North Korea has elevated leader Kim Jong Un to a status approaching his grandfather, the country’s founder Kim Il Sung, analysts said yesterday after Pyongyang revised its constitution to reinforce his authority.

Fifteen of dozens of migrants rescued by the Open Arms charity ship which for days was refused entry to Italy arrived in Spain yesterday.

Beijing told visiting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that its position on the South China Sea was not up for negotiation, a spokesman for the leader said yesterday.

Prominent Hong Kong democracy activists including a lawmaker were arrested yesterday in a protest crackdown -- a move described by rights groups as a well-worn tactic deployed by China to suffocate dissent ahead of key political events.

Two men were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chattogram and Chuadanga yesterday.

A Dhaka court sent two police officers to jail on Thursday for their alleged attempt to cash a Tk 35 lakh cheque of the home ministry through signature forgery.

Members of Border Security Force in India detained four Bangladeshi nationals in the border area of Thakurgaon’s Haripur upazila on Thursday afternoon.

A total of 19 persons, including four Bangladeshi nationals, were sentenced to different terms in jail yesterday over the 2014 bomb blast in West Bengal’s Burdwan district. The four Bangladeshis were jailed for 10 years, our Kolkata correspondent reports.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are likely to have a brief meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next month.

Erosion of the Jamuna has begun near the east end of the Bangabandhu Multipurpose Bridge in Tangail’s Kalihati upazila since Thursday.

Two schoolboys were allegedly assaulted by a landlord in Subarnachar upazila yesterday over suspicion of stealing pigeons.

The High Court yesterday directed the law ministry to take necessary steps to keep Narail District and Sessions Judge Sheikh Abdul Ahad away from discharging judicial duties in criminal cases for one year for exempting the prime accused in a murder case.

The NGO Affairs Bureau has suspended six projects of Mukti Cox’s Bazar, a local NGO, on charges of making and distributing weeding tools to Rohingyas.

Beijing yesterday slammed the nomination of a jailed academic from China’s Uighur minority for one of Europe’s top human rights awards, saying it equated to “supporting terrorism”.

A strengthening Hurricane Dorian appeared to have largely spared Puerto Rico, barreling past the US territory still recovering from a powerful storm two years ago.

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, serving a 20-year jail term in Russia, was moved to Moscow ahead of a possible prisoner swap, Russian news agencies and Ukrainian MPs said yesterday.

Women and children stuck on a charity rescue vessel in the Mediterranean will be allowed into Italy, the interior ministry said yesterday, though a ban on the ship entering Italian waters remains.

China will hold a massive military parade showcasing some of its most advanced weaponry to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the communist state, authorities announced yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities to take necessary steps to preserve and display the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in all courtrooms across the country within the next two months.

India’s two main port authorities yesterday said they had been warned by the coastguard and intelligence officials that Pakistan-trained commandos have entered Indian waters to carry out underwater attacks on port facilities.