Forgotten heroes
Ullaskar suffered immensely after being caught by the British and was sent to the Cellular jail in the intractable Andamans.
Ullaskar suffered immensely after being caught by the British and was sent to the Cellular jail in the intractable Andamans.
A Bangladeshi passenger fell ill and died after boarding the Maitree Express on his way home.
The series win helped Sri Lanka overtake Pakistan and move up to fourth place on the updated WTC standings with a 50 percent points percentage, with India (first), Australia (second) and New Zealand (third) the only teams ahead of them.
The accident happened around 11.00 a.m. on the Dhaka-Barishal highway when the microbus collided head-on with a Dhaka bound bus proceeding towards Lubana from Barisal.
Rahim sustained a thumb injury during his side's win in the third ODI against Sri Lanka and subsequently went for an MRI.
In his telephonic conversation with Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen, Jaishankar also congratulated him on Bangladesh's victory against the Kiwis in a Cricket Test in New Zealand.
At the outset of 2021, a new controversy erupted over the delivery of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Bangladesh inked an agreement for 30 million doses of vaccine with the Serum Institute of India (SII). Although India gifted 3.2 million doses as a token of friendship, failure of timely delivery of the agreed doses threw Bangladesh into a deep vaccine crisis.
The country reported 557 new Covid-19 cases and one fatality on Sunday, taking the total infection tally to 15,86,466 and the death toll to 28,077, reports Xinhua news agency.
Delhi despises Dhaka's hobnobbing with Beijing, but won't publicly attack its most friendly neighbour. Pushing Dhaka via Washington is its preferred method. With its “friendship to all, malice toward none” foreign policy, Bangladesh is between a rock and a hard place. While the Biden administration is pulling Dhaka to its side, China has vowed fire and fury if Bangladesh goes to Washington.
Women's rights activists and legal experts told IANS that the country still lacks a strong legislation that will work as a safeguard against rape.
