BNP terms the yesterday’s High Court verdict that scrapped the 16th constitutional amendment as “historical”.

Reiterating her firm vow not to give any room to terrorism and militancy on the soil of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says no one would be allowed to play with the fate of the country in the name of militancy as long as she is alive.

Election Commission withholds all process for holding elections to all the 16 union councils of Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi.

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour countrywide hartal (shutdown) for Sunday after the Supreme Court upheld death penalty awarded to the party’s chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his 1971 war crimes.

Once again, civil body platform Shushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) has strongly criticised the union parishad elections held alleging they were “controversial”.

Parliament unanimously passes two bills increasing the remuneration and privileges of the president and the prime minister.

The government has taken initiative to form a “media monitoring centre” to monitor news items published in different media, the information minister tells the parliament.

Reiterating Sajeeb Wazed Joy has US$300 million in his bank account, BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi says he must come forward with an explanation about the source of the money

Daily Amar Desh acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman has been remanded for the second time in a case filed over alleged plot to kill prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

BNP chairperson’s adviser Osman Faruk has denied allegations of anti-liberation role, terming those “totally false and baseless”.

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow for a two day official visit to Bangladesh.

Police presses charges against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 42 others in an arson case filed with Paltan Police Station.

A Tk 1-crore defamation case is filed with a Comilla court against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for her saying that prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has US$300 million in a bank account.

SC will deliver its verdict on May 5 on war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami’s petition seeking review of his death penalty.

Reacting to BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s claim that he had US$300 million in a bank account and that this was mentioned in a case in the United States, prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has termed her “a liar and a thief”.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia alleges that the ruling Awami League government is cooking all necessary recipes to cling to power forever.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina vows to bring to justice those who conspired both at home and abroad to abduct and kill her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the USA.

BNP says it is ready to cooperate the government with its experience in combating militancy in the country.

Police detain five activists of Awami League in connection with the killing of another activist in a pre-poll violence in Kushtia Sadar upazila.

BNP has got permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police to hold workers’ rally in Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan on the occasion of May Day.