The BNP has written to the UN urging it to take effective steps to foster the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh.

Three left-wing student leaders and two guardians were allegedly assaulted today by a councillor of Dhaka South City Corporation and his men while they were demonstrating for the cancellation of the new education curriculum

A Dhaka court today set January 9 for hearing the bail petitions in nine cases filed against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir over political violence in the capital centring BNP's rally on October 28

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman will be brought back from London and put on trial if her party wins the next national polls.

The BNP and its allies will hand out leaflets today and tomorrow as part of their oust-the-government movement, said Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the party’s senior joint secretary general, at a virtual press briefing yesterday.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the BNP is planning to kill an important leader or a candidate before the polls.

Although Kalkini Upazila Awami League organised Sheikh Hasina’s rally yesterday, the president and general secretary of the unit were not invited to the event.

The BNP and its allies will hand out leaflets today and tomorrow as part of their oust-the-government movement, said Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the party’s senior joint secretary general, at a virtual press briefing yesterday.

To carry out the campaign Sunday, Monday to persuade people to boycott polls

At least 15 people were injured following a clash between supporters of two groups of Awami League this afternoon during the election campaign of actor Ferdous Ahmed in Hatirpool of the capital

Alleging that the BNP is preparing to carry out more deadly clandestine attacks, ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today urged its activists to remain alert

Terming the BNP a terrorist party, Awami league President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the party has no right to do politics because it “burns and kills people”.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi today alleged that a neighbouring country is directly interfering in the affairs of Bangladesh and aiding the ruling Awami League to hold a “dummy election” on January 7.

Two vice chairmen of BNP and 56 BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists were sentenced to different jail terms yesterday in four cases filed in 2011, 2014, 2017 and 2018, over political violence in the capital.

The BNP will continue with its leaflet distribution and countrywide mass contact programmes today and tomorrow to garner public support for boycotting the January 7 national election.

A day after the High Court directed the authorities concerned to submit a report on the two missing BNP leaders of Bogura's Kahalu upazila, one of them has returned home and the other got in touch with his family

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today vowed stern actions against the candidates contesting in the upcoming polls whose wealth increased exponentially

The sentencing of BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists continues as 29 more were handed down different prison terms yesterday in three cases filed years ago over political violence in Dhaka.

Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum (BJAF), a pro-BNP lawyers’ organisation, will boycott all the courts across the country from January 1 to 7 in protest against what they called holding of dummy elections and convicting party activists in fabricated cases.

Most BNP leaders and activists in Chattogram went into hiding to evade arrest or “police harassment” since the incidents of violence during the party’s rally on October 28.