Around the time that Singapore announced in January the arrest and deportation of 27 radicalised Bangladeshis under the Internal Security Act (ISA), S-Pass holder Rahman Mizanur, 31, came up with plans for an extremist group and began recruiting his countrymen.

Singapore says it has arrested eight Bangladeshi workers, who were planning to stage terror attacks back home. The country’s home ministry releases a kill-list found with them, which include MPs, ministers and media personnel. Meanwhile, in Dhaka, cops arrest five other Bangladeshi nationals, who were repatriated from Singapore after the authorities found that they possessed and/or proliferated jihadi-related materials, or supported the use of armed violence.

Members of the so-called Islamic State in Bangladesh (ISB), formed in Singapore in March, have identified several possible targets in Bangladesh, which include lawmakers, ministers, and media personnel, a kill-list released by the country’s home ministry shows.

The preventive team of Dhaka Customs House seizes six gold bars, weighing 2.5 kilograms, from a plane at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital.

Singapore has again been judged as the world's most expensive city but costs across the world have been highly volatile, according to researchers.

The Trans Pacific Partnership, one of the biggest multinational trade deals ever, is signed by ministers from its 12 member nations in New Zealand.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir flies to Singapore for a regular health check up. He will check his health at National University Hospital of that country.

The high-profile arrests and deportation of 27 Bangladeshi workers from Singapore for planning violent attacks overseas may have caused some Singaporeans to wonder about Bangladesh and its people. The truth is that the country is a secular, moderate nation with a Muslim-majority population.

The 26 Bangladeshis, who were deported from Singapore allegedly for being members of a terror cell, have no links to Islamic State or al-Qaeda, according to police in Dhaka.

Police in Dhaka say they have not found any link of the 26 Bangladeshi workers, who were deported by Singapore over their alleged support for armed jihad of Islamic State and al-Qaeda.

In April 2013, terrorist group Islamic State announced it would expand its operations beyond Iraq as the civil war in Syria worsened. That same year, a group of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore began a closed religious study group to discuss these conflicts that involved Muslims, and whether they should take up arms.

The Bangladeshi community in Singapore has expressed shocked at the news that 27 Bangladeshi nationals who were working there had been arrested for supporting IS, al-Qaeda.

Twenty-seven male Bangladeshis working in Singapore are arrested for supporting the armed jihad ideology of terrorist groups such as Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda.

A court in Dhaka sends 14 militant suspects, who were repatriated by Singapore police recently, to jail in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Authorities from Singapore and Indonesia are searching for six people, after a chemical tanker collided with a freighter in the Singapore Strait.

A faulty component was a "major factor" when an AirAsia plane crashed into the Java Sea, killing 162 people last December, Indonesian officials say.

Bangladesh is one of the safest countries in the world, according to a poll carried out by Gallup the Washington DC-based opinion pollster.

Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore this weekend, the two sides said, in what will be the first meeting between leaders from the rivals since the end of a civil war in 1949.

Indian budget airline IndiGo plans to conduct an initial share offering this week as it seeks to raise as much as 32.68bn rupees ($500m; £325.6m), according to reports.

Singapore has opened its one of a kind Mermaid School and it is in a mission to create the city’s firs pod.