Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reiterates her government's commitment to reach electricity to every house saying seventy percent people now have access to electricity and much time would not be needed to reach electricity to every house.

High Court extends its stay by six months on the proceedings of Barapukuria coalmine graft case against BNP chief Khaleda Zia.

BNP’s youth front Jubo Dal’s President Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal walks out on bail while the party’s Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was denied bail.

State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan says death row war criminal Kamaruzzaman must decide by today on whether to seek presidential mercy.

Two days into BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s return to her house, she meets British High Commissioner Robert Gibson and discusses Dhaka city corporation polls.

Adarsha Dhaka Anodolon, a platform that will beat the drum for BNP sponsored candidates in the Dhaka city corporation polls, form its steering committee.

Missing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed’s wife today moved the High Court demanding judicial probe to locate the whereabouts of her husband.

Dhaka Nagorik Samaj, a platform of professionals, extend their support to the Awami League sponsored mayoral hopefuls for the Dhaka city corporation elections.

Death-row war criminal Kamaruzzaman gets time to talk to his lawyers to consult whether to seek presidential clemency after the copy of SC ruling rejecting his appeal to review his sentence reached Dhaka jail, where he has been kept.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has returned to her residence embracing failure and defeat after staying 92 days in her office aiming to topple the government.

The prime minister is flouting electoral laws by sponsoring the candidates of Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation polls, BNP complains.

The wife of “missing” BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed moves a memo seeking the prime minister’s intervention to trace her husband’s whereabouts.

The mayoral and councilor aspirants launch campaign for the Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations poll.

Human Rights Watch reiterates its longstanding call for Bangladesh to impose an immediate moratorium on executions.

ON August 21, 2004, 23 Awami League leaders and workers were brutally killed in a premeditated grenade attack in a rally on Bangabandhu Avenue addressed by the then Leader of the Opposition and Awami League, Sheikh Hasina.

Death row convict for war crimes in 1971 and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman has met his family at Dhaka Central Jail.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will offer ziarat at the grave of her youngest son Arafat Rahman Koko at Banani civil graveyard in Dhaka this afternoon.

Jamaat calls 48-hr nationwide hartal from 6:00am tomorrow to protest SC rejection of Kamaruzzaman’ plea seeking review of his death penalty.

One of the minor mysteries of this teenage century is how a toddler American President managed to win the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2008 after just weeks in office.

In my article for The Daily Star (January 27, 2015), titled “War for democracy: For the people or on the people”, I concluded with these words: “The BNP-led alliance's war for democracy has turned out to be not for the people but on the people.”