Pakistan have "formally invited" West Indies to play two Tests in November in another attempt to fill the gap created by the postponement of the Champions Trophy, reports Cricinfo. "We have formally invited the West Indies board to send their...
The first four-day match between visiting GP-BCB National Cricket Academy team and Sri Lanka Development XI ended in draw at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Sri Lanka Saturday, reports UNB.Replying to GP-BCB Academy team's first innings total of 441...
LONDON, Sept 13 (AFP): Liverpool finally got the better of Manchester United as Ryan Babel's late goal clinched a 2-1 win over the defending Premier League champions Saturday.Rafa Benitez's side had lost seven of the last eight league encounters with...
GLASGOW, Sept 13 (AFP): Celtic warmed up for their midweek Champions League match against Aalborg with a 4-2 win over Motherwell at Fir Park.The game had looked over as a contest at half-time with Celtic racing into a 4-0 lead...
LONDON, Sept 13 (AFP): Robinho is set to make his Premier League debut Saturday against Chelsea - the club he was set to join until English football's previously unchallenged big-spenders were trumped by Manchester City.In an astonishing example of how...
Little Friends Club and Uttar Baridhara Club earned identical 1-0 goal win in their respective matches of the Second Division Football League at the Bir Shreshtho Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Kamalapur in the city Saturday, reports UNB.In...
NUSA DUA, Sept 13 (AFP): Switzerland's Patty Schnyder moved into her second final of the season with a 7-5, 6-1 hammering of Russian Nadia Petrova at the Bali Open Saturday.The 29-year-old second seed will play either top seed Daniela Hantuchova...
PARIS, Sept 13 (AFP): Ethiopia were kicked out of the World Cup by FIFA Friday after the long-running power struggle within the game in the African nation failed to be resolved.FIFA, the sport's world governing body, said that all four...
BERLIN, Sept 13 (AFP): Friday's Bundesliga match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Karlsruhe has been postponed because of damage to the pitch caused by a Madonna concert.The match was to have taken place at Frankfurt's Commerzbank-Arena stadium but the German Football...
Shane Warne has backed Bryce McGain as the best spinner in Australia and Stuart MacGill says McGain should also have toured the West Indies this year. But the champion legspinners disagreed on whether Beau Casson should have joined him in...
LIVERPOOL, Sept 13 (AP): Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo is expected to make an early return from injury in the Champions League Wednesday.The Portugal international was expected to be out till October after undergoing an operation on his right ankle...
The first-phase of the 100-day job generation scheme is set to begin tomorrow (Monday) for an initial period of sixty days throughout the country, a senior government official said Saturday, reports bdnews24.com."We are fully prepared to launch the project," Food...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 13 (BSS): Speakers at an advocacy meeting in the city Saturday underscored the need for transforming the sanitation campaign into social movement for building a healthy society.In this context, they also underlined the need for a concerted effort...
An emergency meeting of New7Wonders competition activity conducting committee comprising Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) officials and members of the official supporting committee of Bangladesh was held at the BPC in the city Wednesday, reports BSS. BPC Chairman Shafique Alam Mehdi...
Speakers at a views exchange in the city Saturday stressed the need for launching a media campaign for containing the adverse impacts of smoking and amending the exiting tobacco related laws, reports BSS.They urged the concerned authorities to amend the...
DU CorrespondentDhaka University (DU) will confer the status of 'Professor Emeritus' on its three senior teachers in recognition of their remarkable contribution to the development of education. The three educationists are Prof Abdul Matin of Philosophy Department, Prof Sultana Sarwat...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 13 (BSS): Speakers at a workshop here Wednesday called upon the participants to put in their best efforts to make the Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) an effective institution to enhance agricultural productivity as well as bolster economic...
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress on health and family planning programmes in last two decades although the maternal mortality ratio is still high with 320 per 0.1 million (one lakh) women die each year due to pregnancy related complications, reports...
A Thai miniatures exhibition will be held at Bangladesh Shishu Academy in the city on September 17, reports UNB.Thai Ambassador in Bangladesh Chalermpol Thanchitt will formally inaugurate the exhibition at about 12 noon on the day.Thai Embassy in collaboration with...
Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) received a total of Tk 2.237 million (22.37 lakh) in August for the construction of Ahsania Mission Cancer Hospital (AMCH) now being constructed at Uttara in the city, reports BSS. So far, construction work up to...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Noor Mohammad leaves Dhaka for India today (Sunday) to attend an international seminar on terrorism, reports UNB.The two-day seminar will begin in New Delhi, the capital of India, tomorrow (Monday).The Asia-Pacific World Regional Office of...
Our Correspondent JESSORE, Sept 13: A young man was hacked to death by unknown assassins at Naranpur under Sadar Upazila in the district Friday night. The deceased was identified as Saraj Kumar, 20, son of Jogen Kumar of village Barmanpara...
Tanzeem Choudhury, an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College Hanover, USA, has been named to the 2008 TR35, an annual listing from Technology Review magazine that features the world's top innovators under the age of 35, said a...
The government has been asked to play its vital role in pursuing the enactment of the proposed arms trade treaty in the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) next month, reports BSS.The proposed treaty after the enactment would reduce...
DU CorrespondentStudents and teachers of Mass Communication and Journalism (MCJ) Department of Dhaka University (DU) Saturday demanded permanent expulsion of those unruly JCD activists who had beaten up 10 of their fellow students Thursday night."We demand permanent expulsion of the...
Tarique Rahman's resignation as BNP senior joint secretary has proved his guilt, Bangladesh Awami League (AL) presidium member Amir Hossain Amu said Saturday, reports bdnews24.com."By resigning the post Tarique Rahman has proved that he was guilty of charges against him....
Most of the suspected corrupt bigwigs, including politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen, arrested during the army-led joint forces' anti-corruption crackdown following last year's political changeover are now free from incarceration, reports UNB.A few of them have been set free on parole...
Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday demanded holding the Upazila elections before parliamentary polls, reports BSS.The demand came at a press conference at the party office in the city Saturday, PDP chairman Dr. Ferdous Ahmed Qureishi said the nation expects a...
Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury has said a road linkage with China through Myanmar is likely to come for discussion during the Chief Adviser's forthcoming visit to China, reports UNB."Both of our countries are eager to develop physical connectivity through...
RU Correspondent Kudrat-e-Khuda Babu of the Daily Prothom Alo and Shahidul Islam Khan of the Daily Janakantha have been elected president and secretary general of the Rajshahi University Journalist Association (RUJA) in the election held Saturday. Some 25 voters cast...
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