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Chittagong (Bangladesh), Mar. 16 (ANI): England defeated Bangladesh in the first Test against Bangladesh by 181 runs, but were made to work hard on the final day.
Junaid Siddique and Mushfiqur Rahim survived unscathed until lunch, with the former bringing up his first Test century in an inspirational knock, the BBC reports.
England looked short of ideas [...]

Graeme Swann grabbed five wickets to help England build a huge lead over Bangladesh on the third day of the first Test in Chittagong overnight.
The tourists ended the day on 5 for 131 in their second innings after opting to bat again instead of enforcing a follow-on despite having a 303-run first innings lead.
Resuming its [...]

New Delhi, Mar 13 (ANI): The fifth Commonwealth Boxing Championships got underway here on Friday.
Inaugurated by Sports Minister MS Gill, the opening ceremony was presided over by Suresh Kalmadi, Chairman of Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games-2010 and Abhay Singh Chautala, President, Indian Boxing Federation.
Indian boxing heroes such as Vijender Singh, Akhil Kumar, Dinesh Kumar, Nanao [...]

New Delhi, Mar 10 (ANI): The Union Budget addressed the importance of infrastructure for sustained economic development and allotted money to boost the growth potential would be realized only if infrastructure does not become a severe and critical handicap.
The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in February aims at developing infrastructure in the [...]

Islamabad, Mar 8 (ANI): Pakistani all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez will be seen in action during Bangladesh’s T20 championship, the Port City League (PCL), scheduled to held in Sharjah later this year.
Hafeez will be playing for the Tigers, and will join fellow national team-mates Rana Naved, Imran Nazir, Shahid Afridi and Abdul Razzaq amongst many others, who [...]

Agartala, Mar 5 (ANI): Thousands of book lovers are coming every day at the ongoing 28th Agartala Book Fair.
Organised by the Information Cultural Affairs and Tourism (ICAT) Department of Tripura with the cooperation of state publishers, the twelve-day-long fair is being held at the Sishuniketan ground of Agartala. It ends on March 11.
Tripura Chief [...]

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The Hong Kong Cricket Sixes is an annual 10-team international cricket tournament held at the Kowloon Cricket Club and [...]

Lucknow, Sept 20 (ANI): A senior official of Shia Muslim community has said that Eid-ul-Fitr would be celebrated on Monday.

Kalbe Sadiq, Shia cleric and senior vice president of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, said here that the Ramadan moon would be sighted on Sunday.

“I can say without any doubt that in Bangladesh, [...]

Dhaka, Sep 18(ANI): Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has expressed concern over the rising oceans due to climate change, and warned that it could swallow one-third of the low-lying country.

Speaking ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference to be held in December this year [...]

Agartala, Sep, 16 (ANI): A 16- year- old juvenile, who fled from custody with five other Bangladesh nationals, was arrested by Agartala Police on Wednesday.

Police have recovered three American pistols and ammunition from him.

West Tripura District Superintendent of Police K V Sreejesh said: “Based on the information last night we [...]

Dhalai (Tripura), Sep 15 (ANI): Consequent to the decline in activities of insurgents in Tripura, the government has decided to withdraw the 16-year-old system of escorting all vehicles plying along the major highways linking Agartala with the rest of the country through Assam and other states.

This was disclosed by A Chaturvedi, Inspector General of Police, [...]

London, Sep 12 (ANI): New World Health Organization data has highlighted two leading causes of pneumonia, which claims the highest number of lives of children under age 5, both globally and within developing countries like India, Pakistan and Kenya.

The findings could serve as a clarion call to developing country governments to invest in pneumonia prevention [...]

Darjeeling, Sep 12 (ANI): A militant of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) outfit was arrested from West Bengal’s Darjeeling district.

Talking to reporters here on Friday, Deboprasad Singh, district Superintendent of Police, said: “Dasarath Singha alias Manik Barman, who was nabbed from Khoribari area of the district, was trained in Bangladesh.

“This militant was arrested from Khoribari [...]

Rorawala (India-Pakistan Border), Sep.11 (ANI): As women constables of the Border Security Force (BSF) were deployed at the India-Pakistan International Border on Friday, a wave of cheer overwhelmed the villagers here.

Male farmers expressed their delight over the development, saying the presence of women security personnel would encourage their womenfolk to join them in the [...]

Kolkata, Sep. 11 (ANI): With the inauguration of Moipith police station in South 24 Pargana district on Friday, West Bengal got its first coastal police station to patrol in the Sunderban delta area.

“There are a large number of tributaries and water channels leading into the Bay of Bengal, which are unpoliced and there is no [...]

London, Sep.11 (ANI): Pakistan will take on Australia in a two-Test series in England in 2010.

The matches will be played at Headingley and Lord’s.

England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clark said that the selection of the two venues was made keeping the expatriate Pakistani population in mind. He said that England’s first test [...]

Sydney, Sep 11 (ANI): The idea of day-night Test between England and Bangladesh next year is unlikely to proceed because a suitable ball is yet to be developed.

The idea of day-night Tests was floated by the lawmakers of the game, the MCC, at a [...]

New Delhi, Sep 10(ANI): A Union Cabinet meeting on Thursday discussed topics, including the revamping of the National Rural Health Mission and approval for the signing and ratification of the BIMST (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand) Convention.

Union Information and [...]

New Delhi, Sep 10 (ANI): Visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni today said India and Bangladesh are close to finalizing an extradition treaty.

Talking to reporters at Bangladesh House in Delhi, Moni said that the extradition treaty is under discussion.

She also assured the Indian leadership that Bangladesh would not allow [...]

New Delhi, Sep 9(ANI): Union Water Resource Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal met visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on Wednesday to discuss a dam project which is being built by India on the Barak river.

India has approved plans for a 1,500 [...]