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The Ascent Corporate 5-A-Side Indoor Soccer Cup 2013 kicks off today at the STM Hall of Scholastica School’s Uttara campus, organisers confirmed at a press conference on Thursday. The tournament will feature 48 teams from different corporate houses in 16 groups, which were drawn randomly at the press conference in presence

The Bangladesh national hockey team suffered a 5-0 defeat against Pakistan in a practice match ahead of the Asia Cup in Malaysia on Thursday. Coach Naveed Alam was, however, happy with his team’s performance, as he was more concerned with the team combination and strategy than

Bangladesh athletes will return empty-handed from the Asian Youth Games in Nanjing, China after taekwondo player Amirul Islam Mehedi failed to trouble his quarterfinal opponent, Alorani Anas of Jordan, in the 62kg category on Thursday. Mehedi was dominated by a score of 28-1 as Alorani booked

The 18-member Bangladesh national hockey team will leave Dhaka for Malaysia today for the ninth Asia Cup, which begins on August 24. The national side managed a massive 6-0 win over the Bangladesh Hockey Federation XI on Tuesday at the Moulana Vashani National Hockey Stadium in their final tune-up match before their departure.

Bangladesh athletes Ashik Kumar Halder and Irin Akter bowed out of the semi-finals of their respective 100-metre sprint events at the 2nd Asian Youth Games in Nanjing, China on Tuesday. On the fifth day of the Games, Ashik clocked 11.54 seconds to finish last among the eight runners in his heat. Irin exited in the ... Read more

More than a dozen female kabaddi players are set to miss the upcoming international women’s kabaddi tournament in Dhaka as their team, Bangladesh Ansar, is unlikely to participate in the competition. The Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation will host the tournament from August 25-29 with teams from Nepal, India’s West Bengal, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and the

Bangladesh national hockey team will be leaving for Malaysia on Wednesday with the aim to finish in sixth place in the Asia Cup Hockey, which gets underway on August 24. Bangladesh were seventh in the last two editions of the tournament, held in India and Malaysia in 2007 and 2009 respectively.

Bangladesh sprinters Ashik Kumar Halder and Irin Akter moved into the semi-final of the 100 metre event in the boys and girls category at the 2nd Asian Youth Games in Nanjing, China on Monday. Ashik clocked 11.54 seconds and finished third in his heat and ended in 13th position among 28 sprinters overall. Irin Akter ... Read more

Former national chess player Md Saif Uddin Lavlu became the 14th FIDE Master of Bangladesh after the World Chess Federation awarded him the title. Lavlu, who is also the manager of the Tias Club chess team, has earned 2315 rating points throughout his career. He has participated twice

Bangladesh shuttler Ayman Ibn Zaman failed to progress to the last eight of the men’s badminton singles event at the 2nd Asian Youth Games as he lost to Japan’s Koga Minoru in the last 16. Minoru defeated Zaman by straight 21-08, 21-03 sets on Sunday in Nanjing, China, on the third day of the Games. ... Read more

Shuttler Ayman Ibn Zaman was the only shining light for Bangladesh on the second day of the 2nd Asian Youth Games in Nanjing, China on Saturday. Ayman began with a remarkable performance in the first round of the badminton men’s singles event by beating Al-Mandalawi Qasim of Iraq

Bangladeshi golfers Sajib Ali and Nazim Hossain will participate in the 126th Amateur Golf Championship in Sri Lanka, which begins on August 19. Sajib, who is Bangladesh’s top-ranked amateur golfer, said that the five-day competition will be held in eight rounds and will feature amateur

The Bangladesh Hockey Federation has failed to arrange any practice match for the national hockey team ahead of the Asia Cup starting on August 24 in Malaysia. The national team are making preparations since the first week of July and other than some trial matches dividing themselves into two teams they did not play any

Most of the athletes and officials of the 29-member Bangladesh contingent for the 2nd Asian Youth Games, which begin on August 16, will leave Dhaka for Nanjing, China today. The shooting team left Dhaka on Tuesday. 23 athletes from eight different disciplines – athletics, swimming, shooting, weightlifting,

Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman bowed out of the Chess World Cup after conceding a 0.5-1.15 point defeat against World No. 11 GM Boris Gelfand of Israel in the first round held in Tromso, Norway on Monday night. Zia, the highest ranked Bangladeshi player drew the second game of the first round against the Israeli but his ... Read more

Usain Bolt was made to look human by a combination of a Russian rainstorm and a fired-up Justin Gatlin on Sunday but the Jamaican superstar was still good enough to regain his world 100m title in a surging 9.77 seconds. With former world and Olympic champion and twice-banned doper Gatlin leading at halfway, Bolt was forced ... Read more

Bangladesh sprinter Mesbah Ahmed finished fifth among seven participants in the men’s 100 metre preliminary round at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow on Saturday. Mesbah clocked 11.23 seconds in the heats as he ended his campaign in 20th place among 30 contestants in the showpiece event of the meet.

The suspended hockey players have accused Bangladesh Hockey Federation officials of having double standards for filing a police case against them and ruining their Eid celebrations. The BHF filed a case on July 31 against five hockey players – Russell Khan Bappy, Ariful Haque Prince, Asaduzzaman Chandan, Ashikuzzaman and Shamsuddin Tuhin – for

The draft Education Act of the country proposed that Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishthan would be made a full-fledged sports university with the establishment of schools and colleges of sports at district levels under the university. At present the BKSP, located at Savar on the outskirts of the capital, the lone

The Walton-Cute Singra rowing competition is scheduled to be held in the Singra Kumri Lake under the Kalihati Upazila of Tangail on August 11, with 1,500 rowers taking part in the sixth edition of the competition. Mir Kaisar Sadik Sajib, the convener of the competition, made the announcement at a press conference in the Bangabandhu ... Read more