Dhaka- Bangladesh's opposition Awami League protested a High Court decision to overturn guilty verdicts against six former army officers accused of killing captive political leaders, news reports said Friday.

On Thursday, two officers handed death sentences in 2004 were cleared of charges involving their role in a prison massacre in 1975, in which four top leaders of the opposition Awami League were gunned down in their cells, while four officers serving life sentences were also acquitted.

Dhaka, Aug 29: The 9th Home Secretary level talks between India and Bangladesh will begin here today.

The two-day meeting is expected to discuss various security related issues, border management issues as well as ways of enhancing cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of both sides.

The Indian delegation is led by the Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta and the Bangladesh delegation by their Secretary, Ministry of Home Affair, Mohammad Abdul Karim.

The last meeting was held at Delhi on August 2-3, 2007.

New Delhi, Aug 28 : The 9th Home Secretary level talks between India and Bangladesh will be held at Dhaka on August 30-31.

The meeting is expected to discuss various security related issues, border management issues as well as ways of enhancing cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of both sides.

The Indian delegation will be led by the Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta and the Bangladesh delegation by their Secretary, Ministry of Home Affair, Mohammad Abdul Karim.

The last meeting was held at Delhi on August 2-3, 2007.

Dhaka - Thousands of people gathered at a clinic in western Bangladesh see a double-headed baby boy born to a farm worker, media reports said Wednesday.

The mass circulation newspaper Ittefaq quoted medical personnel in small town of Keshabpur, west of Dhaka as saying the baby had two pairs of eyes and ears and two noses.

Doctor Abdul Bari, who delivered the baby by Caesarian section, told reporters the child weighed four-and-a-half kilos. The baby had been named Kiron (Light) by his parents.

Dhaka - Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson was scheduled to arrive Friday in Dhaka on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh, diplomatic officials said Wednesday.

Grimsson plans to chair an international symposium in Dhaka on climate change and meet with President Iajuddin and other senior officials in Bangladesh's caretaker government.

He was also expected to meet with Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, which pioneered micro-credits for poor farmers and cottage industries.

Dhaka - The High Court in Bangladesh Tuesday released former prime minister Khaleda Zia for four months to undergo medical treatment.

Zia, 63, was detained in September last year on corruption charges.

The same court granted her son and political heir Tarique Rahman an identical four-month release, also for medical treatment.

Both rulings were made on humanitarian grounds and after the recommendation of medical boards, judicial officials said.