Kumar Sangakkara touched almost every cricketing high in an international career spanning 15 years. Father Kshema Sangakkara though mentored his cricket from an early age and feels there was still room for perfection. Cheered, celebrated and commemorated for being a champion cricketer, Kumar Sangakkara has been a leading face of international cricket for a decade and half. There is not ...

Britain’s Greg Rutherford once again proved his peerless championship credentials as he added world gold to his Olympic, European and Commonwealth titles. Rutherford wins stunning world gold Only four other Britons – Daley Thompson, Linford Christie, Sally Gunnell and Jonathan Edwards – have ever held all four titles at the same time, but Rutherford deserves that illustrious company after another ...

The Bangladesh National Football team left Dhaka for Malaysia Wednesday en-route to Perth to play in the FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers/AFC Cup Qualifiers in a hope to display their ever-best performance against Asian champions Australia on September 3. Before depart for Perth on Sunday (Aug 30), Bangladesh team will play a FIFA International Friendly match against Malaysian National team ...

Do you like salad? You’re a fool. Not because bacon is better (although, of course, it is) but because salad vegetables are nutrition-lite, resource-guzzling, pseudo-healthy food crimes that enable the overconsumption of blue cheese dressing. If they aren’t bringing foodborne diseases to your table, they are being chucked, soggily, into the bin. Tamar Haspel, the Washington Post’s food columnist, made ...

The global master trainer of the brand Reebok feels that Indian farmers do the best fitness activity that comprises naturally-designed digging and dragging. (Source: Thinkstock Images)Indians are more concerned about their fitness now as they want to look and feel better, says David Jack. But the global master trainer of the brand Reebok feels that Indian farmers do the best ...

Are solo travellers lonely people who are deprived of a suitable company and forced to go alone? No, says a study, adding that they are actually the most fun-loving people who want to enjoy it alone. Solo travellers do not go alone because they have to. They do it because they want to, the team from Queensland University of Technology ...

Researchers have reported a method to reduce the frequency of night time bed-wetting and improve the quality of life for sufferers. Bed-wetting, or nocturnal enuresis, causes distress in children and young adults, as well as for their parents or caregivers. In the study, researchers found that repetitive sacral root magnetic stimulation (rSMS) can successfully reduce the frequency of night time ...

Next time when you click a selfie with your friends, remember the way you take a selfie can actually reveal your personality, says a new study. How you would describe your own personality is pretty much in sync with what kind of selfies you take. The team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore surveyed 123 popular selfie-takers from the website ...

Researchers say they are closer to developing a vaccine to give life-long protection against any type of flu, after promising trials in animals. Two separate US teams have found success with an approach that homes in on a stable part of the flu virus. That should remove the problem with current flu vaccines which must be given anew each year ...

Exclusive breastfeeding is a right of the child. The benefits of exclusive breastfeeding are enormous not only to the baby, but also in many other ways to the family and nation. Seema, a mother of 2 month old boy lives at Kamrangirchar slum and works at a garments factory. When she was asked about exclusive breastfeeding, she smiled and said, ...