Bangladesh’s national polls, delayed amid deadly violence over allegations the ballot was rigged, will not be held in next 18 months, the top election official said today.

The head of Bangladesh’s anti-corruption watchdog and one of his colleagues said they resigned today after the country’s president asked them to quit.

Separate clashes between rival political activists and police left one man dead and about 65 people injured, as a major political alliance in Bangladesh staged a nationwide transport blockade today to force electoral reforms, police said.

Hundreds of opposition protesters kicked off a nationwide strike for electoral reforms today by holding a demonstration in Bangladesh's capital.

Nearly 10,000 security forces fanned out across the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka today during an opposition-sponsored general strike that shut down schools and stores and disrupted traffic.

Bangladesh’s main opposition Awami League will end its year-long boycott and return to parliament tomorrow, a party spokesman said.

A series of bombs in two Bangladesh cities killed at least eight people and injured 66 today in what appeared to be the latest attack by militant Muslims who want to impose harsh Islamic law, officials said.

A grenade that exploded at an opposition rally in north-eastern Bangladesh killed a former finance minister and at least four other people while wounding about 100 others, police and doctors said today.

Thousands of opposition supporters joined hands or stood side by side Saturday to form a massive human chain across Bangladesh to demand a new government.

AN ANGRY mob set fire to a passenger train and protesters clashed with police across Bangladesh yesterday, leaving dozens of people injured.

An angry mob set fire to a passenger train in central Bangladesh today, injuring at least 20 people.

At least a dozen people were killed and hundreds injured in a series of bomb blasts at an opposition rally in Bangladesh’s capital today, witnesses and news reports said.

Police have arrested four men over the bombing of a Muslim shrine that killed three people and injured about 100, including the newly-appointed British ambassador to Bangladesh.

Gunmen opened fire at an Bangladesh opposition rally outside the capital Dhaka today, killing four people including an MP.

BANGLADESH stepped up security today as a general strike called by the main opposition party shut down shops and schools and disrupted traffic for the second straight day.

SIX people including a pro-India politician were killed in Kashmir, where a forest gun battle between Islamic militants and Indian troops entered a fourth day yesterday.

Riot police today fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters who were demonstrating against the repeal of a law requiring public buildings display a portrait of Bangladesh’s founding father.

At least 30 supporters of the main opposition party in Bangladesh have been arrested following violent clashes with police in the capital Dhaka.

Dozens of political rivals exchanged gunfire in a village in eastern Bangladesh, killing three children, including a four-year-old boy, who were caught in the crossfire, police said today.

Bangladeshi schools and stores have closed and most traffic has halted in protest at a bomb attack on the country's main opposition leader.