New Delhi, Aug 28 : The 9th Home Secretary level talks between India and Bangladesh will be held at Dhaka on August 30-31.

The meeting is expected to discuss various security related issues, border management issues as well as ways of enhancing cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of both sides.

The Indian delegation will be led by the Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta and the Bangladesh delegation by their Secretary, Ministry of Home Affair, Mohammad Abdul Karim.

The last meeting was held at Delhi on August 2-3, 2007.

Dhaka - Thousands of people gathered at a clinic in western Bangladesh see a double-headed baby boy born to a farm worker, media reports said Wednesday.

The mass circulation newspaper Ittefaq quoted medical personnel in small town of Keshabpur, west of Dhaka as saying the baby had two pairs of eyes and ears and two noses.

Doctor Abdul Bari, who delivered the baby by Caesarian section, told reporters the child weighed four-and-a-half kilos. The baby had been named Kiron (Light) by his parents.

Dhaka - Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson was scheduled to arrive Friday in Dhaka on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh, diplomatic officials said Wednesday.

Grimsson plans to chair an international symposium in Dhaka on climate change and meet with President Iajuddin and other senior officials in Bangladesh's caretaker government.

He was also expected to meet with Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, which pioneered micro-credits for poor farmers and cottage industries.

Dhaka - The High Court in Bangladesh Tuesday released former prime minister Khaleda Zia for four months to undergo medical treatment.

Zia, 63, was detained in September last year on corruption charges.

The same court granted her son and political heir Tarique Rahman an identical four-month release, also for medical treatment.

Both rulings were made on humanitarian grounds and after the recommendation of medical boards, judicial officials said.

Dhaka - Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has cancelled a five-day state visit to Bangladesh, diplomatic sources said Tuesday.

Foreign Ministry officials said Iceland's leader was due to arrive in Dhaka from the Beijing Olympics Tuesday to start a formal visit to Bangladesh.

A senior Bangladeshi official, who did not wish be identified, said the visit had been put off indefinitely without assigning any reason.

Dhaka  - Border officials of India and Bangladesh reached a deal pledging to bury the mistrust and bitterness of the past while strengthening ties between the border guards of each countries, officials said Monday.

Closing four days of talks on Sunday, officials of both countries appeared upbeat by the discussions about border incursions, frontier fencing, skirmishes and cross-border trade.