AFP, BEIJING: Sprint king Usain Bolt and American rival Justin Gatlin swept into the 200 metres final with consumate ease on Wednesday as they prepare…

Newly-revived Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) High Performance Team will go to Bogra for the next two weeks in a bid to hold their practice at Shaheed Chandu Stadium on September 1. During their stay in Bogra, the need-based team will play some practice matches beside their training sessions.…

Aiming to produce shooters for 2016 and 2020 Olympics, Hamidur Rahman Youth Shooting Championship, organised by the Bangladesh Shooting Sport Federation (BSSF) will begin from today at the Gulshan Shooting Range in the capital. The BSSF is organising the competition for the age group shooters as their…

AFP, COLOMBO: Virat Kohli’s buoyant India will chase their first series win in Sri Lanka in 22 years when the third and decisive final Test starts in Colombo on Friday. The tourists thrashed the hosts by 278 runs in the second Test at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo on Monday to level the series after…

Bangladesh Cricket Board tournament committee chairman Akram Khan dismissed the alleged match-fixing claims during the final round of this season’s National Cricket League yesterday. The accusation has been laid on the Rangpur Division-Dhaka Metropolis match. Rangpur’s 102-run win had given…

Roktim Sangha, a second division hockey league team, has  formed new executive committee recently for a three-year term. The committee has been changed with an aim to form a powerful team to give a championship fight in the second division hockey league. Major (retd) Shahbuddin Chakladar, a former…

AFP, PARIS: A header by Markus Rosenberg and an own goal from Dedryck Boyata condemned Scottish champions Celtic to a second successive season without…

AFP, MILAN: Some ‘tifosi’ might be licking their lips, but for some pundits AC Milan fans got the rawest deal on Tuesday when Mario Balotelli became the latest English Premier League (EPL) flop to return ‘home’ in a quest to resurrect his career. Of them all, Balotelli’s…

AFP, LONDON: Watford were the victims of a League Cup giant-killing as the Premier League side lost 1-0 at Championship club Preston in the second round…

AFP, BUENOS AIRES: An attempt at mediation has failed between former Argentina football captain Diego Maradona and his ex-wife Claudia Villafane, whom…

AGENCIES, ISLAMABAD: The PCB is set to chalk out a rehabilitation programme for Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif, as part of their reintegration into the…

AFP, SEOUL: The AFC Champions League quarterfinal between the league winners of South Korea and Japan remains tightly poised after Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and Gamba Osaka played out a scoreless draw in the first leg Wednesday. The match in Seoul was an entertaining encounter that featured plenty of attacking…