A lower-order fightback from Gary Brent and Elton Chigumbura wasn't enough to prevent South Africa from coasting to a five-wicket victory in the first one-dayer at Bulawayo, reports Cricinfo. Zimbabwe recovered from a disastrous 72 for 7 to post 206...
Tim Henman is expected to announce his retirement at a news conference in New York at 1600 BST Thursday, reports BBC. The 32-year-old Briton is in the USA ahead of next week's US Open, which is set to be his...
LAHORE, Aug 23 (AFP): Pakistan's new coach Geoff Lawson wants his side to become the best team in the world despite their ignominious exit from cricket's World Cup earlier this year. The debacle -- which saw minnows Ireland send them...
BERLIN, Aug 23: Australian spin legend Shane Warne would be a welcome guest of Germany's cricket team whether or not he decides to apply for a German passport, says the national side's coach. Warne (37) is investigating whether he qualifies...
MADRID, Aug 23 (AP): Two months after winning a record 30th Spanish league title, Real Madrid kicks off the 2007-08 season against crosstown rival Atletico in a state of anxiety.Bernd Schuster, who replaced the fired Fabio Capello in July to...
Bangladesh face strong Kyrgyztan in their fourth and last match of the five-nation 13th Nehru Cup Football Tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi today (Friday), reports UNB.The match will kick off at 7:30 pm (BST). Indian satellite TV...
ROME, Aug 23(AFP): World Cup winners Italy, humbled 3- 1 by Hungary in a friendly Wednesday, will face France in next month's Euro 2008 qualifier missing defender Marco Materazzi. The Inter Milan star, forever associated with his spectacular run-in with...
ATHENS, Aug 23 (AP): Greek champions Olympiakos meets rivals Panathinaikos in the opening match of the season Sunday.Olympiakos, which have won 10 of the last 11 titles, are gaining the reputation of being the dominant soccer club in Greece.Last season,...
LONDON, Aug 23 (AFP): Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is close to ending speculation over his future by signing a new deal, club chairman Peter Hill-Wood said Thursday. Wenger's current deal at the Emirates Stadium expires at the end of the...
FE ReportAfter a three-hour respite from 4:0pm to 7:0pm Thursday, the indefinite curfew was re-imposed on Dhaka and five other divisional headquarters in the evening.The government imposed the curfew at 8:0pm Wednesday in all the six divisional headquarters of the...
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to intensify its efforts to enhance collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) from service sector.The board will conduct a survey in different organisations, including bar council, Doctors Association of Bangladesh...
Shakhawat Hossain The government has taken adequate efforts to increase production of rice and vegetables to recoup the losses of the agricultural products caused by the recent flood.Already seedbeds of aman on some 1000 acre of land have been prepared...
FE Report The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has started persuasion with the banks to reduce spread between lending and deposit rates, official sources said. The central bank took the move against the backdrop of raising trend of spread in June last...
Geoff Dyer FT Syndication ServiceSHANGHAI: In most countries, prime-time Monday night television is dominated by sitcoms. For Chinese viewers this week, Monday meant not light entertainment but a crash course in manufacturing Christmas decorations, plastic straws and green tea.The 90-minute...
NATORE, Aug 23 (UNB): A special tribunal here Thursday sentenced former deputy minister for land Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu to 12 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) and 82 others, including 15 family members of Dulu, to 10 years in jail in...
The US Embassy in Dhaka Thursday welcomed Chief Adviser (CA) Fakruddin Ahmed's statement that the curfew would be lifted as soon as the situation improves. A spokesperson for the embassy said, "The US expresses its support for the Caretaker Government."...
The British High Commission in Dhaka Thursday expressed hope that a situation would be reached in which the curfew could be lifted at the earliest possible opportunity. "We understand that the Caretaker Government will not allow these events to deflect...
The law-enforcers on Thursday morning forced the old Dhaka drug stores with pharmacies to shut down though the drug stores selling medicines have been exempted from the curfew. The pharmacy owners under Sutrapur, Lalbagh and Kotwali thanas opened their chemists...
A Bangladeshi cattle-trader was killed and another was injured when Indian Border Security Force (BSF) sprayed bullets on them on Putkhali frontier in Benapole early Thursday. The dead was identified as Abdul Alim (30), son of Hanif Ali of Abhaybas...
FE ReportThe government is set to allow private companies to run Hili and Bibir Bazar land ports by the first week of September next, sources said.They said all required preparations, including infrastructure development and permission from authorities concerned for establishing...
FARIDPUR, Aug 23 (UNB): Reassuring general election within the timeline, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda Thursday said the Election Commission (EC) would make arrangement so that black-money holders wouldn't be eligible to participate in the polls."Election will be...
International telephony, internet and private international data circuits went down when the submarine cable link was 'sabotaged' at 00:05am Thursday, a senior BTTB official confirmed, reports bdnews24.com. It cut off Bangladesh from the rest of the world and intensified panic...
Andrew Bounds, FT Syndication ServiceBRUSSELS: British farmers will be able to export meat and live animals from next week after the European Union lifted a ban imposed after the outbreak of foot and mouth disease.Restrictions will be limited to farms...
FE ReportThe authorities allowed some goods-laden trucks from the countryside to enter into the city Wednesday night after the imposition of curfew to boost the supply of essential commodities in the city markets.But traders said there is still shortfall in...
The Inter-service Public Relations (ISPR) termed "unwarranted" some newspaper reports stating that Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed brought allegations of blackmailing against all banks while addressing the BAB AGM Tuesday, reports UNB.The military press wing Thursday clarified that as...
CANBERRA, Australia (AHN): Australia's Labour opposition has accused the federal government of provoking Pakistan over its proposed sale of uranium to India. Labour has said Pakistan may consider downgrading its war on terrorism in reply, putting Australian forces in Afghanistan...
FE ReportThe country's stock exchanges -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- remained closed Thursday due to imposition of curfew.The caretaker government clamped down the curfew Wednesday night in the capital and other divisional cities after...
US to screen aid groups for terror links WASHINGTON (Reuters): The United States plans to screen thousands of people employed by aid organizations that receive funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development looking for possible links to terror organizations,...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Iraqi government will become more precarious over the next six to 12 months and its security forces have not improved enough to operate without outside help, intelligence analysts conclude in a new National Intelligence Estimate. Despite uneven...
The government Thursday directed Ekushey Television (ETV) and CSB TV channels to refrain from broadcasting any "provocative" news, documentary, talk shows, discussion programmes and the like, reports UNB.An official instruction issued upon the Ekushey Television Ltd and Focus Multimedia Company...
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