The Election Commission (EC) wants to hold elections to the Dhaka north and south city corporations in January next year, Md Alamgir, senior secretary of the constitutional body, says.

If the family of former mayor of Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka applies for a ‘travel permit’ in New York, the Bangladesh mission will take necessary measures in that regard, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam MP says.

A labour court in Dhaka grants bail to Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus in connection with five cases filed over sacking of five employees of Grameen Communications.

The government will further strengthen its diplomatic efforts to bring back the fugitive killers of the Father of the Nation and four national leaders, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pays tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders, marking the Jail Killing Day.

Awami League is going to arrange its 21st triennial national council on December 20 and 21 to elect the party’s next leadership without presence of political leaders from foreign countries.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says mass awareness campaign will be continued across the country for a week and asked the authorities concerned not to file any case during the time under the new Road and Transport Act that went into effect yesterday.

Bangladesh consulate in New York informed the family of former mayor of Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who is currently fighting for his life at a NY hospital, that it has nothing to do with the issuance of the passport, his eldest son says.

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed says the fall of the current government is a matter of time because of its widespread corruption.

Former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka is in critical condition and now fighting for life at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, New York.

A deeply divided Congress formally opens a new, public phase of its investigation into Donald Trump as US lawmakers vote for the first time to advance the impeachment process targeting the US president.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said intruders and controversial persons will not get any place in any committee of the party.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has confiscated wealth worth Tk 343 crore of BNP leader Mosaddek Ali Falu.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said that the government will execute the Supreme Court verdict which, upheld the death penalty of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam in a war crimes case, on completion of all the legal procedure.

Twitter says it would stop accepting political advertising globally on its platform, responding to growing concerns over misinformation from politicians on social media.

A Chattogram court sentences Vice-Chairman of BNP’s central Committee Gias Uddin Quader Chowdhury to three years’ imprisonment in a case filed for issuing death threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and making derogatory comments against her.

The Supreme Court upholds a High Court order that granted bail to BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid in a corruption case in which he was jailed for five years by a lower court.

British MPs defeat yet another attempt by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to force an early election, just hours after the European Union agreed to postpone Brexit for up to three months.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir comes down heavily on the government for the ongoing drive and said the ruling quarter is trying to purify themselves by arresting its petty leaders.

Health condition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is now stable with significant improvement in some cases, the authorities of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University says.