Dhaka- Bangladesh on Tuesday alerted its intelligence agencies and local governments against possible militant attacks on garment industries contributing major export earnings to its economy, a junior minister said.

"We have alerted the intelligence agencies so that the militants cannot unleash attacks on the ready-made garment industries," Tanjim Ahmed Sohel Taj, the state minister for home affairs, said at a press briefing after a meeting with the leaders of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.

Dhaka - Bangladesh on Monday formed a committee to formulate a plan for the reconstitution of its border force following last month's mutiny at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in which more than 70 army officers were killed, a senior official said.

"I will do it at the earliest in the interest of the country," Mainul Islam, the director general of the paramilitary force and committee head, told German Press Agency dpa after a three-hour meeting of the coordination body.

Dhaka, Mar. 23: The Bangladesh Government has banned people suspected of war crimes during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan from travelling abroad.

It says these people, who are accused of collaborating with Pakistani troops, will face war crime trials.

Among them are leaders of the largest religious party Jamaat-i-Islami - a rival of the ruling Awami League, the BBC reports.

Dhaka  - Bangladesh has imposed a ban on travelling abroad for war crimes suspects as part of its process to bring 1971 war criminals to justice, a senior minister said Sunday.

"The trials of the war criminals are in the process, and that's why the government has ordered some people not to leave the country," Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shafique Ahmed said.

The minister mentioned neither the names nor the number of suspects affected.

Dhaka  - At least seven persons were killed and 50 injured in a devastating fire Friday at Basundhara City, Bangladesh's largest shopping mall, in Dhaka, officials said.

Members of the rescue operation teams retrieved three more bodies from different floors of the building late in the evening, raising the death toll to seven, they said.

Firefighters earlier recovered three more charred bodies from inside the debris on the upper floors of the 21-storey building, in which the top five floors were destroyed, Tejgaon zone police chief Mahbubur Rahman said.

Dhaka  - Authorities ordered the indefinite closure Friday of three educational institutions in the northern Bangladeshi city of Rajshahi after bloody clashes between rival student groups left one person killed.

The clashes broke out between the student fronts of the ruling Awami League and opposition Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami over establishing control over Rajshahi University campus.