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Bangladesh spinner Taijul Islam becomes first cricketer to achieve this feat in 146 years of Test cricket history – Kashmir News
Bangladesh spinner Taijul Islam becomes first cricketer to achieve this feat in 146 years of Test cricket history – Kashmir News 
No formal discussions at ICC board meet on Pakistan playing World Cup games in Bangladesh
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New Delhi: ICC sources on Wednesday dismissed speculations about Pakistan playing their World Cup matches in Bangladesh instead of India due to the political tension between the two countries, terming it a “figment of imagination”.
The rebuttal came after reports that discussions were held during the recent ICC board meeting in Dubai about Pakistan possibly playing their league games in Bangladesh.
“No one knows if PCB chief Mr Najam Sethi has had any informal discussion with his Bangladeshi counterpart Najmul Hasan Papon but this can be said with a degree of certainty that no such discussions happened officially that Pakistan will play in Bangladesh,” an ICC board source privy to the developments told PTI on the condition of anonymity.
The source did point out that procurement of visas was an issue that was discussed and, contrary to conjectures made from the PCB’s part, the Indian cricket board has assured of all assistance.
“The BCCI has categorically said that there will be no problems with procurement of visas. One of the main points for a host country is that all participating nations will be given visas on time. From ICC’s part, Bangladesh is not even in its scheme of things as a co-host as of now,” the source said.
“Suppose Pakistan reach the semi-finals or win to play the finals, do they expect the matches to be played in Bangladesh. This is not a theatre of absurd happening,” the board member added.
The top brass in BCCI circles understands that this is a pressure put by the PCB to host the entire Asia Cup in Pakistan, which isn’t being looked upon as a feasible solution.
“We understand that this is a kind of pressure tactic applied by PCB because of the Asia Cup issue. But let me tell you, ultimately, Asia Cup will also be played in UAE or Qatar and probably Pakistan will also have to play its matches in one of these countries,” a BCCI source said.
Asian Cricket Council (ACC) chairman and BCCI secretary Jay Shah has already made it clear that India is not travelling to Pakistan for the Asia Cup and that it will be held at a neutral venue.
“As far as Pakistan playing its Asia Cup games in Pakistan is concerned, the budget for the tournament is passed by the Asian Cricket Council. If ACC says that it’s not a commercially viable proposition to hold Asia Cup in two countries, how can Pakistan play its games at home. ACC, for all you know, might not pass the budget,” a board source said.
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Bangladesh Independence Day celebrated in Assam, Tripura
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Guwahati: The Bangladeshi Independence Day celebrated in Assam and Tripura on Sunday with numerous functions and events in the two Indian states that share border with the neighbouring country.
Bangladesh’s Assistant High Commissions in Guwahati and Agartala organised a series of programmes to observe the day.
Artistes, including renowned singers from both Bangladesh and India, performed in the functions.
Discussions were held highlighting the significance of Bangladesh Independence Day and National Day.
Bangladesh celebrates its Independence Day on March 26 — which is also a national holiday.
The day commemorates Bangladesh’s declaration of Independence from Pakistan in the early hours of March 25, 1971.
On the occasion, troops of the Border Security Force exchanged sweets and greetings with Border Guards Bangladesh in the border outposts along the border between the two neighbouring countries.
Days after the Pakistani forces unleashed attacks across Bangladesh, East Pakistan’s leaders vowed to win their Independence on March 26, 1971.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman then launched a guerilla war against the then Pakistani rulers.
The Liberation War later turned into a full-scale India-Pakistan War, leading to the surrender of 93,000 Pakistani soldiers in Dhaka on December 16, 1971.
India was the first country to recognise Bangladesh as a sovereign nation.
According to Bangladeshi freedom fighters and experts, Pakistani forces, during the 9 months of the Liberation War (March 26 to December 16, 1971), massacred over 3 million Bengali-speaking people, including children, and raped over 6 lakh women.
Over 1 crore families were displaced from their ancestral homes and lands during that period.
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#Bangladesh #Independence #Day #celebrated #Assam #Tripura( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
Bangladesh: PM Hasina hands over 39,365 houses to homeless people
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Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed over 39,365 houses to homeless people as part of her government’s Ashrayan-2 project which ensure housing for all landless persons.
