Myanmar’s security forces have killed more than 300 people in attempts to crush opposition to a February 1 coup, with nearly 90% of victims shot dead and a quarter of them shot in the head, according to data from an advocacy group and local media.

Australia has announced $10 million in emergency assistance from the existing humanitarian budget to those affected by the fire in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

Bangladesh and India will sign several bilateral agreements covering trade, disaster management, and oceanography and come out with “new announcements” in trade, power, railway, health, and education, culture, and border development during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Dhaka on March 26-27.

Rohingyas have started rebuilding homes as Monday’s fire burned thousands of their shanties at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar that also left 11 people dead and hundreds injured.

Myanmar activists plan more anti-coup protests, including a silent strike with many businesses due to close and calls for people to stay home, after a seven-year-old girl was killed in her home when security forces opened fire during a crackdown in Mandalay.

Myanmar’s military yesterday said it was sad about people killed in its brutal crackdown on anti-coup protests, but vowed to press ahead with stamping out what it called “anarchy”.

Bangladesh, Nepal and India are on the final stage of a deal allowing Bangladesh to import hydropower from the Himalayan state, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today.

Police and fire service officials have so far recovered seven bodies from the ruins at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar till this morning in the aftermath of the deadly fires that burned several thousand shanties.

Myanmar protesters held candle-lit vigils for the scores killed in demonstrations against military rule, as Western countries imposed more sanctions on individuals and groups linked to last month’s coup and an ensuing brutal crackdown on dissent.

The European Union yesterday imposed sanctions on 11 people linked to last month’s military coup in Myanmar as the repression of pro-democracy protesters by security forces reached what Germany’s foreign minister called “an unbearable extent”.

Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari today said connectivity was essential for smoother and wider interactions and engagements between Bangladesh and Nepal.

Indian government has decided to honour Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2020 "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods," an official statement said today.

Myanmar activists plan fresh protests including a call for vehicle convoys to drive through intersections honking horns with occupants raising three-finger anti-coup salutes despite reports of security forces killing more people at the weekend.

Demonstrators in Myanmar maintained their dogged opposition to military rule despite a rising death toll, with two more people killed as the junta appeared equally determined to resist growing pressure to compromise.

Doctors and nurses in central Myanmar rallied in the streets donning hard hats and brandishing posters of Suu Kyi as security forces shot dead an anti-coup protester yesterday.

Prime ministers of Bangladesh and India are expected to launch the new passenger train between the two countries on March 27, the second day of Indian prime minister’s official visit to Dhaka.

Protesters returned to the streets across Myanmar yesterday, defying a junta-led campaign of fear as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres again condemned the killing of demonstrators and arbitrary arrests there.

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has seized a Bangladeshi fishing trawler carrying illegal consignments of sarees in the Sundarban area in West Bengal, our New Delhi correspondent reports.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Opponents of Myanmar’s coup planned more protests as international pressure on the military junta to halt its repression of pro-democracy supporters increased, with Asian neighbours joining Western countries in condemning lethal force.