Dhaka  - A four-member Scotland Yard team arrived in Dhaka Wednesday to assist Bangladesh authorities in investigating last month's mutiny by paramilitary soldiers that killed 71 people, mostly army officers, officials said.

The British government sent the team on Bangladesh's request to help local authorities investigate the massacre inside the Dhaka headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifle border guards, a British High Commission representative said.

Dhaka, Mar. 10 : Premier investigation agency, Scotland Yard would be sending its team here to help the local investigation agency probe the Bangladesh Rifles
(BDR) mutiny which left 74 BDR personnel dead.

Talking to reporters on Tuesday, Britain''s Minister for International Development, Mike Foster, said the investigative team would consist of four Scotland Yard officials.

According to reports, it is revealed that the revolt could have been pre-planned.

Kuala Lumpur  - Malaysia announced Tuesday that the government will cancel visas for more than 55,000 Bangladeshi nationals who obtained their work permits in
2007, but have yet to enter the country.

The move was in response to a recent disclosure by the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur that more than 70,000 workers with approved visas would be entering the country soon to work in various industries.

Dhaka  - Two army officers were killed Monday in a helicopter crash in Tangail district of central Bangladesh, according to officials.

Major General Rafiqil Islam and the pilot of the chopper, Lt Col Istiaq Shahid, died on the spot as the helicopter crushed into a field at Kalihati, 85 kilometres northwest of Dhaka, a district administration officer said.

The co-pilot survived the accident with severe injuries and was shifted to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.

Dhaka - Two agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were due to arrive in Dhaka Sunday to help Bangladesh probe last week's troop mutiny that left dozens of army officers dead, a minister said.

"Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation are scheduled to arrive in Dhaka today to investigate and support Bangladesh's local investigators," the country's foreign minister, Dipu Moni, told reporters Sunday.

New Delhi, Mar 8 : Bollywood director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra''s ''Rang De Basanti'' will be screened at the ongoing SAARC Film Festival in Abu Dhabi.

Another major attraction of the festival is the Pakistani film ''Khuda Ke Liye'', which will be also screened. The film features Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah in a cameo as a Muslim scholar clarifying the tenets of Islam during a court case.

A film from Bangladesh - AHA, Caravan from Nepal and Sri Lankan movie Nisalgira and Samanala Thatu will be featured at the festival. All the movies will be subtitled in English and Arabic.