The three-match one-day series followed a predictable script as Sri Lanka wrapped up the second ODI and the series at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo with a five-wicket win. The victory was fashioned by a ruthless bowling performance, starting...
League leaders Abahani Limited is on course for the first B League crown as they beat Arambagh KS by 3-0 goals in the day's lone 2nd phase match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city Monday, reports UNB.Earlier, in...
England chipped out two key wickets on the final morning at Lord's in their race to claim the opening Test against the amassing dark clouds but India kept fighting. Ryan Sidebottom removed Sourav Ganguly and James Anderson claimed his seventh...
MASON (Ohio), Jul 23 (AP): Anna Chakvetadze won the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open with a 6-1, 6-3 win against Akiko Morigami on Sunday. Chakvetadze, who won her third title this year, improved to 5-0 in WTA Tour...
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 23 (AFP): South Korea's elation at staying alive in the Asian Cup has been tempered by only two days' recovery from their draining two-hour win over Iran on penalties.The Koreans, bidding for their first tournament success since...
MACAU, Jul 23 (AFP): English Premier League champions Manchester United handed FC Shenzhen a footballing lesson with a 6-0 victory in Macau Monday, even though they were missing injured midfielder Paul Scholes.Scholes sat out his side's win with a knee...
LOS ANGELES, Jul 23 (AP): Radek Stepanek upset second-seeded James Blake 7-6 (7), 5-7, 6-2 to win the ATP Countrywide Classic Sunday.It was the second career title for Stepanek, who entered the match with a 13-15 record this season. He...
All round performance by Mahmudul Hasan and Tapash Ghosh enabled touring Bangladesh Under-19 team to beat Sri Lanka Under-19 side by 43 runs in a tri-nation cricket tournament at the P Sara Stadium in Colombo Monday, reports UNB.Bangladesh opened the...
Dhaka DSA finished third in the Basic Bank 18th National Women's Handball Champio-nship beating Faridpur DSA by 16-8 goals in a place-deciding match at the Dhanmondi Women's Sports Complex Monday, reports UNB.Akherun scored eight goals for the winners, which dominated...
PARIS, Jul 23 (AFP): Arsenal midfielder Freddie Ljungberg has completed his move to fellow London club West Ham.The 30-year-old Swede, the Gunners' longest-serving player since joining in 1998, follows star French striker Thierry Henry, who moved to Barcelona, in leaving...
CARNOUSTIE (Scotland), Jul 23 (AFP): Padraig Harrington's aims and ambitions when he turned pro in 1995 were simply to make a decent living on the European Tour.Twelve years later the Irishman is the continent's top player, he is inside the...
LOS ANGELES, Jul 23 (AP): Radek Stepanek upset second-seeded James Blake 7-6 (7), 5-7, 6-2 to win the ATP Countrywide Classic Sunday.It was the second career title for Stepanek, who entered the match with a 13-15 record this season. He...
BRUSSELS, July 23 (AFP): The European Union's Portuguese presidency said yesterday that the latest World Trade Organisation (WTO) proposals for unblocking world trade talks were a "basis for discussion" but that more work was needed on them. "There is a...
NEW DELHI, July 23 (PTI): India needs to spend a whopping USD 203 billion on health services, with a significant private partnership, if the mission of achieving 'Health for all' is to be attained by 2012, industry body, Federation of...
CARACAS, Venezuela, July 23 (AP): President Hugo Chavez assured private property owners their rights will be guaranteed in Venezuela under a pending constitutional reform, as long as proprietors and investors respect the law."Our socialism accepts private property," Chavez said in...
YANGON, July 23 (Xinhua): Myanmar's biggest business organisation, the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI), has urged private trading companies in the country to strive for effective business operation globally, saying it is ready to...
NEW DELHI, July 23 (PTI): India, which has emerged as the back-office of the world in recent years, is expected to face stiff competition from countries like China, Malaysia and Singapore even as the global outsourcing industry is pegged to...
SINGAPORE, July 23 (AFP): The United States is not ruling out a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Southeast Asia but it is too early to discuss the issue, Trade Representative Susan Schwab said in remarks published today. In an interview with...
SEOUL, July 23 (AFP): South Korea and India will discuss proposed tariff cuts during another round of talks this week on a planned free trade deal, the South Korean government said today. At a four-day meeting starting in New Delhi...
SINGAPORE, July 23 (AFP): The United States has given up hopes of a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Thailand because of the political situation since last year's coup, a US official told a Singapore newspaper. "In the case of Thailand, FTA...
BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua): China's fiscal revenue grew 30.6 per cent year-on-year to 2.6 trillion yuan in the first half of the year, putting the world's fourth largest economy well on the track of breaking last year's record high of...
ASHGABAD, July 23 (AFP): Turkmenistan's first free economic zone was inaugurated over the weekend in the Caspian sea resort of Turkmenbashi, as part of new President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's efforts at economic revival of his Central Asian state. "Turkmenistan will set...
FE ReportChevron Bangladesh's 'Tree Plantation Programme 2007' has successfully ended after about a month of plantation activities in and around the operating areas in greater Sylhet.Some 43,000 timber and fruit saplings have been planted in the areas near the Jalalabad,...
SINGAPORE, July 23 (AFP): Oil prices paused for a breather in Asian trade today after surging to levels not seen in a year on strong demand and geopolitical concerns, dealers said. Supply concerns were also a factor behind the price...
TOKYO, July 23 (AFP): The dollar touched a fresh record low against the euro in Asian trade today, hit by jitters about US housing market problems and heavy falls on Wall Street at the end of last week, dealers said....
BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua): The China National Cotton Reserves Corporation (CNCRC) said today that China's cotton sales had jumped to 6.05 million tons by July 18, up 48.4 per cent from the same period last year. A survey conducted by...
KATHMANDU, July 23 (Xinhua): The state-owned telecom provider Nepal Telecom (NT) has announced its ambitious plan of increasing 6 million telephone connections within three-year, The Himalayan Times reported today. According to the daily, once the plan is completed by 2010,...
NEW DELHI, July 23 (PTI): State-run carrier Air India, which is being merged with another national airline Indian, is looking to create a hub in Europe and rationalise its route structure by providing more direct services. Following the footsteps of...
TOKYO, July 23 (AFP): Japan's top automaker Toyota Motor Corp. said today it will resume some of its domestic production Tuesday as a key parts supplier re-started a plant hit by last week's earthquake. Riken Corp., the supplier at the...
WELLINGTON, July 23 (AFP): The board of Auckland International Airport said Monday it was recommending a bid by Dubai Aerospace Enterprise to take control of the company that runs New Zealand's largest air hub. Dubai Aerospace is proposing to buy...
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