Efforts of the local administration and the villagers have saved the Halda river, a unique natural breeding ground for carp, from a possible disaster.

Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States remained at near-record high levels in 2018 -- including the deadliest ever attack against American Jews last October and twice as many physical assaults, according to an Anti-Defamation League report published yesterday.

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has hired an American lobby group run by a former ambassador to block the creation of a court to judge war crimes in the conflict-torn nation.

“Fani”, now classified as a “very severe cyclonic storm”, intensified further, the Met office said yesterday afternoon.

The UN humanitarian chief said Monday there has been “no progress” in dealing with the reasons why more than 700,000 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh from western Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

Japanese Emperor Akihito, in his final remarks as his three-decade reign drew to a close yesterday, thanked the people for their support and expressed hope for a peaceful future.

A pet pooch was detained for flouting India’s election rules after it was spotted parading slogans supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi outside polling stations -- but “let off with a warning”, authorities said yesterday.

Niranjan Chakraborty, the 98-year-old retired schoolteacher of Chattogram’s Anwara upazila, yesrteday got his ancestral land back from the grabbers, thanks to the intervention of local administration and law enforcers.

An alleged follower of Sri Lankan bombing mastermind Zahran Hashim was set to appear before an Indian court yesterday after admitting he wanted to carry out an attack in India, investigators said.

Two alleged criminals, including a drug peddler, were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chapainawabganj and Madaripur, while two suspected robbers were killed in what police claimed was a fighting between two groups of robbers in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Two minor girls have allegedly been raped in Habiganj and Moulvibazar since Monday evening.

If it were before 1983, people would be seen fishing at the exact same spot where children now play football, on Teesta’s sandy floor lying arid and barren. The river is no longer blessed with water, except for a few months of the year.

Thousands of litres of furnace oil spilled into a canal after three tank wagons of a train carrying the thick liquid derailed in Hathazari upazila yesterday.

Against the backdrop of the recent series bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, the cabinet yesterday directed the law enforcement and intelligence agencies to step up anti-terror security measures and vigilance in the country.

The EU yesterday extended a ban on selling arms to Myanmar and prolonged sanctions against high-ranking officials over their role in the Rohingya crisis.

Europe’s top rights court yesterday said France could proceed with the expulsion of an Algerian convicted of terror charges, dismissing his claim he would face torture or inhumane treatment back home.

At least five Nigerian soldiers were killed and some 30 are missing three days after Boko Haram jihadis overran an army base, security sources said yesterday.

The French government yesterday opened a suicide prevention unit for police officers after a sharp rise in the number taking their own lives since the start of this year.

The cyclonic storm “Fani” over southeast Bay and adjoining areas has moved north-northwestwards further over the same area.

Sri Lankan security officials have warned that Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday’s suicide bombings are planning attacks and could be dressed in uniform, as the archbishop of Colombo complained about insufficient security around churches.