US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Bernicat yesterday called upon all political parties to make their voices heard in a peaceful manner.

Jatiya Party lawmaker MA Hannan and his son Rafique Sajjad yesterday sought bail in a case accusing them and six other Mymensingh men of committing crimes during the Liberation War in 1971.

Unidentified miscreants hacked a Swechchhasebak League leader in the capital's Adabor yesterday.

The ruling Awami League yesterday suspended party rebels who took part in the last municipality elections, and sent them show cause notices, asking why they should not be expelled.

BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy yesterday said an “organised group” was creating confusion and trying to extort

The BNP last night decided to hold its sixth national council in late March.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said there was no need to raise any demand before her as she knew people's problems and also how to deal with them.

The ruling Awami League has decided to drop its lawmakers from the selection boards tasked with picking candidates for the forthcoming union parishad (UP) polls.

The 10th Jatiya Sangsad goes into its ninth session at 4:30pm today.

BNP will hold a discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh today afternoon, marking party founder Ziaur Rahman's 80th birth anniversary, said a party press release yesterday.

Bearing a bullet in the head and strangulation marks on the neck, the body of a former president of Jatiya Chhatra Samaj, a pro-Jatiya Party student organisation, was recovered by police from an Eastern Housing plot in Dhaka's Rupnagar yesterday.

Jatiya Party (JP) has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Rangpur city on Thursday, protesting an attack on SM Yasir, member secretary of the city unit of JP.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday declared his younger brother GM Quader as the party's co-chairman.

Some people under the banner of "Asol BNP" (literally real BNP) yesterday made an abortive attempt to enter the Naya Paltan central office of the BNP, the second such incident this month.

The government wants to hold on to power, using law enforcers, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said, accusing it of turning the country into a "security state”.

Former BNP leader Nazmul Huda-led Bangladesh National Alliance, a platform of 31 political parties, would join ruling Awami League-led 14-party grand alliance, meaning a new combine of 45 political parties is in the offing, according to Health Minister Mohammad Nasim.

Unidentified miscreants hacked a Jatiya Party leader in Rangpur city's Munshipara yesterday.

The Department of Narcotics Control's (DNC) additional director general yesterday claimed that influential leaders of every political party

Two newly elected BNP-backed councillors were arrested by Bogra police while they were coming out from the Shaheed Titu Milanayatan

A Gonojagoron Mancha faction led by Imran H Sarker yesterday announced laying siege to the Pakistan high commission in Dhaka on