Ace Bangladesh all-rounder Sakib al Hasan on Wednesday was picked as the icon player of Rangpur Riders for the forthcoming seventh edition of Bangladesh Premier League, scheduled to start on December 6. Sakib, who played for the Dhaka Dynamites franchise for last three years, led Rangpur for one season in the third edition of BPL in 2015-16 and then captained Dhaka for the next three seasons. Sakib signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Rangpur on Wednesday and both the sides made the contr

Dengue has taken a turn for the worse in bangladesh since May 1 as a survey has found high presence of the vector of the disease, Aedes mosquito, in the capital. According to the Directorate General of Health Services, 258 people were hospitalised with dengue in bangladesh this year and two of them died but 148 of them were hospitalised in 33 days since May 1. Its director for communicable diseases taneya said that the situation was ‘alarming’. ‘The situation has not improved