Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad pledges that he will not allow sending any senior politician to jail if the party is voted to power in the upcoming general election.

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed says Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has exposed the government’s “blueprint” for the next polls through his comment that their party's victory is just a formality.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh has become eligible to graduate to a developing country from the LDC group after meeting all the three criteria for the first time due to implementation of various development programmes by the government.

Russia announces it will expel 23 British diplomats and halt the activities of the British Council in response to London's "provocative" measures over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's lawyers, who tried to meet her at the old Central Jail on Nazimuddin Road in Dhaka this afternoon, denied of permission on legal ground.

Four days after the US-Bangla aircraft crash, the House of Representatives in Nepal endorses a condolence motion in remembrance of the deceased.

China's rubber-stamp parliament unanimously hands President Xi Jinping a second term and elevates his right-hand man to the vice presidency, giving him a strong ally to consolidate power and handle US trade threats.

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions fires the FBI's former No 2 official Andrew McCabe, prompting McCabe to say he is being targeted because he is a crucial witness into whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct the Russia investigation.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader expresses high optimism of victory in the next parliamentary election and says “it is just a matter of formality”.

The Supreme Court is set to pass an order over four separate petitions regarding the bail granted to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says his party’s participation in the upcoming five city corporation elections will depend on the prevailing electoral atmosphere.

BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed criticises the government on “moral grounds”.

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says that British defense minister Gavin Williamson, who earlier told Russia to “go away and shut up”, may lack education.

The hope to get justice is getting diminished in the country as the government has taken control over the judiciary, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed alleges.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now in jail, will again submit a bail petition next week to a Comilla court that issued a production warrant against her in a case filed over an arson attack in 2015.

The elections to five city corporations will be held by July this year ahead of the next national polls, Chief Election Commission (CEC) KM Nurul Huda says.

BNP to hold rallies Sunday protesting the death of the vice-president of JCD’s Dhaka city (north) unit Jakir Hossain Milon in jail custody.

The government and the Anti-Corruption Commission file separate leave-to-appeal petitions with the Supreme Court challenging the High Court order that granted bail to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust Corruption case.

Political tension mount in most countries during election year. In Bangladesh, tension has already gripped the people and is likely to intensify before the general elections scheduled for December 2018.

German lawmakers vote to re-elect Angela Merkel as chancellor for a fourth, and likely final, term that may prove her most challenging yet as she takes charge of a fragile coalition with her personal standing diminished.