The interior ministry added that the government also aims over the next six months to achieve the highest rate of deportations of failed asylum seekers for five years.

The UK government is likely to lift the ban on Dhaka-London direct air cargo early next week, putting forward some “observations”

Environmentalists say the UK government is talking impressively on climate change to its international audience, but down-grading energy policy at home.

The UK government announces Alison Blake as the next British high commissioner to Bangladesh.