The final round of the Sheikh Kamal 2nd Bangladesh Youth Games was inaugurated on 26th February by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,

After grabbing the spotlight in the 2018 Youth Games, shuttler Urmi Akter went on to become the country’s number one-ranked female badminton star. In an exclusive interview with Sabbir Hossain of The Daily Star

Djokovic spoke about his ambitions for the Olympic Games next year.

Novak Djokovic said his return to the top of the world rankings felt like a big achievement after a year of turmoil where he had to skip several tournaments including two Grand Slams, but the Serbian expects a see-sawing battle for the position in 2023.

Bangladesh, who won a bronze medal in the inaugural edition held in 2019, were drawn in Group C alongside India and Thailand, according to a press release from Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation.

Mashrafe Hossain Maruf, the sixth semester student of Dinajpur Polytechnique Institute, had won two silver medals and a bronze medal representing Rangpur Division.

Novak Djokovic achieved another historic milestone yesterday, overtaking Steffi Graf’s record for most weeks as World No. 1 in tennis history.

Scholastica, Rajuk Uttara Model College, and Shaheed Police Smirty College emerged as the winners of the win HSBC-Mayor’s Cup School Badminton Tournament sponsored by HSBC in partnership with Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Bangladesh Badminton Federation (BBF).

Aysha is now setting sights on a new sporting ambition – express herself and travel through para archery, a discipline which officially took off in Bangladesh on Monday

Friends turned to competitors as Lubaba became champion in the girl's rapid chess event on Saturday by surpassing Alo, who put Lubaba behind today to win the gold medal in girl’s blitz chess event. Courtesy of the two, Chattogram Division and Dhaka Division are tied in the medals table after Dhaka's Manon Reza Neer, hailing from Narayanganj, won both gold medals in boy’s rapid and blitz events.

Olympic champion Duplantis improved his own record of 6.21m that he set in winning the world title outdoors in Oregon last year.

The 27-year-old, who won in Rotterdam last Sunday, convincingly ended his 35-year-old opponent's comeback heroics that saw Murray fight four three-set battles and overcome eight match points to reach the final in Doha

Following decades in doldrums, Bangladesh athletics have found a beacon of hope in Imranur Rahman, who stormed to a stunning 60m gold medal at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Kazakhstan recently. The 29-year-old had already won back-to-back titles in 100m sprint in national athletics and is promising to revive some of the glory days of the sport in the country. In a freewheeling interview with The Daily Star’s Atique Anam, the Sheffield-based sprinter talked about his momentous victory, his ambitions, idols, sacrifices and a lot more. Here are the excerpts of the interview.

Replying to a question about his sporting idols, Imranur said: “My sporting idol outside of athletics is boxer Mohammad Ali,"

The Daily Star (DS): Congratulations for bringing such a big honour for Bangladesh. How was your reaction when you won the gold medal?

For too long the country’s athletics had failed to live up to its celebrated past at the international stage. While the Bangladeshi sprinters -- the likes of Shah Alam, Bimal Chandra Tarafder, MahbubAlam -- contributed to five golds out of the overall eight medals in athletics from 1984 to 2019 at the regional multi-sports extravaganza in the form of South Asian Games, it has been 17 frustrating years since Mahfizur Rahman Mithu won a gold medal in 110m hurdles in the 2006 Colombo edition.  

All speakers in the programme revisited the illustrious journey of the legendary swimmer

Although recent reforms have given women in Saudi Arabia more freedoms, many of their rights remain restricted.

"My plans after Dubai depend on the U.S. I'm waiting for a reply, it's not on me... I will know soon," world number one Djokovic told reporters after practice in Belgrade

Around 4000 athletes will compete in 193 events at 24 venues across Dhaka in the final phase of the Sheikh Kamal 2nd Bangladesh Youth Games, which will get underway at the Army Stadium on February 26, organisers at a press conference informed yesterday.