BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia calls upon the government to restore political coexistence in the country and demanded quick release of her party’s sick and senior leaders from jail.

The killing of secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is part of an alarming trend of violent intolerance toward freedom of religion and speech in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch says.

Indian police arrests BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who was missing for the last two months, in Shillong district of Meghalaya on charge of entering the country without travel documents.

When cops swooped on the protesters, it only reflected the government’s and the administration’s indifferent attitude towards the Pahela Baishakh sexual assault. We were shocked because we as civilized human beings expected rational reaction from the authorities. We should not have.

It seems we do not care that a man just disappeared into the blues amidst allegation that the law enforcing agency was behind the Houdini act. He seems to have gone down the annals of disappearance of the likes of Ilias Ali, Chowdhury Alam and labour leader Aminul Islam.

The 28th council of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student body of ruling Awami League, will be held on July 25-26.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia alleges that the government shifted former BNP lawmaker Nasir Uddin Pintu to Rajshahi jail from Dhaka “in a bid to kill him”.

Irregularities in last week's city corporation polls and BNP's decision to boycott the election halfway into the voting featured

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses her hope that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will suggest BNP to return to the democratic politics shunning the path of terrorist and militant activities.

"It could have been an election in which people could merrily walk to the polling centres and pick their mayors. It could have been a return to true democracy. We could have run pictures of winners and losers embracing each other,the winners saying they want support of the losers and the losers promising their best for a better city."

In view of the freshly concluded dodgy mayor elections in Bangladesh, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for probe into those allegations.

Awami League-backed candidates Annisul Huq and Sayeed Khokon are unofficially declared the mayors of Dhaka North and Dhaka South city corporations.

Ruling Awami League-backed mayoral candidate AJM Nasir Uddin wins the Chittagong City Corporation elections marred by rigging, violence and intimidation and eventually boycotted by the BNP-endorsed candidate.

British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Gibson expresses his disappointment with the boycott by BNP endorsed candidates from the city corporation elections partway through voting.

AL-backed Dhaka South City Corporation mayor candidate Sayeed Khokon and a number of councillors allegedly hire rickshaws to give voters a free ride to the voting centres.

Presiding officer looks helpless as BCL men enter all the six polling booths of Dhaka College polling centre and stuff ballot boxes at their will.

BNP’s pull out from the mayoral race was preplanned, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said.

Casting her vote in the city corporation election, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Awami League will accept the election result whatever it is.

Awami League-led alliance seeks Election Commission’s hand to stop BNP chief Khaleda Zia from carrying out subversive activities centring city polls that would devastate public life.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police slaps a restriction on motorcycle movement from 12:01am Sunday to 6:00am Wednesday as part of security measures for the bifurcated Dhaka city corporation elections.