Bangladesh may lose ICC membership warns BCB chief

General Sources - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Bangladesh might lose its ICC membership if the cricket board doesn't hold its election according to the ICC's guideline, BCB president Nazmul Hassan has ...

Prayers to drive out ghost at Bangladesh garment plant

Inquirer - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Bangladesh garment workers arrive for work in the morning in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, June 13, 2013. AP FILE PHOTO/A.M.Ahad DHAKA -- Owners of a Bangladesh garment factory were forced to offer prayers and distribute food to the poor on Wednesday in a bid to drive out what workers believed was a ghost at the plant, police said. Some 3,500 workers stopped work at the plant in Gazipur, north ...

ACSU report may delay Dhaka league

Cricinfo - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said he is unsure whether Bangladesh's domestic one-day competition, the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, will start on time. He admitted to an underlying anxiety around the possibility of finding more names in the BPL corruption report to be submitted by the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) later this ...

17 killed 30 injured in road accident in Bangladesh

People's Daily - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

At least 17 people were killed and about 30 others injured as a goods laden truck and a night passenger bus collided head on in Bangladesh's Shajahanpur sub- district of Bogra district, 197 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, on Thursday morning.Police was quoted by private news agency UNB as saying that the Dhaka bound truck collided head on with the passenger bus, leaving 11 passengers ...

Mass hysteria blamed for Bangladesh garment workers illness say officials

whatsonsanya - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Hundreds of Bangladesh factory workers who fell sick in recent weeks could have been struck down by a mysterious illness described as a type of "mass hysteria," officials said on Tuesday. Garment workers at several factories fell sick with stomach pains and vomiting, leading officials to initially suspect contaminated drinking water at their workplaces as the cause. But doctors ...

Bangladesh Bank gives green light to ninth new bank

Asia News Network - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Bangladesh Bank yesterday decided to grant a licence to NRB Global Bank, taking the number of new banks to nine, a spokesman for the central bank said. BB took the decision at its board meeting yesterday with Governor Atiur Rahman in the chair, said AFM Asaduzzaman, general manager of BB. Nizam Chowdhury, a US-based expatriate and chairman of NRB Global Bank, also confirmed The Daily Star on ...