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Abdus Sattar Dulal In Bangladesh persons with different types of disability run wheelchairs crickets that not just sports of disabled persons. Read More »

Dhaka – Hosts Bangladesh will take on India in their 2nd match of Group A of the eight-nation ACC Emerging Teams Cup’2019 on Saturday at BKSP ground-3 in Savar. In the day’s other matches, Sri Lanka will take on Pakistan at Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Main Stadium in Cox’s Bazar, Afghanistan will play Oman at the Academy ground of the ... Read More »

Dhaka – A 31-member Bangladesh National Football team returned Dhaka on Friday after playing their away match of the joint qualification round for FIFA World Cup 2022 and AFC Asia Cup 2023 against Oman at the Seeb Sports Stadium in Al Seeb city of Oman on Thursday. “The 31-member Bangladesh team safely reached Dhaka at 10:30 in the morning,” said ... Read More »

Dhaka – The 3rd  National Youth Archery Championship’2019 will begin from Saturday at Archery Training Center Shahid Ahsan Ullah Master Stadium in Tongi under the auspices of Bangladesh Archery Federation (BAF). A total of 103 young archers form ten teams — 78 recurve archers and 25 compound archers — will compete in the two-day meet, said the BAF in a ... Read More »

Dhaka  – Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) will hold the much-awaited Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday at Sarah Resort in Gazipur. Read More »

Dhaka — The sixth and final round of the National Cricket League (NCL), the most prestigious first-class cricket event of Bangladesh, will start on Saturday (November 16). Read More »

Dhaka — Hosts India completed day-1 of the ICC World Test Championship on high note after Bangladesh suffered a horrible batting collapse to bundle out cheaply for 150 run in Holkar Cricket Stadium in the Indian city of Indore on Thursday. India are trailing by 64 runs with nine wickets remaining losing their vice-captain Rohit Sharma at the end of ... Read More »

Dhaka – Hosts Bangladesh made a flying start in the eight-nation ACC Emerging Teams Cup’2019 beating Hong Kong by nine wickets in one of the four opening day’s matches at BKSP ground-4 in Savar on Thursday. In the other opening day’s matches, Oman made the biggest upset beating holders Sri Lanka by four wickets at the academy ground of Sheikh ... Read More »

At least 13 people were killed and 10 others injured on Wednesday when a speeding truck suffered a tyre burst along a busy highway in southwest Nigeria, an official said Thursday. Clement Oladele, commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Ogun state told Xinhua on phone that the crash occurred when the driver of the truck lost control of ... Read More »

Dhaka – Nepal clinched the five-nation first Bangamata Asian Senior Women’s Central Zone International Volleyball title with all-win record beating the Maldives by straight 3-0 sets in the final at the Shaheed Suhrawardi National Indoor Stadium in Mirpur on Thursday. The Maldives finished runners-up with three wins and two losses.Hosts Bangladesh, which came to the limelight beating Kyrgyzstan by 3-2-sets ... Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh’s premier golfer and two-time Asian Tour winner Siddikur Rahman shared the 11th slot with eight other golfers in the Panasonic Open (Golf) carding three-under par 69 after the first round in Gurgaon, India on Thursday. The last-time runner-up of Panasonic Open, Siddikur Rahman, carded five birdies against two bogeys in the first round. Other Bangladeshi golfers Badal ... Read More »

Dhaka – The eight-nation ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup’2019 begins on Thursday (Nov 14) at four different venues in Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka and Savar with hosts Bangladesh taking on Hong Kong in one of the four opening day’s matches at BKSP ground-4 in Savar. In the other opening day’s matches, India will play Nepal at BKSP (Ground 3), Sri Lanka ... Read More »

London (AP/UNB) — Bernardo Silva will miss Manchester City’s trip to Chelsea after being banned for one game for posting a tweet which compared teammate Benjamin Mendy to the character on a packet of Conguitos chocolates. The midfielder admitted to an “aggravated breach” of rules because the post referenced race. He was also fined 50,000 pounds ($64,000) and ordered to ... Read More »

Dhaka  – Bangladesh will play Oman on Thursday in their fixture of the joint qualification round for the FIFA World Cup 2022 and AFC Asia Cup 2023 (November 14) at the Seeb Sports Stadium in Al Seeb city of Oman. Bangladesh’s first-ever match against tough and highly rated Oman, will kicks-off at 9:pm (Bangladesh time). Bangladesh was placed 184th in ... Read More »

Dhaka – Hosts Bangladesh were eliminated from the first Bangamata Asian Senior Women’s Central Zone International Volleyball Championship after conceding 2nd defeat losing to Nepal by 0-3 sets (7-25, 6-25, 6-25 points) in their 3rd match at Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium in Mirpur on Tuesday. With the 3rd successive win, Nepal reached the final of the five-nation meet. Sunita ... Read More »