The premier handed over the houses in the fourth phase of the project through a program virtually from her official residence, Ganabhaban on Wednesday.
She also declared seven districts and 159 upazilas as homeless- and landless-free, aising the total number of such districts to nine and upazilas to 211.
Earlier, the Prime Minister had declared Panchagarh and Magura as homeless- and landless-free districts.
Meanwhile, the total number of distributed houses under the project currently stands at 2,15,827.
Since the Ashrayan-2 project, dubbed as ‘Sheikh Hasina Model’, in inclusive development, project sites have been developed with an integrated approach ensuring all civic amenities, including electricity, drinking water, schools, mosques and graveyards and lands for cultivation.
Under the project, a total of 771,301 families have been rehabilitated so far since 1997.
The number of rehabilitated people is 3,856,505.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had first introduced the rehabilitation program for homeless people in 1972.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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17 killed in bus crash in Bangladesh
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Representative Image Dhaka: At least 17 people were killed and more than 26 others injured when a passenger bus veered off the road and fell into a ditch in Bangladesh’s central Madaripur district, nearly 63 km south of the capital Dhaka on Sunday.
Abdullahel Baki, a local Shibchar Highway Police official, told reporters that “The passenger bus felt into a roadside ditch, leaving 14 passengers dead on the spot and about 25-26 were injured”.
He said three of the injured died on the way to local hospitals, Xinhua news agency reported.
The accident occurred as its driver lost control over the vehicle and plunged the bus into a ditch on an expressway at about 7:30 a.m. local time.
Bangladesh has one of the highest fatality rates for road accidents in the world mainly due to shoddy highways, poorly maintained vehicles, violation of traffic rules by inept drivers and lack of monitoring of the traffic department.
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Three arrested in Bangladesh building explosion case as death toll rises to 21
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Dhaka: Bangladesh authorities arrested three people in connection with the deadly explosion in a multi-storey building at a crowded area here in the national capital as rescue workers on Thursday recovered one more body from the rubble, raising the death toll to 21.
The “earthquake-like” explosion at the building at Old Dhaka’s crowded Gulistan area on Tuesday also injured over 100 people.
Three people including the owner of the building were arrested and remanded to custody, the Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Ahmed on Thursday placed building owner Wahidur Rahman, his brother Matiur Rahman and businessman Motaleb Mintu each on a two-day remand.
Meanwhile, rescue workers on Thursday recovered one more body from the rubble of the building, raising the death toll to 21.
The body was identified as that of a 38-year-old manager of Bangladesh Sanitary situated in the basement of the building, bdnews24 news portal reported.
Firefighters retrieved 20 bodies in the first two days of the rescue mission in the building, which was declared risky in the wake of the explosion.
The cause of the explosion could not be known immediately, but local residents suspected chemicals illegally stored inside the building, mostly used as an office and business complex, might have sparked the blast.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said Wednesday that the country has sufficient expertise to carry out an investigation into the explosion.
A four-member probe body headed by Lt Col Mohammad Tajul Islam Chowdhury, director of Fire Service and Civil Defence (Operation and maintenance), has been formed to look into the cause of the explosion. The committee has been tasked to submit its report within five working days.
Tuesday’s explosion occurred two days after another exposition at a building in Dhaka’s Science Laboratory area that killed three people and injured several others.
Last week, seven people were killed in an explosion at a private oxygen plant in the southeastern port city of Chattogram, injuring dozens of others.
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Dhaka explosion toll raises to 18, Bangladesh govt sets up probe
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Dhaka: Bangladesh’s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said Wednesday that the country has sufficient expertise to carry out an investigation into the powerful explosion that ripped through a multi-storey building in a crowded area here, killing 18 people.
The “earthquake-like” explosion at the seven-storey building at Old Dhaka’s crowded Gulistan area on Tuesday also injured over 150 people, officials said.
The cause of the explosion could not be known immediately, but local residents suspected chemicals illegally stored inside the building, mostly used as an office and business complex, might have sparked the blast.
Talking to reporters after visiting the explosion site on Wednesday, Khan said members of bomb disposal units and police, army and fire service personnel will conduct the probe into the incident.
“But if the country’s experts fail (to investigate), we will seek assistance from foreign experts,” he said.
