Clinton to visit India, Bangladesh after China
Apr 26th
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will next month visit India and Bangladesh after major meetings in China as the United States seeks to bolster ties in South Asia, the State Department said Thursday.
Clinton will pay her first visit as secretary of state to Bangladesh on May 5 followed by stops in Kolkata and New Delhi “to review progress in the strategic partnership” with India, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
Bangladesh court orders Pakistan tour delay
Apr 19th
The Bangladesh high court on Thursday ordered the national team’s upcoming tour of Pakistan to be postponed for at least four weeks due to fears about militants targeting foreign cricket sides. Bangladesh were set to play a 50-over game and a Twenty20 fixture on April 29 and 30 in Lahore, the first international matches in the troubled country since a deadly strike on the touring Sri Lanka team three years ago. Additional Attorney General MK Rahman told AFP that the high court in Dhaka had ordered Bangladesh’s cricket authorities to explain why the tour was scheduled to go ahead despite concerns over the team’s safety.
‘Terrorists still operate from Bangladesh’
Apr 5th
Prime Minister’s Special Envoy Satinder K Lamba on Thursday said that terrorists and insurgents continue to operate from Bangladesh, despite the government’s efforts to contain them.
“There’s a need to sustain the current levels of cooperation to jointly eradicate the menace of insurgency, terrorism and militancy from our soil,” he said, while delivering the keynote address at the Fourth India-Bangladesh Security Dialogue, organised by the Observer Research Foundation.
Opener Tamim Iqbal joins Pune Warriors
Mar 29th
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal has signed up for Pune Warriors. He has become the side’s eleventh overseas player and its second signing this week after Australian captain Michael Clarke, for the upcoming Indian Premier League.
With Tamim’s signing, the Warriors have filled all their overseas slots for the coming season. The left-hander is the second signing from Bangladesh after Shakib Al Hasan in this year’s IPL and the fifth overall from that country.
Bangladesh to honour 129 foreigners for 1971
Mar 22nd
The Bangladesh government will honour 129 foreign personalities and organisations from 25 countries for helping the country during the 1971 Liberation War.
A Bangladesh official told IANS that these would include 47 people from India, 21 from the US, 12 from Britain and 10 from Russia. President Zillur Rahman will confer the honours in Dhaka Tuesday.
Bangladesh includes Tamim after selection row
Mar 8th
Bangladesh cricket chiefs on Thursday added star opener Tamim Iqbal to the squad for the Asia Cup, reversing an earlier controversial decision by the board president to axe him.
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) spokesman Jalal Yunus told AFP the opener, widely regarded as the country’s best batsman, would “join the team straightway, after he was declared fit by the cricket operations officials.
Bangladesh PM proposes Yunus as WB chief
Feb 23rd
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has proposed that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, with whom she has often clashed in the past, become the next president of the World Bank. Hasina told visiting EU parliamentarians on Wednesday that her compatriot Yunus, former head of microlender Grameen Bank, was respected for his pioneering role in using small loans to combat poverty. “She said if Professor Yunus becomes the World Bank president, he could spread micro-credit as a poverty alleviation tool across the globe,” Hasina’s secretary Molla Waheduzzaman told AFP. World Bank President Robert Zoellick will step down at the end of his five-year term on June 30, setting up a race for the top post at the development bank. Yunus was fired by Bangladesh’s central bank last year for exceeding the mandatory retirement age — in a move widely seen as engineered by Hasina’s government. The 70-year-old, known as the “banker to the poor”, challenged his dismissal, but his appeal was thrown out by the Supreme Court. In an interview with the New York Times on Thursday.
Bangladesh court outlaws ‘Banglish’ on radio, TV
Feb 16th
A Bangladesh court on Thursday outlawed the use of “Banglish” on television and radio stations in an effort to protect the Bengali language from English slang, a state prosecutor said. The high court issued the order over rampant use of English words by radio and TV presenters on scores of new private stations. “The court has ordered them not to use words which are foreign to our language,” deputy attorney general Altaf Hossain told AFP.
CEAT to set up Rs 250-cr plant in Bangladesh
Feb 9th
Tyre major CEAT on Wednesday announced plan to set up a Rs 250-crore manufacturing plant in Bangladesh. The initial capacity would be 65 tonnes per day and production is to commence in FY-13. Of the total production capacity, 80 per cent will be of truck and light-truck tyres and the rest of two- and three-wheelers and last-mile vehicles, said Mr. Anant Goenka, Deputy Managing Director, CEAT. More >
Fixing claim hits Bangladesh’s IPL-style event
Feb 9th
Bangladesh’s inaugural Twenty20 league opened on a sour note on Thursday when a leading player revealed he had received a spot-fixing proposition.
Former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza said he had been approached by an unnamed player regarding potential spot-fixing when he turns out as skipper of the Dhaka Gladiators in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL).
