The Secretariat, Kashimpur jail, the premises of a court or law enforcers -- new militant outfit Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya had planned to launch a major attack on either of these targets.

BNP leaders Fazlur Huq Milon and Khairul Kabir Khokon got released on bail from Keraniganj jail yesterday.

The ruling Awami League-backed teachers' panel won the election to the executive council of Jahangirnagar University Teachers' Association (Juta) defeating the BNP-backed panel today.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the game of the country's politics is still in its early stage and the BNP's mass movement will be lost if the game begins in full swing.

BNP will hold rallies at all divisional headquarters across the country on February 4 to press home its 10-point demand, including unconditional release of its leaders and activists.

BNP leaders and activists thronged the party’s Nayapaltan headquarters to take part in their protest rally, which started this afternoon..The protest rally began at 2:00pm with hundreds of party men and is part of the simultaneous movements of BNP and other like-minded political parties.

BNP leaders Fazlur Huq Milon and Khairul Kabir Khokon got released from Keraniganj jail today.

While the BNP prepares to hold a protest rally in the capital today, leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League have taken to the streets for rallies of their own, like they did on days of BNP programmes in the recent past.

Fearing that their programmes are losing steam, top BNP leaders are considering new programmes that would bring back the pace to the movement for national election under a non-partisan interim administration.

The ruling Awami League will hold counter programmes today as the BNP and like-minded parties will stage protest rallies in the capital and other divisional headquarters.

A central Awami League leader has joined the campaign for expelled BNP leader advocate Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan, who is running for the Brahmanbaria-2 by-polls as an independent candidate.

The government has shelved a proposal for buying two lakh electronic voting machines, forcing the Election Commission to change its plan for using the machines in up to 150 constituencies in the next general polls.

BNP-Jamaat and the far left and right quarters are conspiring as the election inches closer, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque told parliament yesterday.

The money of expelled BNP leader Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan, who is running for the Brahmanbaria-2 by-polls as an independent, tripled over the last four years.

Those who will not cast vote for the Awami League, don't have to come to polling stations.

Sylhet district transport workers called a strike for an indefinite period demanding bail of Ali Akbar Rajon, joint secretary of Sylhet Bus-Minibus Workers' Union.

A BNP leader’s case against top police officers was summarily dismissed by a Dhaka court yesterday.

The Election Commission yesterday said the presidential election will be held sometime between January 23 and February 23.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to BNP leader Ishraque Hossain after his surrender before it in an arson case filed in November 2020.

Those who will not vote for the Awami League don’t have to go to the polling stations, said Mahfujul Islam Raj, general secretary of Bogura Sadar Upazila AL, in a campaign rally.