Weekend
DCC to buy 100 foggers to fight mosquito menace
The Dhaka City Corporation’s mosquito control department plans to buy 100 fogger machines to combat the mosquito menace, said officials. ‘We will issue work order within this month,’ said the DCC chief entomologist Nasim Us-Seraj. The new fogger machines, priced at Tk 64,500 each, will be bought from Korea and is expected to arrive at the Corporation within three months from the work order, Seraj said, adding that currently the department has 339 foggers...[ + ]
People crowd courier services in Rajshahi to send mangoes
All the courier service providers in the Rajshahi city are now busy receiving orders for carrying mangoes to different areas of the country, particularly capital Dhaka and Chittagong city. City people are crowding the offices of courier services everyday for sending mangoes to their relatives living particularly in Dhaka and Chittagong...[ + ]
Comedy of
batting errors
It was the match that Bangladesh wanted to make their practice game after beating India in their Twenty20 opener. Thanks to a swashbuckling innings from Yuvraj Singh and a mesmerising bowling spell by Pragyan Ojha that did not happen. Instead of playing a practice game they had to fight for their survival in the competition against Ireland, who had long been waiting for it. The Irish side have time and again said their target is to beat Bangladesh and play in the Super Eights of the ICC World Twenty20...[ + ]
Dido picks nine rookies
National football coach Edson Silva Dido picked nine rookies in his 30-member preliminary squad, announced on Monday, for the upcoming SAFF Championship and the SA Games. Dido will select his final team after a three-month training camp starting on June 15 in Cox’s Bazar...[ + ]
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