The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment, Forest and Climate Change yesterday recommended conducting an assessment by an expert team on the loss and damage of environment and biodiversity occurred for sheltering the Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar.

It’s official: The Saharan silver ant is the fastest of the world’s 12,000 known ant species, clocking a blistering 855 millimetres -- nearly a metre -- per second, researchers said Thursday.

Air raids and shelling could be heard at the Syrian-Turkish border yesterday morning despite a five-day ceasefire agreed between Turkey and the United States, and Washington said the deal covered only a small part of the territory Ankara aims to seize.

Customs Intelligence officials yesterday detained a person with 130 gold bars, weighing 15kg, hidden inside three rechargeable lamps in his luggage at Hazrat Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram.

A man was arrested yesterday for allegedly raping a college girl, while another was sent to jail on Thursday night on charge of raping his stepdaughter. In addition, two brothers were sued yesterday for “attempted rape.”

With the tenures of the two Dhaka city corporations nearing to an end, the Election Commission is yet to make any decision on declaring the schedule for the next polls.

Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama will not face charges over an alleged assault due to double jeopardy rules, the public prosecutor said yesterday, despite finding there would be enough evidence to take the case to court.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed two accused in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case on fresh remand.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed a case against an industrialist and a former manager of Mercantile Bank Ltd in Chattogram on charges of fraudulence, misuse of power and money laundering.

A university professor has managed to hold multiple important administrative posts simultaneously at universities situated in different districts for over one and a half years now.

Three policemen were suspended for carrying brood hilsa in Shariatpur yesterday, while 161 fishermen were jailed or fined for catching hilsa across the country defying a government ban.

France’s top diplomat yesterday held talks in Baghdad about transferring foreign jihadists from northern Syria, where a Turkish offensive has triggered fears of mass jailbreaks, to be tried in Iraq.

A quick-thinking Utah police officer pulled an unconscious driver out of the path of a train seconds before it smashed into the man’s vehicle.

Malaysia held talks with Goldman Sachs about dropping charges against three units of the Wall Street bank that prosecutors brought over the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, a report said yesterday.

Right-wing terrorists pose a growing threat in Australia, the country’s spy agency has warned, describing the extremist networks as “more cohesive and organised” than ever.

A Russian protester who faces up to five years in prison for throwing a plastic bottle at police said yesterday he fled the country amid an unrelenting crackdown on the opposition.

An MP for Britain’s opposition Labour Party has resigned, accusing leader Jeremy Corbyn of allowing anti-Semitism to flourish in the party.

Turkey agreed yesterday to pause its offensive in Syria for five days to let Kurdish forces withdraw from a “safe zone” Ankara had sought to capture, in a deal hailed by Washington but which Turkish leaders cast as a complete victory.

More than 15,000 children under five die each day in the developing world, with huge disparities in death rates between and within countries, according to a detailed assessment of childhood mortality released Wednesday.

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with police at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday, hours after their arrest. The dead are Ziabul Haque alias Babul, 30, and Azim Ullah, 46, inhabitants of Teknaf, said police.