Acting assistant secretary of US Department of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells arrives in Dhaka on a two-day.

BNP leader and Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Advocate Zainul Abedin has alleged that the government wants to destroy the judiciary by threatening the judges.

Citing an oblique reference to the sufferings of hajj pilgrims this year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to initiate a fresh plan so that no hajj pilgrim faces trouble next year.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia calls upon the government to provide shelter and security to the Rohingyas who are being forced to flee fresh escalation of violence in Rakhine State of Myanmar.

The High Court questions the legality of the Election Commission’s decision to allow Ferdous Ahmed Qureishi and Principal MA Hossain to run the Progressive Democratic Party as its chairman and secretary general respectively.

Helal Uddin Ahmed, acting secretary of the Election Commission, says that they will take necessary steps to meet the proposals of different political parties for holding the next general election in a free, fair and inclusive manner.

BNP Vice Chairman Abdullah Al-Noman blames “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for carrying out election campaign in the name of distributing relief materials among flood victims”.

Twenty-five eminent citizens express grave concern over the comments made by different quarters on the Supreme Court verdict that annulled the 16th amendment to the constitution.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said all manufacturing and exporting industries would be brought under the central fund of the Ministry of Labour and Employment created to provide financial support to the families of the workers who die or receive grave injuries in their working places.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims that former Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury’s comment on Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha is “tantamount to contempt of court”.

BNP Standing Committee Member Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain says the government is drawing a design to “destroy the country’s judiciary” by raising demand for resignation of the chief justice in the pretext of the verdict on the 16th amendment to the constitution.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said no one will suffer from hunger due to the ongoing flood, renewing the promise that her government's support for the flood victims will continue until the next crops are harvested.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq, who is now being treated in a hospital in central London after falling ill, has been kept sedated as the medicines given so far have failed to make any impact.

After closing 15 radio stations across the country, the Cambodian Ministry of Information claimed that it is not targeting independent broadcasters.

BNP calls upon the ruling Awami League to step down from the government, showing respect to the observations of 16th constitutional amendment verdict.

Ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled the country ahead of a verdict against her in a negligence trial brought by the junta that overthrew her, sources close to the Shinawatra family say.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleges that “Awami League carried out the August 21 grenade attack” in 2004 to put the then Khaleda Zia-led government in trouble.

The High Court stays the trial proceedings against BNP leader Mosaddek Ali Falu in five vandalism and arson cases filed during the anti-government agitation enforced by BNP-led alliance in 2015.

Former president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury and eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain call upon the people to forge a national unity to ensure people’s democratic rights in light of the spirit of independence.

Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu warns that the countrymen will “come forward” if the observations made in the 16th amendment annulment verdict against the country are not expunged.