The BNP alleges that the Anti-Corruption Commission has opened an enquiry into graft allegations against eight BNP leaders with only view to hamper the ongoing party’s movement to release party chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been ruled out of danger by doctors, after he was hospitalised yesterday with symptoms of a heart attack.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has launched an inquiry into allegations of money laundering and amassing illegal wealth against nine senior leaders of the BNP.

Dhaka University suspends a professor over charges of distorting history of Bangladesh’s Liberation War and defaming Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

BNP alleges that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is “mocking” people by seeking votes for her party after “snatching their right to vote”.

Jail authorities will decide next course of action after the medical board that examined BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia submits report on her health condition, the deputy director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital says.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is rushed to a Dhaka hospital as he experiences a chest pain. He has been kept under observation at the United Hospital Ltd.

The Russian Foreign Ministry asks the international agency that monitors chemical weapons for information about the investigation of the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in England.

BNP-led 20-party alliance will participate in the upcoming Khulna and Gazipur city corporation elections scheduled for May 15.

A medical board of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) checks up on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to ascertain her condition.

A Dhaka court sends seven people, including general secretary of Bangladesh Trade Union Centre (TUC), to jail after rejecting their bail in connection with a case filed over attacking and assaulting officials and employees of BGMEA in January this year.

Describing the arson attacks by BNP-Jamaat clique in recent past as terrorist acts, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she does not want the recurrence of such evil deeds in the country anymore.

BNP senior leaders distribute leaflets across the country demanding release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail and urging people to resist “the government’s efforts to revive one-party rule.”

BNP senior leaders will sit this evening to decide whether they will join in the upcoming city corporation elections to Gazipur and Khulna.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina criticises BNP as it raises voice against her electoral campaign ahead of the next general election and says seeking vote from people is her political right.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is physically sound in jail but she has been suffering from some chronic diseases.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health condition has not deteriorated since she landed in jail in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be sent abroad for treatment if the doctors say, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says.

US President Donald Trump insists that US forces will pull out of Syria "very soon" and laments what he says was Washington's waste of $7 trillion in Middle East wars.

Russia announces a mass expulsion of US diplomats and the closure of the US consulate in Saint Petersburg in retaliation to coordinated moves by Western countries to isolate Moscow in the wake of the poisoning of a former double agent in Britain.