Jalandhar: The international border with Pakistan in Punjab is slowly emerging as the preferred area for illegal Bangladeshi migrants to cross over into Pakistan as the first step towards finding employment in the Middle-East, Border Security Force officials said in Jalandhar. In the last four-and-a-half years, BDF has apprehended 72 illegal Bangladeshi migrants who had arrived in Punjab looking to cross the border.
"Alert BSF jawans posted at the international border in Punjab have over the past few years foiled several bids by illegal Bangladeshi migrants to cross over into Pakistan," BSF (Punjab Frontier) Inspector General Aditya Mishra told PTI. Two such migrants have been arrested so far this year while trying to cross the border. "Since we have arrested these persons who were looking to cross the border, it has to be assumed that such attempts are being made to use the Punjab route to enter Pakistan," Mishra added.
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03:31 AM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: A 16-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging in a police station in Delhi on Saturday evening, police said. "The girl, a native of Bangladesh, who works as a domestic help in south Delhi, had gone missing from her home in Vasant Kunj on Friday. A passerby spotted her near Rithala Metro station on Saturday in north Delhi and took her to Vijay Vihar police station," said a police...
05:51 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Dhaka: Mohammad Ashraful's admission to match and spot-fixing has seriously dented Bangladesh's pride, his former captain and team-mate Mushfiqur Rahim has said, but that he would be welcomed back into the team if permitted to resume his cricketing career. Ashraful, who became the country's youngest Test centurion in 2001 at the age of 17, last Tuesday apologised for his wrongdoing and said he had detailed his role in fixing to...
03:03 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Dhaka: Police on Sunday morning prevented fans from holding their scheduled human-chain programme demanding "symbolic punishment" only for ex-Bangladesh cricket captain Mohammad Ashraful who last week confessed to his role in match-fixing. Security has been beefed up around the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka after the Ashraful fans were chased away, reports Xinhua. Official sources said the fans who interacted through social media like Facebook started to flock...
05:42 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Wellington: Former Bangladesh coach Jamie Siddons says ex-captain Mohammad Ashraful shouldn't be judged too harshly for his involvement in match-fixing because he was likely ensnared by the "powerful beast of underworld gambling" at an early age. Siddons, who now coaches New Zealand's Wellington province, told the Dominion-Post newspaper he alerted the Bangladesh Cricket Board and International Cricket Council to the threat of spot-fixing during his four-year term as Bangladesh coach...
09:03 AM, Jun 06, 2013
Dhaka: Bangladesh cricket fans, players and newspapers reacted with shock and dismay on Wednesday to the tearful confession by former national captain Mohammad Ashraful that he had been involved in match-fixing. Ashraful, who became the country's youngest Test centurion in 2001 at the age of 17, on Tuesday apologised for his wrongdoing and said he had detailed his role in fixing to anti-corruption officials from the International Cricket Council (ICC)....
08:36 AM, Jun 06, 2013
Dhaka: Bangladesh on Wednesday lifted a ban on popular video sharing website YouTube, eight months after it was imposed to prevent the viewing of an anti-Islam film which had sparked worldwide protests. "The ban has been lifted," a spokesman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Sunil Kanti Bose said. Talking to state-run BSS news agency Bose said the people in Bangladesh now could have access again to the YouTube as...
06:42 PM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: Bangladesh batsman and former captain Mohammad Ashraful has admitted to fixing and apologised for it after the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) suspended him until ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) submits its report on investigations into fixing during the 2013 Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). "I should have not done this injustice to the nation. I feel guilty. I would only say 'Please all forgive me, my conduct was...
07:38 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Dhaka: The Bangladesh Cricket Board has suspended former captain Mohammad Ashraful until the International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit submits a report on investigations into suspected match-fixing and spot-fixing during this year's Bangladesh Premier League. "As Ashraful has confessed his involvement in fixing to the ACSU team, so he should not be allowed to play any level of cricket until we get a full report of the investigation," Bangladesh...
