BRAC Bank and Beximco Pharma recorded thumping victories on the opening day of the 4th Ascent Corporate Indoor 5-a-side Soccer Tournament at the STM Hall of Scholastica School at Uttara on Friday. BRAC Bank thrashed Flora Telecom 13-0 before Beximco, the defending champions, drubbed Olympic Industries 10-0. In another match,
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Zia retains National Chess title
Reigning champion GM Ziaur Rahman of Biman retained the title as he confirmed the championship with two rounds to go. Zia brought his collection to 10.5 points at the end of the 11th round of the Mercantile Bank 35th National Chess Championship at the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall room on Friday. It was Zia’s 11th ... Read more
Kushtia and Madaripur win on Day 1
July 10: Kushtia and Madaripur District Sports Associations (DSA) won their respective games in the final round of the Electro-Mart National Youth Handball Men’s (Under-19) competition on Friday at Sagarika Women’s Sports Complex in Chittagong. Kushtia outclassed Chittagong Mahanagari by 10-4, while Madaripur edged past Chapainawabaganj by 26-17. Earlier, in the qualifying round Kushtia crushed ... Read more
Rajshahi sports organisers form human chain
The sports organisers and players of Rajshahi on Friday formed a human chain in the city demanding immediate handing over of power to the newly elected committee of the Rajshahi Divisional Sports Association. Several hundred sports organisers and players formed the human chain at the Saheb Bazar Zero Point from 11.00am to 11.30am. Speakers at ... Read more
Bangladesh yet to win any gold in SA Shooting
Bangladesh remained goldless after the fourth day’s play of the Fifth South Asian Shooting Championship at the BKSP Shooting Range on Wednesday. India and Pakistan with six and two respectively shared the eight golds that were decided on the day. Women 10 M Air Pistol, Men 50 M Rifle Three Position, Men 25 M Standard ... Read more
National Youth (Under-19) Handball begins today
The Konka National Youth (Under-19) Handball Competition begins today at the Chittagong MA Aziz Stadium. Chittagong Divisional Sports Association will arrange the handball meet under auspices of Electra Mart Limited (Konka). A total of 19 teams will take part in the handball competition. They are : Joypurhat District team, Sunamganj District team, Jhalokathi District team, ... Read more
Zia, Reefat key tie today
Grand Master Ziaur Rahman of Biman was going great guns as he maintained his solo lead in the Mercantile Bank 35th National Chess Championship. Zia collected nine points after end of the 9th round games at the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall room on Wednesday. Zia had a rest day in the 9th round. He will ... Read more
Two silvers for Bangladesh
Bangladesh finished second behind India as usual to earn the silver medals in the Women’s 10 metre Air Rifle team and individual events in the 5th SAF Shooting Championships at the BKSP on Monday. Bangladesh scored 1,177 points, four behind gold medallists India who totaled 1,181. In the individual event of Women’s 10 metre Air ... Read more
A bad day for Bangladesh at AYG
Bangladesh conceded humiliating defeats in both of their FIBA 3 on 3 Basketball matches of the First Asian Youth Games at the Anglican High School in Singapore on Thursday. Bangladesh suffered 06-33 defeat against United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the morning and 04-33 defeat against Thailand in the
Zia atop alone
Grand Master Ziaur Rahman picked up his fourth straight win to take the solo lead in the Mercantile Bank 35th National Chess Championship at the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall room yesterday. Playing with Black pieces, the country’s number one player adopted the Modern Defence of Tartakower system and eventually earned resignation from Fide Master Taibur ... Read more
Bangladesh to take part in 4 disciplines: First Asian Youth Games begins today in Singapore
The first Asian Youth Games begins today (Monday) in Singapore at 7 pm local time. A large number of youth athletes from 43 Asian countries will compete in nine disciplines of sports for 90 gold medals at stake. The nine disciplines of sports are — Athletics, Aquatic, Basketball (3 on 3), Bowling, Shooting, Sailing, Beach ... Read more
Hockey team off to Moscow
Bangladesh national hockey team flew to Moscow on Monday to participate in a four-nation invitational hockey tournament, also involving Canada, South Africa and hosts Russia. Bangladesh are playing the tournament as part their preparation for the upcoming SA Games, to be held in Dhaka in January next year. The national hockey team has travelled beyond ... Read more
Ansar win Women’s v’ball title
Bangladesh Ansar & VDP team clinched the EXIM Bank 20th National Women’s Handball title beating hosts Faridpur DSA by 23-14 goals in the final at the Faridpur Stadium on Monday, reports UNB. The winners led the first half by 14-7 goals. This was the 14th national crown for the Ansar & VDP team including 11 ... Read more
India drubs Bangladesh 11-1
Bangladesh finished seventh in the 8th Asia Cup hockey tournament after a 11-1 defeat against India in the classification match at Wisma Belia Stadium of Kuantan, Malaysia on Thursday. India, which surprisingly failed to make it to the last four, started the game with an aggressive note and swooped on the Bangladesh team from the ... Read more
Bangladesh suffer 9-0 defeat against South Korea in Asia Cup Hockey
Bangladesh National Hockey team suffered another humiliating 9-0 goals defeat against Asian giant South Korea in their last Pool A match of the 8th Asia Cup Men’s Hockey Tournament in Kuantan Pathang, Malaysia on Tuesday. World number five South Korea dominated the first half 4-0 against the 34th ranking Bangladesh. With the day’s comfortable victory, ... Read more
Shirin, Taslima steal the show
Shirin Akhtar and Taslima Akhtar of BKSP stole the opening day’s show in the Dhaka Bank 25th National Junior Athletics Championship which began at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. Both Shirin and Taslima earned a couple of gold medals out of 12 events decided on the first day. Taslima became first in the juvenile ... Read more
Bangladesh hammered by Japan 5-0
Bangladesh slumped to a 0-5 defeat against Japan in its first match of the 8th Asia Cup hockey at Kuantan Stadium, Malaysia on Saturday. Bangladesh put up a miserable show against Japan and conceded two goals before the break. Japan with its spirited display took the command of the game and shot into the lead ... Read more
Asian Beach Volleyball from today
The 2nd Asian Beach Volleyball Tournament organised by Bangladesh Volleyball Federation (BVF) gets underway tomorrow at the Cox’s Bazar Laboni Point. In this connection, the draw of the competition held at local hotel at Cox’s Bazar on Saturday in presence of all the teams. All the attendees observed a minute’s silence in the memories of ... Read more
Seven-a-side Rugby final today
Bangladesh Boys and Khilgaon Pragoti Sangsad reached the final of the first ever Seven-a-side Rugby Tournament on Saturday. The final will be held at 5 pm today (Sunday) at the outer stadium. National Sports Council (NSC) director (sports) Abdur Rahman will
GM Ziaur Rahman finishes 14 in Mayor’s Cup Open International Chess
GM Ziaur Rahman of Biman finished 14th in the 2nd Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Open International Chess Tournament held in Mumbai, India on Saturday. GM Niaz Murshed of Leonine Chess Club became 23rd in the meet. Zia and Niaz both earned eight points each after end of the 11th round matches. In the last round matches, ... Read more