A lawyer for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia files a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the jail authorities to provide vokalatnama with the lawyers for taking legal steps against the cases filed against her.

BNP blasts the ruling Awami League for celebrating a countrywide programme by holding government staff hostage in the name of Bangladesh's graduation from the Least Development Countries (LDCs).

Leaders of BNP-led 20-party alliance will sit in a meeting to discuss latest politics this Saturday.

Voting in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA)’s 14 executive posts rolls into the second and final day.

The label of developed country is meaningless when democracy is absent in Bangladesh, BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed says.

The Jatiya Sangsad will go into its 20th session on April 8 after a 38-day vacation.

The new Chinese Ambassador Zhang Zuo says that there is no quick solution to Rohingya crisis.

Senior leaders of BNP will be meeting diplomats deputed in Bangladesh this afternoon.

Myanmar's President Htin Kyaw resigns suddenly leaving the country's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi without a close confidant and political ally as she faces rising international opprobrium over the Rakhine crisis.

Some 2,906 lawyers out of total 6,152 cast their votes on the first day of the two-day annual election to Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA)’s 14 executive posts.

A British lawyer is appointed to assist BNP chairperson’s lawyers and to help in fighting her cases, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says.

Vladimir Putin says he would address disputes with the West after an election that saw him return to the Kremlin with a record vote share, as Moscow faces increasing isolation.

President Xi Jinping delivers a blistering nationalist speech, warning against any attempts to split China and touting the country's readiness to fight "the bloody battle" to regain its rightful place in the world.

Election Commission (EC) will announce schedule for Gazipur and Khulna city corporations elections on March 31.

The government has driven the last nail in its coffin by denying bail to party Chairperson Khaleda Zia, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam says that it depends on the Supreme Court judgement whether BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia can contest the next parliamentary election.

The Supreme Court stays until May 8 the High Court order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case in which she was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

BNP has not yet secured permission to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan, Dhaka, tomorrow to press for immediate release of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

The Supreme Court will deliver its order on four separate petitions over the High Court order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case in which she was sentenced to five years jail.

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena says he has lifted a nationwide state of emergency imposed on March 6 after Buddhist-Muslim clashes.