Dhaka  - The Bangladesh parliament Thursday unanimously approved separate motions for regaining memberships of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and International Parliamentary Union (IPU), officials said.

Approving the motions in the House, lawmakers from both sides of the political divide said the country, which returned to democratic system two months ago ending two years rule of a military-backed government, needed a sustainable parliamentary democracy for the greater interests of its people.

Dhaka - Bangladesh's government on Thursday described last week's mutiny at the headquarters of its border guards as a plot against the nascent democracy of the South Asian country.

"It was a big conspiracy against democracy," Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed said. "It is presumed initially that the mutiny was staged to put the democratically elected government in danger and cause embarrassment for it."

Dhaka - The Bangladesh army on Tuesday launched an independent probe into last week's troop mutiny, a day after the government reconstituted a civilian body for the inquiry, officials said.

A senior army officer, Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, accompanied by a number of junior officers, visited Bangladesh Rifles headquarters, where mutineers killed at least 74 people, mostly mid-ranking and junior army officers, to collect evidence related to the carnage.

Dhaka - Tens of thousands of mourners Monday bade farewell in tears to Bangladeshi army officers killed in last week's mutiny by border guards, officials said.

Members of the bereaved families, politicians, army officers and others joined the funeral and a memorial parade before the bodies of 49 members of Bangladesh Army and a wife of an officer were laid to rest amid full state honour.

President Zillur Rahman, who attended the prayer session at the National Parade Ground in Dhaka, paid floral respect on behalf of the nation to the slain officers' coffins wrapped in Bangladesh national and army flags.

Dhaka, Mar 2 : The funeral or the Namaz-e-janaza of the 48 Bangladesh army officers, whose bodies were found during a rescue operation at the Bangladesh Rifles
(BDR) headquarters, was held at the National Parade Square on Monday.

Forty-two of them were laid to rest at about 1:00pm at the military graveyard at Banani with state honour while the bodies of eight others were sent to their village homes for burial.

Dhaka, Mar 2 : Pakistan will go ahead with a tour of Bangladesh due to start later this week despite a mutiny in the paramilitary headquarters, a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) official has said on Monday.

Pakistan scheduled to arrive on Saturday for a 16-day trip to play two Twenty20 and five one-day internationals against the hosts.

“We have not received any message to postpone or defer the tour so far. So the series will go as planned,” The News quoted BCB media chief Jalal Yunus, as saying.