GLASGOW, Aug 4 (AFP): The Glasgow Commonwealth Games were hailed as "the best ever" on Sunday as the 11-day showpiece came to an emotional conclusion inside a chilly Hampden Park. An event long written-off as a dusty anachronism in the...
GLASGOW, Aug 4 (AFP): Despite ending in a weekend washout, Glasgow 2014 has rekindled some of the lustre of the Commonwealth Games after a troublesome Games in Delhi four years ago. Here, AFP Sports looks at some of the moments...
The national Under-23 football team started their camp Monday for September's Asian Games at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishthan (BKSP), reports BSS. The booters had their practice Monday morning under the supervision of head coach Lodewijk de Kruif and assistant...
Indian hockey team will arrive today (Tuesday) in the city to play three-match hockey series against their Bangladesh counterpart, reports BSS. The matches will be held on August 6, 8 and 9 at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Prothistan (BKSP) ground...
Bangladesh women's cricket team will start their training camp tomorrow( Wednesday) at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium ahead of the upcoming 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, reports BSS. Earlier Sunday, Bangladesh Cricket Board announced a 20-member of preliminary...
Six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt has repeated his intention to continue competing until the world championships in 2017 after winning relay gold at the Commonwealth Games Saturday, reports Reuters. The world's fastest man had planned to retire after the 2016...
STANFORD, Aug 4 (AFP): World number one Serena Williams climbed out of an early hole to beat third- seeded German Angelique Kerber 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 on Sunday to win the WTA Stanford crown. The top-seeded American, playing her first tournament...
Two Indian sports officials arrested in Glasgow GLASGOW, Aug 4: Rajeev Mehta, secretary general of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and Virender Malik, a senior wrestling referee, were arrested in two separate incidents of alleged assault on Saturday. Scotland police...
Sonia H Moni | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
The international price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has taken a downturn but its impact on the domestic market is unlikely to be felt anytime soon, business executives said. State-run Saudi Aramco has cut its August contract price for propane...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
Most of the microfinanciers operating in the country are not complying with the mandatory liquidity fund against deposits provision of the Mirco-credit Regulatory Authority (MRA), officials said. Under section 34 of the MRA Rules of 2010, (1) "Every micro-credit organisation...
The government has kept the door open for the World Bank (WB) to take part in the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project if it chooses to do so. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said the World Bank can get...
UK housebuilding grew at its fastest rate in nearly 11 years in July, a survey suggests. The Markit UK Construction PMI report said home building grew at its steepest rate since November 2003, driven by strong demand for new projects,...
A US major-general has been killed in an attack by a man in Afghan military uniform at a British-run military academy near Kabul, US officials say. Fifteen others have been injured. Half of them are thought to be Americans and...
BUCHAREST, Aug 4 (AFP): Romania's central bank cut its main interest rate by 0.25 points to a record low of 3.25 per cent on Monday against a backdrop of slowing inflation. The BNR said it had reviewed its annual inflation...
Honda July China sales fall BEIJING, Aug 4: Honda Motor Co Ltd posted a 23 per cent slump in July China vehicle sales, its biggest decline in 17 months, casting doubts over the company's full-year sales target in the world's...
MANILA, Aug 4 (Xinhua): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and two private firms on Monday rolled out a joint venture that will undertake commercially-oriented private equity investments in climate-related transactions across Asia. The Manila-based lender joined forces with ORIX Corporation...
TOKYO, Aug 4 (Reuters): The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is set to maintain its massive asset purchases and its optimistic view on the economic outlook this week, unfazed by a slew of weak data that has heightened expectations of a...
LISBON, Aug 4 (AFP): Portugal is launching a near 5.0-billion-euro EU-backed rescue for banking giant Banco Espirito Santo to avert a wider crisis across the financial system. Faced with the risk that the bank might crash and put the eurozone...
ACCRA, Aug 4 (AFP): Ghana has requested a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stem a huge slump in its currency, Finance Minister Seth Terkper said Monday. Once a shining example of economic growth in Africa, Ghana is...
TUNIS/DUBAI, Aug 4 (Reuters): Weakness of Tunisia's dinar is undermining the purchasing power of its citizens and evoking memories of the country's economic crisis after its 2011 revolution. But this time, the dinar's depreciation may point to a stronger financial...
ATHENS, Aug 4 (AFP): Europe must remain "vigilant" against new financial challenges as it struggles to overcome the lingering effects of the debt crisis, the European Commission's incoming head Jean-Claude Juncker said on Monday. The day after Brussels gave the...
SINGAPORE, Aug 4 (Reuters): Singapore's manufacturing activity expanded in July at its fastest rate in a year as orders in the key electronics sector surged, a survey showed on Monday, adding to evidence that factory activity across Asia picked up...
BEIJING, Aug 4 (Xinhua): The number of newly-registered companies in China's service sector stood at 1.3 million in the first six months of the year, according to a report of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Sunday. They...
RANGPUR, Aug 4(BSS) : Tens of hundreds of the extremely poor people, mostly women, living in the remote char areas, have been changing their fortune to become self-reliant through boosting animal husbandry sector in recent years. The char people achieved...
JAKARTA, Aug 4 (AFP) : Indonesia's trade balance swung to a slim deficit in June as imports of food and clothes rose ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and Eid holiday, official data showed Monday. The deficit in...
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