Arrest warrants have been floated for 23 leaders of BNP, including several of its seniors, as a Dhaka court takes into cognisance of an explosives case.

A Turkish Airlines plane flying from New York to Istanbul is diverted to Canada because of a bomb threat, but police say no explosives are found.

The Indian government is due to honour a seven-year-old police dog who has impressed security officials with his ability to sniff out explosives.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seizes around 270kg of sulphur and detained a man in this connection in Patia upazila of Chittagong.

A youth was killed and another injured in a crude bomb blast in Jajira upazila of Shariatpur.

Police arrested a leader of banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Chittagong unit with explosives and grenade-making materials in the port city today.