BENAPOLE, JESSORE: An 11-member team of Bangladesh swimmers on Friday went to India to join in a swimming competition.  The swimmers are- Shariful Islam, Rubel Rana, Sonia Khatun, Nazma Aktar, Ashikur, Palash, Jewel, Sijarul Islam and Jewel Ahmed.  Under the leading of Bangladesh

DHAKA: A confused exchange of public statements about a possible ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine have thrown Thursday’s talks on new sanctions—including a future threat to Russia’s hosting of the 2018 World Cup—into disarray.In statements this morning, Ukrainian

DHAKA: Argentina and Angel di Maria rained on Germany's homecoming parade, as the defeated World Cup finalists smashed their counterparts 4-2 in Dusseldorf on Wednesday night. The winger, who joined Manchester United for a British record transfer fee of €84 million last week, stole the

Bangladesh Cricket Team will get engaged to a very important two matches test series from tomorrow against West Indies at a very critical juncture of its cricket history.  Having digested an embarrassing white wash in ODI series, Bangladesh must try and play to its potential to salvage

DHAKA: The reports of his international retirement have been greatly exaggerated. Lionel Messi is still sad after Argentina lost the World Cup final to Germany in July, but the Barcelona forward remains committed to his country - despite all of the criticism he continues to

DHAKA: Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar is all set to release his autobiography on November 6. The master blaster made this announcement through his official account on micro-blogging site Twitter.The name of Tendulkar's autobiography will be called “Playing It My Way”. The

DHAKA: Mohammad Elias joined the Bangladesh cricket squad in West Indies replacing Sohag Gazi while four more players also returned home along with him.The Panel selected Mohammad Elias for the two-match Test series there, said a press release, replacing Sohag Gazi who made an earlier

DHAKA: Bangladesh all rounder Shakib Al Hasan took the Rice Bucket Challenge on Tuesday and nominated his all facebook friends to dare it. However, Shakib also posted a photo of the challenge around 9:30pm on his own facebook page and thanked the man who nominated him. Earlier, Arif R

DHAKA: Shivnarine Chanderpaul's 183 thwarted the Bangladeshi bowlers and led St Kitts & Nevis to 399 on the final day of the drawn tour match at the Warner Park, Basseterre. The Bangladeshis played out 36 overs before close of play, scoring 148 for 4.Chanderpaul and Jeremiah Louis,

DHAKA: Retired Army Major Abu Mohammad Humayun Morshed has been appointed as new chief of anti-corruption parisad of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Tuesday.BCB issued a press release in this regard.Recently, BCB separated the anti-corruption parisad from security department.Morshed

DHAKA: England took the first honours in the Twenty20 series with a comfortable nine-wicket victory at Chelmsford having restricted South Africa to 89 for 4.  The chase was dominated, as has so often been the case, by Charlotte Edwards who struck a 47-ball fifty. For Edwards, it was a

DHAKA: The second-half substitute turned home after good work by Lionel Messi to seal a hard-fought three points for Luis Enrique's side Barcelona snatched a dramatic late victory over Villarreal on Sunday as second-half substitute Sandro scored in the final few minutes.Barca toiled

DHAKA: The home side were two goals down early in the first half but roared their way to an astounding victory against the European champions Real Madrid blew a two-goal lead against Real Sociedad as the home side sealed a sensational 4-2 win on Sunday.The European champions seemed

DHAKA: Zimbabwe have beaten Australia for the first time in 31 years as captain Elton Chigumbura's 52 not out led his team to a famous three-wicket win in the ODI triangular series.Chigumbura carried the tournament host to 211-7 on Sunday, overhauling Australia's below-par 209-9 on a

DHAKA: Bangladesh offspinner Sohag Gazi will return to Dhaka with the limited-overs contingent, skipping the three-day practice match against St Kitts & Nevis which starts Sunday.The BCB wants him to apply early for the UK visa as he has to go to the Cardiff Metropolitan University

DHAKA: Venus Williams was the first former champion to fall on Friday at the U.S. Open. The American lost an epic encounter with world No. 13 Sara Errani as the Italian came through 6-0 0-6 7-6. Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova, also former winners at Flushing Meadows, hope to stay the

DHAKA: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan-owned Kolkata Knight Riders says the club is ‘so proud of’ Bangladeshi all-rounder ‘Shakib Al Hasan’ for his joining in the ‘Cricket Legends’.The cricket franchise, in its Facebook Official Page on Saturday, said, “We (KKR) are so

DHAKA: Bangladesh National Football Team is looking for a new coach as Lodewijk de Kruif has been dropped.Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) president Kazi Salahuddin on Saturday confirmed media about the release of Kruif, as the head coach.Sources told banglanews that Salahuddin made

DHAKA: Sri Lanka have agreed to fill the void that has been created by West Indies abandoning their current tour of India because of a payment structure dispute between the players and the WICB and WIPA.Lankans will play a series of five ODIs in November, reports cricinfo.“In

DHAKA: Zimbabwe have brought back Craig Ervine and Tinashe Panyangara for the upcoming Tests and ODIs in Bangladesh and have named two uncapped players - Brian Chari and Wellington Masakadza - in the Test squad.While Panyangara was expelled for indiscipline in August, Ervine, who last