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In-form Bangladesh trounce Pakistan in lone T20 fixture
25 April 2015 5:48 AM ISTDebutant seamer Mustafizur Rahman took two for 20 in four overs as Pakistan, electing to bat after winning the toss, were restricted to 141 for five...
Neymar fires Barca past poor PSG
24 April 2015 4:35 AM ISTBarcelona cruised into their seventh Champions League semifinal in eight years as a double from Neymar handed them a 2-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain...
Tokyo’s Nikkei index closes above 20,000 after 15 years
23 April 2015 6:56 AM ISTTokyo’s benchmark index closed above 20,000 on Wednesday for the first time in 15 years as hopes for strong Japanese corporate earnings overshadowed a...
Facebook shifts News Feed, now gives more weight to friends
23 April 2015 6:50 AM ISTFacebook has said it was reconfiguring its News Feed, in a move aimed at giving people more information about what is happening to “the friends you...
British retail MNC Tesco plunges into red with £5.74 billion-loss
23 April 2015 6:49 AM ISTBritain’s biggest retailer, supermarket group Tesco, announced on Wednesday that it had plunged into a record loss last year as it took a huge...
Sports Federations quit IOC after Bach attack
22 April 2015 6:14 AM ISTAthletics’ world body on Monday led a withdrawal from a major international sports association after its leader launched a scathing public attack on...
Petra Kvitova powers Czech to Fed Cup final
20 April 2015 7:16 AM ISTWimbledon champion Petra Kvitova sent holders the Czech Republic into their fourth Fed Cup final in five years after breezing past France’s Caroline...
Palestine ministers visit Gaza over employee dispute
20 April 2015 6:45 AM ISTA delegation of Palestinian ministers and senior officials from the West Bank-based national consensus government arrived in Gaza on Sunday in a bid...
Ton-up Holder denies Eng, Windies hold out
20 April 2015 4:47 AM ISTJames Anderson became England’s leading wicket-taker in Test history but celebration of the historic milestone could not be complemented by a team...
Djoker sets court on fire
18 April 2015 6:35 AM ISTNovak Djokovic powered his way into the semifinal of Monte Carlo Masters on Friday with a 6-0, 6-3 win over US Open champion Marin Cilic. The Serb,...
USA’s GE suffers $13.6-billion Jan-March loss
18 April 2015 6:06 AM ISTGeneral Electric on Friday reported a $13.6 billion first-quarter loss on charges from its plan to sell most of GE Capital as profits rose in four of...
Suarez stunners floor PSG at home
17 April 2015 6:58 AM ISTThe visitors’ all-star attack made their class count as Neymar coolly converted from a Lionel Messi assist in the 18th minute to put Luis Enrique’s...