Any study of Brazilian football reveals that football is inextricably linked to Brazilian society. When the British introduced Brazil to football in 1894, it was impossible to predict that football would become a key aspect of its culture. However, during...
The 'set-piece spray' has been a huge success at the World Cup, but its inventor says he is more concerned with the good of the game than making millions. His invention could hardly be more simple. The referee sprays a...
Brazilian police have arrested the chief executive of a FIFA partner company as part of investigations into the illegal sale of World Cup tickets. Ray Whelan from Match Hospitality was held at the Rio de Janeiro hotel where officials from...
NOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom, July 8 (AFP): India are determined England captain Alastair Cook remains on the defensive in the first Test at Nottingham's Trent Bridge starting on Wednesday. Cook, upon whose leadership officials have staked plenty after ditching former star...
NOTTINGHAM, July 8 (AFP): Something rather strange, by modern standards, will happen when either Australia's Bruce Oxenford or Sri Lanka's Kumar Dharmasena raises his finger in the first Test between England and India. For any batsman seeing the time-honoured signal...
Bangladesh are likely to play 64 Test matches in the period between October this year and December 2022, according to the latest version of the 2015-2023 FTP which is available with ESPNcricinfo. The list includes eight three-Test series against Zimbabwe...
Bangladesh Junior Golf team will leave for England Friday to participate in the "2014 Junior Open Championship" on July 14-16 at the Fairhaven Golf Club in Lancashire, reports UNB. The team comprises Afnan Mahmud Chowdhury and Sonia Akhter. They will...
Fide Master Mohammad Fahad Rahman maintained his sole lead in the Union Insurance 34th National Junior (Under-20) Chess Championship securing full eight points after the 8th round matches held at the hall room of Bangladesh Chess Federation Tuesday, reports UNB....
NEWPORT, United States, July 8 (AFP): Second seeded Ivo Karlovic and hard-serving Australian Sam Groth both won their opening round matches at the ATP Tour's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships Monday. Croatia's Karlovic hammered 17 aces in defeating American wild...
MUMBAI, July 8 (AFP): India's largest private company Reliance Industries said Tuesday it was investigating how costly World Cup tickets it had bought ended up on the Brazilian black market. Match Hospitality, a FIFA partner firm which sells deluxe packages...
England call up Buttler as Prior cover NOTTINGHAM, July 8: England had an injury scare to contend with ahead of the first Test against India when Jos Buttler was called up as cover for wicketkeeper Matt Prior Tuesday. Prior suffered...
FE Report | 2014-07-09 00:00:00
The market ended flat Tuesday after straight five days of slump with turnover remained sluggish as investors observed the market movement closely. The market was in declining mood in the first two hours which was recovered with the gains of...
Mohammad Ali | 2014-07-09 00:00:00
The long-expected Special Tribunal in the capital market is set to start its judicial function very soon as all the relevant preparations to commence its operation are almost completed, sources said. A place has already been hired recently for the...
Intention to buy shares Mercantile Bank: Md. Shahabuddin Alam, one of the Sponsors/Directors of Mercantile Bank Ltd., has expressed his intention to buy 13,00,000 shares of the Company at prevailing market price through Stock Exchange within next 30 working days....
FE Report | 2014-07-09 00:00:00
A young professional with international exposure in the field of development says country's talented youths' ideology must be ingrained of a career ethos that accelerates the growth momentum. " We have a privileged advantage of demographic dividend of a large...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-07-09 00:00:00
Issuance of UDs (utilisation declarations), dropped marginally during the January-June period of the current calendar year (2014) against the same period of the previous year indicating a downtrend in the apparel exports. UD is an important index for assessing the...
MUMBAI, July 8 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex and Nifty slumped more than 2 per cent on Tuesday, marking their biggest single-day fall in over 10 months and retreating from record highs hit earlier in the session, after the railway budget...
FE Report | 2014-07-09 00:00:00
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Tuesday announced a Tk 20.42 billion budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year (FY). The proposed budget is Tk 9.3 million higher than the budget of last fiscal and Tk 10.3 million higher than the revised...
Khairul Islam Country's telecom regulator is going to investigate the allegations of illegal VoIP (voice over internet protocol) business by the state-run mobile operator Teletalk. A committee comprising representatives from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), International Gateway (IGW), Inter...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-07-09 00:00:00
A large number of readymade garment (RMG) factory owners may face difficulties in paying wages and allowances to their workers if the government does not release committed cash incentive on time before Eid-ul Fitr, industry insiders said. It usually takes...
Ziaur Rahman | 2014-07-09 00:00:00
United Airways (BD) Limited, one of country's leading private airlines, is set to spread its wings wider with new services on Dhaka-Karachi and Dhaka-Medina routes from September. The airline has already received permission from the authorities concerned of respective countries,...
BEIJING, July 8 (Reuters): World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday welcomed a new multilateral infrastructure bank proposed by China, saying there was a "massive need" for new investment in this area. China, which aired the idea of...
PARIS, July 8 (Reuters): OECD sees slowing or stable growth in emerging economies flat in major developing economies with the exception of India while the outlook for most developed economies is stable and improving in the United States, the OECD...
US small business confidence edges lower WASHINGTON, July 8: US small business sentiment weakened in June, pulling back from a six-year high because firms felt less confident the economy would improve in the coming months. The National Federation of Independent...
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