Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the president of ruling Awami League, has expressed frustration over her party's General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam's recent remarks laying into Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal.

Extortion is going on in the name of crackdown on militants across the country, said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday.

Rejecting the bail petition of ruling Awami League lawmaker Mustafizur Rahman Chowdhury, the High Court yesterday ordered him to surrender before the lower court concerned by June 20 in a case filed for assaulting an upazila election officer.

The ruling Awami League has rescheduled its 20th triennial council for October 22-23. It was supposed to be held on July 10-

The BNP yesterday expressed its fear that the government might suppress the opposition on the pretext of launching a crackdown on extremists across the country.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday alleged that the ruling Awami League and its allies were carrying out targeted killings across the country to cling to power.

Police yesterday claimed that BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury divulged the names of the “masterminds” who had sent him for a meeting with an Israeli politician and gave some crucial information.

The Jamaat-e-Islami has changed its logo.

Darussalam police yesterday pressed charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 38 others in three more arson cases filed in February last year.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday strongly condemned and protested the killings of a police officer's wife and a Christian grocer in broad daylight in Chittagong and Natore on Sunday.

BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who has been in India since May last year, has claimed that he didn't go to the neighbouring country by choice.

A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned the hearing of trial proceedings till June 23 in Zia Charitable Trust graft case filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and three others.

Opposition leaders yesterday termed the proposed budget for the next fiscal year anti-people and not feasible.

The government declared October 30 as Tax Day, setting a fixed deadline for individual taxpayers to submit their income tax returns for the year. Individuals will have to file returns on or before that date.

The hearings on 30 days remand prayers in three cases against BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury will be held today and on June 6.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that the BNP-Jamaat has resorted to a new trick -- killing selective people -- as the alliance could not gain anything after killing so many people in broad daylight last year.

Despite drawing widespread condemnation for publicly humiliating a schoolteacher, lawmaker Salim Osman is still getting Jatiya Party by his side because of his money and influence in Narayanganj, party insiders say.

Jatiya Party lawmaker Salim Osman has once again used religion to defend his action to humiliate Narayanganj school headmaster Shyamal Kanti Bhakta.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued an order that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia must appear before the court on June 2, the next scheduled date for placing her self-defence statements.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has alleged that the BNP-Jamaat nexus has joined hands with Israel to oust her government as the two parties are working against the country and Islam.