Bangladesh

Prity brace gives Bangladesh perfect start

Sauravi Amanda Prity scored a brace as Bangladesh cruised to a 2-0 win over Nepal in their opening match of the SAFF U-16 Women's Championship at the ANFA Complex Stadium in Nepal today.
2 March 2024, 11:08 AM

Under-16s eye winning start

Bangladesh look forward to making a winning start in the SAFF U-16 Women's Championship when they square off against hosts Nepal at the ANFA Stadium in Kathmandu today, with the game getting underway at 3:15pm Bangladesh time.
2 March 2024, 04:19 AM

Titu eyeing another title with age-group girls

Bangladesh team will leave for Kathmandu on Wednesday with a target of playing in the to play the final of the SAFF U-16 Women’s Championship to be held in Nepal from March 1 to 10.
27 February 2024, 12:56 PM

American rapper Shondrae Crawford has chosen the stage name ‘Bangladesh’

Despite having no direct connection with South Asia or Bangladesh, Crawford opted for "Bangladesh" as his stage name.
25 February 2024, 05:15 AM

Hathurusingha 'often turns TV off when watching BPL'

Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha has likened the Bangladesh Premier League to a circus, saying he does not even watch the franchise T20 tournament. The Sri Lankan born coach also said some of the players who play in the BPL are not of any standard, during an interview with ESPNcricinfo.
25 February 2024, 05:09 AM

‘If nothing changes, athletics will fall apart’

Milzar Hossain, one of the most prominent athletes of the country in the 80s, holds the record for the best ever timing by a Bangladeshi in the 800m event, 1:51.16, which he clocked in the 1986 Asian Games to finish fifth. The 58-year-old SA Games silver medalist spoke with The Daily Star's Anisur Rahman about the current state of athletics in Bangladesh and what needs to be done to improve it.
24 February 2024, 01:00 AM

Running towards extinction!

Not that long ago, there used to be a dogfight among a number of teams for medals in the national and summer athletics championships.
24 February 2024, 00:57 AM

Rifat Munim on Bangladeshi fiction: ‘This is a diverse terrain you are going to tread on’

In the foreword, I wanted to capture how I, as a child, grew up listening to different stories: ghost stories, mythical stories from both Sanatana and Islamic religious scriptures, and fairy tales from 'Thakurmar Jhuli', compiled by Dakkhinaranjan Mitra Majumdar. It was a time when there were no boundaries for my imagination.
23 February 2024, 18:00 PM

What democracy indices say about Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s declining score in the EIU Democracy Index should provide an opportunity to discuss not only how EIU has rated Bangladesh, but also how others have characterised the country’s state of democracy—or lack thereof.
23 February 2024, 01:00 AM

Morsalin to miss Palestine matches

Promising forward Sheikh Morsalin is all set to miss out on the home-and-away fixtures of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers against Palestine in March, informed national team coach Javier Cabrera.
20 February 2024, 17:19 PM

Sagorika happy that 'everyone knows her now'

Bangladesh striker Mosammat Sagorika expressed her delight at receiving trophies for the best player and the top scorer in the SAFF U-19 Women’s Championship, seven days after the final had taken place in Dhaka.
18 February 2024, 12:47 PM

Siddikur bags 7211 dollars in Malaysia

Siddikur Rahman started the Asian Tour season with a decent outing in Malaysia, pocketing a paycheque of 7211 US dollars.
18 February 2024, 10:10 AM

Sagorika to receive best player's trophy

Bangladesh striker Mosammat Sagorika has been adjudged as the best player of the SAFF Women's Under-19 Championship, which concluded in Dhaka recently.
17 February 2024, 16:54 PM

Shakib no more top all-rounder in the world

Afghanistan player Mohammad Nabi has ended Shakib Al Hasan’s long tenure as the number one all-rounder in the ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings after smashing a fine century in the first ODI against Sri Lanka in Pallekele.
14 February 2024, 09:19 AM

Golfer Siddikur’s Oman participation in limbo over visa issue

Bangladesh’s premier golfer Siddikur Rahman is in a quandary over his participation in the International Series in Oman due to non-issuance of his visa for the gulf nation.
12 February 2024, 17:35 PM

BKSP boy hits first 300 in Bangladesh age-group cricket

BKSP's Rifat Baig has scored the first triple century in the country's age-group cricket. This opener of BKSP remained unbeaten with 320 runs off 483 balls against Dhaka Metro in the semi-final of the Sheikh Kamal U-18 National Cricket Competition today.
11 February 2024, 08:42 AM

Booters to have camp in Saudi Arabia before facing Palestine twice

Bangladesh national football team will have a two-week residential camp in Saudi Arabia before playing back-to-back matches of the World Cup Qualifiers against Palestine, informed Bangladesh Football Federation’s vice-president Kazi Nabil Ahmed.
4 February 2024, 09:01 AM

Jibon, Borson help dismiss Pakistan for 155

Medium pacer Rohanat Doullah Borson and off-spinner Parvez Ahmed Jibon took four wickets each as Bangladesh bowled out Pakistan for 155 in 40.4 overs in their must-win game of the ICC U19 World Cup in Benoni today.
3 February 2024, 11:18 AM

Bangladesh ease past Nepal in SAFF U19 Women’s C’ship opener

Forward Mosammat Sagorika scored a brace and Munki Akhter netted one goal for Bangladesh while Simran Rai hit one back for last year’s runners-up.
2 February 2024, 15:33 PM

Sanjida wants to emulate Munna & Co at East Bengal

Bangladesh women’s team footballer Sanjida Akhter today, on her Facebook page, posted a picture of herself in front of pictures of East Bengal Football Club’s overseas heroes – pointing her finger to a special picture of Sheikh Mohammad Aslam, Late Monem Munna and Rizvi Karim Rumi – three of the biggest stars of Bangladesh football who played for the cross-border club in the 1990s.
29 January 2024, 12:19 PM