Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says he will resign as leader of his party and will move to the backbench after weeks of pressure over an extra-marital affair with his former media secretary.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says her political arch-rival BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is facing the punishment as the consequence of embezzling orphans' money.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that intelligence provided by his country foiled a plot by the Islamic State group to bring down a plane from Australia.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s appeal against her conviction in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case has been accepted at the High Court. Her bail hearing will be held on Sunday, 2pm, the court has decided.

Students galvanised by the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school confront lawmakers with demands to restrict sales of assault rifles, while President Donald Trump suggests arming teachers as a way to stop more US rampages.

BNP will bring out “black-flag” processions in Dhaka on February 24 protesting the denial of permission to hold a rally in the capital for tomorrow.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir calls out to the people to unite for ousting the government who is “forcefully holding the country’s power”.

Ruling Awami League’s student front Bangladesh Chhatra League stops its agitation at Chittagong University over reasons that the authorities are accepting their terms.

President Donald Trump directs the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the rapid-fire bump stocks used in last year's Las Vegas massacre. It is a small sign of movement on the gun violence issue that has long tied Washington in knots.

The supreme sacrifice of the language heroes on this day 66 years back is being remembered as people in thousands are thronging the Central Shaheed Minar at midnight to pay their glowing tributes to the 1952 language martyrs by placing wreaths at the altar of the monument.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia says the court has deliberately misquoted her statement in the verdict of Zia Orphanage Trust graft case that “she confessed to abusing power”.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad hints that some top leaders of BNP would join his party ahead of the 11th parliamentary election.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says the government has nothing to do if BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia disqualifies for contesting the next polls following the court verdict.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia files an appeal challenging the lower court verdict that sentenced her to five years imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

At least 35 people get reportedly injured when police foil processions brought out by BNP men in Faridpur and Habiganj districts. Police detain 20 BNP men including Syed Modersar Ali, secretary general of Faridpur district BNP unit and its Joint Secretary General Julfiker Hossan and President of Sadar Upazila BNP unit Roufunabi.

The High Court grants anticipatory bail to more than 700 BNP leaders and activists of Comilla, Netrokana, Mymensingh and Sonargaon of Narayanganj district in 22 criminal cases.

BNP is hopeful that it will secure permission to hold its February 22 rally at either Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan or near their Nayapaltan central office to press for Khaleda Zia’s release.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was recently jailed for five years in a graft case, cannot contest the next general election in the present context, the chief election commissioner says.

The government wants to psychologically weaken BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says.

Some former female lawmakers of BNP are denied to meet their party Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is now in jail after conviction in charges of Tk 2.10 crore graft.