Bangladesh is all set to begin kidney transplant from brain-dead to partially meet the demand of kidney transplant.

Police yesterday foiled a BNP demonstration in Narayanganj and arrested a Jatiyatabadi Chatra Dal leader in Barishal.

Shifting its position again, the Awami League has decided not to nominate any candidate for the two posts of vice-chairman in the upazila parishad elections apparently to make the polls “competitive” amid boycotts by opposition parties including BNP.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday expressed optimism that Bangladesh and India will gradually resolve the water-sharing issues of all common rivers, including the Teesta, saying the two countries have already solved some big issues.

Even as the authorities are removing illegal structures along roads and highways, illegal occupants continue to set up new ones.

Nothing seems to scare away the river grabbers. Amid impassioned calls from the judiciary, environmentalists and the media to save the country's last surviving rivers, a private company is building two slipways in the Meghna river in Munshiganj.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said law enforcers were carrying out an investigation to unravel the mystery surrounding the murders of suspected rapists using the name of “Hercules”.

Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday rescued 30 Rohingyas, including women and children, from Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar while they were being trafficked to Malaysia.

After Marjia Rabbani Shashi finished her arguments in court on New Year's Day, her first day at court as a lawyer, the judge acquitted the man she was defending.

Dhaka Dynamites had everything a T20 team would want in their arsenal to win the final of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). Yesterday, however, Comilla Victorians had something better in the form of a single player.

A Dhaka court yesterday jailed an official of Polychem Laboratories Limited for a year for producing toxic paracetamol syrup and acquitted its three other employees following a prolonged legal battle that went on for 26 years.

The High Court yesterday upheld the government policy framed in 2012 to stop “coaching business” by the teachers of government and private educational institutions.

The sixth edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) will come to an end today with one of Dhaka Dynamites or Comilla Victorians taking the coveted trophy after the final at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.

IGP Mohammad Javed Patwary yesterday ordered the police officials to re-intensify the countrywide anti-narcotics drive.

India's ruling BJP and main opposition Congress party have assured Bangladesh of India's cooperation for early repatriation of the Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar's brutal military crackdown in August 2017 and are now living in Cox's Bazar refugee camps.

Passengers may not get the best out of 600 new BRTC buses bought recently as the state-run corporation has a track record of ruining the vehicles well before their ages hit double digits.

The government has nothing to do about banning the Jamaat-e-Islami right now as a case in this regard is pending before a court, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said yesterday.

Six former ministers will lead different parliamentary standing committees.

Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed, the convener of the 1978 study circle, ultimately founded an organisation called Bishwo Shahitto Kendro (BSK) -- with the motto “we want enlightened humans” -- that has created generations of Bangladeshi intellectuals.

A staggering 29 of the 46 victims raped in January were below 18, showing that children remain vulnerable to sexual violence.