03:02 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Dhaka: Four bloggers in Bangladesh, who allegedly posted derogatory comments about Islam and the prophet on the Internet will face a court hearing on framing of charges against them on June 27. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Zahirul Haque took cognisance of the charges brought against the bloggers and fixed June 27 for starting the indictment hearing, bdnews reported. Bloggers Subrata Adhikari Shuvo, Mashiur Rahman Biplab and Rasel Pervez were...
09:13 PM, Jun 02, 2013
London: A Bangladeshi student has been confirmed for the role of Pakistani schoolgirl and activist Malala Yousufzai in a forthcoming film by Indian filmmaker Amjad Khan. Fatima Sheikh, a 16 year old from Dhaka, will take on the role of the teenage activist who was shot by the Taliban last year and was airlifted to the UK for life-saving surgery. The further details Sheikh's identity are being kept under wraps...
10:49 AM, Jun 01, 2013
After nearly two months of crash-bang IPL, cricket will return to its international colours with the ICC Champions Trophy to be played in England from June 6-23. Once touted as the 'mini World Cup' and a brainchild of then ICC president Jagmohan Dalmiya, the tournament's main aim was the development of cricket in the non-Test playing nations and raise funds for the same purpose. But after this seventh edition of...
11:26 AM, May 31, 2013
Dhaka: The International Cricket Council is probing allegations of match-fixing in Bangladesh cricket with former captain Mohammad Ashraful among those being questioned, local officials said on Thursday. ICC anti-corruption inspectors were investigating allegations of wrongdoing during a match in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), a spokesman for the Bangladesh Cricket Board said. "The allegations involve a match between Dhaka Gladiators and Chittagong Kings in the second edition of the BPL,"...
04:12 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: Involvement of a prominent Bangladeshi player, who never played in the IPL, has now emerged in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, police sources told CNN-IBN on Wednesday. Investigation moved forward at a rapid pace on Wednesday when name of the BCCI president N Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, who is also the Team Principal and CEO of Chennai Super Kings, also surfaced - allegedly for illegal betting. But the involvement...
05:01 PM, May 22, 2013
Guwahati/Nalbari: Eight Bangladeshi nationals, three of them smugglers, were apprehended by police from various parts of Assam and Indo-Bangla border. Police said five Bangladeshis were caught in different areas of Nalbari district in Assam when they failed to produce valid documents to a local court despite repeated notices to them. BSF will make arrangements to deport them to Bangladesh soon, police said. Three other Bangladeshi nationals were among five apprehended...
10:15 PM, May 16, 2013
Dhaka: At least four people were killed on Thursday as cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' battered Bangladesh's southwestern coastlines, forcing authorities to evacuate over one million people from low-lying areas. The cyclone lashed the southern Patuakhali coast with wind speed up to 90 kilometres per hour and now proceeded towards northeastern coastlines. "The cyclone has now touched the land, gradually losing its strength ... it is heading towards Bandarban (hill district) partly...
05:30 PM, May 16, 2013
Guwahati: An alert has been sounded across Assam as Cyclone Mahasen is likely to hit the north-eastern states on Thursday, officials said. All boats and ferry services on Brahmaputra have been closed for the next three days and fishermen have been directed not to venture out to the river. A control room has been set up in the district headquarters though no evacuation was required at the moment as the...
04:45 PM, May 16, 2013
Shillong: Heavy rains lashed Meghalaya early on Thursday as Cyclone Mahasen crossed into neighbouring Bangladesh's low-lying coast but officials said there was no direct threat to humans or agriculture in the state. The rains were a result of the cyclonic storm which has just landed in Bangladesh, a senior government official said. Officials at the Regional Meteorological Centre in Guwahati said the state is not in the cyclone's path directly...
04:30 PM, May 16, 2013
Chittagong: Bangladesh is evacuating one million people with Cyclone Mahasen expected to hit its low-lying delta coast on Thursday evening, said the United Nations, which estimated 4.1 million people were at risk due to gale-force winds, heavy rain and flooding. Bangladesh has raised its storm warning to seven, on a scale with a maximum of 10, as Mahasen approaches one of the poorest countries in Asia with winds of around...
09:04 AM, May 16, 2013
Reshma told reporters that she survived on filthy water and a few biscuits as everyone around her died. ...
11:34 PM, May 15, 2013
