Police in Bangladesh have arrested a home-grown Islamist militant over the killing of two gay rights campaigners amid a surge in violent attacks against liberal activists and other minorities in the south Asian nation.

Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was blocked today from boarding a flight home from London after the military-backed government barred her from returning.

Mudslides triggered by heavy rains killed 14 workers sleeping in a tin shed near a Hindu shrine in northern Indian today as the death toll from the monsoon season across South Asia rose to at least 1,908.

A ceasefire began today along the India-Bangladesh border after two days of fighting over a disputed area between the countries’ forces killed 19 soldiers, officials said.

Hopes are high that Tim Selby, the British man taken hostage by Bangladeshi kidnappers 17 days ago, will be freed today.