Police arrest nine BNP leaders and activists including its president and secretary of Kushtia district unit when they went to the memorial situated on DC Court Chattar to pay homage to the martyrs on the occasion of the 49th Independence and National Day.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain says a movement will be waged to establish the rights of the people.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that a vested quarter from home and abroad is engaged in hatching conspiracy to destroy the country’s independence and sovereignty.

Former lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana’s High Court bail in the Freedom Fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case has been put on hold.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the prime aim of her government is to reach the benefits of independence to each house in villages.

Thailand awaits the results of its first election since a 2014 coup, with the junta primed to retain its grip on power after a vote that saw its main rival diminished but vaulted a new pro-democracy force into the kingdom's politics.

Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed says, the commission prefers free, fair and peaceful voting against the attendance of voters.

Foreign observers representing the United Nations fan out across Bangkok and its outskirts to monitor the long-delayed election.

Authorities suspend voting at all 89 centres of Katiadi upazila in Kishoreganj following allegations of huge irregularities during the 3rd phase of upazila elections.

Five people including a policeman suffers bullet injuries in separate clashes centering upazila parishad elections in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar districts.

Thais began the nail-biting wait to see whether the ruling junta will return to power as a civilian government, or if pro-democracy parties can triumph against the odds, as polls closed in the country's first general election since a 2014 coup.

The Election Commission deploys additional members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in 24 risk-prone upazilas ahead of the tomorrow’s third phase of upazila elections.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain calls upon the authorities concerned to take steps for freeing the country’s transport sector from political influence and enforce laws properly to restore discipline in the sector.

Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor and Ducsu President Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman says that they will reach a decision later over the proposal of giving life term membership of the university's students’ union to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

US President Donald Trump said he has decided against imposing new large-scale sanctions on North Korea in a confusing tweet that seemed to imply he was reversing measures against two Chinese shipping companies, a US administration source familiar with the matter says.

Jatiya Party (Ershad) appoints Rowshan Ershad, senior co-chairperson of the party, as deputy leader of the opposition in the House, relieving GM Quader from the post.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen expresses his heartfelt condolences for the loss of valuable lives in an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China.

Terming the recent Ducsu elections “tainted and questionable”, its Vice President Nurul Haque Nur says he assumed office only to continue to place the demand for reelection before the Dhaka University authorities.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader is doing well at the Singapore hospital where he underwent a successful bypass surgery last Wednesday, doctors say.

Nurul Haque Nur, who was elected vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union, finally assumes office as the union becomes functional after nearly three decades with the first executive meeting of the elected leaders.