At least 11 people, including 10 river pirates, were killed and five policemen wounded today in a gun battle on a river island in Bangladesh, police said.
Four blasts took place today in a Bangladesh district during a strike organised by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) protesting the killing of a local party leader. There were, however, no reports of damage or casualties.
Explosions rocked Bangladesh's capital Dhaka and southeastern Sylhet with the main opposition BNP activists fighting pitched battle with police leading to the death of two people, as the country marked the 40th anniversary of its independence.
Twenty-five activists of an environment protection group who tried to lay siege to the energy ministry in Dhaka were injured during a clash with police.
The Bangladesh army said it had foiled a coup plot by certain “religiously fanatic” serving and retired army officers to overthrow the democratically elected government of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and arrested two former officers.
Eight Bangladeshi migrants were beheaded in public in the Saudi Arabian capital after they were convicted of killing an Egyptian security guard four years ago, a media report said.
Denouncing the blast outside the Delhi High Court as a "cowardly act of terrorist nature," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked all political parties to unite and crush the scourge.
US-based former Bangladesh army chief General Moeen U Ahmed on Tuesday denied army's role in sparking the 2007 violence and subsequent actions at Dhaka University as a parliamentary standing committee quizzed him through teleconference.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has said India and Bangladesh will soon ink a pact on Teesta water sharing, but refused to specify any timeline for the landmark deal. "I will not mention any specific timeline for it. Rather, I will say that it is a matter of time.
Hailing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent visit to Bangladesh as "really successful," Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina has expressed optimism that her country will be able to work out the Teesta water sharing agreement with India.
Hoping to chart out modalities for a joint border management system, India and Bangladesh today discussed ways to tackle cross-frontier crimes, like drug smuggling and trafficking of women and children.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed his disappointment at the failure of two countries to sign the Teesta water accord and has told officials to "intensify their efforts towards finding a viable formula which does not cause undue distress to all those, in India or in Bangladesh".
By resolving a festering border tangle and seeking to reduce the trade imbalance, India and Bangladesh on Tuesday gave a fresh momentum to bilateral relations.
Varghese K George reports.
India and Bangladesh today signed a comprehensive framework agreement on bilateral cooperation.
At least 75 people went missing in Bangladesh on Saturday after a trawler capsized in Buriganga river near capital Dhaka.