| Bangladesh charges British official with terror funding | ||
Dhaka, April 28 : Investigators Tuesday formally charged the head of a British charity and 10 Bangladeshi agents with financing terrorism in the guise of operating a religious school in... | ||
| Bangladesh charges UK charity chief with financing terrorism | ||
DHAKA: Investigators yesterday formally charged the head of a British charity and 10 Bangladeshi agents with financing terrorism in the guise of operating a religious school in Bangladesh. A court in... | ||
| ADB Assisting Bangladesh in Improving Irrigation Systems | ||
US$750,000 grant from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will assist Bangladesh in implementing a planned multi-million loan project in 2010 that will improve irrigation services and further enhance... | ||
| 2 policemen suspended on charges of negligence | ||
Two policemen of Motijheel Police Station who recorded a general diary (GD) against the inspector general of police (IGP) was suspended last night on charges of negligence of duty.The suspended... | ||
| RU reopens June 1 | ||
Academic activities of Rajshahi University (RU) will resume on June 1 amid tight security measures.The dormitories of the university will reopen for students in phases on May 30 and 31. RU... | ||
| Suspected killer held in Barisal | ||
Nineteen days after the gruesome murder of Malibagh Biggyan College student Zishan, the police arrested a suspected killer from Barisal town on Monday evening. The arrestee was identified as Alvi... | ||
| 21 Hizb-ut Towhid men remanded | ||
Chief Judicial Magistrate's court of Kushtia yesterday placed 21 Hizb-ut Towhid men on four days remand.Earlier, on Wednesday last the same court remanded 10 others including the outfit's regional... | ||
| Rahman and Hossain keep Bangladesh U-19 afloat | ||
Bangladesh Under-19 229 for 7 (Rahman 54*, Hossain 49*, Peiris 2-58, Weerasinghe 2-64) trail Sri Lanka Under-19 280 (Angelo Perera 112, Weerasinghe 44, Islam 4-58) by 51... | ||
| Three get life for rape | ||
A Chapainawabganj court yesterday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for raping a woman. The convicts are Sahabuddin,40, Mahtab,50 and Shafiqul Islam,45, of Dhainagar village under Sadar... | ||
| Call to re-fix procurement price of Boro | ||
More organisations yesterday demanded the government re-fix the procurement price of Boro paddy at Tk 15 per kilogram instead of Tk 14.Leaders of Bangladesh Workers' Party in a statement said farmers... Source : www.bangladeshsun.com | ||
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Bangladesh News Updates : 29.4.09
Monday, April 27, 2009
Football (Soccer) : Popular Sports in Bangladesh
Football is popular in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is currently ranked 174th in the FIFA ranking. Bangladesh became the 2003 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) champion. SAFF includes Southern Asian countries and other countries from Asia.
The Bangladesh national football team is controlled by the Bangladesh Football Federation. It is a member of the AFC. The side has yet to qualify for a FIFA World Cup tournament. They were eliminated in the first round of their only Asian Cup appearance to date in 1980. As is the case elsewhere on the subcontinent, the national football team stands somewhat in the shadow of the country's test cricket team. The team was founded in 1972, and joined FIFA in 1974.
Apart from wins over Indonesia and Thailand in their first ever World Cup qualification in 1986, Bangladesh has struggled to impose itself. At the regional level, they have also remained in the second echelon while in Asia, the team is constantly trying to avoid being the wooden spoon of their group.
However, the association is currently working hand in hand with the Vision Asia programme which will see it restructuring its domestic league as well as initiating more youth programmes. These initiatives are coming at the right time for football in Bangladesh.
Football in Bangladesh has a huge following which was exemplified when the national team made history in their victory at the South Asian Football Federation Cup in 2003. The South Asia side won the final via penalties over Maldives before 50,000 home supporters.
Kazi Salahuddin is Bangladesh's most famous footballer, having played professional football in Hong Kong, the first Bangldeshi player to ever do so. [Presently President of Bangladesh Football Federation].
Presently Brazilian born DIDO is national team Coach.
Kabaddi : National Sports in Bangladesh
Kabaddi is a team game. Two teams of seven players occupy opposite halves of a field of 12.5m x 10m divided by a line into two halves. The teams take turns sending a "raider" across to the opposite team's half, where the goal is to tag or wrestle ("capture") members of the opposite team before returning to the home half. Tagged members are "out" and are sent off the field. The raider must not take a breath during the raid, and must prove it by constantly chanting (called 'cant' or 'dak') during the raid. Meanwhile, the defenders must form a chain, for example by linking hands; if the chain is broken, a member of the defending team is sent off. The goal of the defenders is to stop the raider from returning to the home side before taking a breath.
n 1980, Bangladesh became the runners-up in the first Asian Kabaddi Championship and India emerged as the champion. Bangladesh became runners-up again in the next Asian Kabaddi Championship held in 1985 at Jaipur, India.
Bangladeshi kabaddi team won the bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games.
