Weekend
Evicted slum dwellers suffer
Hundreds of women, children and elderly, evicted from the Adarsha Slum at Dhalpur in Dhaka on Thursday are living in the open. The Dhaka City Corporation demolished the slum, well known as Bangabandhu slum, at Demra violating a High Court stay order. At least 10,000 slum dwellers are forced to lived under the open sky, near the Sauedabad Water Treatment Plant...[ + ]
DCC demolishes Dhaka gate
at Banani
The Dhaka City Corporation has started demolishing the Dhaka gate at Banani to extend the road. ‘It is a part of our decision to set up a Dhaka gate at Tongi, the entrance of the city, demolishing the old gate, and the process to set up the new gate is under way,’ said the corporation’s chief engineer, Idris Miyan...[ + ]
Nothing less than
a Kenya-wash
Before the banglalink tiger cup series started in Bogra, Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar had been keen to avoid talking about a possible Kenyan whitewash fearing that it might have put his players under additional pressure. But after two successive wins, he now believes the hosts are capable of a clean sweep in the four-match series over their one-time East African rivals...[ + ]
Mashud 100
not out!
Bangladesh wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud joined an elite club after he earned his 100th one-day dismissal during the second-match of the banglalink tiger cup against Kenya on Monday. Mashud, who has regularly kept wicket in both versions of the game, reached the milestone when he took a diving catch to get rid of Jimmy Kamande. He is the 18th stumper in one-day to do so...[ + ]
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