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Russell Domingo called for an emphasis on domestic cricket

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Russell Domingo, the head coach of the Bangladesh national cricket team, said he was focusing on domestic cricket at the time as there was no international tour. He attended a virtual press conference on Friday for the first time during the epidemic. Bangladesh played their last international match against Zimbabwe in March this year. After that, the Tigers were supposed to go to Pakistan but did not go due to the Covid-19 situation. For the same reason, Bangladesh's visit to Ireland and Australia's visit to Bangladesh was also postponed. The Tigers were scheduled to travel to Sri Lanka on September 26 to take part in a three-match Test series after a long hiatus due to Covid-19 as part of the ongoing World Cup Test Championship. However, the two boards were later forced to suspend t...

Hilsa harvesting is closed from 14 October to 4 November

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The government has announced a 22-day hilsa breeding season from October 14 to November 4. During this period, catching, extracting, selling and marketing of hilsa will be stopped. During the breeding season, 10,057 metric tonnes of VGF rice has been allocated for fishermen under the government's humanitarian food aid program. This information has been given in a press release of the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock on Friday. It has also been said that under this assistance program, the allocation has been given to 5 lakh 26 thousand 342 fisher families in 152 upazilas of 36 districts at the rate of 20 kg before the start of the main breeding season for hilsa. This season, food aid is being provided to an additional one lakh 20 thousand 263 fishing families as compared to last seaso...