Dhaka - Five schoolgirls drowned in a lake in the northern suburbs of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, after their pleasure boat capsized, rescuers said Thursday.

Four others were rescued Wednesday by firefighters as the teenagers struggled to keep themselves afloat in Beguntila lake, which was flooded by recent heavy monsoon rains, a spokesman for the local Mirpur police station said.

Kolkata, July 23 : Bangladesh Rifles today gunned down a Border Security Force soldier and injured a farmer at Mirsultanpur village in West Bengal''s Malda District on the Indo-Bangla border.

Sudarshan, 40, was killed, as he went to the border to relieve himself.

This soldier of the BSF’s 123 Battalion died of his wounds while on the way to the Malda Sadar Hospital.

“There was an exchange of fire between the border guards after the incident but the situation was under control as senior officers of police and the BSF rushed to the spot, said District Magistrate of Malda C R Das.

The farmer was watering his land when Bangladesh Rifles opened fire on him and injured his knee.

Dhaka - A young Bangladeshi man was gunned down by suspected Indian security forces near the India-Bangladesh border amid mounting tension along the common frontier of the two neighbours, local police said Monday. 

Omar Shareef, chief of Benapole police station in north-western Bangladesh, claimed the body also bore marks of multiple wounds. 

With the latest casualty, the number of people killed since Friday in border violence rose to seven. 

Bangladeshi officials said the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has taken up an aggressive posture since the paramilitary outfit was ordered to shoot at sight any person near the frontier after sunset. 

Dhaka- Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of jailed former prime

New Delhi, July 17 : Foreign Secretaries of India and Bangladesh today