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Man held with 8.5 kg gold at Dhaka airport

Customs officials detain a man and recover around 8.5 kilograms of gold from his possession at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
13 gold bars seized at Ctg airport

Customs officials yesterday recovered 13 gold bars, weighing 1.5kg and worth Tk 65 lakh, from inside a luggage at Chittagong airport.
Gold policy okayed to facilitate its import, export

The government approves the gold policy making the import of the precious metal easier and opening up a new avenue for exports.
80 gold bars recovered from Biman flight, 2 held

Customs officials recover 80 gold bars from a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight and detain two Biman employees.
2 Biman staff held with gold at Dhaka airport

Customs Intelligence officials detain two employees of Biman Bangladesh Airlines with 40 gold bars, worth Tk 2.03 crore, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka .
Biman staff held with gold at Dhaka airport

Customs Intelligence officials have detained two people, including an employee of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, with 12 gold bars, weighing 1.2 kilogrammes, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
Bolt, Phelps cap era of excellence

Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps towered over the 2016 Rio Games, capping an era of sustained excellence that promises to reverberate through the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and beyond.
Strike possible as US women fight for equality

Members of the reigning Women's World Cup champion United States national team vow to push their case for equal pay to the US men's team as far as it takes.
Bolt set to train with Dortmund

Usain Bolt is seriously considering taking up a career as a professional footballer when he bows out of athletics, and is set to spend some time training with German giants Borussia Dortmund.
Bolt to make Australia bow

Sprint superstar Usain Bolt will compete in Australia for the first time when he headlines an innovative team athletics event next year, he said on Friday.
Rio Paralympics stages final show

Rio on Sunday closes a Paralympic Games that many feared would be a fiasco but which turned into a triumph, though marred in the final hours by the death of an Iranian cyclist.
Farah was fixing fantasy team

Mo Farah reveals what he was doing just minutes before walking onto the track to make Olympic history.
Zheng sends Rio gold medallist Puig packing

Monica Puig, whose Olympic tennis triumph in Rio de Janeiro gave Puerto Rico their first ever Games gold, is unceremoniously bundled out of the US Open.
Shakil outguns Shahadat

South Asian Games gold medallist Shakil Ahmed grabs his first gold medal in domestic circuit.
Top Kenyan Olympic committee official arrested

Kenyan police arrest the secretary-general of the country's Olympic committee (NOCK) in the wake of a series of scandals and embarrassments at the Rio Games.
Russia's Putin awards Margarita

Russian President Putin awards rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun during a grand ceremony for Russian Olympic medallists returning home from 2016 Rio Olympics at Kremlin in Moscow.
Seniors rule in USA's run to basketball gold

On a team of mostly first-time young Olympians, veterans Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant steal the show as the USA win its third straight gold medal.
Groundbreaking games for women in Rio

From the dizzying gymnastics heights of African-American Simone Biles to Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik and Brazilian golden girl Rafaela Silva in judo -- Rio proves a groundbreaking Games for women.
Rio Olympics: Bolt praised by rivals

The runners who have lost to Usain Bolt for the past dozen years shower the Jamaican superstar with praise, after he completes his historic "triple-triple" in what he has said will be his final Olympics.
Rio Olympics: Felix hits gold record with relay win

Allyson Felix becomes the first woman athlete with five gold medals as she powers the US sprint relay team to victory.
Bolt bows out with historic triple-triple

Usain Bolt put the seal on a glittering Olympic career with a blistering 4x100m relay victory that clinched sprint's first ever 'triple triple'. With his unprecedented third straight 100m, 200m and 4x100m clean sweep, Bolt joins Carl Lewis and Paavo Nurmi on a record-equalling nine track and field Olympic gold medals.
Dalilah powers to hurdles gold

Dalilah Muhammad powers to a brilliant victory in the women's 400m hurdles to become the first winner of the event from the United States in Olympic history.
Rio Olympics: Abughaush wins Jordan's first medal

Ahmad Abughaush makes history by winning Jordan's first ever Olympic medal, claiming gold in the men's under 68kg taekwondo division in Rio.
Rio Olympics: Usain Bolt factfile

Factfile on Usain Bolt after his victory in the 200m at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics Thursday.
Rio Olympics: Vietnam shooters lacked training bullets

Vietnam's prime minister admits Olympic hopefuls faced inadequate training equipment before the games, including a lack of bullets in shooting, a discipline that won the nation's first ever gold.
Rio Olympics: Family tragedy behind US hurdles sweep

Kristi Castlin dedicates her 100m hurdles medal to victims of gun violence after helping the United States claim a historic podium sweep in the event.
Bolt advances, Gatlin crumbles

Usain Bolt will race the 200m final on Thursday after comfortably winning his semi-final, but there is no place for American rival Justin Gatlin as he fails to qualify.
Rio Olympics: McLeod brings Jamaica more glory

Jamaica unleashes a new sprint sensation as Omar McLeod takes the Rio Olympics 110m hurdles on Tuesday.
Rio Olympics: Yuan wins men's 3m springboard

Cao Yuan shakes off the pressure of being the only Chinese diver left in the field -- a rarity in Olympic finals -- to deliver China's fifth diving gold medal.
Rio Olympics: Drouin joins Canadian greats with high jump gold

Canada's Derek Drouin overcomes a quality field to add the Olympic high jump crown to his world title after a cliff-hanger of a final in Rio.