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.

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.

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.