
After winning the toss, Burners chose to bat first against Kings and put up a huge total of 182. ...

01:32 AM, Feb 01, 2013

A firm advocate of religious tolerance, the 40-something Ghuznavi feels writers, especially in contexts like hers, cannot escape social responsibility. ...

03:02 PM, Jan 31, 2013

Fidel Edwards four-wicket haul powered Rangpur Tigers to 33-run victory over Khulna Royal Bengals. ...

11:45 PM, Jan 29, 2013

Darren Stevens 55 off 35 balls helped Dhaka Gladiators to thrash Sylhet Royals by 31 runs. ...

11:39 PM, Jan 29, 2013

Bangladesh on Tuesday intensified security and ordered stern action against "troublemakers" after activists of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami indulged in violence and attacked police to demand halting of the 1971 war crimes trial of their leaders. Dozens of policemen, 21 of them in Dhaka, were injured as the extreme right wing activists launched attacks with homemade bombs in the capital, in southwestern Chittagong and several northwestern districts on Monday. ...

08:15 PM, Jan 29, 2013

In a match that saw 400 runs being scored in 40 overs, Duronto Rajshahi beat Barisal Burners by four runs. ...

06:56 AM, Jan 29, 2013

Sylhet Royals bludgeoned their way to a fifth consecutive win, defeating Chittagong Kings by three wickets. ...

11:09 PM, Jan 28, 2013

In a match that saw 400 runs being scored in 40 overs, Rajshahi beat Burners by four runs. ...

10:51 PM, Jan 28, 2013

In a major embarrassment for the Congress, the brother of its Tripura unit president was arrested on Monday evening. Sandip Roy Barman was caught with arms, Bangladeshi currency and a few letterheads of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) by the Assam Rifles near Agartala. ...

08:58 PM, Jan 28, 2013

India and Bangladesh on Monday signed a liberalised visa agreement and a landmark extradition treaty that would pave the way for the deportation of jailed ULFA 'general secretary' Anup Chetia and other wanted "criminals". ...

05:55 PM, Jan 28, 2013

Authorities on Sunday launched a probe into the fire and subsequent stampede at an illegal garment factory that killed seven women workers in the Bangladeshi capital, two months after the country's deadliest industrial fire in a textile unit claimed 112 lives. ...

01:37 PM, Jan 28, 2013

Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has left for Dhaka on a two-day visit. India will sign a liberalised visa agreement and an extradition treaty with Bangladesh during Shinde's visit. ...

08:57 AM, Jan 28, 2013

India is all set to sign a liberalised visa agreement and an extradition treaty with Bangladesh during Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's two-day visit to Dhaka beginning on Sunday. The new visa pact, named revised travel arrangement, will remove restrictions on visit of each other's businesspersons, students, patients, senior citizens above 65 years and children below 12 years on the lines of the liberalised visa regime between India and Pakistan....

10:07 AM, Jan 27, 2013

Fire raced through a small garment factory in the Bangladesh capital on Saturday, killing at least six employees and injuring 10, firefighters and witnesses said, two months after the country's worst factory blaze killed 112 workers. Fire service officials said the fire at Smart Fashions, housed in the upper floor of a two-storey building in the suburb of Mohammadpur, appeared to start in a tyre repair and welding shop downstairs....

06:38 PM, Jan 26, 2013

Captain Shahriar Nafees scored a fifty and Shapoor Zardan picked up three wickets as Royal Bengals beat Riders. ...

11:28 PM, Jan 25, 2013

Royals won their fourth match in a row this season to lead the points table. ...

07:26 PM, Jan 25, 2013

In a low scoring affair Chittagong Kings register their first win this season edging our Barisal Burners by 21 runs ...

07:00 PM, Jan 24, 2013

The 38-year-old, currently plying his trade in the Bangladesh Premier League, achieved the feat during Barisal Burners’ 21-run defeat to Chittagong Kings. ...

05:47 PM, Jan 24, 2013

When fire ravaged a Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition. Two months later, the same families have yet to receive any of the compensation they were promised - not even their relatives' last paychecks. ...

04:13 PM, Jan 24, 2013

Hamilton Masakadza and Paul Stirling powered Sylhet Royals to a six-wicket win over Khulna Royal Bengals. ...

10:20 PM, Jan 23, 2013