Shakib Al Hasan was suspended last November while playing his only County Championship match for Surrey, after his bowling action was deemed suspicious. Speaking on the ‘Beard Before Wicket’ podcast on Sunday, the left-handed all-rounder revealed that his illegal bowling action had been ‘somewhat intentional’. In December last year, an independent assessment at Loughborough University […]

Following the political transition, the actual magnitude of long-concealed non-performing loans (NPLs) has surfaced, prompting the central bank to instruct managing directors of commercial banks to strengthen loan restructuring efforts and apply the partial write-off scheme. At a bankers’ meeting, Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur said that NPLs reached Tk 6.44 trillion in September, […]