With potential rivals in the upcoming elections trying to form bigger alliances and unity, the Awami League has started working on its backup plan of expanding the 14-party combine.

With the national polls over three months away, the ruling Awami League has launched a drive against its “errant” leaders to resolve intra-party disputes mainly over party nominations.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that the upcoming general election would be a great challenge for the ruling Awami League, not for BNP.

A ruling Awami League leader, who was found hours after he was picked up in broad daylight in front of his house in Dhaka’s Lalmatia yesterday, says he was forced to sign two Tk 300-stamp papers and two blank sheets before he was dropped off in Purbachal area.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that his party is prepared to sit with the ruling Awami League in the target of holding a free, fair and inclusive general election.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader holds talks with Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique and Bangladesh National Alliance (BNA) Chief Nazmul Huda and discusses different issues including the country’s contemporary political affairs.

Two suspects in Awami League leader Farhad Hossain murder case are killed in a reported gunfight with detectives in Dhaka's Badda area early today.

Awami League’s mayor choice for Barisal today submitts his nomination to the Election Commission ahead of the Barisal City Corporation on July 30.

Awami League candidate Habibun Nahar is elected MP uncontested from Bagerhat-3 constituency as there was no other contender for the by-election to the constituency.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon Awami League leaders to think about the new party leadership.

BNP terms the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election as a farce and blasted the local administration for helping the influential quarter of the ruling Awami League in rigging votes for its candidate.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir blames an influential quarter of the ruling Awami League for “looting around Tk 2 lakh crore” from the country's banking sector.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said it was up to a political party to decide whether it would participate in an election. “I cannot impose my decision on any party... I cannot say to any party that you have to participate in the election,” she said at a press conference at the Gono Bhaban.

A 19-member delegation of the ruling Awami League-led by its general secretary Obaidul Quader is going to India responding to an invitation of the Indian ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The ruling Awami League-backed ‘Blue panel’ sweeps the syndicate elections of Dhaka University.

The ruling Awami League forms "National Election Steering Committee" ahead of the 11th parliamentary election likely to be held at the end of this year.

BNP alleges that the ruling Awami League opened 25 news portals to spread fake news. On the basis of the AL supported news portals’ reports to tarnish the image of the party the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started investigating against the BNP leaders’ bank accounts, the party claimed.

An Awami League leader is injured when miscreants hurled stones at a running train on Dhaka-Chattogram route.

Voting in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA)’s 14 executive posts rolls into the second and final day.

Police have found two Awami League men and their associates involved in the abduction of green activist Mihir Biswas in the capital's Shyamoli on March 3, investigators said yesterday.