Bangladeshi bowler Shakib Al Hasan unsuccessfully appeals for the wicket of Sri Lanka’s Dilruwan Perera on day four of their second Test cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Saturday.

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Bangladeshi bowler Shakib Al Hasan unsuccessfully appeals for the wicket of Sri Lanka's Dilruwan Perera on day four of their second Test cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Saturday.

Toyota City: symbol of Japan’s auto rise

AFP, Toyota City :Toyota City stands as a testament to the meteoric rise of its namesake, now the world’s biggest carmaker with record profits and sales of more than 10 million cars globally last year.But this sprawling city of 422,000 people, just east of the industrial centre Nagoya, was once a struggling textiles town called Koromo whose inhabitants depended on silk production to make a living.Times got tough for the little community as the sector began to decline from the...

18 May 2015, 12:00 am