BJP leader LK Advani on Thursday launched a diatribe against Manmohan Singh, again calling him the weakest Prime Minister who is running the most corrupt government.

Two retail companies from Britain and Canada have promised to compensate families of garment workers killed in Bangladesh factory building collapse.  

A Bangladeshi court has sent the owner of the illegally-built building that collapsed last week, to 15 days police custody.  He may face a maximum punishment of seven years.

Bangladesh ended their long losing streak in Test cricket on Monday and dedicated the rare victory over Zimbabwe to the hundreds of people who died in the building collapse back home last week.

Coming out in support of the India-Bangladesh land boundary agreement, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday said the protocol would result in gain for the state.

A fire broke out in the rubble of a Bangladesh factory complex on Sunday night, killing what the country's fire chief described as the last remaining survivor from the building's collapse five days earlier.

The death toll in the worst building collapse in the history of Bangladesh on Monday rose to nearly 400, even as the fugitive owner of the 8-storey structure was arrested dramatically while attempting to flee to India.

Bangladeshi rescuers on Thursday raced against time to save nearly 1,500 people still trapped under debris of an eight-storey commercial building which collapsed here, even as the death toll rose to 187.

Union Minister Rajiv Shukla criticised the BJP for "frequently demanding" the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and stalling the Parliament session proceedings.

BJP on Sunday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to step down to allow an impartial probe into the coal scam.