The on-arrival mess
30-year-old Sharmin Akhter* holds dual citizenship. Born to a German father and a Bangladeshi mother, she possesses both countries' passports. She was nevertheless nearly deported from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport earlier this month.
5y ago
Will Bangladesh field its best ever team in the 2019 World Cup
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza celebrated his 200th ODI in style earlier this week, with a three-wicket haul that outfoxed a hard-hitting West Indian line-up and restricted the visitors to a below-par total, which the Tigers eventually cruised past with ease at Mirpur.
5y ago
Can bank alliances prevent human trafficking?
In early 2018, the Italian police intercepted a trafficking ring that dealt with workers from Bangladesh and India. Similar to almost every other trafficking story, the workers, in this case as well, were given false promises of jobs and brought to the country in exchange of exorbitant recruitment fees.
6y ago
The numbers that reflect the misery of our migrants
A recent report published by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) on the impact of migration on household income, expenditure and poverty, highlights a number of interesting trends.
6y ago
Bangladesh's innovation challenge
A physicist from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) dominated the headlines last month when she, and her team of 25, made a breakthrough discovery in cancer detection.
6y ago
The dangerous half degree
A new report published last week by the United Nation's Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organisation consisting of leading climate scientists from all over the world, has warned that by 2030, the earth's temperature is expected to witness an increase by at least half a degree.
6y ago
From the shores of hell & back
“They thought I was dead,” Abdul tells Star Weekend. “I was stuck in a jail in Libya for over four months and I never had the chance to contact my family. They thought I had fallen from the boat [on the way to Italy from Libya] into the dangerous sea and disappeared forever,” he says.
6y ago
Is the future of Bangladesh cricket actually in danger?
Bangladesh's young cricketers came under immense criticism in the recently concluded Asia Cup. It did not take too long for people to dismiss the likes of Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Liton Das and Mosaddek Hossain.
6y ago
November 1, 2016
Let the salute remain a mystery
“I don't know. Let some things remain a secret,” chuckled Shakib Al Hasan when asked why he celebrated Ben Stokes's wicket with a salute. That is all he said and then paused for the next question of the interview.
October 31, 2016
'Nobody thought of personal records'
The phrase 'it was a team effort' is often used by captains to describe wins these days. In fact, one could term it a cliché in today's cricketing world.
October 31, 2016
Biggest win for Bangladesh cricket
School kids. They all celebrated like school kids. If they had bags on, those would have been thrown high in the air as well. As
October 30, 2016
An 'average' effort
It might have been on a turning track and against an attack that is not comfortable playing spin, but regardless of those
October 29, 2016
Another Tamim special
Tamim Iqbal's knocks against England have almost always been memorable. From his feisty centuries at Lord's and Manchester
October 28, 2016
Consistency the buzzword
The way the two teams competed in the first Test bedazzled the entire cricketing world. The neck and neck battle throughout the four days against a vastly more experienced Test side eventually went on to create new Test fans across the country.
October 19, 2016
Can the newcomers save Bangladesh?
The fact that the Bangladesh selectors have included four uncapped players in their Test squad for the England series has received plenty of attention the past week.
October 15, 2016
Soumya up for the fight
A young cricketer comes to the surface, plays a series of phenomenal knocks, is the talk of the town and the love of the media and the nation, but all of a sudden fades away after a rather short period of time.
October 14, 2016
Tamim halfway there with 5,000
A powerful pull off Chris Woakes in the 22nd over made Tamim Iqbal the first ever Bangladeshi to score 5,000 ODI runs. Following that boundary, he stopped for a second, breathed a sigh of relief and raised his bat amidst the cheers of the fans of his hometown.
October 12, 2016
All about focus, no apologies
Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has said that his team does not need to apologise to Jos Buttler for the heated exchanges that took place between the two teams during the second ODI.
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