Bangladesh’s interim leader, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, is seeking Malaysia’s help in engaging a regional Southeast Asia bloc on raising the issue of repatriating Rohingya refugees home to Myanmar.

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is set to arrive in Bangladesh on Friday for talks primarily focused on labour issues, according to Dhaka officials.

Bangladesh has recalled five envoys, including the ambassador to neighbouring India, foreign ministry officials said on Thursday, in a major diplomatic reshuffle as the interim government clears out holdovers from the previous administration.

The interim government in Bangladesh withdrew its high commissioner to India, Mustafizur Rahman with immediate effect, a day after the Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka, Pranay Verma met and discussed ways to promote bilateral relations between two neighbouring countries with the Foreign Affairs Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh,

The orders issued by the administration division of Bangladesh’s foreign ministry have not gone down well within the country’s foreign service