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SA defeat Bangladesh team by 31 runs
Bangladesh side lose all wickets for 138 runs against the South African's 169 runs in the T20 match.
Match summary:
Bangladesh: 138 (19.2/20 over)
Soumya Sarkar 37;
E Leie 3/16, K Abbott 3/20, A Phangiso 3/30
South Africa: 169/4 (20/20 over)
Q de Kock 44, AB de Villiers 40;
Nasir Hossain 2/26
South Africa win by 31 runs.
SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes after Florida liftoff: NASA
An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 28, 2015. Reuters
SpaceX, as the company is known, is owned and operated by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Musk confirmed the news on Twitter. "Falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown. Will provide more info as soon as we review the data," he said.
A spokesman for the company had no immediate further comment.
The crew on the International Space Station has about four months of food and supplies on board, so the accident does not pose an immediate problem for them.
However, NASA’s second cargo transporter, run by Orbital ATK, remains grounded following a launch accident in October.
In April, a Russian Progress cargo ship also failed to reach the station.
Russia plans to launch a replacement Progress capsule on Friday.
SpaceX lost contact with the Falcon 9 about 2 minutes and 19 seconds after liftoff, NASA launch commentator George Diller. Diller said.
"It's not clear yet from the data what happened. They are beginning to play back video to look and see if there are any indications in the video what may have happened," he said.
In April, a Russian Progress cargo ship also failed to reach the station.
Russia plans to launch a replacement Progress capsule on Friday.
SpaceX lost contact with the Falcon 9 about 2 minutes and 19 seconds after liftoff, NASA launch commentator George Diller. Diller said.
"It's not clear yet from the data what happened. They are beginning to play back video to look and see if there are any indications in the video what may have happened," he said.
The accident occurred just before the rocket was to discard its first stage.
It wasn't immediately clear if the rocket broke apart on its own, or if Air Force range safety officers detonated explosives on the rocket, part of a system to ensure wayward boosters don't impact populated areas, NASA said.
Equipment, food, experiments lost
The spacecraft lost on Sunday carried 5,461 pounds (2,477 kg) of food, clothing, equipment and science experiments for the station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 260 miles (420 km) above Earth.
It wasn't immediately clear if the rocket broke apart on its own, or if Air Force range safety officers detonated explosives on the rocket, part of a system to ensure wayward boosters don't impact populated areas, NASA said.
Equipment, food, experiments lost
The spacecraft lost on Sunday carried 5,461 pounds (2,477 kg) of food, clothing, equipment and science experiments for the station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 260 miles (420 km) above Earth.
The gear included the first of two docking systems for space taxis under
development by SpaceX and Boeing to park at the station.
In addition to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, SpaceX leases one of the mothballed space shuttle launch pads at the adjacent Kennedy Space Centre and is building a new launch site in Texas.
The company also has flown once from a launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Education minister clips secretary’s wings after college admission gaffe
Khan made a huge blunder with college admission procedure that embarrassed the education minister into offering a public apology, forcing Nahid to clip his wings.
Nahid issued the directive on Tuesday after a discussion with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, virtually stripping Secretary Khan of his powers.
It was the bureaucrat who issued college admission guidelines in the absence of the education minister. The digitalised admission system was overwhelmed and crashed, making headlines.
The latest directive says no official can take any decision on their own by keeping the minister in the dark. Usually, a secretary can make some decisions while some others are finalised at the deputy secretary level.
An official at the ministry, who was not authorised to speak to the media, confirmed to bdnews24.com all of them were secretly made to read the ministerial order and sign it at noon.
A source close to the education minister told bdnews24.com that Hasina had summoned Nahid during the Parliament session on Monday to discuss the admission fiasco.
Nahid’s directive read: “I have had an exhaustive discussion with the honourable prime minister and she made it clear that the minister will take all decisions pertaining to the ministry. No decision can be taken without informing me.”
Officials in the ministry say the secretary had incurred the minister’s displeasure by taking several unilateral decisions since his appointment on Sept 1 last year.
Some of the circulars he had issued had been controversial. The minister had, as a matter of fact, cancelled one of them.
It is alleged that Khan used to act on his own in matters of college teachers’ promotions and transfers.
The minister had revoked his Dec 31 directive regarding the admission of students to public and private universities on the basis of their SSC and HSC results.
Several ministry officials had then claimed the minister had been ‘misled’ into signing the file. The minister became aware of it from media reports.
Khan had also issued a circular on Mar 3 that let students who failed the selection tests to appear for the SSC and HSC examinations if they had 70 percent attendance.
This decision was roundly criticised by teachers and students.
The teachers had argued that the selection test prepared the students for the final examination. Letting them appear merely on the basis of their attendance, in fact, amounted to doing them a disservice.
The education secretary had also sent out circulars making it mandatory for students to learn swimming, stressing the construction of toilets in schools, decentralisation of the MPO, creation of institution websites, and excursions.
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