The BNP-led 20-party alliance has called for a fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning to press home their demands that include general elections under a nonparty administration.

The BNP-led 20-party alliance has once again threatened to enforce a fresh shutdown from Sunday if its demands including holding elections under a nonparty administration are not fulfilled.

Mahmudur Rahman Manna’s family files a general diary with Banani Police Station after detectives denied his detention.

Elections to the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) are likely to be held in the middle of next June, said Election Commission Secretary Sirajul Islam today.

Six days into a group of civil society members proposed for holding a national dialogue to end the political standoff, the BNP says it would welcome such initiative