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Bangladesh Army emerged unbeaten champions in the Victory Day Rugby Tournament beating Flame Boys 31-7 in the final at the Paltan Maidan. Earlier four teams took part in a single league system in the fist phase. The top two teams from the first phase qualified for the final. Army also defeated

Usha Krire Chakra made a good start in the Walton Smartphone Victory Day Hockey Tournament beating Bangladesh Police by 4-2 goals in the opening match at the Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium on Saturday. Rabbi Salehin Rocky, Isa Mia and Rubel Hossain netted one goal each for the winners and the other goal was suicidal. In the ... Read more

The two-day SOLZAR cup Golf tournament concluded at the Ghatail Shaheed Salahuddin Cantonment golf course in Tangail on Friday. A total of 60 players – Including seven women golfers – from different golf clubs in the country took part in the tournament. The tournament was inaugurated by the GOC

Walton Victory Day hockey tournament will begin on Saturday at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium, announced by the Bangladesh Hockey Federation on Thursday. Four premier league clubs – Abahani Limited, Usha Krira Chakra, Ajax Sporting Club and Azad Sporting Club –will take part the meet along with three services

Bangladesh Swimming Federation general secretary Rafiz Uddin has failed to live upto his promise after taking charge of the executive committee in February this year. Upon taking charge, Rafiz claimed that his first priority will be to set up a talent-hunt programme in the grass-root level. Rafiz also pledged

The wife and daughter of a Bangladesh Chess Federation vice-president has been named a part of the team selected for a competition in US gambling capital Las Vegas in late December, officials said. Tahsin Anjum – an unrated female player – will join Fide Master Sheikh Nasir Ahmed, FM Khandoker Aminul Islam and Arifuzzaman Shikder for ... Read more

Bangladeshi golfer Siddikur Rahman met with chief of Army Staff and president of Kurmitola Golf Club General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan to share his World Cup experience before a reception at the Kurmitola Golf Club on Monday. Siddikur, who won his second Asian Tour tournament in India last month, returned home on Thursday after participating in five

Grand Master Ziaur Rahman got off to winning start in the 5th London Chess Classic FIDE Open when he beat Australian Puccini Jack at the Olympia Conference Centre at Kensington on Saturday. Zia was supposed to play his second round game against Norwegian FM Stigar Petter Sunday night. A total of 184 players including 22 ... Read more

Captain Syed Hasibur Rahman emerged champion in the 18th Standard Chartered Golf Tournament which was held at the lush greens of Bhatiary Golf and Country Club (BGCC) in Chittagong on Friday. Around 200 golfers from home and abroad tested their skills at the annual tournament sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank, according to a press release. Major

Malaysian shuttler Yogendran Krishnan and Pai Hsiao Ma of Chinese Taipei clinched the men’s and women’s singles crown respectively in the Yonex-Sunrise Bangladesh Open International Badminton Challenge at Mirpur on Saturday. The final day of the tournament saw Krishnan win the men’s singles title after beating Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Jen Hao in the title-deciding

Yogendran Krishnan of Malaysia will face Hsu Jen Hao of Chinese Taipei in the men’s singles final today while Saili Rane of India will play Chinese Taipei’s Pai Hsiao Ma in the women’s singles final on the same day in the Yonex-Sunrise Bangladesh Open International Badminton Challenge. Yogendran Krishnan beat Indian shuttler Subhankar Dey by 21-18, ... Read more

Bangladesh golfer Siddikur Rahman bowed out of the Hong Kong Open on Friday at the Hong Kong golf club. Siddik hit three-over-par 73 in the second round and consequently missed the cut. Overall he struck four-over-par 144 in two rounds of the US$1.3 million tournament. The 29-year-old Bangladeshi golfer hit just

The Bangladeshi athletes continued their good run in the Special Olympics: Asia Pacific Games in Newcastle, Australia for the fourth successive day after winning eight gold medals on Thursday. On the fourth day of the Games, Bangladesh won a total of 19 medals – eight golds, six silvers and five bronze medals. From the eight gold ... Read more

Shuttlers of host Bangladesh continued their awful performance on the third day of the Yonex-Sunrise Bangladesh Open International Badminton Challenge on Thursday. In the women’s singles, Brishti Khatun lost to Pai Hsiao Ma of Chinese Taipei by straight sets of 21-10, 21-5 points. In the women’s doubles, Brishti Khatun

Bangladesh golfer Siddikur Rahman made a terrible start to the Hong Kong Open as he ended round one on Thursday in joint-69th position. Siddik hit one-over-par 71 on the opening day of the US$1.3 million tournament at the Hong Kong golf club. The 29-year-old Bangladeshi golfer began his campaign with a bogey and a double bogey in ... Read more

Siddikur Rahman will be looking to add further glory to a spectacular season with a good showing at the 1.3-million-dollar Hong Kong Open which starts at the spectacular Hong Kong Golf Club today. The 29-year old golfer finished fourth at the Indonesian Open last week with constant performance throughout the four rounds and will be ... Read more

In Chinese Taipei, every kid starts playing either badminton or table tennis when he/she can handle the weight of a racquet. For Pai Hsiao Ma it was badminton. Initially it was, however, all for fun like many others who never consider this game as profession. But her family saw special talent in Pai and

The Bangladesh Hockey Federation received a green signal from the ministry of finance regarding financial assistance to install a new synthetic turf at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium, said an official on Wednesday. Federation of International Hockey president Leandro Negre had announced during his Dhaka visit in February that he would help the

Out of the seven gold medals won by the Bangladeshi athletes on the second day of the Asia Pacific Games of Special Olympics in Newcastle, Australia, three were won by the students of two schools of Jamalpur. Chaitee Aktar and Humayun Kabir, both from the Speech and Hearing Impairment School of Kacharipara in Jamalpur, won gold ... Read more

Bangladesh continued their good performance for the second day running in the Special Olympics: Asia Pacific Games in Newcastle, Australia. On the second day, Bangladesh won a total of nine medals – seven of them gold. The Bangladeshi contingent also claimed a silver and bronze medal. From the seven golds, Bangladesh clinched four