ISLAMABAD, Apr 25 (AFP): Runaway former Pakistan wicket keeper Zulqarnain Haider returned home from Britain Monday after assurances from Interior Minister Rehman Malik about the safety of his family, witnesses said. The 24-year-old fled to Britain in November last year...
GERMANY, Apr 25 (AP): Julia Goerges upset top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki 7-6 (3), 6-3 in the final of the Porsche Grand Prix Sunday. The 22-year-old German won in Bad Gastein, Austria, last year but had never captured a title in one...
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 25 (AFP): FUS Rabat of Morocco are in danger of losing their grip on the African Confederation Cup after conceding a late equaliser at home against Primeiro Agosto of Angola in a last-16 match. Rachid Rokki gave the...
GELSENKIRCHEN (Germany), Apr 25 (AFP): If Manchester United are to reach a third Champions League final in four years, they must overcome both surprise package Schalke 04 and a dismal record against German teams. United visit Schalke in their semi-final...
ST LUCIA, Apr 25: West Indies' joy after their win in the opening Twenty20 of Pakistan's tour was short-lived as they crashed to an eight-wicket drubbing in the opening one-day international at Gros Islet. After the buzz and energy of...
COLOMBO, Apr 25: Sri Lanka's new skipper Tillakaratne Dilshan, one of the stars of the Indian Premier League, has said he wants to leave the event early to travel with the national team to England on tour. Dilshan is keen...
BUENOS AIRES, Apr 25: Argentina is one of the world's greatest nations when it comes to football, but deadly violence is scarring the game there. An activist group "Let's Save Football" says there have been 13 football-related deaths in Argentina...
BEIJING, Apr 25: Fresh from sweeping all five gold medals on offer at the Asian Badminton Championships, China's powerful team of shuttlers led by Lin Dan is now focusing on qualification for the 2012 London Olympics. Known as "Super Dan"...
LONDON, Apr 25: After being heralded by many this season as the world's best team, Barcelona heads into the first leg of its Champions League semifinal against fierce Spanish rival Real Madrid claiming to be the underdog. Madrid beat Barcelona...
Outraged by persistent power outages, local people attacked two officials of Sarsha palli bidyut office, leaving them injured Tuesday morning. The injured were-Mafijur Rahman, Deputy General Manager and Shariful Islam, Assistant General Manager of the power office. Local people said...
Shamsher ChowdhuryWe just saw in a media report that the Ministry of Establishment is planning to have another 25 luxury cars for our cabinet members despite the fact that as many as 50 were procured in 2009. Apparently the ministry...
M. Shahidul IslaIs America facing a day of reckoning with debt? Or is this time different? These are perhaps the most critical questions the United States as well as rest of the world face today. The US fiscal deficit is...
We do wholly agree with Mr O.H. Kabir to the point of avoiding the demolition of the 15-storied Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Bhaban, that was built at the cost of millions of takas. Only due to some...
The operations of Grameen Bank (GB) have so far been hugely effective. It has helped millions of people move from one level of poverty to a far less oppressive level of poverty -- which means eating three meals a day...
Last Thursday's motor launch accident on the Meghna river in Brahmanbaria is yet another instance of utter callousness of the river-vessel operators towards human life. We are deeply shocked at the loss of so many lives (33 by the latest...
ISLAMABAD, Apr 25 (AFP): Runaway former Pakistan wicket keeper Zulqarnain Haider returned home from Britain Monday after assurances from Interior Minister Rehman Malik about the safety of his family, witnesses said. The 24-year-old fled to Britain in November last year...
GERMANY, Apr 25 (AP): Julia Goerges upset top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki 7-6 (3), 6-3 in the final of the Porsche Grand Prix Sunday. The 22-year-old German won in Bad Gastein, Austria, last year but had never captured a title in one...
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 25 (AFP): FUS Rabat of Morocco are in danger of losing their grip on the African Confederation Cup after conceding a late equaliser at home against Primeiro Agosto of Angola in a last-16 match. Rachid Rokki gave the...
GELSENKIRCHEN (Germany), Apr 25 (AFP): If Manchester United are to reach a third Champions League final in four years, they must overcome both surprise package Schalke 04 and a dismal record against German teams. United visit Schalke in their semi-final...
ST LUCIA, Apr 25: West Indies' joy after their win in the opening Twenty20 of Pakistan's tour was short-lived as they crashed to an eight-wicket drubbing in the opening one-day international at Gros Islet. After the buzz and energy of...
COLOMBO, Apr 25: Sri Lanka's new skipper Tillakaratne Dilshan, one of the stars of the Indian Premier League, has said he wants to leave the event early to travel with the national team to England on tour. Dilshan is keen...
BUENOS AIRES, Apr 25: Argentina is one of the world's greatest nations when it comes to football, but deadly violence is scarring the game there. An activist group "Let's Save Football" says there have been 13 football-related deaths in Argentina...
BEIJING, Apr 25: Fresh from sweeping all five gold medals on offer at the Asian Badminton Championships, China's powerful team of shuttlers led by Lin Dan is now focusing on qualification for the 2012 London Olympics. Known as "Super Dan"...
LONDON, Apr 25: After being heralded by many this season as the world's best team, Barcelona heads into the first leg of its Champions League semifinal against fierce Spanish rival Real Madrid claiming to be the underdog. Madrid beat Barcelona...
Outraged by persistent power outages, local people attacked two officials of Sarsha palli bidyut office, leaving them injured Tuesday morning. The injured were-Mafijur Rahman, Deputy General Manager and Shariful Islam, Assistant General Manager of the power office. Local people said...
KANDAHAR, Apr 25 (agencies): Insurgents freed hundreds of prisoners, including Taliban commanders, after tunneling into an Afghan jail Monday, officials said, in a serious security setback ahead of the planned start of foreign troop withdrawals. Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief...
Abdul BayesTHE aim of all developmental drives, in Bangladesh and beyond, is to reduce hunger and malnutrition that afflict a vast number of people. Hunger, a general term related to not getting enough to eat, is possibly the worst form...
TRIPOLI, Apr 25 (Reuters): NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life. Firefighters were still working to...
THE state of thousands of rootless children living on the streets of urban centres, including Dhaka, is, to say the least, appalling. Two separate reports, prepared by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and the Ministry of Social Welfare...
KANO, (Nigeria), Apr 25 (AFP): Three bomb blasts have hit a city in northeastern Nigeria, leaving a number of people killed and wounded in an attack believed to have been carried out by an Islamist sect, police said Monday. The...
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