Dhaka – Bangladesh Kabaddi team made a flying start in the 12-team Kabaddi World Cup’2016 outplaying England by 52-18 points in their first match at the state-of-the-art stadium in the Indian city of Ahmedabad Saturday evening.Hosts India beat South Korea…
Washington (AP/UNB) — Olympic athletes who bring home the gold, silver and bronze for Team USA will no longer pay a “victory tax” for their achievement under a bill President Barack Obama signed into law Friday. The IRS will now…
Dhaka – The seven-nation International Handball Federation (IHF) Trophy, 2016 for Men and Women with participation of South Central Asian Countries begins on Sunday at Shaheed (capt) M Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium.Road Transport & Bridges Minister and Chairman of…
Dhaka – Australia’s NBL Wednesday announced a deal to broadcast every game of the 2016-17 season into China, opening the door for a Chinese team to join the competition eventually.The National Basketball League is keen to expand and Ali Sports…
Dhaka – Three players are sharing the top slot in the points table securing maximum 2 points each after 2nd round games in the Final Phase of the Saif Global Sports 36th National Women Chess Championship at Bangladesh Chess Federation…
Dhaka – Benfica routed Feirense 4-0 Sunday to open a three-point lead over FC Porto and Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese league.Luis Aurelio, Eduardo Salvio, Franco Cervi and Alex Grimaldo scored for Benfica at the Estadio da Luz,giving the defending…
Dhaka – The Liberty Group CJKS Premier Division Volleyball League, organised by Chattagram Jila Krira Sangstha (CJKS), began on Saturday at CJKS training ground here.Chittagong City Mayor AJM Nasiruudin inaugurated the league in the afternoon as chief guest. Managing Director…
Dhaka- Hosts Bangladesh smartly reached the final of the seven-nation Beximco 4th Boys’ Under-18 Asia Cup Hockey’2016 with all-win record eliminating Chinese Taipei by 6-1 goals in the first semifinal at Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium on Thursday.Bangladesh will play…
Dhaka – High flying Bangladesh will play Chinese Taipei in the first semifinal of the Beximco 4th Boys’ Under-18 Asia Cup Hockey’2016 at Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium on Thursday.The match will kick-off at 12:30 pm Bangladesh time. Favorite Pakistan will…
Dhaka – Hosts Bangladesh reached the semifinals of the Beximco 4th Boys’ Under-18 Asia Cup Hockey-2016 as Pool A champion with all-win record crushing all-loser Oman by 10-0 goals at Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium on Tuesday.Bangladesh will play the…
Dhaka – Bangladesh beat the Maldives by 2-1 sets in the 5th Asian Beach Games Men’s Volleyball held in Da Nang city of Vietnam on Monday,UNB News Agency Reported.
Dhaka – The Treat Inter-College Women’s Handball Tournament, organised by Bangladesh Handball Federation (BHF), got underway on Monday at Shaheed (Capt) M Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium here.State Minister for Youth and Sports Dr Biren Sikder inaugurated the four-day meet…
Dhaka – High flying Bangladesh will play Oman in the last Pool A match of the Beximco 4th Boys’ Under-18 Asia Cup Hockey’ 2016 at Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium on Tuesday to assure the group title.The match will kick-off…
Dhaka – Lucas Pouille clinched his first career title on Sunday, beating top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria 7-6 (5), 6-2 to win the Moselle Open final.The third-seeded Frenchman, a U.S. Open quarterfinalist earlier this month, clipped a neat volley for…
Arnold Palmer, the gentleman golfer from Latrobe, Pa., whose thrilling, go-for-broke style made him the first television superstar of his sport and earned him generations of devoted fans, has died, according to Golf Digest. He was 87. The beloved Palmer,…
Dhaka – Siddikur Rahman has finished the US$ 1,300,000 Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup placing the joint 44th at Ibaraki Country Club, West Course, in Japan on Sunday,UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka – Favorite Pakistan made a flying start in the Beximco 4th Boys’ Under-18 Asia Cup Hockey’2016 outplaying Chinese Taipei by 6-1 goals at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium here on Saturday.The winners led the first half by 2-1…
Dhaka – Siddikur Rahman has made his form a bit moving to join the 44th slot from the 59th after the 3rd round of the US$ 1,300,000 Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup at Ibaraki Country Club, West Course, in Japan on Saturday.Siddikur…
Dhaka – Siddikur Rahman stays in the race of the US$ 1,300,000 Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup placing jointly with 12 others at the 59th after the 2nd round at Ibaraki Country Club, West Course, in Japan on Friday.The two times Asian…
Dhaka – The seven-nation 4th Boys Under-18 Asia Cup Hockey 2016 will kick off Saturday with the match between China and Hong Kong at 11:am at Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium.State Minister for Youth and Sports Dr Biren Sikder will…
Dhaka – Four more teams — China, Oman, Pakistan and Hong Kong — arrived in the capital on Thursday to participate in the seven-nation 4th Boys Under-18 Asia Cup Hockey-2016 beginning here on Saturday at the Maulana Bhasani National Hockey…
Colorado Springs (AP/UNB) — The first Jesse Owens Olympic Spirit Award will recognize the late Muhammad Ali.
Dhaka- The seven-nation 4th Boys U-18 Asia Cup Hockey will begin on Saturday (September 24) with hosts Bangladesh taking on their giant neighbour in India in the first match at 3 pm at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium here.Bangladesh…
Dhaka – After 1,192 days, Brazil’s run of hosting mega-sports events came to an end Sunday at the Paralympic Games.It began with soccer’s Confederations Cup in 2013, extended to the 2014 World Cup, ran through IOC President Thomas Bach’s goodbye…
Dhaka – Faisal Ahmed of Bangladesh emerged champion in the men’s 19-kilometre competition of the 73rd World Long Distance Swimming Championship held in West Bengal’s Bhagirathi River in Murshidabad district on Sunday.Another Bangladeshi swimmer Polash Chowdhury finished 2nd in the…
Dhaka – Bangladesh National Volleyball team suffered a straight 0-3 sets defeat against hosts Kyrgyzstan in the Asian Zone Qualification round of the 2018 World Volleyball Championship for the men’s at the Choplon-Ata Sports and Recreation Center in Kyrgyzstan on…
Dhaka – Bangladesh Men’s and Women’s chess teams finished the 42nd World Chess Olympiad placing 76th and 77th respectively at Baku in Azerbaijan.Bangladesh Men’s team collected 11 match points and 26.5 games points in the Open Section from 11 round…
Dhaka – After considering skipping the U.S. Open because of injury concerns, Novak Djokovic made it all the way to the final for the sixth time in the past seven years.He came up short of the title, though, settling for…
Dhaka – Bangladesh men’s chess team beat South Korea by straight 4-0 points on the 8th round match of the open section in the 42nd Chess Olympiad held in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday.Bangladesh women’s team lost to Austria by 1.5-2.5…
Dhaka – Early in what would become a tight test of a U.S. Open final, Angelique Kerber sprinted forward to somehow reach a drop shot and scoop a down-the-line winner that landed in a corner of the court.The Arthur Ashe…