A Dhaka court today sent BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the party's Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas to jail in a case filed over Wednesday's clashes between BNP men and police in the capital's Nayapaltan area.

BNP supporters have started thronging Golapbagh field in Dhaka from this afternoon to join the party’s December 10 rally. .The development came after BNP secured verbal permission from the authorities to hold the rally at the ground tomorrow. .BNP Vice-Chairman AZM Zahid Hossain conf

BNP's divisional rally in Dhaka will begin around 11:00am tomorrow at Golapbagh field, BNP's Senior Standing Committee Member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said today.

The BNP has got verbal permission from the authorities to hold its December-10 rally at Golapbagh field in Dhaka. 

Police today put barricades on the road from Nightingale intersection to Fakirapool intersection in the capital's Nayapaltan, preventing vehicles from moving through area.

The BNP wants to hold its December-10 rally at Dhaka's Golapbagh field if they are not allowed to hold it at Kamalapur Stadium.

The BNP will hold its December-10 rally at any cost, the party’s standing committee members decided at an emergency meeting today.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the party's Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas were shown arrested in a case over Wednesday’s clash between BNP men and police at Nayapaltan.

BNP Standing Committee Member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku has said the "detention" of the party's secretary general and a standing committee member was "a textbook example of fascism".

The BNP Standing Committee members are holding an emergency meeting virtually to discuss the latest political situation and decide on the next course of action.

Plainclothes men identifying themselves as law enforcers picked up BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas from their homes in Dhaka early today, claims the BNP.

The ruling Awami League yesterday drew heavy flak from its left-leaning allies for ignoring them in taking many crucial political decisions  and also for already starting “electioneering” for the next national polls.

Amnesty International today called for the Bangladesh government to end repression of demonstrations.

US Ambassador Peter Haas, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Peaceful Assembly Clement Voule, and Amnesty International yesterday expressed concern over political violence in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Failing to detain a BNP leader, police picked up his college-going son during a drive at their house in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj upazila early yesterday, claimed family members.

Police intensified frisking of people entering the capital from their checkpoints at different gateways of Dhaka ahead of BNP’s scheduled rally on Saturday.

In a welcome development, the BNP and Dhaka Metropolitan Police last night seemed to have considerably bridged their differences over the venue for the opposition party’s December 10 rally.

An AL rebel dropped out of the race for the Rangpur City Corporation election yesterday -- the last day for withdrawing candidacy.

Political verbatims

UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Peaceful Assembly Clement Voule said Bangladesh must guarantee the right to peaceful assembly and refrain from using excessive force against protesters.