Switzerland's Menia Bentele playing the ball during the women's semi-finals of the Beach Volleyball Team European Championship match between Switzerland and Latvia in Vienna, Austria on Friday — AFP
LOS CABOS, Mexico, Aug 05 (AFP): World number one Daniil Medvedev powered into the semi-finals of the ATP hardcourt tournament in Los Cabos, Mexico, on Thursday with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Ricardas Berankis.Medvedev, playing his first tournament since bowing...
The Premier League returns to action with both Arsenal and Chelsea facing tests against teams managed by their former title winning heroes.The season's opener on Friday saw a strengthened Arsenal travelling south of the Thames to take on a Crystal...
ZURICH, Aug 05 (AP): The United States women's soccer team extended its five-year reign atop the FIFA rankings on Friday and new European champion England moved up to No. 4. The U.S. won its regional championship for the third straight...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom, Aug 05 (AFP): Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will not stand in Bernardo Silva's way should he wish to join Barcelona before the end of the transfer window.Guardiola said there has been no bid from his former...
SAN JOSE, Aug 05 (AP): Coco Gauff held off four-time major champion Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday night to advance to the quarterfinals at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic. Gauff, the No. 6 seed, held all of her serves...
Paris St Germain have signed Portugal international midfielder Renato Sanches from Lille on a five-year deal, the French Ligue 1 champions said on Thursday.PSG did not disclose the fee but reports in the French media said they had paid Lille...
Nine sports personalities and two organisations on Friday received the prestigious Sheikh Kamal National Sports Council (NSC) Award in 2022.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina distributed the Sheikh Kamal National Sports Council Award-2022 among the nine sports personalities and two organizations in...
NEW DELHI, Aug 05 (AFP): Two hulking weightlifters from opposite sides of the often tense India-Pakistan frontier shared the podium at the Commonwealth Games -- and then celebrated together to their favourite rapper.The affinity between Pakistani gold medallist Nooh Dastgir...
Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed poses with the Bangladeshi participants in the Commonwealth Games-2022 in Birmingham recently — ISPR
Opener Tamim Iqbal became the first Bangladeshi batter to reach the milestone of 8000 runs following his 62 runs against Zimbabwe in the opening game of the three-match ODI series on Friday at Harare Sports Club.The ODI captain needed just...
RIYADH, Aug 5, (AFP): Saudi Arabia said Thursday it had achieved a rare budget surplus of over $20 billion in the second quarter of 2022, as oil revenues surged 90 percent compared to a year ago.Despite being among the world's...
PARIS/SINGAPORE, Aug 5 (Reuters): Chicago wheat, corn and soybean futures edged lower on Friday, curbed by news of further grain shipments from war-torn Ukraine and investor caution over the economy ahead of U.S. jobs data.Mixed weather for U.S. crops and...
Gold prices firmed on Friday to hover near a one-month high, as a retreat in dollar and U.S. Treasury yields and growing recession fears boosted demand, keeping the safe-haven metal on track for its third straight weekly rise, reports Reuters.Spot...
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters): Copper extended its rebound on Friday as fears of a global recession eased and investors focused on low inventories and threats to supply.Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) climbed 1.4% to $7,839 a tonne...
ISTANBUL, Aug 5 (AFP): Three more ships loaded with grain sailed from Ukraine on Friday under a UN-backed deal lifting Russia's blockade of the Black Sea, Turkey's defence ministry said.The Panama-flagged Navistar left Odessa for Ireland with 33,000 tonnes of...
As the Russia-Ukraine conflict pushed the global energy situation into a turmoil with Europe shutting down lights and cold water for baths, Bangladesh should not be expected of escaping the crisis and hardly was there any alternative to initiatives of...
LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters): Oil prices on Friday stayed near their lowest levels since February as concerns over a possible recession and a fall in fuel demand continued to rattle markets.Brent crude rose 37 cents, or 0.4%, to $94.49 a...
Thai night club fire kills 13 people, injures 35BANGKOK, Aug 05: Thirteen people have been killed and 35 injured after a fire broke out on Friday at a night club in Thailand's Chonburi province, southeast of the capital Bangkok, a...
PHNOM PENH, Aug 05 (AFP): Southeast Asian ministers Friday condemned the lack of progress on a crisis resolution plan for coup-hit Myanmar, demanding the junta take action before a regional summit later this year.Myanmar has been in chaos since a...
BAGHDAD, Aug 05 (AFP): Tens of thousands attended mass prayers Friday in Baghdad's Green Zone in a new power play by Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr after his adversaries conditionally backed his call for early elections.Sadr, a longtime political and...
MOSCOW, Aug 05 (Reuters): Russia said on Friday it was ready to discuss a prisoner swap with the United States in private, a day after a Russian court jailed US basketball star Brittney Griner for nine years for a drugs...
PTI chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday hit back at the Election Commission of Pakistan's verdict in the PTI prohibited funding case saying that taking money from foreign companies wasn't illegal in 2012, reports DAWN.In an address...
SOCHI, Aug 05 (Reuters): Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have begun their talks in Russia's Black Sea city of Sochi on Friday.As Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced earlier, the negotiations are scheduled to touch upon a...
BEIJING, Aug 05 (AP/Reuters): China said on Friday that more than 100 warplanes and 10 warships have taken part in live-fire military drills surrounding Taiwan over the past two days, while announcing sanctions on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over...
Md Abu Sayed Siddique | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Procurement is one of the key professional tasks of any government or non-government organisation. One of the important aspects of performing such a task is the sound knowledge of the individuals involved in the procurement process. Efficient procurement ensures the...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
The national newspapers in Bangladesh have started to become slimmer. How the readers whose number is likely to decrease with the increase in price by Tk 2.0 on an average are reacting to this may be an interesting query. At...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Eminent litterateur Anisul Haque had written in an article back in 1997, "He is a peddler of light, a magical man in the city of memories. As the dusk dawned and the earth got submerged in darkness, the man was...
Our everyday meals are incomplete without green chillies. Raw or added to curries, this little spice is not only delicious but also rich in so many vitamins. Alas, with a kilogram of green chilli price hitting Tk 250, it is...
I have recently come across a video clip uploaded on social media in which a young man had a motorcycle accident on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway and was badly injured. Although a big crowd was standing beside him, no one was coming...
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