Five people, including two suspected Rohingya human traffickers, were killed in separate “gunfights” in three districts yesterday.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia would be moved to the Keraniganj Central Jail after being discharged from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

State Minister for Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Imran Ahmad yesterday expressed hope that the labour market in Malaysia will soon be open for Bangladeshi workers.

There is no specific security threat centring Buddha Purnima on May 18, said Inspector General of Police Mohammad Javed Patwary yesterday.

Unidentified people yesterday torched office documents, certificates, and medals won by the students of Kalsindur Higher Secondary School, famous for producing female footballers, in Mymensingh’s Dhobaura upazila.

Swarnalata Paribahan bus helper Lalon Miah yesterday confessed to a Kishoreganj court that he, along with driver Nuruzzaman and another man, gang-raped nurse Shahinoor Akhter Tania before shoving her off the running bus, said police.

Bangladeshi police prevented dozens of Rohingya Muslims, most of them women, about to be trafficked to Malaysia by boat, authorities said yesterday.

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) has urged the international community to cut off all financial and other support to Myanmar’s military.

Identities of eight more Bangladeshis feared dead in Thursday’s Mediterranean Sea boat capsize have been confirmed.

Sri Lanka yesterday announced a curfew for a second straight night after a man was killed by sword-wielding rioters in an escalating anti-Muslim backlash following the Easter terror attacks.

A Jubo League activist was stabbed to death by a group of unidentified assailants near Mrittunjoy School in Mymensingh town early yesterday.

The NBR and FBCCI yesterday said they had set aside their differences and had agreed to move forward with the government’s plan to implement the new VAT law from July 1.

The death toll from a May 6 tanker truck explosion near the international airport in Niger’s capital has risen to 76, state television reported late Sunday.

Ever more South Koreans prefer peaceful co-existence with the nuclear-armed North to reunification of the peninsula, a survey found yesterday.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in an alleged gunfight with police at Harua Bazar area in Mymensingh’s Ishwarganj upazila early yesterday.

China said yesterday it will raise tariffs on $60 billion worth of US goods from June 1, in retaliation to the latest round of US tariff hikes and Washington’s plans to target almost all Chinese imports.

Rab seized about 340 grams of cocaine worth an estimated Tk 2 crore from an inter-city bus in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila on Sunday and arrested two people in this connection, said a press release issued by the elite force.

Four more patients suffered extreme side effects from the antibiotics they were administered with through intravenous infusion at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Sunday night.

The number of Bangladeshis feared to have died off the Tunisian coast in Friday’s boat capsize may go up, said the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) based on the information communicated by the Tunisian Red Crescent.

The pro-Awami League student body Chhatra League yesterday announced its 301-member full-fledged central committee, touching off controversy and demonstration by some of those who could not make it to the new committee.