A supporter of the Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) was shot dead in Bandarban’s Rowangchhari upazila early yesterday.

Surgeons at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) have successfully performed liver transplant for the first time at a government hospital in the country.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal’s dismal show in the Ducsu polls has been an eye-opener for the BNP, which now feels the urgency to reorganise the student body with regular and active leaders, said party insiders.

Three suspected human traffickers were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities to conduct a survey on railway bridges and culverts across the country and repair those damaged or risky.

Hackers broke into the systems of more than a dozen global telecom firms and stole huge amounts of data in a seven-year spying campaign, researchers from a cyber security company said, identifying links to previous Chinese cyber-espionage activities.

Bulgarian authorities have broken up a major organised crime ring thought to have smuggled thousands of migrants from Afghanistan en route to western Europe, prosecutors said yesterday.

A female student of Rajshahi University filed a complaint of sexual harassment against a teacher of the university.

Hong Kong activists have raised more than HK$5 million ($640,606) in a crowdfunding campaign to take out newspaper ads in a bid to get a controversial extradition bill on the agenda at the G20 summit.

Britain banned sales of crowd-control equipment such as tear gas to Hong Kong on Tuesday and called for an investigation after police clashed with demonstrators opposed to a bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial.

Ethiopia held a day of mourning yesterday, reeling from the murder of the army chief and the leader of Amhara state in two attacks believed linked to a coup bid in the northern region.

Iran yesterday denied that it was hit by a US cyberattack and played down the threat of new US sanctions as Washington was expected to tighten punitive measures on Tehran in a standoff sparked by the US withdrawal from a nuclear deal.

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck remote eastern Indonesia yesterday, forcing people to flee office buildings as far away as the northern Australian city of Darwin, officials and reports said.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday ordered the jail authorities to provide former Sonagazi Police Station OC Moazzem Hossain with division in jail as per the Jail Code.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik yesterday announced that all expired medicines must be removed from pharmacies across the country by July 2.

The dengue situation in the country is getting worse this year as the number of infected people has more than doubled since last month, compared with the same period last year.

Top-ranking police officer Mizanur Rahman, who came to the spotlight last year for “forcibly marrying and torturing” a woman, has amassed Tk 3.28 crore illegally over a period of 20 years, finds an investigation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday described Bangladesh Awami League as one of the most “well-organised political parties” in the subcontinent and cited confidence that no-one could destroy the organisation.

Sixteen leading Turkish civil society leaders appeared in court yesterday, accused of seeking to overthrow the government during the “Gezi Park” protests of 2013, in a trial dubbed an absurd sham by critics.

BNP’s Golam Mohammad Siraj won yesterday’s Bogura-6 by-elections, which saw the use of EVMs in all voting centres.