• Impasse at Jahangirnagar and prime minister’s promise
  • ‘Enforcing’ and ‘foiling’ hartal the problem, not hartal itself
  • Beware, Hillary Clinton is a warmonger!
  • ‘Hartal puts education in terrible state’!
  • Education in terrible state
  • Hilary Clinton and her new ‘Asia Pacific’ agenda
  • Why I keep going back to the grassroots
  • National Rabindra Festival begins
  • Artist Abu Jafar demonstrates recent works
  • BB to set Tk 15 as rate for ATM interbank transaction
  • Dhaka to seek duty-free RMG export to US
  • Police go tough on battery-run rickshaws
  • Law leaves with happy memory
  • Newell running for Tigers’ job
  • Twin blasts kill 12, wound 120 in Russia’s Dagestan
  • Teenage suicide bomber kills 20 in Pakistan
  • Medical wastes threaten Ctg public health
  • Left parties protest at Hillary, Pranab visits
  • Supplementary charge sheet Monday: CID
  • Japan for containing graft
  • Hillary, Pranab arrive today
  • Afghan Taliban kill BRAC official
  • Politicians say ‘no’ to FBCCI call for hartal ban
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Law leaves with happy memory

Outgoing national coach Stuart Law leaves the country today with happy memories after completing his nine-month stint with the Bangladesh national cricket team. Law had taken over as the head coach of... Full story

Newell running for Tigers’ job

Mick Newell
Mick Newell, the Nottinghamshire director of cricket, has emerged as a contender to be Bangladesh’s next coach. ESPNcricinfo understands that 47-year-old Newell, who has twice led Nottinghamshire to the County Championship title, is a frontrunner for the role alongside... Full story

Bangladesh-born French chess kid faces expulsion

Fahim Alam
Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Friday he would review the case of a Bangladeshi boy who is France’s under-12 chess champion and is threatened with expulsion because he lives here illegally. Full story

BFF election hits nat’l U-22 team hard

With less than one month to go for the AFC Under-22 championship Bangladesh are yet to begin their preparation, raising fear of a humiliating result. The first round of the first ever AFC Under-22... Full story

Real parade in triumph

Real Madrid players Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo (R) celebrate at Cibeles square in Madrid on Thursday. — AFP photo
Thousands of jubilant Real Madrid fans swamped the centre of the Spanish capital on Thursday to see their heroes parade in an open-top bus in celebration of their league title success. ‘Champions! Ole, ole!’ yelled the crowd, as coach Jose Mourinho, top scorer Cristiano... Full story

Two shooters to return from UK

Two of the four Bangladeshi shooters, who are currently training in London, will return home next week after one of them, Sharmin Akter Ratna, received a wild card for the upcoming Olympics in the English capital. Full story

SPORTSLINE

The 11th Grameenphone President Cup Golf Tournament inaugurated at the Kurmitola Golf Club in the city on Friday. Army Chief and Golf Club President General M Abdul Mubeen formally inaugurated the two-day... Full story

World cricket waits on West Indies revival

It is a measure of how much things have changed since the West Indies’ glory days that the overwhelming feeling amongst home cricket fans ahead of their tour of England is sympathy. Full story

Olympic gold is pinnacle, says Nadal

Winning a gold medal for your country at the Olympic Games is the greatest achievement in tennis, world number two Rafa Nadal said on Friday, while also leaving the door open to a possible return to Spain’s... Full story

Hussey struggling with Indian heat

Veteran Australian batsman Michael Hussey, newly arrived in the Indian Premier League to play for the defending champions, admitted Friday that he was struggling with the heat and humidity. Full story

No evidence against me: Asif

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif on Friday said there had been no evidence for his conviction in Britain for corruption and spot-fixing, a day after he was released following six months in prison. Full story

Juve looking for Inter favour

Juventus will be hoping their oldest rivals Inter Milan can do them a favour by winning their city derby against AC Milan on Sunday. The Serie A title race has come down to the final two matches of the season with... Full story

Atletico wary of ‘The Lion King’

Atletico Madrid must tame and ensnare Athletic Bilbao frontman Fernando Llorente – nicknamed ‘The Lion King’ – if they are to have any chance of winning the Europa League final in Bucharest on May 9... Full story

Real toast success

Real Madrid travel to Granada today with celebrations in full swing after clinching their 32nd league title, while Barcelona fans will bid goodbye to Pep Guardiola in their final home game against Espanyol. Full story

‘Hodgson faces uphill struggle’

Fabio Capello has warned his successor Roy Hodgson that he will struggle to create a ‘winning mentality’ in the short window before he leads England into Euro 2012. West Bromwich Albion manager... Full story

‘Hodgson faces uphill struggle’

Fabio Capello has warned his successor Roy Hodgson that he will struggle to create a ‘winning mentality’ in the short window before he leads England into Euro 2012. West Bromwich Albion manager... Full story

No other league interests me: Mourinho

Jose Mourinho has declared that he has no ambition to coach in any new countries after Real Madrid’s La Liga success gave him a haul of league titles from four different countries. Full story

Villa discipline three for late-night fracas

Aston Villa have disciplined three members of their first-team squad after they were filmed in a skirmish outside a nightclub, it was confirmed on Friday. Midfielders Fabien Delph and Chris Herd and... Full story

No Shanghai move for Drogba

French striker Nicolas Anelka on Friday hinted that his former Chelsea team-mate Didier Drogba would not be joining him at the Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua. Anelka confirmed he had spoken to Drogba and... Full story

Kagawa to decide on future after Cup final

Borussia Dortmund midfielder Shinji Kagawa will decide whether to extend his contract with the German champions or sign for an English Premier League club after the German Cup final on May 12, the... Full story

Liverpool aim for FA Cup swansong

Chelsea players attend training on the eve of their FA Cup final match against Liverpool at the club’s training ground at Cobham in Surrey on Friday. — AFP photo
Liverpool will bid to put a positive gloss on a lacklustre season here on Saturday as they attempt to seal a rare domestic double against bitter rivals Chelsea in the FA Cup final. Kenny Dalglish’s return to Anfield last year and the subsequent lavish outlay in the transfer market had... Full story

Rooney’s overhead-kick named best EPL goal

Wayne Rooney (R) crashes home his spectacular overhead-kick against Manchester City at Old Trafford in February 2011. 
— Internet photo
Wayne Rooney’s stunning overhead-kick in the Manchester derby in February 2011 has been voted as the greatest goal in the 20 seasons of the Premier League in a ballot of more than 300,000 fans. England striker Rooney acrobatically volleyed home Nani’s 77th-minute cross... Full story

Spain pinning hopes on Villa recovery

Spain coach Vicente del Bosque said Friday he will wait to the last moment for David Villa to join the Euro 2012 squad as Barcelona reported his broken leg is healing ‘very well’. Full story

RVP relaxed over contract talks

Arsenal’s Dutch forward Robin van Persie (L) collects his Football Writers Player of the Year award in London on Thursday. — Internet photo
Arsenal striker Robin van Persie insisted he had no concerns about his Gunners’ future as he collected the Football Writers’ Player of the Year award on Thursday. The Dutch striker insisted he would ‘always be a Gunner’ after topping a journalists’ poll, having already received the... Full story

SOCCERLINE

Chelsea captain John Terry has given interim manager Roberto Di Matteo his stamp of approval as the club prepares for today’s FA Cup final challenge against Liverpool. Di Matteo has overseen a dramatic... Full story


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