The world is paying too little attention to a slew of mass displacements of people across Africa, risking starvation deaths and prolonging conflicts, the Norwegian Refugee Council warned in a report published yesterday.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has wondered why Bangladeshi journalists don’t ask the US ambassador about the human rights situation and the state of democracy in his country.

A faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Chittagong University unit yesterday locked the gate of the university and suspended the shuttle train and bus services to the campus, demanding arrest of locals who allegedly assaulted its two activists the night before.

All unauthorised private hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centres will be shut down, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

Four people were sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday in two cases over hurling acid at three persons in Chattogram city and Rangunia upazila.

A week-long special campaign for administering Covid-19 booster jabs will start countrywide on June 4, said the Directorate General of Health Services.

China has made the second largest incursion into Taiwan’s air defence zone this year with Taipei reporting 30 jets entering the area, including more than 20 fighters.

Action will be taken against election officials found guilty of neglecting their duties, said Election Commissioner Md Alamgir yesterday.

Russian forces have seized control of half of eastern Ukraine’s key city of Severodonetsk, a senior official said yesterday, hours after EU leaders struck a watered-down deal to ban more than two-thirds of Moscow’s oil imports.

A local Awami League was hacked to death by unknown assailants in Lohagara, Narail, on Monday morning.

Police in Kalai, Joypurhat, arrested two men on charges of brokering deals between those needing a kidney transplant and those willing to donate a kidney.

A police officer, who was closed in March over allegations of bribery, was recently transferred to Barishal range.

Twenty-two public universities, including two new ones, have decided to hold integrated admission tests for 2021-22 academic session.

Israel signed a free trade deal with the United Arab Emirates yesterday, its first with an Arab country, building on their US-brokered normalisation of diplomatic relations in 2020.

Bangladesh would not be buying crude oil from Western-sanctioned Russia as its refinery is configured to process only oil from the Arab countries, said Nasrul Hamid, the state minister for power, energy and mineral resources.

Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of deities.

Israel yesterday accused its arch-foe Iran of stealing classified documents from the International Atomic Energy Agency to help it hide evidence of its nuclear programme.

The days of lengthy immigration formalities at Dhaka airport will soon be over as 27 electronic gates are set to become operational from June 7.

A 103-year-old Swedish woman on Sunday set the world record for the oldest person to complete a tandem parachute jump, saying she planned to celebrate “with a little cake”.

Nepal authorities yesterday recovered or located the bodies of all but one of 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside on Sunday, officials said, and the government has formed a panel to investigate the incident.