20-party calls 48-hour hartal from Monday demanding return of missing Salahuddin Ahmed. Dhaka, Ctg to remain out of purview.

AJM Nasir Uddin and M Manjur Alam Manju, the Awami League- and BNP-backed mayor aspirants, submit their nomination papers to contest the forthcoming Chittagong City Corporation polls slated for April 28.

Shortly after announcing fresh agitation programmes for tomorrow, the BNP-led opposition alliance realizes that it had forgot to include blockade. So, it revised the programme and sent out fresh news release

Incumbent BNP backed Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor M Manjur Alam Manju resigns and joins the next mayoral race for the port city

Mirza Abbas, convener of Dhaka city unit of BNP, collects nomination paper for contesting the Dhaka South City Corporation mayoral race on April 28

BNP terms the upcoming elections to Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations as stage-managed drama to distract people’s attention from its anti-government movement

Mayor aspirants BNP leaders Abdul Awal Mintoo and Abdus Salam and former Awami League lawmaker Golam Maula Rony collect nomination forms for contesting the upcoming Dhaka city corporation elections

Pro-BNP professionals suggest extending deadline for submission of nomination for the Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections by two to three days

10 British MPs move so that the UK government put pressure on Bangladesh to stop disappearances and extra-judicial killings.

A delegation of pro-BNP professionals will meet the chief election commissioner in a day or two to call for ensuring a level-playing field in the upcoming Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation polls

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid reiterates that the HSC and equivalent exams will begin on April 1 as per schedule

BNP will decide in two days whether it would field any candidates in the upcoming Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections, a senior leader of the party says

BNP Vice-Chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka rules out any possibility of contesting the upcoming elections to Dhaka city corporations

BNP accuses government of carrying out killings, abductions and repression on the 20-party alliance men using law enforcement agencies and its political cadres

The newly elected president and general secretary of Dhaka Taxes Bar Association fail to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia as police intercepted them in front of her Gulshan office.

Government should resign if it fails to return missing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh chief AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury says

Detectives arrest two people in Chittagong for spreading rumour regarding the whereabouts of missing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks the law enforcement agencies to confiscate all the land property of those to be found guilty of torching land offices across the country

Dhaka court summons BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and three members of her family asking them to appear before it on April 12 in Dandy Dyeing loan default case

Reiterating that BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed was picked up by law enforcers, his wife again seeks prime minister’s intervention to trace him immediately