After withdrawing expulsion of former Gazipur City Corporation mayor Zahangir Alam from his party post, the ruling Awami League has now granted a pardon for disgraced former state minister Murad Hassan.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today asked his party men not to form any committee comprised of "family members or relatives".

A Dhaka court today granted bail to former BNP lawmaker Selim Reza Habib in a case filed over a clash between the party men and police on December 7 last year in Dhaka's Nayapaltan.

Natore Awami League General Secretary Shariful Islam Ramzan and former joint secretary Mortuza Ali Bablu were allegedly assaulted by lawmaker Shafiqul Islam Shimul and his men over an internal conflict in the party.

After withdrawing expulsion of former Gazipur City Corporation mayor Zahangir Alam from his party post, the ruling Awami League has now granted a pardon for disgraced former state minister Murad Hassan.

The BNP today announced a four-day march programme in Dhaka to push for their 10-point demand, which includes holding the national election under a non-partisan government

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the main opposition in parliament to point out if there was any failure on her part and said she would correct herself accordingly.

The next presidential election will be held on February 19.

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.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said his party is only rehearsing and the BNP’s movement would be gone once the “game” begins in full swing.

The BNP yesterday announced that it would hold divisional rallies on February 4 as part of the ongoing simultaneous movement by the party and its like-minded political platforms.

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal yesterday said they were not disappointed over the suspension of a proposal for buying two lakh electronic voting machines.

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.