Those who took part in the violence and killings wearing helmets in the capital’s New Market area recently are goons and they will be brought to justice, a top DB official said yesterday without disclosing their party identities.

At least 100 agriculture ministry officials will participate in phases in a six-month international horticulture exhibition in the Netherlands, even though the government had asked to abandon all routine tours except those involving emergencies.

Russia said yesterday it had destroyed a large quantity of Western-supplied weapons in Ukraine, while halting gas supplies to EU and Nato members Poland and Bulgaria in a move Brussels branded attempted blackmail.

More than 500 Bangladeshis have been detained off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea by the Libyan police.

Tentultala, the playground in Kalabagan on which the Dhaka Metropolitan Police is currently building a police station, was proposed to be kept as a playground by the Department of Architecture in 1980.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday pledged to ensure houses for all homeless people in the country.

The Dhaka College authority finally formed a committee yesterday to verify whether their students were involved in clashes in the New Market area a week ago.

The hope of starting academic activities at Chandpur Science and Technology University on the proposed land is dashed again as the deadline for depositing compensation for land acquisition is over.

The attack on Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is “religious terrorism” to silence those who speaks and writes about freethinking, progressiveness, science, and religious superstitions.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, expected to arrive tomorrow on a one-day visit, might carry good news, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.

The United States yesterday vowed to move “heaven and earth” to help Ukraine win its battle against Russia’s unprovoked invasion, as allies from 40 nations met to bolster Kyiv’s defence against Moscow.

A woman suicide bomber from a Pakistan separatist group killed four people, including three Chinese nationals, in an attack on a minibus carrying staff from the Confucius Institute at Karachi University yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked Rab to submit by June 7 the probe report in a case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.

An assistant sub-inspector of police was stabbed by the wife of a murder suspect in Bakerganj upazila of Barishal on Monday evening.

A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned until June 13 the hearing on charge framing against Khaleda Zia and six others in the Barapukuria coal mine graft case.

Organised crimes and money laundering are a serious threat to the rule of law and sustainable development of the country, said a Dhaka court in the verdict in a money laundering case.

Immigration of Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims flying from Dhaka will be completed at the Dhaka airport from this year, ending the need for waiting in long queues at Saudi Arabian airport.

The demand for allowing a third carrier for operating hajj flights is getting louder as the existing system of ferrying the pilgrims to Saudi Arabia has been costing the hajis more and is creating a duopoly.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday said he will sit with journalist union leaders and owners of media houses because there is room for revising the Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill 2022.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday rejected Transparency International Bangladesh’s recent report on the Covid crisis, terming it “completely baseless”.