Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said democracy was established on a strong base in the country as her government ensured people's voting rights.

British prosecutors yesterday charged two Russians for the attempted murder of a former Russian spy and his daughter with a nerve agent, naming suspects for the first time in a case that has caused one of the biggest East-West rifts in decades.

Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana was again denied bail in the freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said there was a good chance that the next parliamentary election would be held on December 27.

Leaders of the BNP, Juktafront and Gonoforum yesterday stressed the need for unity to wage a movement for a fair and acceptable national election under a neutral administration after dissolving parliament.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday expressed a lack of confidence in the special court trying the Zia Charitable Trust graft case against her after she was produced before it inside the old Dhaka central jail.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says there is no constitutional provision that court could not be sited at the prison.

BNP announces a two-day countrywide programme demanding freedom of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks Biman Bangladesh Airlines' employees to work with utmost sincerity for brightening the image of the airlines and as well as the country.

Outgoing US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat holds a meeting with Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque where they discussed political and Rohingya issues with special focus on the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Multi-layer security measures were taken at the old Dhaka central Jail in Old Dhaka's Nazimuddin Road where for the first time the trial proceedings in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is held in presence of the former premier.

Around 66 percent of the respondents support Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the PM, according to a survey by the International Republican Institute (IRI).

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's Dr Arifur Rehman Alvi is elected as the 13th President of Pakistan, according to provisional results.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that the decision to try BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at the old Dhaka central jail in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case is contrary to the country’s constitution.

The party cadre adores him for being among the individuals who founded the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) with the country’s popular cricketer as its head and who has never stopped dreaming that one day his leader would become prime minister.

BNP alleges that the government is hatching a conspiracy to create communal division in the country in a bid to catch fish in troubled water ahead of the upcoming general election slated to be held at the end of December.

Polling is taking place at the National Assembly and four provincial legislatures to elect the 13th president of Pakistan.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said that the government is not eager to arrange the next general election in a free, fair and inclusive manner.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will announce the polls-time government at the right time.

A Dhaka court yesterday directed jail authorities to produce BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia before it on October 11 in connection with the Niko graft case.