DHAKA – The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is mulling to deduct one Test from the West Indies series after the visitors made a request to shorten the tour, considering to stay inside bio-bubble for a long time would be tougher…
Day: November 18, 2020
Nepal team’s manager Madhusudan tested for COVID-19 positive
DHAKA – Nepal national football team manager Madhusudan Upadhaya has tested for COVID-19 positive, a press release of Bangladesh Football Federation said today. According to international law, it is necessary to test COVID-19 seventy-two hours before entering any country. After…
Shakib gets gunman for his security
DHAKA – Bangladesh ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan got an armed security guard after receiving a death threat. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has made this arrangement as part of his personal security, said the CEO Nizam Uddin Chowdhury. “Since…
Fire in substation: No power in Sylhet, Sunamganj for 30 hrs
The residents of Sylhet City, suburban areas, Chhatak upazila and Sunamganj district town have been left without power for nearly 30 hours as the authorities concerned say it is unlikely that power supply will be restored soon to all the…
Prepared to give maximum efforts for Qatar match: Rana
DHAKA – After the just concluded FIFA International friendly series against Nepal, confident Bangladesh national football team leave for Doha, Qatar tomorrow (Thursday) morning to play their away match of FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar Qualifiers round-2 against mighty Qatar…
Historic deal revives plan for largest US dam demolition
An agreement announced Tuesday paves the way for the largest dam demolition in U.S. history, a project that promises to reopen hundreds of miles of waterway along the Oregon-California border to salmon that are critical to tribes but have dwindled…
Bangladesh reports 2111 new Covid cases, 21 deaths
Bangladesh on Wednesday announced 2,111 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, pushing up the total tally to 438,795.
Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands
The 16-year-old girl describes how her boss raped her amid the tall trees on an Indonesian palm oil plantation that feeds into some of the world’s best-known cosmetic brands. He then put an ax to her throat and warned her:…
Man held with 60 gold bars at Dhaka airport
A team of Dhaka Customs House on Tuesday arrested a man with 60 gold bars, weighing 6,900 kg, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
Govt lost ‘ground beneath its feet’: BNP
BNP senior leader Selima Rahman on Wednesday alleged that the government is harassing opposition leaders and activists by implicating them in fresh ‘false cases’ out of its fear of facing an imminent fall since it has already lost the ‘ground…
Couple ‘kills schoolgirl’ after altercation with her father
A couple allegedly murdered a fourth-grader at Sutrapur in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on Tuesday after an altercation with the girl’s father over rent.
Our priorities have shifted to saving lives, livelihoods
New York, 17 Nov (IPS/Hugh Hilton Todd*) – We have come to the point in the agenda where we must take a “deep-dive” in reviewing the lessons learnt so far in our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to…
COVID-19 compounding inequalities
Kuala Lumpur/Sydney, 18 Nov (IPS/Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury) — The United Nations’ renamed World Social Report 2020 (WSR 2020) argued that income inequality is rising in most developed countries, and some middle-income countries, including China, the world’s fastest…
Raihan’s death in custody: SI Akbar sent to jail
Sylhet, Nov 18 – A court on Tuesday sent the suspended sub-inspector of Bandarbazar police outpost, Akbar Hossain Bhuiya, to jail on conclusion of his 7-day remand in connection with the death of Raihan Ahmed at the outpost.
Heavy rains cloud prospects of Boro rice cultivation in BD
Dhaka, Nov 18 – These days, farmers in the haor areas (depressions) of Sunamganj district are worried. This is because they have not yet been able to prepare boro paddy seedbeds as breaches caused by heavy downpour in water channels…
Trump fires election security man who rejected fraud pleas
Washington, AP/UNB, Nov 18 – President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the director of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election. Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security…
Facebook and Twitter grilled over US election actions
Facebook and Twitter’s chief executives have been challenged over their handling of the US election in their latest appearance before the US Senate.
Waiving Intellectual Property Rules Key to Beating Covid-19
19 Years On, Learning the Lessons from the Fight for Access to HIV Drugs Aruna Kashyap and Margaret Wurth With two companies, Pfizer and BioNTech, having announced promising early results for a Covid-19 vaccine they are developing, governments in the…
Reactor Pressure Vessel, Steam Generator reach Rooppur Site
Moscow, 17 November 2020 – Main equipment of the reactor compartment of Unit 1, Rooppur NPP, Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant arrived from Russia to the Rooppur NPP construction site (general designer and general contractor – JSC ASE, Rosatom Engineering…
Bangladesh’s new law makes death as highest penalty for rape
Dhaka, November 17 – The much-talked-about ‘Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020’ was passed in the Parliament on Tuesday for ensuring death penalty as the highest punishment for the heinous crime of rape.