DHAKA - Bangladesh will retain Mohammad Ashraful as national captain for a limited overs home series against Pakistan in March and the Twenty20 World Cup in England in June. Ashraful has been under pressure after scoring only 12 runs in three one-day internationals at home against Zimbabwe last month. A Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman said on Saturday Ashraful’s position would be reviewed before a tour o ...
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Dhaka - Bangladesh's cabinet on Thursday approved a deal to allow the transit of goods through its territory by India, using water, road and rail routes, an official said. "The government has decided to renew the previously signed deal styled Bangladesh-India Trade Agreement," Abul Kalam Azad, the press secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed, told reporters after a special meeting of the cabinet th ...
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Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) plans to cut the number of flights to Bangladesh by a third due to the decline in migrant labour traffic as a result of the global recession, MEED has reported. The Saudi national carrier is cutting flights from across the kingdom to the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka from April. The number of flights will drop to eight a week from 12. ...
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DHAKA – Bangladesh said Thursday it would seek to eliminate begging from the impoverished country within five years. Hundreds of thousands of people depend on begging for their income in desperately poor Bangladesh, where 40 percent of the 144 million population earn less than a dollar a day. A.M.A Muhith, finance minister in the newly-elected Awami League administration, said a government-charity partnersh ...
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DHAKA – Bangladesh's crucial jute sector has shed 25,000 jobs and shut three factories after a massive slump in export triggered by the global economic downturn, the industry said Thursday. The Bangladesh Jute Spinners Association said the country's 59 jute yarn factories had slashed production by 30 percent in the last three months as demand for their products nosedived in European markets. "In the last mo ...
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