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Bangladesh Swimming Federation on Thursday signed a sponsorship deal with the Bashundhara Group for the 29th National Age Group Swimming Championships starting today at the Syed Nazrul Islam National Swimming Complex at Mirpur. Bashundhara Group will provide Tk 10 lakh out of an estimated budget of Tk 16 lakh and the federation will provide food, transport ... Read more

The Summer Open Badminton Tournament will begin on Friday at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Stadium at Paltan. Tournament details were announced by the Bangladesh Badminton Federation, which had earlier signed a Tk 3-lakh deal with Roxy Paints to sponsor the five-day competition, during a press conference at the National Sports Council on Wednesday. Roxy Paints managing director ... Read more

International Master Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar of Bangladesh Ansar took solo lead in the Berger Paints 39th National ‘A’ Chess Championship with 4.5 points after beating Hafizul Islam Chapal of Dhaka City in the 5th round match at the Media Centre of Bangladesh Olympic Association on Wednesday. Two Grandmasters – Abdullah Al Rakib and

The Bangladesh Olympic Association executive committee has decided in principle to terminate its director general, Colonel (Retd) Wali Ullah, top BOA officials confirmed after an executive committee meeting on Tuesday. The decision was taken with the consent of BOA president General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan after a regular executive committee meeting.  The decision to fire Wali was ... Read more

Shafiq Ahmed of Golden Chess Club retained the solo lead in Berger Paints 39th National ‘A’ Chess Championship securing full two points after beating Hafizul Islam Chapal of Dhaka City in the 2nd round match at the Media Centre of Bangladesh Olympic Association on Sunday. Two Grandmasters—reigning champion GM Niaz Murshed and runner-up GM Ziaur Rahman

Narinda Govt High School retained the boys group title of the Polar Ice Cream 21st School Handball Tournament beating St Gregory’s High School by 26-16 goals in the final at the Shaheed M Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium on Sunday. This was the 3rd consecutive and

The Berger Paints 39th National ‘A’ Chess Championship began at the Media Centre of Bangladesh Olympic Association on Saturday with holders GM Niaz Murshed of Dhaka Mohammedan making a draw with FM Khondakar Aminul Islam of Bangladesh Ansar in the opening match. In the day’s another first round match, Shafiq Ahmed

The Polar Ice Cream 21st School Handball (Boys and Girls) Tournament advanced to the semifinal stages after the day’ s matches at the Shaheed (Captain) M Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium on Saturday. In the boys’ semifinal on Sunday, Narinda Govt. High School will play Play Pen School at 8:30 am while Sunnydale School will ... Read more

Nat’l ‘A’ Chess Begins Today Lost opportunity for Sagar, Shakil International Masters Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar and Abu Sufian Shakil have lost an opportunity to gain a Grand Master norm from the National ‘A’ Championship, which is schedule to start from today. In order to achieve a GM norm, Sagar and Shakil’s opponents must have an ... Read more

Five premier division clubs submitted a letter to the National Sports Council on Thursday to seek the use of the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium for the proposed rebel Dhaka Hockey League. The five clubs – Mohammedan SCL, Wari Club, Dhaka Wanderers, Bangladesh SC and Ajax SC – decided along with Mariner Youngs Club not to participate

A 16-member Bangladesh contingent will leave for Jakarta today to participate in the 3rd Islamic Solidarity Games, which is scheduled to start on September 22 in Palembang, Indonesia. The world’s 57 Muslim nations will compete in the 10-day long meet, where Bangladeshi athletes will participate in three of the ten disciplines – archery,

The Berger Paints 39th National ‘A’ Chess Championship begins on Saturday (Sept 21) at the Media Centre of Bangladesh Olympic Association. Bangladesh Chess Federation invited five grandmasters of the country to participate directly in the National ‘A’. Reigning champion GM Niaz Murshed,

Sarwar Hossain of Army Karate Team clinched the gold medal in senior group of the men’s singles Kata in the 4th Japan Cup Karate Tournament on the 2nd and last day at the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium in Mirpur on Thursday. Jannatul Noor Jitu, also from Army Karate team,

Following the Bangladesh Football Federation’s lead, the Bangladesh Hockey Federation has also formed a three-member committee to determine the causes of Bangladesh’s failure at the Asia Cup, BHF officials said on Tuesday. The Bangladesh national hockey team

Bangladeshi golfer Siddikur Rahman ended a disappointing Yeangder TPC on a positive note, carding a two-under-par 70 in the final round to finish in 41st place at four-over-par in Taipei on Sunday. Thailand’s Thaworn Wiratchant shot a final-round 68 to finish at 13-under and claim the title from American Chan Kim, who entered Sunday with a ... Read more

The National Shooting Federation of Bangladesh has begun the process of forming a national team for the 6th Asian Airgun Championship, scheduled to be held in Tehran from October 19-25, officials said on Saturday. A total of 16 shooters took part in two events – the 10-metre air rifle and 10-metre air pistol – on the ... Read more

Bangladesh golfer Siddikur Rahman ended round three of the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship in joint-63rd position on Saturday at the Linkou International Golf and Country Club in Taiwan. Siddik hit two-over-par 74 on day three of the $500,000 event, currently led by United States’ Chan Kim, who carded four-under-par 68. Overall,

The Polar Ice Cream 21st School Handball Tournament (Boys & Girls), organised by Bangladesh Handball Federation, will begin on Monday at the Shaheed (Captain) Mansoor Ali National Handball Stadium. Secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Nur Mohammad will inaugurate the meet to be participated by 17 schools in boys group and14 schools in

Bangladeshi golfer Siddikur Rahman barely made the cut at the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship at the Linkou International Golf and Country Club on Friday, carding a second round 73 to finish the day at four-over. Siddik’s tournament seemed to be in jeopardy early on as he followed his opening round 75 with four bogies and a ... Read more

Bangladesh were beaten 2-1 by Bahrain in their fourth and final group match of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania region group VI in Dubai on Friday. In the day’s first singles match, Bangladesh’s Md. Anwar Hossain lost 2-6, 1-6 to Bahrain’s Yousuf Qoad. Amol Roy then brought Bangladesh level by