With the campaigns for the Gazipur city polls resuming yesterday, the ruling Awami League wants to focus on resolving internal divisions as the party leaders say it's the organisational unity that earned them victory in Khulna.

Captain Harry Kane came to the rescue with two goals, the second a dramatic injury-time winner, as England began their World Cup Group G campaign with a stuttering 2-1 win over Tunisia yesterday.

A man and his two daughters were crushed to death by a train while they were taking a selfie on the rail tracks in Narsingdi sadar yesterday.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir fears that party Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now in jail, might get paralysed anytime.

The BNP is facing a bigger challenge than it had encountered before the last parliamentary polls, according to party leaders and political analysts.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday ruled out that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia could be released on parole.

The decapitated body of Shumon Zahid, a witness in a war crimes case and son of martyred journalist Selina Parvin, was found in the capital's Khilgaon yesterday.

Denis Cheryshev struck twice for Russia as the World Cup hosts thumped Saudi Arabia 5-0 in the opening match of the tournament in Moscow yesterday.

The next month holds many stories, and the beautiful game has narrative thread and needle at the ready to weave a tapestry that its followers will know by heart and harken back to for years to come.

The World Cup kicked off in Russia Thursday as the host nation took on Saudi Arabia in front of 80,000 people in Moscow after President Vladimir Putin officially declared the tournament open.

It is that time of the year again, when we tread our own paths, to our own homes and hometowns with great excitement to celebrate Eid in our own special ways. And yet, it is also a time when we are brought together by that shared feeling of festivity that unites us in spirit.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain yesterday urged the government to release her from jail on parole on humanitarian ground for her better treatment.

With the Eid-ul-Fitr just around the corner, holidaymakers' journey home was largely hassle-free yesterday as they did not have to endure major tailbacks either at the exit points of the capital or on the highways.

Spain dramatically sacked coach Julen Lopetegui on Wednesday and appointed federation sporting director Fernando Hierro -- just two days before the team's opening game at the World Cup.

The stage is all set in Russia. Time for all eyes to turn to Moscow as the greatest show on Earth is about to get underway at the Luzhniki Stadium today.

It has been like rainbow after rain in Moscow for the last couple of days as fans from across the world have thronged the Russian capital and other cities in their thousands ahead of the World Cup, which kicks off at the Luzhniki Stadium today.

Heavy rain over the last four days has brought untold miseries to thousands of Rohingyas living in refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

The pollution level in the Dhaleshwari has worsened ever since the Tannery Industrial Estate was set up near the river in Savar.

It was written on the wall. Exactly a year ago, a series of massive landslides in the hills claimed at least 150 lives. Before the families could mourn their dead on its first anniversary, another tragedy struck Naniarchar upazila of Rangamati on Monday night, killing at least 11.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia would be taken to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for necessary health checkups if the party wanted.