Turkey stepped up its air and artillery strikes on Kurdish militia in northeast Syria yesterday, escalating an offensive that has drawn warnings of humanitarian catastrophe and threats of sanctions and condemnation from US and allies.

A Moulvibazar court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of throwing acid on his wife in Kulaura upazila.

The continuous erosion by the Jamuna is threatening the homes and livelihoods of hundreds in Kalihati and Bhuapur upazilas of Tangail.

Aiming to improve children’s performance, a school in Chapainawabganj has been encouraging mothers to attend classes with their children.

Police have arrested four suspected members of banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam in the capital’s Jatrabari area.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent a madrasa teacher to jail for attempting to rape a five-year-old female student in Savar’s Hemayatpur area. Police arrested the accused -- Abu Taher, 40, teacher of Darul Ulum Aman Madrasa -- on Wednesday night after the victim’s father filed a case with Savar Model Police Station.

A huge saltwater crocodile killed a Philippines fisherman after snatching him from his boat, local authorities said yesterday, the latest in a series of attacks terrorising a remote southern island.

Almost 800 animal parts including a huge stash of hornbill “ivory”, pangolin scales and deer’s antlers, have been seized in a raid on Borneo island, officials in Malaysia said yesterday.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday urged donor nations to replenish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, warning that gains made in rolling back the killer diseases risked being reversed due to donor fatigue.

South Korea’s Navy is considering acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, it said yesterday in a surprise announcement which would change the balance of power in north-east Asia and is likely to upset several of its neighbours.

Syria’s Kurds battled to hold off a Turkish invasion yesterday as thousands of civilians fled air strikes and shelling that deepened fears of a humanitarian crisis.

The Khulna district Awami League (AL) has suspended its executive committee member Sheikh Baharul Alam for criticising the recent India-Bangladesh deals on Facebook.

Police recovered the bodies of a man, his wife and son from a flat in the capital’s Mirpur yesterday. The victims are SM Bayezid, 45, a businessman, his wife Kohinur Akter Anjana, 42, and son Farhan, 16, a student of Dhaka Commerce College.

Members of Indian Border Security Force yesterday detained and released three members of Rapid Action Battalion and two of their informers at Ashabari border in Cumilla’s Brahmanpara upazila.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent back 93 more Bangladeshi migrant workers on Wednesday as part of a crackdown on undocumented workers in the kingdom.

Graduates struggle to find jobs, with more than a third of them remaining unemployed one or two years after graduation, said the World Bank in its latest report -- a damning evidence of the poor state of the country’s education system.

The prospect of astronauts tucking into a roast dinner has grown slightly closer after a successful experiment used a 3D printer to create meat on the International Space Station.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged city dwellers to exercise austerity while using water since a significant amount of money is spent on water treatment.

A girl who was forced into sex work five years ago was rescued by police from Patuakhali town on Tuesday night.

The Ministry of Housing and Public Works is not “liable” for anomalies which surfaced at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project as it was a concern of the Public Works Department (PWD), the Anti-Corruption Commission said yesterday.