BNP candidate Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan has been elected in Brahmanbaria-2 following yesterday's re-polling in three centres of the constituency.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government would take an initiative to amend the relevant law again to try and punish Jamaat-e-Islami as an organisation for committing war crimes during the Liberation War.

A Dhaka Court today sends 13 Rohingyas to the jail on charges of securing Bangladeshi passports through forgery.

A ninth grader, who allegedly abducted and killed a younger boy, was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Jashore's Monirampur upazila early yesterday, hours after he was detained.

Dhaka is utterly disappointed and aggrieved at Myanmar's allegation of existence of Arakan Army and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) bases in Bangladesh, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

The first session of the 11th parliament will start on January 30.

Two persons including the key accused gave confessional statements to a court over the incident of gang-rape in Noakhali's Subarnachar yesterday.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has been elected leader of the opposition in the 11th Jatiya Sangsad, said a gazette notification issued by the parliament secretariat yesterday.

The drivers and staff members of BRTC's Joar Sahara bus depot yesterday called off their strike after the authorities assured them of paying all their arrears by August.

Hundreds of people being held at an immigrant detention centre in Australia have gone on hunger strike in a protest against their living conditions, detainees and activists told AFP yesterday.

Hong Kong yesterday unveiled a proposed law to punish anyone who disrespects the Chinese national anthem with up to three years in jail, as Beijing ramps up pressure on the semi-autonomous city to fall into line.

An Israeli ex-minister charged with spying for the country's arch-foe Iran has reached a plea bargain with prosecutors that will see him serve 11 years in prison, the justice ministry said yesterday.

Britain's armed forces were yesterday supporting police at London's Heathrow Airport after a drone sighting led to the suspension of all departing flights for nearly an hour on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people yesterday gathered in Sudan's capital in a show of support for President Omar al-Bashir's embattled regime after deadly anti-government protests erupted across the country last month.

A teenager, who allegedly abducted and killed a fourth grader, was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Jashore's Monirampur upazila early yesterday.

Abu Sayeed Al Mahmood, elected lawmaker from Joypurhat-2, in a Facebook post has urged locals in his area to “stop flattering” him at the various programmes he attends.

An estimated Tk 50 to 60 lakh is extorted monthly from street vendors at Mirpur-10 roundabout and adjoining places, and the control over the easy money sometimes leads to clashes among the beneficiaries.

For her birthday yesterday, all she wanted was a teddy bear from her parents. Billal Hossain, her uncle, was going to buy her one as a surprise.

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim unexpectedly resigned on Monday, more than three years before his term ends in 2022, amid differences with the Trump administration over climate change and the need for more development resources.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday discussed an expected US-North Korea summit in talks in Beijing, Yonhap news agency said, days after Kim warned he may take an alternative path if the United States does not ease sanctions.