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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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National

Waterlogging in Dhaka: Collective failure made it perennial

The desire expressed by the two Dhaka city mayors to take over the responsibility of drainage management from Dhaka Wasa in a bid to end the capital’s perennial waterlogging problem has widely been regarded as a popular idea.

But experts said just changing the custodian without addressing the core issues that have failed Wasa — such as the absence of total authority of one particular body and lack of coordination with six other organisations — might also fail the two city corporations.

The idea of handing over the drainage management to city corporations came to light last month when the two mayors — Dhaka South’s Shekih Fazle Noor Taposh and Dhaka North’s Atiqul Islam — said theywished to take over the job.

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Cricket Sports

Anderson Enters History, Pakistan Saves The Test Sands

Pakistan Vs England Test Series
Third Test Played at Ageas Bowl Southampton from 21st to 25th August 2020 
Brief Scorecard at Stumps on Day Three 

England 1st Innings 583 /8 Declared in 154.4 Overs (Zack Crawley 267, Jos Buttler 152, CR Woakes 40, JR Root 29, Fawad Alam 2/46, Shahin Afridi 2/141, Yasir Shah 2/ 173, Asad Shafiq 1/24 ) , Pakistan 1st Innings 273 All Out  in 93 Overs ( Azhar Ali 143* ,  Mohammad Rizwan 53  , JM Anderson 5/ 56 , SCJ Broad 2/ 40 ) , Pakistan 2nd Innings 187/4 ( Babar Azam 63* , Abid Ali 42 , Azhar Ali 31 , J Anerson 2/45 ) 
 

Match Drawn
England Won the Series 1-0 
Man of the Match: Zack Crawley 
Man of the Series: Jos Butller and Mohammad Rizwan. 

Rain and inclement weather impacted England Pakistan enthralling test series just concluded. England sort of hijacking test win from the grasp of Pakistan in the first test at Manchester won the series 1-0. The rain impacted second test at Southampton ended in a tame draw. Pakistan following on in the third test with generous assistance of weather managed salvaging a draw. ……………….

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Pradeep made the fortune, his wife washed the dirt off it

While on duty, former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das, accused in ex-major Sinha Rashed Md Khan killing case, used to make money from bribes and corruptions.

His wife Chumki Karan, on the other hand, under the disguise of business had been legalising the ill-gotten property of her husband.

But their misdeed came to the fore after the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) began an inquiry against their illegal wealth.

In the inquiry, the commission has found that Chumki amassed about Tk 3.95 crore of wealth from her husband’s “illegal income”.

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Football

‘You can’t compare Lewandowski and Messi’ – Bayern boss Flick

Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick stayed neutral in the debate whether his striker Robert Lewandowski is better than Barcelona star Lionel Messi ahead of Friday’s Champions League quarter-final clash in Lisbon.

Barca face Bayern at the Estadio da Luz for a place in next Wednesday’s semi-final.

In the build-up, there has been much debate whether Lewandowski, the Champions League’s top-scorer with 13 goals in seven games, or six-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi is the better player. 

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Cricket Games Sports

Are Bengal Tigers Ready To Take On Lankan Lions?

Finally ice is melting. Bangladesh tiger squad is going to embark on Lanka Lion hunt mission in October 2020. 

With virtually no real activities since March 2020 we are not sure whether most of the Bangladesh cricketers are mentally or physically in shape for taking on strong Sri Lanka in their backyard in test series? With Shakib not available till end October and Tamim a bit doubtful the challenge can be well anticipated. 

Lack of positive thoughts of BCB for training and trimming Bangladesh team maintaining bio security protocol and WHO guidelines over the past month and a half may cause Bangladesh team to suffer. The team was not in great shape before the outbreak of COVID pandemic in March in Bangladesh.  ……

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Messi helps Barca sink Napoli to reach last eight

A fired-up Lionel Messi led Barcelona to a 3-1 win at home to Napoli on Saturday for a 4-2 aggregate victory which took the club into the Champions League quarter-finals for the 13th consecutive season where they face Bayern Munich.

The Catalans had a shaky start but took the lead in the 10th minute with a powerful header from a corner by Clement Lenglet before Messi scored a superb second in the 23rd, seeing off four defenders to curl the ball into the far bottom corner.

Messi had the ball in the net again soon after following a superb team move but the goal was harshly ruled out for handball by the Argentine following a VAR review, although Messi later won a penalty which Luis Suarez converted for Barca’s third.