LFP Messi rescues Barca Lionel Messi scored a thunderous 84th-minute winner as leaders Barcelona came back to overcome bottom side Osasuna 3-2 on Sunday and restore their 12-point cushion over second-placed
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Dhaka Abahani continues to win in B. League
Sports Correspondent Dhaka Abahani posted its 10th win, third in succession, in the Citycell 2nd B. League football championship when the holders defeated Chittagong Abahani by a solitary goal at MA Aziz Stadium, Chittagong on Monday. Dhaka Abahani played better and dominated the most part of the game, however, it had to wait 45 minutes ... Read more
GM Niaz Murshed, Debaraj Chatterjee take joint lead in the Parsvnath Int Chess
UNB, Dhaka Two Bangladeshi players–Grand Master Niaz Murshed and Debaraj Chatterjee–are jointly leading the 7th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament with 79 other players securing full 2 points after the 2nd round matches held in the Indian capital New Delhi on Sunday. Two other Bangladeshi players, Mohammad Ali earned 1.5 points and FM Mohammad Javed ... Read more
Safina wins opening match at Sydney
AP, Sydney Second-seeded Dinara Safina continued her tuneup for the Australian Open with a 6-2, 6-1 win Monday over Sorana Cirstea of Romania at the Sydney International. Playing her first WTA tournament of the year after teaming with her brother, Marat Safin, to represent Russia at the Hopman Cup last week, Safina took advantage of ... Read more
SRK at the Golden Globe Awards
Sarah Jacob (Universal City, (Hollywood) Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan spoke to NDTV at Universal city in Hollywood just as he was stepping out for the Golden Globe awards. He spoke about the honour of being called on to present an award at the Golden Globe and of the darling of the event — the ... Read more
Censor Board snips off Kangana’s nude scene from upcoming flick
Spicezee Bureau Mumbai: Mukhesh Bhatt’s much-awaited thriller, ‘Raaz: The Mystery Continues’ has been ripped off the chances of showing the hottest part of the movie. Kangana Ranaut’s ‘nude’ scene in the movie has made the Censor Board click it’s scissors disapprovingly. It has sternly recommended the director to do away with it if he wants ... Read more
John is the sexiest, says Bipasha
Indo-Asian News Service Mumbai: Bipasha Basu is quite pleased with John Abraham’s success in Dostana and says that the label of the ’sexiest’ Asian man for him pleases her even more. “There has to be one person who’s the sexiest every year. In 2007, Eastern Eye voted me the sexiest. In 2008, it’s John. If ... Read more
Bijoy Sarani-Tejgaon link road drives land prices
Kawsar Khan The newly constructed 60-foot wide road stretching from Bijoy Sarani to Tejgaon has increased the prices of land adjacent to the area. The acceleration in prices began with landowners and businessmen eyeing the property and hoping to develop the
Market lukewarm to price pledges
Star Business Report Despite high expectations over essentials’ price-drop after power handover to the new government, market responses remain lukewarm. The prices of some basic commodities like rice and edible oil fell in the local market recently. The onset of this year’s Aman harvest and the fall in the price of soybean oil on the ... Read more
Dhaka stocks continue slide
Staff Correspondent Dhaka stocks dropped on Monday for the second consecutive day in a volatile trading as investors, downcast by the fresh downtrend in the market, sold off their holdings, market operators said. The general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange lost 10.45 points, or 0.38 per cent, to close at 2716.53, while its blue chips ... Read more
Apparel exporters seek cash incentives
Global financial meltdown Apparel exporters seek cash incentives Staff Correspondent The country’s apparel exporters have voiced concern over the slowdown of export orders on deepening global economic downturn and sought immediate government steps to stave off its adverse impact on the local export-oriented industries. “The government should introduce financial incentives for the export-oriented industries and ... Read more
Fertiliser to be made cheaper soon: Diesel, kerosene prices reduced
Staff Reporter The new government has further reduced the prices of kerosene and diesel by Tk 2 per litre before the onset of Boro season as a part of its election pledge. The price of diesel and kerosene has been reduced to
Israel takes battle to urban Gaza
Calls in reservists; 19 more Palestinians killed as Egyptian truce talks plod on Ap, Afp, Gaza City Israeli warplanes pounded the homes of Hamas leaders and ground troops edged closer to the Gaza Strip’s densely-populated urban centre yesterday, as Israel stepped up the pressure ahead of deciding whether to
BNP candidate wins Noakhali-1 election
Staff Reporter BNP candidate Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokan was unofficially declared elected to parliament from Noakhal-1 constituency in the polls held yesterday. The results showed Mahbub with ’sheaf of paddy’ with 1,04,726 votes with grand alliance candidate HM Ibrahim of
Secondary students affected by text book crisis
200 teams formed for curbing syndicated offenders Staff Correspondent Secondary level students across the country are hard hit as they are not getting text books at the outset of the academic year due to an artificial crisis created by syndicates of textbook publishers and sellers. Expressing grave concern, guardians, teachers and students said “We all ... Read more
BNP prefers Hafizur Rahman as dy speaker
Shahidul Islam Chowdhury The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is likely to nominate AKM Hafizur Rahman, lawmaker-elect for the Bogra 2 constituency, for the position of the deputy speaker of the parliament, according to an aide to the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia. Khaleda also blasted some party leaders for their proposal to nominate her eldest son, Tarique ... Read more
Reform going on without ‘reformists’
Changes in Awami League Reform going on without ‘reformists’ Sahidul Islam Rana The much-talked reform in the political parties – especially in ruling Awami League and BNP – is going on keeping out the so called ‘reformists’ leaders aside. The heavyweight political leaders of the two arch-rival political parties, who raised their strong voices against ... Read more
Pirojpur road off limits to women
Self-claimed ‘Pir’ imposes the ban; administration yet to act Rafiqul Islam, back from Pirojpur Schoolteacher Jahanara Begum was rushing her sick son to a doctor around noon but she was halted by an elderly man when she was on Mathbaria Bara Masjid Road. She was told the road was off limits to women. As time
Govt plans to ‘depoliticise’ police, says minister
Nazrul Islam The Awami League-led alliance government is considering ways to restore professionalism in the police department which it thinks was politicised by the past government. ‘The government will do everything necessary to infuse professionalism into the police force. Their performances will be taken into consideration, nothing else’, the state minister for home affairs, Tanjim ... Read more
BNP’s move to revamp organisational strength
Talha Bin Habib The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has taken move to revamp its organisational capacities aimed at creating a new leaderships to be picked up from the grass roots levels. To this effect the party would soon hold council meetings of all committees from upper to grass roots levels. Party sources said the high ... Read more