Bangladesh News Updates
Bangladesh News |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:02 PM PDT 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 polluters have meanwhile continued polluting the rivers side [...]  |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:01 PM PDT 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, jaundice, and heatstroke are also on the [...]  |
| Tk 14 for paddy, Tk 22 for rice Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT The government has fixed the procurement prices of per kg Boro paddy at Tk 14 while rice at Tk 22 to encourage farmers and protect their interest. A meeting of the Food Planning and Monitoring Committee also decided that a total of 10.5 lakh tonnes of rice and 1.5 lakh tonnes of paddy will be procured [...]  |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT Wasa water has become a source of quick bucks for some dishonest government employees in the wake of unbearable water crisis in the capital, allege a number of city dwellers. They allege a clique of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) officials are exacting more money than the official rates for water supply in lorries without [...]  |
| Students down under look down the barrel Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT About 6,000 Bangladeshi students brace for bad times as recession strikes Australia and starts to bite deeper into a once solid economy of a paltry 21.7 million population. Feeling pinch of the slowdown in November last year, Kevin Rudd’s government kept on trying every tricks laid out in the capitalistic economics to thwart the impact that [...]  |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT Formation process of industrial police force would be completed within next three months to maintain peace and discipline in apparel sector for which all procedures already have been finalised. Before introducing the new force, the government has decided to use battalion Ansars in the industrial areas to protect the sector from any untoward situation. This was disclosed [...]  |
| Recession to bring food crisis back Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:58 PM PDT The food crisis that hit many developing countries last year is likely to re-emerge following the recession and Asian countries must take measures to protect poor people from rising prices, a UN report said Friday. The report released in Bangkok called for Asian governments to implement social programs such as cash assistance and food-for-work schemes that [...]  |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:58 PM PDT Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the power division and Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to act expeditiously in reducing sufferings of the people caused by ongoing water and power crisis. The PM gave the directive at a meeting with the power secretary, chairman of Wasa, managing director of Dhaka Power Distribution Company [...]  |
| 3 Bangladeshi teachers killed in Saudi road accident Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:57 PM PDT Three Bangladeshi lecturers of King Khaled University were killed and two others injured in a tragic road accident at Doadmi, 328-km northwest of Riyadh last Friday. A relative of one of the victims told UNB that lecturers Sakil Ahmed Sohel, 27, Dr Akhtaruzzaman Afroz, 24, and his wife Sarzia Sajib, 25, died in the mishap. The [...]  |
| 72 more BDR men shown arrested Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:56 PM PDT Seventy-two more suspected Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutineers were shown arrested yesterday and 10 of them were placed on a five-day remand each. Meanwhile, a lost BDR pistol was recovered from the Pilkhana quarters of a BDR member. A BDR jawan died of cancer at Narsingdi Sadar Hospital Saturday, says a BDR press release. Criminal Investigation Department (CID), [...] |
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Bangladesh News Updates
Bangladesh News |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT Bangladesh’s hope of meeting the international deadline to introduce machine-readable passport (MRP) by April, 2010 looks bleak and the authorities are now not even thinking about the 2014 deadline for introducing e-passports. The government’s frequent change of mind has led to delays in launching the MRP project in the past. Shifting of stance of the [...] |
| Anomalies in Dal-Bhat scheme key factor Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:54 PM PDT The jawans punished for irregularities in the BDR’s Operation Dal-Bhat led the vicious killings during the Pilkhana mutiny on February 25-26. However, the bloody revolt could be traced to the grievances nursed for years over alleged discriminations against the border guards, said sources close to the home ministry’s high-powered probe committee and Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The [...] |
| World heritage site left in ruins Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:53 PM PDT Terracotta artefacts at the Paharpur Buddhist Monastery, a world heritage site, are on the verge of ruination due to sheer negligence of the Department of Archaeology. The Monastery, one of the most important archeological sites in South Asia, was declared as a protected site dates back to 1919 during the British colonial rule. Custodian of [...] |
| MPs’ discretionary funds used without rules Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:52 PM PDT Members of the Parliament (MPs) have been spending from their annual discretionary fund totalling around Tk 3 crore each fiscal year since 1992, while guidelines for the spending are yet to be formulated. Legal experts said the rules must be made to give the expenditures legal coverage, otherwise serious questions might be raised about them. [...] |
| Govt reviews Milk Vita probe reports Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:52 PM PDT The government has started reviewing probe reports about alleged embezzlement of a large amount of fund from state-run Milk Vita during the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance government between 2001 and 2006. The reports point fingers at former local government, rural development and cooperatives (LGRD) minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan. “The ministry is reviewing the reports submitted during the immediate-past [...] |
| BCL, JCD partners in ‘admission business’ Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:39 PM PDT Some 330 students failed to take admission into Pabna Edward College this academic year because of illegal ‘admission business’ by some student organisations and a section of teachers. Sources said leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and a section of teachers of the college allegedly took money from the admission seekers [...] |
| 3 injured in gun attack over city slum’s control Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:17 PM PDT At least three people including two local Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders were injured yesterday as unidentified criminals opened fire on them at the AL office in the city’s Fulbaria Railway Colony centring an internal feud over control of a slum. Wounded Ruhul Amin, 56, joint convener of Ward-56 AL unit, his [...] |
| Ctg chemical complex reopens after 6yrs Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:16 PM PDT Industries Minister Dilip Barua yesterday said the draft industrial policy that the government announces today is aimed at turning Bangladesh into a middle-income country by 2021 when the country will celebrate its golden jubilee. The minister said this while talking to reporters after the inaugural ceremony of reopening of the state-owned Chittagong Chemical Complex (CCC) [...] |
| China’s help sought for rail link with Myanmar Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:16 PM PDT Bangladesh has sought financial and technical assistance from China to expand the country’s railway network up to Gundum in Myanmar from Dohazari in Chittagong via Ramu in Cox’s Bazar to connect it with the Trans-Asian Railway (TAR). The government has already sent a letter to the Chinese government seeking assistance for laying about 130-kilometre railway tracks [...] |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:10 PM PDT Vessel movement in Chittagong port resumed in full swing from yesterday morning. Sources in Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) said the main channel between Red and Green buoy at the Karnaphuli estuary has been dredged wide. However, for incoming movement of vessels the authority had to wait till yesterday morning as an extra precaution, sources said. Nine [...] Source : www.bangladeshnews.com.bd |
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