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Differences have surfaced in the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) over nominations to some vital posts, including the president.

The government is thinking of withdrawing its restriction on female workers going to Middle Eastern countries as domestic help.

In a complete turnaround on her policy of a ban on student politics, Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has asked the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to re-organise and revitalise its student wing, the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD).

Vegetable production in Bangla-desh may fall more than 20 per cent short of this year's target of 2300,000 tonnes as the floods in vast areas of the country and heavy rainfall have severely affected cultivation of summer vegetables, official sources said.

Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has asked the authorities to avoid unnecessary expenses during her official tours outside Dhaka.

The government is weighing several options in the face of the main opposition Awami League's decision to defy the official ban on hoisting the national flag at half-mast on August 15, the death anniversary of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina returned home yesterday after a 25-day private visit to the U.S. and the U.K.

At least four people were killed and 50 others injured as police clashed with a mob trying to gain access to a mosque in the Bangladesh capital during a half-day general strike yesterday.

Bangladesh has deferred until October the launch of the hepatitis-B vaccination under the Extended Programme of Immunisation.

Amid Indian worries about the Bangladesh-China defence deal signed in Beijing on Wednesday, Bangladesh's Foreign Minister Morshed Khan said yesterday "it would definitely not harm Indo-Bangla relations''.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin yesterday told visiting Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia that their two countries stand united in the war on terror and urged peace in the volatile South Asian region, state media said.

At least 36 people, most of them women and children, died in a stampede while scrambling to collect clothes being distributed as "zakat" by a mill owner in northern Bangladesh yesterday. A number of others remained in hospital in critical condition after the incident.