“The investigation must be impartial. There is no reason for the investigation to be partial,” he was quoted as saying by the Daily Star newspaper.
Everything regarding the investigation will be made public, Khan said.
On Tuesday, hospital authorities confirmed 17 deaths while one more victim succumbed to his wounds overnight, raising the death toll to 18. The number of wounded people is estimated to be over 150, officials said.
A four-member probe body headed by Lt Col Mohammad Tajul Islam Chowdhury, director of Fire Service and Civil Defence (Operation and maintenance), has been formed to look into the cause of the explosion.
The committee has been tasked to submit its report within five working days, said Shahjahan Sikder, an official at the Fire service and Civil Defence headquarters.
Meanwhile, three firefighting units started the rescue operation for the second day on Wednesday.
Although the fire service resumed rescue and recovery efforts for a second day at the blast site, the work is moving slowly because of the risky condition of the building.
“It became risky to carry on the extensive rescue searches since the explosion has weakened the building. We are waiting for the safety clearance from the concerned experts to restart our full-scale operation,” fire service’s deputy director Babu Chakrabarty told reporters.
He added that rescuers were kept ready to enter into the building, where the explosion took place.
The fire service had suspended the rescue campaign after fire chief Brigadier General Mohammad Mainuddin Tuesday night said that the “the building appeared vulnerable after the explosion” that occurred on its ground floor and badly damaged two upper floors.
Witnesses said the building, which mostly housed several sanitary hardware shops and some business offices, was bending on one side while the fire officials said the blast damaged most of the pillars on the ground floor making it risky for anyone to enter into it.
The beams and pillars in the basement of the building are damaged, and operating heavy machinery in the area, such as excavators, could create vibrations that might cause the building to collapse, said Zafar Hossain, deputy commissioner of the Lalbagh zone of DMP.
“The experts are already holding a meeting. They will come here and will give further instructions. The rescue work is still incomplete,” he was quoted as saying by the Dhaka Tribune newspaper.
Once the fire service fully resumes its operation and removes the debris, only then it will be possible to confirm if anyone is trapped there, he added.
Officials fear the death toll is likely to go up as many of those rescued are critically injured.
Meanwhile, authorities handed over the bodies of the 17 people who died in the explosion to their relatives on Wednesday, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the state-run Dhaka Medical College and Hospital police outpost.
Among the injured, 11 people have been undergoing treatment at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, United News of Bangladesh reported.
According to media reports, at least three people were still missing but several more were feared to be trapped under debris.
“We cannot confirm yet if the blast was the outcome of any sabotage. But our bomb disposal unit along with military and police bomb disposal teams are working,” RAB director general M Khurshid Hossain told reporters on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is currently in Doha for the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, has prayed for the peace of the departed and urged authorities to take prompt action to ensure better treatment of the injured.
Tuesday’s explosion occurred two days after another exposition at a building in Dhaka’s Science Laboratory area that killed three people and injured several others.
Last week, seven people were killed in an explosion at a private oxygen plant in the southeastern port city of Chattogram, injuring dozens of others.
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“One Billion Meals” distributes 5.4 million meals in camps in Bangladesh
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The “One Billion Meals” initiative, the largest food support campaign of its kind in the region covering 50 countries on four continents, has completed the distribution of 5.4 million meals in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, in cooperation with the United Nations World Food Programme.
And due to the partnership between the “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives”, which organizes the “One Billion Meals” initiative, and the World Food Program with its global ability to reach refugee camps, food support was distributed directly and in an orderly manner to beneficiaries in the form of instant smart vouchers for individuals and families that enable them to obtain their needs. The main outlets and stores close to them and approved by the UN program.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicates that there are nearly one million Rohingya refugees, including 490,000 children, in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, which has become the largest refugee shelter in the world, according to the organization’s description.
Intelligent solutions to logistical challenges
Sarah Al-Nuaimi, Director of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Office, said: “Reaching the beneficiaries of the “billion meals” initiative in one of the largest refugee camps in the world is a logistical challenge by all standards, but the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives was able, in partnership with the World Food Program of The United Nations has reached the equivalent of 5.4 million meals for individuals and families from the Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh.”
Al-Nuaimi confirmed that the adoption of the instant smart vouchers formula that provides food support to the beneficiaries of the “One Billion Meals” initiative comes in light of the keenness to reach the beneficiaries directly in order to preserve their dignity and to continue innovation in the tools of effective and influential humanitarian work.
