AFP - More than 700,000 volunteers fanned out across Bangladesh to help vaccinate 24 million children against polio amid signs that the virus has staged a comeback in the impoverished country.

Twenty-six members of the banned Islamic outfit Jamaatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) were arrested by the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in northern Bangladesh on Wednesday. According to reports, the elite battalion also recovered some bomb-making materials and training equipment from a...

AFP - At least 25 suspected Islamic militants were arrested after Bangladesh's crack security force raided their hideout in a forest north of the capital, officials said.

AFP - Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia said Israel's deadly attacks on Lebanon would only spark more violence and add to radicalization in the Muslim world.

AFP - Three people were hurt when a bomb blew up in a crowded Bangladesh bazaar, police said, adding they were probing whether Islamic extremists or Maoist rebels might be to blame.

AFP - India and Pakistan boosted their stalled peace process with "positive" informal talks on the sidelines of a regional forum.

AFP - More than 20,000 activists marched in the Bangladeshi capital, defying driving rains, in the fifth day of protests to press for electoral reforms ahead of January polls.

AP - A bomb believed rigged to a motorcycle exploded outside a bank in southwestern Pakistan and wounded 21 people Friday, one critically, a medical official said. It was unclear who was behind the bombing outside a branch of the state-owned Allied Bank Ltd., which was open at the time, in Quetta, the capital of insurgency-wracked Baluchistan.

AFP - A minister in the northeastern Indian state of Assam has accused Bangladesh of grabbing two square kilometres (500 acres) of Assam's land by shifting international boundary markers.

Bangladesh's government has decided to send relief to war-stricken Lebanon along with the initiative to bring back the Bangladeshis stranded from the country. he decision was made at a meeting of the Relief and Disaster Management Ministry of Bangladesh with its minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibna...

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso arrived in Dhaka on Monday night on a two-day goodwill visit to Bangladesh. Secretary (Multilateral) of Foreign Ministry of Bangladesh Mohammad Moniruzzman received the Japanese Foreign Minister and his wife at Zia International Airport in the capital....

AFP - About 10,000 opposition activists marched for election reforms guarded by thousands more police, fearing further attacks by Islamic militants.

Some 300 Bangladeshi nationals are willing to return home from trouble-torn Lebanon. The Bangladesh government has made all arrangements for chartering an aircraft to evacuate them from the Middle-Eastern country as soon as possible....

AFP - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso was holding a flurry of meetings here with Bangladesh officials who are seeking Japanese help in building a major bridge and deep sea port, officials said.

Reuters - Bangladesh police ordered soccer fans on Saturday to pull down flags of World Cup contenders two weeks after the finals concluded in Germany.

According to an official, Japan's foreign minister is set to visit the Philippines and Bangladesh before joining the Association Of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum next week. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso's first stopover will be Manila for a dialogue with President Gloria...

Strongly condemning the inhuman acts in the Middle East, Bangladesh termed on Thursday Israeli attack on Lebanon as "religious terrorism". "Our condemnation goes beyond our language. We consider this as state terrorism. It is a gross violation of human rights. It is a religious terrorism,"...

Six militants of the outlawed Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were sentenced to life in prison by a court of country's southern district on Monday for blasting bombs on August 17 last year. The District and Sessions Judge of Feni also the judge of special tribunal-1, M Nazrul Islam handed...

Bangladesh on Saturday strongly condemned the unwarranted bombing and air attack on Lebanon.

AFP - Bangladesh will seek bids from overseas energy companies to explore for oil and gas in the Bay of Bengal after a court removed an obstacle blocking agreements with them, an official said.