Law enforcers work to find whether there is any link between the killings of two foreigners in the span of five days, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says.

Ultimately it was the killing of an Italian national in Dhaka by unknown perpetrators that is believed, within the BCB, to have led to Australia calling off their tour of Bangladesh.

Amid delay by Australia to fly for Bangladesh over fear of militant attacks, Home Minister Kamal says all sorts of security measures will be taken ahead of the Australia-Bangladesh Test series scheduled to begin on October 9.

There is no such militant threat in Bangladesh, minister tells a day after Australian cricket board delayed its scheduled tour citing “security threat”.

Violent clashes at a protest in western Nepal have killed at least seven police officers and a child.

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh has promised an inquiry into how a TV crew gained permission to interview one of the Delhi gang rapists on death row.