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Young champions of Khulna and Tangail have kept their up-and-down performances in the Danone Nations Cup in Pretoria, South Africa. On the first day when Khulna won one of their games and lost the other three while Tangail lost all four of their matches. Since then Khulna have played four more and

Bangladesh national hockey players, who are currently playing for different German clubs, will reunite on Monday to start the final part of their preparations for the Asian Games, said Anvir Adil Khan, the co-coordinator of the national team. A total of 19 players from the 30-member preliminary squad went to Germany on August

A four-member Bangla-desh golf team will leave Dhaka today to participate in the upcoming Asian Amateur Golf Championship 2010, which will be held in the west course of Kasumigaseki Country Club in Tokyo. Kasumigaseki Country Club was the venue for the Japan Open in 1933, 1956, 1995 and 2006 and the Japan Women’s Open in ... Read more

Molar Table Tennis Club, Bangladesh Boys, Promising Juniors and Dhaka Wanderers Club won their respective Group A matches in the First Division Table Tennis League at the Wooden Floor Gymnasium yesterday. In Group B, TT Academy, Cynthia Sporting Club and Monsur Sporting also

The Danone Nations Cup in Pretoria, South Africa has been a mixed fortune so far for the boys from Khulna and Tangail. Both the teams won their opening matches, Khulna beating Colombia 2-0 and Tangail defeating Australia 3-0. But both trams lost their next three matches. Earlier on Thursday, the boys had

The Daily Star win media football For a split second, the entire stadium held its collective breath. There was almost pin-drop silence as Jasim Uddin stepped up to attempt to convert from the spot. At stake was the destination of the DRU-Rapid Securities Media Football trophy. It had all come down to this. The difference ... Read more

Elina won a double in the Advocate Abdur Rab Memorial Summer Open (Ranking) Badminton tournament yesterday. Elina beat Shapla 21-11, 21-7 in the women’s final at the Wooden Floor Gymnasium. She also won the women’s doubles crown, partnering Shapla to beat Dulali-Nabila

Chess Olympiad Wins for men, women The Bangladesh men’s and women’s teams won their respective ninth round matches in the 39th World Chess Olympiad in Russia on Thursday. The men’s team beat Yemen by 2.5-1.5 points while the women got better of their Dominican Republic counterparts by 3-1 points

Destiny was against The Daily Star. But it is destiny that has taken The Daily Star to battle a team they famously won against ten years ago. The final of the DRU Rapid Securities six-a-side football, a fun tournament involving the print and electronic media of the country, on Friday will be a rematch between ... Read more

Enayet, Raees, Javed and Porosh moved into the men’s semifinals of the Advocate Abdur Rab Smriti Summer Open (Ranking) badminton tournament at the Shaheed Suhrawardi Indoor Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. Knit Concern’s Enayet fought hard against Lal Chand of the same team, as he went a set down to come back and win 21-23, 21-10,

Bangladesh on Wednesday announced to host its first professional golf tournament of Asian circuit, the Grameenphone Bangladesh Masters, in Dhaka from January 26-29, 2011. The announcement came in less than two months after Siddikur Rahman, a former ball boy of the Kurmitola Golf Club course, became the first Bangladeshi to win a professional tournament in ... Read more

The Bangladesh Olympic Association has decided to bid for the 2016 Asian Beach Games, The decision was made at an executive committee meeting of the BOA at the BOA House on Wednesday. The BOA has also declared a cash bonanza for the Commonwealth Games-bound athletes with a gold medal winner pocketing Tk 10 lakh. The ... Read more

Azad Sporting Club beat Arambagh Krira Chakra 26-14 in the United Oil Women’s Handball League at the Handball Stadium yesterday. The winners were leading the first half 13-5. Abahani Limited kept their winning streak with a 23-14 win over Dhaka Mariners Club. Meanwhile, Azad Sporting had another win earlier in the day when they beat ... Read more

Hopes of winning a gold medal in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games again revolved round the shooters who expressed their confidence about earning laurels for the country. The shooting federation has also announced prize money of Tk 10 lakh for each gold medal. Shooters and federation officials at a briefing at the National Shooting Complex on ... Read more

Ace shooters Sharmin Akhter Ratna and Syeda Sadia Sultana had wonderful gifts for them on the eve of their departure for the Commonwealth Games. Two local business houses Sheltech Private Limited and Envoy Textiles Limited have come ahead to sponsor the two shooters for next one year. Both shooters were happy with this sponsorship and ... Read more

Dhaka Metropolis First Division Table Tennis League got underway yesterday at the Wooden Floor Stadium with eight teams winning their respective matches on the opening day. Promising Junior beat Dhaka Wanderers 3-1 while Bangladesh Boys, Dhaka South East TT Club and Combined SC beat Bangladesh Chemical, Dyane and Lalbagh TT Club respectively, all in

Abahani Limited scored a 28-7 victory over Arambagh Krira Chakra in the United Oil Women’s Handball League at the Handball Stadium in the city yesterday. The winners led the first half 13-4. The other match between Azad Sporting and Mariner Youngs was disrupted due to

Advocate Abdur Rob Smrity Summer Open (Rating) Badminton tournament gets underway at the Suhrawardi Indoor Stadium in Mirpur today. Some 133 shuttlers including 13 women will compete in four events — men’s singles and doubles, women’s singles and doubles, said organisers at a press conference at the

The Dhaka Metropolis Table Tennis League begins at the Wooden Floor Gymnasium today with the First Division. Some 18 teams, split into two groups, will take part in the first division as the Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation has temporary brought an electricity line from the volleyball stadium to complete the

Abahani defeated Dhaka Mariner Youngs Club 14-11 in the United Oil Women’s Handball League at the Handball Stadium yesterday. They led the first half 7-5. In the day’s other matches, Madaripur Handball Training Centre crushed Jatrabari 24-9 after