Wayne Rooney put on a splendid solo effort for Manchester United as they outplayed Arsenal at every aspect of the game in the fifth round of the FA Cup. Rooney scored the first goal for United after 16 minutes and Carrick extended the lead to 2-0 just four minutes later with a header from...
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South Africa’s Captain Graeme Smith refuses to comment on their revenge from their loss in the World Cup against Bangladesh. He said that his team is focusing more on the matches scheduled ahead.
When he was asked whether that defeat still troubles him, he replied “We always respect them and obviously they will get more...
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Steve Bucknor is back from his suspensions, due to his controversial umpiring decisions in India’s tour of Australia in the second Test in Sydney. He is selected alongside Aleem Dar in the two match test series in Dhaka and Chittagong when South Africa tour Bangladesh
The ICC was criticized for their decision. They faced pressure...
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South Africa’s left-arm spinner Paul Harris will not make it in South Africa’s tour of Bangladesh as he is undergoing a surgery on his abscess. Robin Peterson is due to fill his absence. This was a last minute decision that was made, due to Harris’ injury, for South Africa’s squad.
The convener of selectors, Joubert...
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Today is Sir Alex Ferguson’s 100th FA Cup tie as Manager of Manchester United. Being the most successful clubs in English football, Arsenal and Manchester United are currently the top
two in the league. They have appeared 35 times in the FA Cup final between themselves and have won it 21 times.
This is the 35th...
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Sheikh Hasina, former premier and detained Awami League president, on Saturday expressed her disagreement to get medical treatment in the country as she feared threat on her life.
Hasina expressed the disagreement to her personal physician ABM Abdullah when he went to give her a check-up in the special jail set up at the...
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Sheikh Altaf Ali, civil aviation and tourism secretary, has been made an officer on special duty after an agreement was signed between Bangladesh and India in New Delhi to double the Indian flight frequencies to and from Dhaka.
The establishment ministry on Saturday issued a gazette notification to the effect.
Altaf, who led a government...
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The Awami League will oppose any move to hold the upcoming general elections under the state of emergency and the delimitation of constituencies before the polls in its second phase of dialogue with the Election Commission, scheduled for February 25.
The senior leaders of the party discussed the overall situation of the country at...
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The acting secretary-general of the pro-government faction of the BNP, M Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, on Saturday said he has little faith in the statements made by Khaleda Zia’s counsels on her sending the purported letter to the Election Commission.
‘I do not believe the statements of the lawyers and neither does Khandakar Delwar Hossain....
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The detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s physician on Friday advised she should be admitted to hospital for proper treatment.
The medicine department chair at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, ABM Abdullah, told newsmen, ‘I have advised the jail authorities to get Sheikh Hasina admitted to hospital for her proper medical treatment.’
‘I have also...
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