Al-Nuaimi added, “Success in reaching vulnerable groups of refugees and displaced persons translates the values of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s global initiatives and the UAE’s extending a helping hand and providing assistance to all without discrimination or exception.”
An international contribution to facing humanitarian challenges
In his turn, Majid Yahya, Representative of the World Food Program to the GCC states, said: “The challenge of hunger is on the rise at the global level and threatens more than 800 million people. In Bangladesh, the response plan developed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the year 2022 requested more than 881 million “This is why the operations of the ‘One Billion Meals’ initiative in cooperation with the World Food Program in refugee camps in Bangladesh came at an ideal time to provide food support to those most in need.”
Yahya stressed that the completion of the “One Billion Meals” initiative, distributing the equivalent of 5.4 million meals in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, is a new addition to the qualitative partnership between the World Food Program and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, stressing the importance of continuing this bilateral cooperation to expand the circle of beneficiaries of work. and respond to the growing needs of vulnerable groups in less fortunate societies.
partners
The “One Billion Meals” initiative provides nutritional support to beneficiaries in 50 countries around the world, in coordination with partners in the United Nations World Food Programme, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Regional Food Banks Network, and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charitable Foundation. And humanity, the Emirates Food Bank, and a number of charitable and humanitarian institutions in the countries that it includes.
Reach out to refugees, the displaced and the less fortunate
While the One Billion Meals Campaign is primarily concerned with the less fortunate groups of refugees, displaced persons, needy families, and those affected by disasters, conflicts and crises, the cooperation of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives from the World Food Program constituted a qualitative solution to the logistical challenges on the way to reaching refugees in host countries, and also enhanced opportunities Available to individuals and small businesses such as groceries, bakeries, etc. in local communities.
Support for those who deserve it without intermediaries
The long-term food support provided by the campaign in Cox’s Bazar camps has benefited 20,000 people who can obtain their basic food needs from local suppliers through an identification code they receive on a mobile phone, to ensure that support reaches those who deserve it in a quick manner.
“One Billion Meals” Initiative
The “One Billion Meals” initiative, organized by the “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives”, comes within the framework of humanitarian and relief aid, which is one of the five main axes of the work of the largest humanitarian institution in the region. It seeks to provide a food safety net for those in need in 50 countries on four continents.
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( With inputs from : pledgetimes.com )Bangladesh withdraws duty on sugar import to stabilise local market
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sugar Dhaka: Bangladesh’s National Board of Revenue (NBR) withdrew import duty on both raw and refined sugar in order to enable consumers to get the sweetener at reduced rates.
In a notification, NBR withdrew a 3,000 taka (about $28) specific duty on the import of raw sugar and 6,000 taka duty on refined sugar per tonne with immediate effect.
Apart from this, the NBR reduced the regulatory duty on the import of sugar to 25 per cent from 30 per cent.
The reduced import benefit, which reportedly comes following a proposal from the commerce ministry to bring down the prices of sugar from its current record level of up to 120 takas per kg, will remain effective until May 30 this year.
The overall import cost of raw and refined sugar is expected to decline by 6,500 takas and 9,000 takas per tonne respectively following the fresh duty waver and reduction measures, according to an estimate by the NBR. ($1 equals about 106 takas)
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Bangladesh ‘constrained’ to abstain from vote on UNGA resolution on Ukraine
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Photo:(IANS) Dhaka: Bangladesh was “constrained” to abstain from the UNGA vote on Ukraine as it believes that the resolution lacked “intensive” diplomatic engagement and “dialogue” between the parties involved in the conflict, a government official said on Sunday.
“Bangladesh continues to remain concerned over the loss of civilian lives, the deteriorating humanitarian situation in conflict zone, and consequential socio-economic fallout around the globe and calls for cessation of hostilities,” the Dhaka Tribune quoted Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Seheli Sabrin as saying.
Bangladesh pursues a peace-centric foreign policy based on the principles of respect for all states, peaceful settlement of international disputes, and in line with principles of the United Nations charter, Sabrin said.
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday that demanded Russia leave Ukraine. The resolution got 141 votes in favor, seven against while 32 countries abstained.
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