MIAMI, Mar 19 (AFP): Serena Williams steps back into her comfort zone as the world number one begins her campaign to defend her title at the Miami Masters tennis tournament Thursday. The 32-year-old last played while suffering back pains in...
PARIS, Mar 19 (AFP): Chelsea eased into the quarter-finals of the Champions League at the expense of Galatasaray Tuesday, while Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Real Madrid completed a comprehensive win against Schalke 04. First-half goals from Samuel Eto'o and...
ABUJA, Mar 19 (AFP): The operators of Nigeria's Premier League on Tuesday said that matches would go ahead this weekend, despite rumours of a court injunction preventing fixtures from taking place. Media reports said a judge in the central city...
SINGAPORE, Mar 18 (AFP): Trophy-holders Guangzhou Evergrande seized control of their AFC Champions League group with a 3-1 win over Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Tuesday, as Uruguay star Diego Forlan scored his first goal for Cerezo Osaka. A first-half double from...
Real Madrid's Jese suffers cruciate ligament damage MADRID, Mar19: Real Madrid forward Jese Rodriguez suffered cruciate ligament damage to his right knee in his side's 3-1 win over Schalke, Real coach Carlo Ancelotti confirmed Tuesday. The Spanish under-21 international collapsed...
SYLHET, Mar19 (AFP): Skipper Brendan Taylor and Hamilton Masakadza kept Zimbabwe's hopes alive in the World Twenty20 tournament Wednesday with a hard-fought five-wicket win over the Netherlands in Sylhet. Taylor hit a solid 39-ball 49 while Masakadza scored a 45-ball...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 19 (AFP): Bangladesh put in a clinical performance to defeat new-comers Nepal by eight wickets in the World Twenty20 in Chittagong Tuesday. The hosts, who fielded after winning the toss, kept Nepal down to 126-5 in their 20...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 19 (BSS): Bangla- desh face lowly Hong Kong in their third and last group A qualifying round match in the ICC World Cup T20 scheduled to be held today (Thursday) at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. The match...
Cricket giant Australia beat New Zealand by 3 runs in an ICC World Twenty20 warm-up match at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah Wednesday, reports UNB. Replying to Australia's 200 runs, New Zealand scored 197 for 9 in 20...
Bangladesh eve cricket team face Pakistan the ICC World Cup T20 warm-up match schedule to be held today (Thursday) at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protistan (BKSP) ground no. 3 in Savar, reports BSS. The match kicks off at 9.30 am....
Defending champions West Indies continued their winning spree in their warm up math as they defeated Sri Lanka by 33 runs in their second ICC World Cup T20 warm-up match held Wednesday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium at Mirpur,...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
Crimea, the autonomous region of Ukraine, is now part of Russia. President Vladimir Putin of Russia and leaders of Crimea signed a treaty on Tuesday in this regard. Earlier, the referendum in Crimea took place, much to the delight of...
SM Nasimul Haque | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
In my opinion as a retired airline pilot, the Houdini-style vanishing of the B-777 from midair with no trace of it to be found anywhere on the god-damned earth is a very costly joke. This scribe believes very firmly that...
Despite being repeatedly directed by the High Court to enforce strict measures against pollution and land grabbing along the banks of the Buriganga, there is very little in sight in terms of compliance on the part of the authorities concerned....
Abdul Bayes | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
Some researches have already reached the conclusion that, there exist an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity. Interest in the relationship between farm size and productivity (output per unit of land) is not new. It dates back to the...
Ashraf Hossain | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
Unauthorised absence of on-duty physicians from government rural hospitals remains a major challenge to government's objective of ensuring health care services for the common people living in the remote areas. When doctors remain reluctant to stay in villages to render...
The ruling party people are flouting election rules and the Election Commission (EC) is mute and totally indifferent. The passive role of the EC affects its credibility. It is also badly affecting the image of the ruling party as the...
The third phase of the upazila elections was not held properly, as claimed by the Election Working Group (EWG), a non-government body comprising 27 non-government organisations. Around 2500 observers were recruited in the 81 upazilas. They have found so many...
We observed with great anxiety that the third phase of the ongoing upazila elections was marked by escalating violence. Three persons were killed and many more injured in election related violence in different parts of the country. The third phase...
Maswood Alam Khan from Plano, Texas, USA | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
After deposing Pakistan's President Iskander Mirza on October 27, 1958 one of the first things Muhammad Ayub Khan did on formalising his military rule was a nationwide campaign that he had launched to cleanse the environment of homes and workplaces....
Kazi Rahman | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
Bangladesh is a developing country with an estimated population of 163.6 million whose estimated gross domestic product (purchasing power parity) stands at $324.6 billion for 2013. In the last decade we have taken big strides in socio-economic development, education and...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Wednesday urged the people to resist acts of terrorism so as to exercise their voting rights peacefully in the ongoing upazila parishad elections, reports UNB. "I call upon the people of the country to resist...
Awami League (AL) presidium member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim Wednesday said AL does not pursue the politics of arrest, reports BSS. "We have nothing to do if the court doesn't allow bail to anybody. The judiciary...
DU Correspondent | 2014-03-20 00:00:00
British Council, Bangladesh and Daffodil Education Network (DEN) are going to arrange a nationwide Book Reading Competition to celebrate the 'World Book Day-2014'. The competition will be held on June 13, 2014 under four categories -- Group A for Class...
The Election Commission declared on Wednesday 48 women MPs elected unopposed from reserved seats as they had no rivals, reports UNB. Returning Officer Jesmin Tuli issued a notification declaring them elected unofficially. Of the 48 women MPs, the largest number...
BAGERHAT, Mar 19 (UNB): A half-day hartal enforced by local Awami League (AL) in Fakirhat Upazila protesting the death of Sarder Niamat Hossain, the ruling party-backed chairman candidate in the upazila polls, in a clash with BGB members passed off...
Nazmul Maksud Murad, an accused in the case for attempting to kill Sheikh Hasina, was brought back home from the USA Wednesday, reports UNB. Special Super of Criminal Investigation Department Abdul Kahar Akand disclosed the matter at a press briefing...
Narayanganj, Mar 19 (UNB): A garment factory owner who was beaten allegedly by his cousins 10 days ago died at a hospital in Dhaka Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Sujon Mir (25), the owner of 'Paragon Garments' at Deobhog...
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