Pakistan is boycotting the two-day South Asian Speakers’ Summit to be hosted by India in central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to discuss various social issues like gender equality, women empowerment and climate change.

Awami League mayoral contender Zafar Ali Khan is elected unofficially in Baghaichhari municipality.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim says the Awami League has no objection if the mechanised electoral device is introduced in the next general election.

BNP has no capacity to thwart next general election, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says, reacting to the BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's warning of thwarting polls.

Political opponent BNP criticises the ruling Awami League for coming down hard on the World Bank, saying such a fracas might “upset the development partner of Bangladesh”.

President Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser, retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward, has turned down the offer, a senior White House official says.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed says that the government wants to manipulate people’s mandates by introducing electronic voting system in the next general election likely to be held in 2019.

The general elections will be held in due time without caring of anyone’s punishment, says Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir threatens to thwart any election in the country if the party chief Khaleda Zia is jailed in any false case.

Police have arrested the upazila parishad chairman of Gouripur and Mymensingh district BNP leader Ahmmed Tyebur Rahman over criminal charges.

Bangladesh Awami League nominates its Sundarganj upazila unit general secretary Golam Mostafa Ahmed to contest the Gaibandha-1 by-election slated for March 22.

A court in Shillong of India's Meghalaya allows BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed, who is suffering from kidney disease, to take better treatment outside the state.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that his party will place a proposal on the election time supportive government to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urging her to hold a dialogue on the issue.

Awami League says Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and some local intellectuals should apologise for their conspiracy to stop World Bank’s financing in the Padma bridge project.

Two former leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League who brandished guns during a hawkers’ eviction in Dhaka’s Gulistan area secure bail.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directs the members of Ansar and Village Defense Party (VDP) to play more proactive role against militancy, terrorism and abuse of drug in rural areas.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with her party advisers to discuss about the newly constituted Election Commission and next general election.

Former adviser to the caretaker government Akbar Ali Khan claims that no search committee has succeeded in providing names of proper dignitaries to the Election Commission for the last 10 years.

As the United States looks at tightening visa rules for skilled foreign workers, concerns are mounting that India's software industry will take a hit.

US President Donald Trump says he is considering drafting a new order to ban migrants from majority-Muslim nations after his initial decree fell afoul of the law.