North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday discussed an expected US-North Korea summit in talks in Beijing, Yonhap news agency said, days after Kim warned he may take an alternative path if the United States does not ease sanctions.

After a walkout by the main opposition Congress Party, the contentious constitution amendment bill seeking to give Indian citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan was passed by the Lok Sabha (LS) yesterday.

The president of Myanmar and the prime minister of Vietnam yesterday congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her party's landslide victory in the 11th parliamentary polls.

Dozens of Rohingyas have crossed the border into Bangladesh from India in recent days, officials said yesterday, as New Delhi faces censure for deporting the persecuted minority to Myanmar.

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak faced widespread criticism on social media yesterday for taking a pillion ride on a motorbike without a helmet.

WikiLeaks on Sunday advised journalists not to report 140 different "false and defamatory" statements about its founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 2012.

China has executed a farmer who attacked several children with a knife at a kindergarten in a southern Chinese city two years ago, state media reported yesterday.

China said yesterday it would welcome UN officials to the restive western region of Xinjiang with the condition that they stay out of the country's internal affairs.

The organisers of a major Indian science conference distanced themselves Sunday from speakers who used the prestigious event to dismiss Einstein's discoveries and claim ancient Hindus invented stem cell research.

A Bangladesh-born UK citizen on Sunday was found dead in front of a drug rehabilitation centre in Moulvibazar's Sadar upazila where the victim was receiving treatment for the last couple of days.

An eight-year-old girl was killed after being “raped” in Gabtala village of the district's Ashashuni upazila on Sunday evening.

A man was killed and at least two others were injured in a clash between two groups of “Jubo League men” allegedly over controlling collection of extortion money from footpath vendors in the city's Mirpur area yesterday.

The Daily Star's Sohel Parvez and Jahurul Islam Sojol with the help of a few others have made an effort to analyse the affidavits

An EC-registered organisation which observed the December 30 election and termed it “free and fair” is said to have links with the ruling Awami League led grand alliance.

Two workers were killed in a landslide at an illegal stone quarry in Shah Arefin Tila area in Bholaganj of Sylhet's Companiganj upazila yesterday afternoon.

Vehicles start to move on the busy Airport Road in Dhaka after the protesting ready-made garments workers withdrew the blockade that was imposed around noon.

Saudi Arabia is going to deport scores of Rohingyas, held indefinitely by the kingdom, to Bangladesh, reports Middle East Eye (MEE), a London-based news portal covering events in the Middle East.

Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday discussed insurgent attacks on Myanmar police in a rare meeting with the military chief, and her administration called for the armed forces to "crush" the rebels, a government spokesman said.

Veteran Awami League (AL) leader also Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam is laid to eternal rest in the city’s Banani graveyard after Asr prayers , three days after he breathed his last at the age of 68 on Thursday.

A ruling Awami League man was stabbed to death and another member of the party had his leg cut off, both by the party rivals over establishing supremacy, in separate incidents in Kushtia and Natore yesterday.