With much fanfare and enthusiasm, aspiring candidates yesterday started collecting nomination forms from the Awami League's election steering office in Dhanmondi, setting off on their race to be the party's contestants in the 11th parliamentary polls.

BNP will hold an emergency meeting with its 20-party alliance leaders tonight to devise the next course of action.

The BNP yesterday submitted a list of 1,046 “fictitious cases” filed against its leaders and activists to the Prime Minister's Office.

BNP alleges that plain cloth cops “picked up” its Chattogram city unit president from Dhaka.

BNP yesterday said it will not go for movement if the current political crisis is resolved through Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's talks with

The ruling Awami League will begin talks with opposition political alliance Jatiya Oikyafront tomorrow with a backdrop of an eventful saga of success and failure in the history of dialogue in Bangladesh politics. In the following we have reproduced the article, by Shakhawat Liton published in 2016, analysing the history of political dialogues in the country.

A Sylhet court yesterday sent BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Khandakar Abdul Muktadir to jail in a case filed against unnamed people for attack on police on October 15.

The BNP has brought back its 12 “reformist” leaders, who became politically inactive after the 1/11 changeover, to strengthen its activities ahead of the 11th parliamentary election.

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed says the coming parliamentary election will get support from the international community even if BNP does not take part in it.

Law enforcers detain over 200 BNP men including Khandaker Abdul Muktadir, an adviser to party Chairperson Khaleda Zia, from different points of the rally venue of Jatiya Oikyafront in Sylhet.

A court in Chattogram yesterday sent BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury to jail in a case filed under the ICT and Special Powers acts.

BNP says the countrymen are now suffering from “digital phobia” as the government has recently enacted much-talked-about Digital Security Act 2018 to “restrict” freedom of expression.

In a bid to strengthen the party ahead of the next general election, the BNP high-ups have launched an initiative to reinstate expelled leaders and reformists who became politically inactive after the 1/11 changeover.

The BNP yesterday alleged that over 4,100 cases were lodged against around 8.6 lakh named and 2.76 lakh unnamed party men since September 1 to keep it away from the upcoming general elections.

Seven top BNP leaders, including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, yesterday secured anticipatory bail from the High Court in a criminal case filed for allegedly “provoking people against the state”.

The case filing spree that resumes after about three years' gap is making BNP leaders rethink strategies as they fear the days before the national elections will not be smooth for them.

BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday said their party will be in the frontline of a movement to be launched under “greater unity” platform to force the government to hold a credible national election.

Awami League is not countering BNP, rather it is holding its own programmes in an innocent manner, the party’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said.

Political opposition BNP pledges good governance and forging a politics of unity in the 12-point manifesto it unveils ahead of the general election.

With about three months before the national election, the BNP will come up with some specific demands, including polls under a nonpartisan administration, from its rally at Suhrawardy Udyan today.