunity to participate in the world cup directly. Other two countries will be selected by qualifying round. Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have to battle in […]
Manjurul Haque of thirty five kidnapped a boy of three years old from Morpur Mazar area of the capital yesterday. Then he was traveling on a Panchagarh bound bus this morning. He got off the bus near Pallibiddut Horinhati area taking the three year old boy in a jute sack. Local people noticed the matter […]
Central bank, Bangladesh Bank has launched it currency museum (Taka Jadughar) on the first floor of its training academy at Mirpur. Speaker of the parliament Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury formally inaugurated this museum yesterday. Bangladesh Bank had a currency museum at its head office in Motijheel. But that was in small scale. General people had some […]
In organisation with UNICEF, Children’s Film Society Bangladesh will organize a Fifth International Children’s Film Festival, patrician “Future in Frames”, starting from Jan 21. The weeklong legal holiday will proceed during Shawkat Osman Memorial Auditorium of Central Public Library, Shahbagh in Dhaka. Planning Minister Air Vice Marshal (retd.) AK Khandaker will establish a festival. Veteran […]
Bangladesh launch their ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifiers campaign when they take on one of the tournament favourites Pakistan in one of the opening matches at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today. The match starts at 9:30 am local time. In the other opening day matches South Africa face Sri Lanka at the Fatullah […]
Hundreds of students of Prime University yesterday took to the streets and vandalised vehicles and furniture on its Mirpur campus in the city over setting up of a permanent campus immediately. The agitators halted vehicular movement on the road for half an hour at Section 1 of Mirpur around 12:00pm, causing a huge tailback, said […]
Three schoolboys were injured in the capital’s Mirpur area yesterday afternoon when a home-made bomb exploded in their classroom. Police suspect criminals might have kept the bomb (cocktail) there sometime earlier and the students just fell victim to their curiosity. Victims Saifur Rahman Sayem, Rafshad Jan Nishat and Mohammad Ayon, all around 12 years old, […]
