The Bangladesh police said on Monday they had arrested a Pakistani national suspected of being the main local coordinator for the banned militant Islamist group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT).

A top leader of an outlawed militant organisation, JMB was on Saturday arrested in Bangladesh along with two of his associates and huge amount of explosives seized from them.

Bangladesh has urged India to crack down on factories that make the banned Phensedyl syrup near the border. Two million bottles of Phensedyl were seized in 2009.

A protest by two or more border guards could be termed a mutinous act under a legislation proposed for the force that is being revamped after hundreds of troopers took part in a rebellion in February

Banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) receives five million takas ($72,254) from domestic and foreign sources every month to run its operations, a media report said on Wednesday

Asian investors want to set up manufacturing units or relocate their existing industries only around the national capital and port town of Chittagong in Bangladesh, says an official.

Bangladesh’s Opposition leader Khaleda Zia has termed as “suicidal” the $1 billion deal the government signed with India’s Exim Bank last Saturday. The Sheikh Hasina government has rejected the charge.

India is giving Bangladesh a billion-dollar soft loan, the biggest credit package New Delhi has ever given to any nation, officials said on Saturday, highlighting warming ties between the neighbours.

Bangladesh will play five one-day international matches against New Zealand in October, instead of the scheduled two Tests and three limited-over contests, an official said on Monday.

A tribunal on Monday ordered that four top leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) be jailed in connection with the “war crimes” committed during Bangladesh's 1971 freedom movement.