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Cricket Games Sports

All eyes on Mirpur as cricket returns to Bangladesh

Bangladesh Cricketers
Bangladesh Cricketers

March 16, 2020 was the last time Bangladeshi cricketers played a competitive game.The backdrop was the first round of the Dhaka Premier League, which was cancelled shortly after following the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country.

After that long seven-month gap, cricketers will once again return to the field through the BCB President’s Cup today.

Mahmudullah XI will take on Najmul XI in the opening game of the 50-over tournament at the Sher-e-Bangla National stadium in Mirpur today.

All matches will be day-night affairs and it will mark the Bangladesh Cricket Board actually resuming cricket in an attempt to gradually host international teams.

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Football Sports

Much-anticipated BFF polls this afternoon

The much-hyped election and congress of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF), also known as BFF Elective Congress 2020, will be held on Saturday at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital.

The election voting will start at 02:00pm after a two-hour congress which will be held from 11:00am to 01:00pm.A total of 139 councillors from the federation’s affiliated associations will exercise their franchise to form the 21-member BFF executive committee including president, senior vice-president, four vice presidents and fifteen members.

The 3-member election commission, headed by Mezbah Uddin Ahmed, will conduct the polls. Other two members of BFF EC are Mahfuzur Rahman Siddique and Motahar Uddin Saju.

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COVID-19 International World

Leading COVID-19 vaccine trial resumes in Japan but not US

COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 vaccine

Trials on the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University have resumed in Japan but not the United States, where the pharmaceutical giant is working with regulators, a statement released Friday said.

The Financial Times, citing sources close to the case, reported that the US drug regulator the FDA had expanded its investigation into the serious side effects suffered by one trial participant, which had led to a brief halt in the tests, reports AFP.

The British company did not respond immediately to an AFP request for comments.

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National

Giving away greenery

Giving away greenery
Giving away greenery

The heartland of a reserve forest in Moulvibazar is in the process of being leased out to a private company for tea plantation.      

Several companies were vying for a lease of the 2,174.35 acres of land, disputed between the local Forest Department and administration following a controversial survey decision and subsequent filing of a case with the Land Survey Tribunal.

But one leading tea producer managed to get a green signal from the PMO with the condition of case disposal.

Forest officials and green activists squarely put the blame on local offices concerned for misleading the highest office,

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National

49 women including Ayesha in condemned cells

including Ayesha
including Ayesha

There are 888 convicts, including Ayesha Siddika alias Minni, in the condemned cells of 68 prisons around the country. Ayesha Siddika was recently sentenced to death in the Rifat murder case.

Among the prisoners in the condemned cells, 49 are women. So far no woman sentenced to death has been hanged in the country.

According to the prison directorate, once the court sentences a prisoner to be hanged, the convict is placed in a condemned cell and has to remain there till the sentence is carried out.

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North America World

US President Trump, first lady test positive for Covid-19

US President Trump

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early today.

Trump’s positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week. Trump was last seen by reporters returning to the White House on Thursday evening and looked to be in good health. Trump is 74 years old, putting him at higher risk of serious complications from a virus that has now killed more than 200,000 people nationwide.

“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump tweeted.

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National

Thrown into abyss of abuse

Thrown
Thrown

The recruiting agency that sent 14-year-old Umme Kulsum to a Saudi employer, who tortured her to death, threw many others into similar pits of abuse.

Details of such incidents came to light on Thursday when Rab-3 raided the office of the recruiting agency, M/H Trade International, and arrested its owner Mokbul Hossain and his associate Parvez for activities which are offenses under the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act.

While dozens upon of dozens of women have returned to narrate horror stories of the ordeals they faced in the hands of their foreign employers, most of their recruiting agencies stay out of the purview of law. And nested under that umbrella of impunity, a recruiting agency can send countless women to work abroad under circumstances that can only be described as trafficking.

In 2018, M/H Trade International sent a 28-year-old woman from Dhalpur (T. Akhter) to the city of Ha’il in Saudi Arabia, to work as a household help……….

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National

After 30 years of autocracy’s demise, democracy still remains a distant dream

democracy
democracy

To the question, “how democracy is faring in Bangladesh”, a ruling party’s answer has always been “we are a global example” and that of the opposition “we are the pits”. Since we have had the same ruling party in power for the last 12 years at a stretch, the narrative of democracy’s success has been unrelenting, and whatever little voice the real opposition has been allowed, “we are the pits” story continues.

But what say “WE, the PEOPLE”? Well, to the extent we are allowed to or safely can.

One method of gauging democracy’s health would be to look at the institutions that embody it in a country like Bangladesh: the judiciary, the legislative and the executive branches of the state.

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Health

Combatting the coming malnutrition crisis

child health
child health

COVID-19 has profoundly impacted all countries, with even the most prosperous nations overwhelmed by the pandemic. For low- and middle-income countries, the consequences are even more severe. With reduced purchasing power, interruptions in critical welfare programmes, and disruptions in global supply chains, many families no longer have access to adequate nutritious food. Shutdowns and fear of infection lead to reduced access to health systems and nutrition services. These factors may create a malnutrition crisis, with the potential to cause even more devastation than the pandemic itself.

While the provision of food may resolve the hunger issue, this does not guarantee people the nutrients their bodies need. Without access to proper nutrition, there will be long-term health impacts, including weaker immune system, lowered resilience to disease, and increased stunting and wasting. Addressing hunger and, more specifically, ‘nutrition’ need to be a key component of the global COVID-19 response.

Since 2010, Bangladesh has made immense progress in economic growth, food security, health and nutrition, and until COVID-19, the country was on track to achieve the child nutrition targets set in the second Bangladesh National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN2) by 2025.

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Business

Good governance, digitalisation can charge up stock market: analysts

Good governance,
Good governance,

Good governance, digitisation, earnings growth of listed companies and supportive macro-economy are the key to a sustainable stock market, analysts said yesterday.

Their comments came in a webinar — Towards a sustainable capital market: the drivers of growth — jointly organised by Bangladesh Merchant Bankers Association (BMBA) and Capital Market Journalists’ Forum (CMJF).

The stock market should be healthy and properly governed because only then people will come to the market, said Prof Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam, chairman of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC).

“Who will come with their hard-earned money in an ill market?”

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