Shringla visited Dhaka in March last after assuming office of the Indian Foreign Secretary in January this year.

The indictment comes seven months after another Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against the 69-year-old ex-chief justice who lives in the United States

Former captain Abdul Majed was hanged for his involvement in the 1975 coup in which the country's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated, nearly four-and-a-half decades after the high profile massacre.

B'desh minister termed as "untrue" the allegations of minority repression in the country.

The lone suspect has been detained and is being interrogated.

Bangladesh's fire service chief Ali Ahmed said the accident may have started with a gas cylinder.

Hasina, the president of the Awami League, won the 11th parliamentary elections with a landslide victory even as the Opposition rejected the "farcical" polls marred by violence that claimed 17 lives, making it one of the deadliest polls in the country's history.

The ruling Awami League-led grand alliance has won 288 seats in the 300-member Parliament, Election Commission secretary Helaluddin Ahmed said.

The unofficial results were expected by Monday morning which would be announced by the commission headquarters in the capital.

In the same case, her son Tarique Rahman and four others have been sentenced to 10 years in jail.

In a moving encounter, Francis blessed them, held their hands and intently listened to their heart-rending tales of escape from the Buddhist-majority nation, in an apparent show of public solidarity towards Asia's worst refugee crisis in decades.

Over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's violence hit Rakhine state to neighbouring Bangladesh since August when the military intensified crackdown against alleged militant outfits of Rohingya Muslims.

She, however, preferred not to use the word 'Rohingya' and said 'we have urged that the situation be handled with restraint, keeping in mind the welfare of the population'.

The two sides agreed on forming a joint working group to oversee the repatriation process but its composition would be decided later by both the countries.

More than 3,00,000 Rohingya have poured into Bangladesh since the latest flare-up in violence on August 25.

The relief material consists of items required urgently by the affected people, namely rice, pulses, sugar, salt, cooking oil, tea, ready to eat noodles, biscuits, mosquito nets etc, it said.

Officials feared that the death toll could rise as rescuers find it difficult to reach remote areas.

Despite low casualty figure, the storm left behind a trail of destruction as thousands of people lost their houses.

Security forces in the past 10 days have witnessed four major anti-militancy assaults against Islamic-State inclined Neo-Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh in which seven people including an army lieutenant colonel and two police inspectors lost their lives while the assaults killed 15 militants and their children.

The chief of the terror group blamed for Bangladesh's worst terror attack at a Dhaka cafe was among the four Islamist militants killed in one of the country's longest anti-terror operations in Sylhet, police said on Tuesday.