Shakil Hossain Sajib's six-wicket haul spurred Rajshahi Division to win against Dhaka Division South by seven wickets in a three-day match of the Young Tigers Under-18 National Cricket Tournament at the Cox's Bazar ground-2 Saturday, reports UNB. The day's other...
Rayer Bazar Athletics Club and North Bengal Cricket Academy won their respective matches in the Metropolis 2nd Division Cricket League at two separate venues Saturday, reports UNB. Rayer Bazar SC beat Young Pegasus A team by six wickets at the...
SYDNEY, Jan 17 (AFP): Lee Jeong-Hyeop struck in the first half as South Korea shocked Australia 1-0 Saturday to top Group A and complicate the hosts' task at the Asian Cup. Australia had been the form team with two big...
Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team will start their Sri Lanka campaign taking on their Sri Lankan counterpart in the first youth one-dayer of the five-match series scheduled to be held today (Sunday) at the Colts Cricket Club Ground in Colombo, Sri...
The season's curtain raiser soccer meet, the Federation Cup Football Tournament, will begin on February 15, reports UNB. Twelve teams-all the eleven Premier Division League teams along with Bangladesh championship league champions Uttar Baridhara Club-will compete in the tournament. The...
The 30th ranked Bangladesh Hockey team lost to their superior opponent 14th ranked Japan 1-5 in the 2nd round opener of the eight-team World Hockey League in Singapore Saturday, reports UNB. In the day's Pool-B match, Shunya Miyazaki of Japan...
LAHORE, Pakistan, Jan 17 (AFP): Pakistan head coach Waqar Younis Saturday said he was happy his team were not among the favourites to win next month's World Cup, saying the tag often put unnecessary pressure on players. Pakistan completed a...
Kalia Pourasava Eleven clinched the title of the Walton Narail DC Gold Cup Football Tournament beating Sadar Upazila team by 11-10 goals in a marathon tie-breaker at the Bir Shreshtha Nur Mohammad Stadium in Narail Saturday, reports UNB. The final...
MELBOURNE, Jan 17 (AFP): Left-arm paceman Mitchell Starc said he expects Australia's tri-series one-dayer with India in Melbourne Sunday to continue where the recent niggling Test series left off. Starc was the chief destroyer in the opening game of the...
MELBOURNE, Jan 17 (AFP): Serena Williams remains the red-hot favourite for the Australian Open, despite some patchy form in the lead up to her campaign for a 19th career Grand Slam. Arch-rival Maria Sharapova is again expected to be the...
Ballance fractures finger, fit for World Cup SYDNEY, Jan 17: England batsman Gary Ballance has fractured the little finger on his right hand but will be fit for the World Cup, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced Saturday....
Shahabuddin Rajon | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh is today considered a power house in the apparel sector. The overall performance of apparel exports in the last year compared to the previous years has not been that different. The growth rate has been around 9.0 per cent...
Maswood Alam Khan | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
The killings at Charlie Hebdo had given rise to expressions of unalloyed sympathy across the world including the Muslim communities. No matter what the provocations, settling scores through violence is never justified. From that sympathy a unity of expressions transcending...
None is likely to be surprised by what has been made public by the Bangladesh chapter of the Transparency International (TI) about the Drug Administration (DA) Thursday last quoting the results of its recent survey. The people who seek services...
Arshed Mahmud | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
International financial companies like banks, capital markets, multilateral financial institutions (e.g., IFC, WB, ADB, OPEC Fund etc) invest foreign currencies through financial loans, bank loans and buyer's credit as well as supplier's credit to procure capital goods for new as...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
The gruesome murder of 12 journalists, including 4 cartoonists on January 07 of a French satirical weekly newspaper, Charlie Hebdo in Paris by three masked Muslims in broad daylight has no justification in the light of the fundamental principles of...
Bangladesh, along with most other countries of the world, is trying to involve women in all spheres of national life. Many of the top positions in our country are occupied by women: prime minister, speaker of parliament, leader of the...
The incident of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's disappearance from Japan during the last World War is still a mystery. He led the 'Indian National Army', set up and trained under the Japanese military, in his abortive mission to attack and...
Nowadays teenagers and even children spend a lot of time after net surfing, social networks like facebook, twitter and instagram. Due to easy availability of porno sites in internet, many of them surf those websites which is leaving a bad...
Tahseen Zakaria | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
The recruitment professionals do not fully realise or accept the fact that the recruitment scenario in Bangladesh is rapidly changing. Skills that were enough just five years back to fill up vacant positions and meet your recruitment KPIs (key performance...
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
Tough challenges greet the new government of India at the very dawn of 2015. Though some silver lining undoubtedly has been witnessed in the recent past, yet complacency is out of question as the matter stands now. 'India Ratings' assesses...
NEW DELHI, Jan 17 (PTI): Indian government Friday hiked excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre each to take away gains coming by way of global oil prices dipping to six-year lows. Retail pump rates will...
LONDON, Jan 17 (Bloomberg): UK Prime Minister David Cameron said companies that have seen their operating costs fall with the oil price should look at passing some of the savings to employees. With an election less than four months away...
BERLIN, Jan 17 (Xinhua): The 80th International Green Week, a leading global agriculture fair, opened to visitors in Berlin Friday, attracting thousands of traders looking for business opportunities at a time when the overall economy was not satisfying. The trade...
LONDON, Jan 17 (AFP): Oil plunged close to six-year lows this week on oversupply worries, before staging a slight recovery as the International Energy Agency declared there were signs that "the tide will turn". Commodity investors also digested the Swiss...
CARACAS, Jan 17 (Xinhua): Venezuelan crude oil prices continued to drop, ending the week at a five-year low of 39.19 US dollars per barrel, compared with 42.44 dollars a week ago, the Ministry of Oil and Mining said Friday. The...
Shamsul Huda | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
Chassis of imported reconditioned trucks are being converted into bus chassis in a number of automobile assembling factories, sector insiders alleged. An official at Bangladesh Automobile Assemblers and Manufacturers Association (BAAMA) said some unscrupulous businesspeople are engaged in such activities...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-18 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Jan 17: Trade body leaders said today Hedayet Hossain Chowdhury was one of those few educated Bangalees of the then Pakistan who initiated very successful business enterprises on a limited scale. The leaders were addressing a Doa Mahfil and...
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