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India raises import duty on gold, silver jewellery findings

Indian government has increased the import duty on gold and silver findings15% from 11%, effective from January 22

When law enforcers become criminals

Such sinister and premeditated actions raise grave concerns about whether our law enforcers are scrupulous enough to serve citizens.

Asia shares slip on Middle East woes, higher yields

Asian shares hit one-year lows Monday as the risk of a wider conflict in the Middle East clouded sentiment in a week laden with data on U.S. growth and inflation as well as earnings from some of the world's largest tech companies.

Jewellery industry still depends on informal sources

The jewellery industry has apparently remained largely dependent on unauthorised channels for sourcing gold although there is no direct government bar on importing the precious metal. 

55kg gold theft from customs warehouse may be an inside job: investigators

The gold -- 55.51kg to be precise -- stolen from Dhaka Customs House was taken from 437 separate packs kept inside a customs warehouse at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Dhaka Int’l Airport: 55kg gold vanishes from customs godown

Approximately 55.5kg gold bars and jewellery worth around Tk 47 crore have been stolen from a customs warehouse at Dhaka airport, officials say.

Gold prices to rise by Tk 1,721 per bhori from tomorrow

Jewellers have decided to increase gold prices by Tk 1,721 per bhori (11.664 grams) from tomorrow.

The evergreen winning combo of black and gold

There are those well-regarded classic colour combinations like black and gold that never go out of style for anybody. Even if we date back to the 1900s when women’s fashion was neat, covered and detailed with ruffles, buttons and lace in layers; black and gold had an upper hand even there. Georgia Hale, a 20th century silent film artist sported black silk dresses with golden tassels.

Sequins in Fashion: shine on you brilliant thing!

All women everywhere are magpies at heart! Give us anything shiny, bright and brilliant and we are sold in a heartbeat! Glitter makes our hearts sing and sequins with all their sparkling glory hits right at the pleasure centres of our brains! For the longest time though sequins and all this shiny have been on the receiving end of relentless flak from naysayers who dismissed it as tacky and inelegant. Anything sequined would be deemed crass and unfashionable, unfit for polite society even where it’d raise many eyebrows and draw inevitable frowns from purists!

November 21, 2016
November 21, 2016

Football: 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.

November 14, 2016
November 14, 2016

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.

November 4, 2016
November 4, 2016

Usain 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.

September 18, 2016
September 18, 2016

Rio Paralympics stages final show in shadow of tragedy

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.

September 11, 2016
September 11, 2016

Farah was fixing fantasy team

Mo Farah reveals what he was doing just minutes before walking onto the track to make Olympic history.

August 30, 2016
August 30, 2016

US Open: 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.

August 30, 2016
August 30, 2016

Shakil outguns Shahadat

South Asian Games gold medallist Shakil Ahmed grabs his first gold medal in domestic circuit.

August 27, 2016
August 27, 2016

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.

August 26, 2016
August 26, 2016

Russian President Putin awards Margarita Mamun

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.

August 22, 2016
August 22, 2016

Rio Olympics: 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.

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