BNP today submitted its annual financial statement to the Election Commission (EC) for the 2019 calendar year, showing that the party spent Tk 1.8 crore more than its income.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today repeated her allegations that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was involved in the August 21, 2004 grenade attack as her husband Ziaur Rahman was behind the August 15, 1975 killings.

Investigative journalist and former South Asia correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review Lawrence Lifschultz has said General Ziaur Rahman was a ‘psychopath’ in his capability to use violence, use others and then betray them.

Recalling the barbaric carnage, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today alleged that the then PM Khaleda Zia staged the August 21, 2004 grenade attack.

US Senator Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic nomination for vice president, imploring the country to elect Joe Biden in November and accusing President Donald Trump of failed leadership that has cost lives and livelihoods during a pandemic.

Democrats formally nominate Joe Biden for president vowing his election would repair a pandemic-battered America and put an end to the chaos that has defined Republican President Donald Trump's administration.

Former first lady Michelle Obama launches a blistering attack on President Donald Trump and urges Americans to elect Democrat Joe Biden in November to end the chaos she says have been created during the four years of Trump's presidency.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has alleged that Ziaur Rahman was the “behind-the-scenes architect” of the killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 1975.

Accusing the government of using the Digital Security Act as a weapon to cling onto power, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has demanded annulment of the law and withdrawal of all cases filed under it.

The campaign of Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden has raised $48 million in the 48 hours since he named US Senator Kamala Harris the Democratic vice presidential nominee, a campaign spokesman tells Reuters.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says around 3,000 people were subjected to extrajudicial killing in the hands of law enforcement agencies across the country --from January 2009 to December 2019.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden picks Senator Kamala Harris as his choice for vice president, making her the first Black woman on a major-party US presidential ticket and giving him a partner well prepared to go on the attack against Republican President Donald Trump.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuses anti-liberation forces of assassinating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, saying that the people of Bangladesh had lost “all potentials” after this brutal killing.

Awami League’s income has increased by 35 percent, according to the party’s annual financial report for 2019.

Defying the ban on student politics at Bangladesh Engineering and Technology University (Buet), Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal has announced convening a five-member committee of the university unit.

The two newly elected members of parliament -- Begum Sahadara Mannan from Bogura-1 constituency and Md Shahin Chaklader from Jashore-6 -- of the Eleventh Jatiya Sangsad take oath at the Parliament Complex.

The mayor of the US city of Portland, Ted Wheeler, is stung by tear gas after he joined demonstrators protesting against racial injustice and police brutality.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden labels Donald Trump the first racist to become US president in remarks his opponent's re-election campaign quickly rebuked.

The Awami League will take virtual programmes marking the month of mourning that begins on the first day of August on a limited scale.

Abdul Awal Khan, BNP’s assistant organising secretary, died with coronavirus infection in the city today. He was 54.