As the BNP and its like-minded parties intensify their street agitation, the government prepares to go for a stricter crackdown on the opposition activists to quash the anti-government movement.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activists claimed they padlocked multiple entrances at Dhaka and Jahangirnagar University early yesterday, as part of BNP’s nationwide 48-hour blockade.

There was an unusual silence at the Gabtoli bus terminal when this correspondent visited it yesterday morning. But amidst such an eerie atmosphere, this correspondent saw one 

Home boss tells transport workers

The candidates, Mohammad Rakib Hossain of Jatiya Party and Shamsul Karim Khokon of Zaker Party, alleged that agents of Awami League candidate Golam Faruk Pinku were casting fake votes and restricting other party's agents from several centres

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud today said BNP is declaring programmes like Islamic State (IS) and Taliban

The nomination seekers of the ruling Awami League will now have to pay nearly double the amount they paid last time to collect nomination forms for the upcoming national election slated for January

A total of 4 buses set on fire in the capital on the first day of the second phase of blockade being enforced by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami

A Dhaka court today placed BNP organising secretary Syed Emran Saleh Prince on a three-day remand in a case filed over vandalising the Muktijuddha Museum of Razarbagh Police Lines during a clash with policemen on October 28

Leaders and activists of Chhatra Dal, BNP’s student wing, of Jahangirnagar University unit today briefly locked several faculties at the campus on the first day of BNP’s 48-hour nationwide blockade

BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas today told a Dhaka court that he and his party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir were kept in condemned cells after their arrest in a case filed with Paltan Police Station in December last year

Law Minister Anisul Huq said today that BNP leaders were not arrested for political reasons, but for their involvement in criminal activities

Gates found open in the morning; proctor says only one gate padlocked

For three hours since 8:00am today, Delwar Hossain was seen going from counter to counter of transport companies to get a bus as he has to go to Naogaon's Sapahar for an urgent matter

Twenty-seven platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed in Dhaka and adjoining districts to maintain law and order situation as the 48-hour countrywide blockade called by the BNP, Jamaat and likeminded opposition parties began this morning

A bus and a lorry were torched in Chattogram and Gazipur respectively early today

BNP's Vice Chairmen Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Choudhury and Barrister Shahjahan Omar were picked up from separate places in Dhaka early today

Jatiya Party is ready for the upcoming election but it will participate only if the polls are held in a credible manner, said JP Chairman GM Quader yesterday.

More than a third registered political parties, including opposition BNP, boycotted the Election Commission’s talks yesterday. And some of those who joined the dialogue observed that the current situation is not conducive to holding a free and fair election.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the hand that sets vehicles on fire should be burnt in the same flame.