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.

Bhagalpur, Mar 21 : Indian authorities have imposed night curfew along the borders with Bangladesh in Tripura and stepped up security in view of the upcoming general elections.

The vigil along the border has been stepped up to check movement of the militants and infiltration.

Night curfew has been promulgated within the radius of one-kilometer, besides banning fishing during night, movement of non-government vehicles, rickshaws and handcarts.

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.

Dhaka  - At least four persons were killed and 20 injured in a devastating fire Friday at Basundhara City, Bangladesh's largest shopping mall, in Dhaka, officials said.

Firefighters 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.

Earlier, a firefighter of the Basundhara group was killed and 20 people sustained burn injuries.

Dhaka  - Bangladesh Thursday asked Malaysian authorities to revise a decision that cancelled visas of some 55,000 Bangladeshi workers in the wake of global recession.

"We expect something positive after the upcoming Malaysian national elections as we have started negotiations," Bangladesh's junior minister for foreign affairs, Hasan Mahmud said.

In intense diplomatic efforts, the Bangladesh government formally requested Kuala Lumpur to take Bangladesh workers, thousands of whom were ready to fly now.