Pallab Bhattacharya

Six cricketers from Bangladesh were among 258 foreigners who registered for the forthcoming auction for the 2020 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Mamata Banerjee-led ruling Trinamool Congress and its principal challenger Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may be sworn political rivals in West Bengal but both parties know that the fear about the controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC) among Hindus and Muslims alike was the most important determinant of the outcome of the bypoll held in three assembly constituencies on November 25.

Rubaiyat Hossain’s feature film Made in Bangladesh, won the Interfedi Award at Torino Film Festival, Italy. The film was awarded for effectively representing the conditions of women working in the textile industry in an economically marginalised area.

Bangladesh batsman Saif Hasan had to pay a Rs 21,600 fine to be allowed to fly out of the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata because he overstayed his visa.

India’s opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the upcoming T20I series against West Indies, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Wednesday.

The Indian cabinet yesterday extended the time for mandatory packaging of foodgrains and sugar with jute material for the jute year 2019-20 in order to help the struggling sector in eastern and northeastern states.

The controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam appears to have been discarded for all practical purposes.

Tanvir Mokammel’s feature film, Jibondhuli (The Drummer), and his documentary film, Bastra Baalika (The Garment Girls of Bangladesh), will be screened at an event in Tokyo, Japan, in January 2020.

Indian superstar Amir Khan will be playing a Sikh in his fifties in Laal Singh Chaddha. In the first poster of the film, the actor is dressed in a checkered shirt and a pink turban. He sits inside a train compartment, as a flickering smile peeps through his lush beard and moustache.

Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, who was suspended by the ICC for not reporting corrupt approaches from a bookie, has been released by Sunrisers Hyderabad ahead of next month’s players’ auction for the Indian Premier League.

Living legend Lata Mangeshkar was recently admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, due to breathing problems.

Two critically-acclaimed Italian films, Despite the Fog and Marghe and her Mother, will be screened at the 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which begins in Goa on November 20.

The players’ auction for the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will be held in Kolkata for the first time on December 19. The decision was made at the tournament’s Governing Council meeting held yesterday.

India’s T20I skipper Rohit Sharma was hit on his left thigh while batting in the nets at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi yesterday, forcing him to leave the net session ahead of Sunday’s first T20I against Bangladesh.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has ordered 72 SG pink balls to be delivered by next week for use in the first-ever day/night Test between Bangladesh and India at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata from November 22.

Newly elected Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly said last night that skipper Virat Kohli was open to the idea of playing day-night Tests and it could be a reality in the near future.

Two new border haats along the India-Bangladesh border will be established in Tripura, Biplab Kumar Deb, chief minister of the Indian state, said yesterday.

India has assured Bangladesh that it would try to lift the ban on the export of onions after the Maharashtra assembly elections, which took place on October 21.

President elect for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Sourav Ganguly, has invited Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to watch the second of a two-match Test series between the two countries, to be held at Eden Gardens in Kolkata from November 22 to 26.

The shooting for acclaimed director Tanvir Mokammel’s forthcoming feature film, Rupsha Nodir Baankey, wrapped up recently, with sequences shot in the Dhaka Central Jail.