Dhaka – The eight-nation ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup’2019 will begin on Thursday (Nov 14) at three different venues in Cox’s Bazar, Savar and Mirpur. Bangladesh have been placed in Group B along with runners-up India, Hong Kong and Nepal while Group A team comprises defending champions Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Oman. Manager (Game, Development and HP) Abu Enam ... Read More »

Khulna – The maiden Sheikh Russel International Club Cup Tennis Tournament’2019, jointly organised by  Khulna District Administration and Khulna Officers Club, begins on Wednesday at Circuit House tennis court here. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the six-day meet through a video conference at 10:30 am from the Gana Bhaban. A total of 64 tennis players from 18 countries — ... Read More »

Bangladesh head coach Russell Domingo said he believes the underperforming pacer Mustafizur Rahman is close to delivering a good show with the ball. Read More »

Dhaka – The Pran-DRU Media Cricket Tournament, organized by Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), begins Thursday (Nov 14) morning at the Maulana Bhashani Hockey Stadium here. Forty four teams, split into eight groups, will compete in the week long meet on league basis. Later, the group champion will play the quarterfinals. Sports Secretary of DRU Shafiqul Islam Shamim disclosed the details ... Read More »

Dhaka- Bangladesh Under-19 Cricket team took a 1-0 lead in the five-match Youth ODI series against Sri Lanka beating the tourists by 5 wickets in the 2nd match at Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna on Monday. The first game of the five-match Youth ODI series between the two teams was abandoned at the same venue on Saturday due to ... Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh Junior Kabaddi team got off a flying start in the First Junior Kabaddi World Cup’2019 beating Afghanistan by 84-11 points in a  Group C match at Kish Island National Stadium in Iran on Monday. Read More »

Dhaka – A 10-member Bangladesh Badminton team including eight shuttlers and two officials will fly for Nepal Tuesday morning to participate in the first Yonex Sunrise Nepal International Challenge’2019 The competition will be held from November 13 to 17 at Dasarath Rangasala (Stadium) in Kathmandu, under the auspices of Nepal Badminton Association. The top three shuttlers of singles event will ... Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh Under-19 men’s football team will play against Bhutan Under-19 men’s football team in their third and last group match of AFC U-19 Championship’2020 Qualifiers on Sunday. The match will kick-off at 7:15 pm (BST) at the Khalifa Sports City Stadium in Bahrain capital Manama. In the day’s other match, hosts Bahrain will take on Jordan at 10 ... Read More »

Dhaka — Despite losing the chance of winning the series in the 2nd T20 match in Rajkot last Thursday, Tigers are ready to take another chance in Nagpur to seal the three-match T20I series against India. The 3rd and final T20I of the series will be played at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. The match will start at ... Read More »

Dhaka  – City Group, which signed a five-year deal with Bangladesh Archery Federation for improvement of the game with slogan of “Teer Go for Gold” announced a budget of Tk 2.41 crore for the 3rd year (2019-2020). Earlier, the City Group signed a five-year deal with Bangladesh Archery Federation in October 23 in 2017 to nurse Bangladesh archers for Olympics ... Read More »

Dhaka  – Bangladesh Karate team finished 4th in the five-nation South Asian Karate Championship’2019 securing seven gold, 28 silver and 24 bronze medals that concluded at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Stadium here on Saturday. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen was the chief guest at the day’s closing ceremony and later he distributed the prizes. Secretary of the Ministry of ... Read More »

Dhaka – Eight players left Dhaka on Friday to join Bangladesh squad in Nagpur where Tigers will play the T20 series decider against India. However, these players will play only in the two-match Test series. The players are – Saif Hassan, Imrul Kayes, Shadman Islam, Mominul Haque, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Abu Jayed Rahi, Ebadat Hossain and Nayeem Hasan. Saif got ... Read More »

Dhaka – Grand Master Niaz Murshed of Bangladesh Ansar maintained his solo lead securing 5.5 points after the 7th round matches of the Saif Powertec 45th National Chess Championship at the SREDA auditorium of the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh in Ramna on Friday. In the day’s match, GM Niaz drew with GM Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib of Saif Sporting Club. ... Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh Under-19 men’s football team started their AFC U-19 Championship’2020 Qualifiers campaign conceding 0-3 goals defeat against hosts Bahrain at the Khalifa Sports City Stadium in Manama on Wednesday night. Forward Abdul Rahman Sayed Mohamed scored twice in the 43rd and 90th minutes while midfielder Abdulla Nemer Almesaeed scored one goal in the stoppage time (96th minute). Bangladesh, ... Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh Women’s Volleyball team to play Afghanistan in the official opening match of the First Bangamata Asian Senior Women’s Central Zone International Volleyball Championship’2019 on Saturday (Nov 9) at 4pm at Shaheed Suhrawardi Indoor Stadium in Mirpur. Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will inaugurate the six-day meet as chief guest on Saturday afternoon although ... Read More »