Bangladeshi shooter Sharmin Akter Ratna was placed 3rd in the qualifying round to reach the final round of the Women's 10-metre Air Rifles in the 20th Commonwealth Games Shooting at the Barry Buddon Shooting Range in Glasgow, Scotland Saturday, reports...
COLOMBO, July 26 (AFP): Captain Hashim Amla struck a gritty 139 not out but failed to stop Sri Lanka from taking the driver's seat in the second and final Test against South Africa Saturday. Amla, 31, batted for more than...
GLASGOW, July 26 (AFP): Australia continued to dominate the Commonwealth Games swimming competition with four more golds Friday while Wales were sent reeling by a second doping shock. Australia's men's 4x100m freestyle relay team retained their title ahead of South...
GLASGOW, July 26 (AFP): Canada's Patricia Bezzoubenko was crowned queen of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow Saturday, completing a five gold medal haul in rhythmic gymnastics while the undisputed king Usain Bolt was arriving for Jamaican relay duty. Bezzoubenko had...
GLASGOW, July 26 (AFP): African champion Chika Amalaha of Nigeria, at just 16 years of age, won gold in the women's 53kg weightlifting category at the Commonwealth Games Friday. Amalaha snatched a best of 85kg before managing 111kg in the...
NEW DELHI, July 26 (AFP): Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, a Muslim wed to a Pakistani cricketer, broke down in tears Friday after being described by a Hindu nationalist politician as "Pakistan's daughter-in-law" and unfit to be an Indian representative....
LAHORE, July 26 (AFP): Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq said Friday spin would be a key factor in his side's upcoming tour of Sri Lanka as he looked to Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman to beat the islanders. The last time...
SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom, July 26 (AFP): England won't just be looking to end a sequence of 10 Tests without a win when they face India in the third Test at Southampton Sunday, they will be aiming to restore their pride....
USOC meets officials of 4 potential ’24 bid cities COLORADO SPRINGS, July 26: US Olympic Committee chairman Larry Probst said Friday after meeting with officials from four American cities that he was "more optimistic than ever" that a US bid...
GAZA CITY, July 26, (agencies): The bodies of at least 85 Palestinians were recovered from the rubble across the Gaza Strip in the first half of a 12-hour humanitarian truce Saturday, medics said. Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the...
PARIS, July 26, (AFP): US Secretary of State John Kerry and top diplomats from Europe and the Middle East gathered in Paris Saturday called for an extension to a temporary ceasefire currently in force between Israel and Hamas. Both sides...
BEIRUT, July 26, (agencies): At least 85 Syrian army troops were killed as the jihadist Islamic State advanced on a regime position in the northern province of Raqa, a monitoring group said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said...
KABUL, July 26, (AP): Afghanistan's election commission on Saturday re-suspended the auditing process of 8.1 million votes cast in the presidential run-off poll, after the two candidates failed to agree on the procedure for invalidating votes. "The Independent Election Commission...
BRUSSELS, July 26, (AFP): Stung into action by the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the EU put Russia's intelligence chiefs on its sanctions list Saturday as it readied much harsher measures against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis. The...
Foreign experts inspect Taiwan plane crash site TAIPEI, July 26: International experts were examining the site of the fatal TransAsia Airways crash in Taiwan on Saturday, as new evidence surfaced that the plane may have collided with nearby trees before...
NEW DELHI, July 26 (Business Standard): In its final decision at the World Trade Organization's (WTO) General Council meeting in Geneva, India has stated that a deal on trade facilitation cannot be agreed upon without any progress on food security....
MEXICO CITY, July 26 (AFP): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe struck a series of energy deals Friday with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto at the start of a five-country Latin American tour. Abe, whose visit to the region comes on...
LONDON, July 26 (Bloomberg): Central banks for Russia to Kazakhstan and Mexico increased gold reserves as Germany trimmed its holdings, International Monetary Fund data show. Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Serbia, Greece and Equador also showed higher gold reserves for June, according to...
TOKYO, July 26 (Xinhua): McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) has decided to stop importing all chicken products produced in China after a supplier in Shanghai admitting using rotten meat, local media reported Friday. McDonald's Japan branches have sourced meat from Shanghai...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Most of the Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) are not complying with the required reserve fund provision of the Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA), officials said. As of December, 2013, some 89 out of 645 MFIs are following the MRA Rules-2010, but...
Monira Munni | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Garment workers are deprived of their desired festival allowances ahead of every Eid for what experts and labour leaders described as loopholes in the law. Usually workers of other sectors get one month's basic pay as festival allowances. But many...
FE Report | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
Internet-based trading is poised to get a boost in the country with big-name businesses shifting their focus on e-commerce based on virtual market. Orion e-Retail Ltd, a sister concern of Orion Group, has launched e-commerce under the trademark of 'bdmart'...
NEW DELHI, July 26 (AFP): India on Friday said it wanted "visible" signs the World Trade Organization would agree to its vast food subsidy schemes before approving a landmark global customs pact as talks went down to the wire. Refusal...
Euro zone may discuss early Irish bailout repayment to IMF BRUSSELS, July 26: Euro zone finance ministers are likely to discuss in September whether to allow Ireland to repay its more expensive bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund before...
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