With the youth festival’s slogan -- Let Change the Country, Change the World Youth Festival -- 525 teams, including 198 women’s teams from 339 upazilas of 61 districts, took part in the zonal phase after being divided into eight zones: Modhumati, Tista, Dhansiri, Brahmanputra, Rupsa, Surma, Padma and Karnofully.

Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) has invited around 60 players to go through Cooper Test, a fitness test, without experienced forward Rasel Mahmud Jimmy ahead of the preparation camp for upcoming AHF Cup in Indonesia.

In a recent ceremony, the bank's managing director & CEO, Mohammad Masoom, handed over a sponsorship cheque to the vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka, professor Niaz Ahmed Khan, according to a press release issued on Monday.

The High Commission for Pakistan in Dhaka, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Chess Federation, organized the 2nd Mian Sultan Khan Chess Tournament today at the Pakistan High Commission. The annual tournament honours the legacy of Mian Sultan Khan, Pakistan’s legendary Chess player.  

With the theme "Run for Unity, Run for Humanity" the highly anticipated Dhaka International Marathon-2025 was held in 300 Feet area of Dhaka under the overall supervision of the Bangladesh Army.

In addition to the main racing event, test-drive opportunities were provided for enthusiasts, allowing hundreds of visitors to experience motorcycles from Royal Enfield, CF Motors, and Yamaha.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday seeking to ban transgender athletes from participating in women's sports, in his latest move targeting transgender people since returning to office.

"The village where I come from, they support women fighters," Anita Karim told AFP. "But when I started MMA, they had no awareness of this sport."

Experienced coach Mamun Ur Rashid has been appointed head coach of the Bangladesh national hockey team for April’s AHF Cup in Indonesia. A former national player (1989–2001), he previously coached the U-21 team four times and led the senior side in World Hockey League Round 2 in 2015. The 52-year-old spoke to The Daily Star’s Anisur Rahman about upcoming challenges and the activities of the Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF). Excerpts of the conversation are below:

Asked about the exclusion of Jimmy, the committee’s general secretary Lt Col (rtd) Riazul Hasan said, “We have been given the responsibility by emphasising development. If we talk about development, it consists of both the present and future.

The former national player had previously guided the national hockey team during the second round of the World Hockey League in Singapore in 2015.

Ferrari will unveil their new car on February 19 at Fiorano, a day after the F1 season launch event in London to mark the sport's 75th anniversary.

Mymensingh Youth Chess Championship 2025 will raise its curtains on February 2 at the Mymensingh Gymnasium. 

Chasing the seemingly impossible dream of winning gold in the Olympics, the young gymnasts of the Quantum Cosmo School and College in Lama, Bandarban have made a huge splash in the inaugural Youth Gymnastics Championship that concluded at the National Sports Council gymnasium yesterday.

The 40-year-old Briton shocked the paddock last February when he announced, after 12 highly successful years with Mercedes, he was departing for the iconic Italian team.

Bonofuli Chakma emerged champion in inaugural National Youth Gymnastics Championships after grabbing one gold, two silver and one bronze at the National Sports Council gymnasium on Wednesday.

The 40-year-old shocked the paddock last February when he announced that after 12 successful years with Mercedes, he was departing for Ferrari.

Coco Gauff wrote "RIP TikTok USA" and drew a broken heart on a camera lens shortly after reaching the Australian Open quarter-finals on Sunday after the popular app used by 170 million Americans stopped working in the United States.

Bangladesh's journey in the inaugural Kho Kho World Cup came to an end at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Gymnasium in New Delhi on Friday as both the men's and women's teams lost their quarterfinal encounters.

A fired-up Novak Djokovic powered into the last 16 of the Australian Open on Friday in an ominous reminder of why he is a 10-time Melbourne champion, but he needed a medical break and used an inhaler.