BNP's Rangpur city unit president was picked up by, as per his family, plainclothes law enforcers from his residence in

The BNP yesterday demanded that the government beef up security for Khaleda Zia upon her arrival in Bangladesh in view of what it said “deterioration” in law and order.

Activists of a faction of Government Mojibur Rahman Women's College unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League allegedly

With the municipal polls about a month away, grassroots leaders of the ruling Awami League are posing as each other's rivals for mayoral posts at many municipalities.

The BNP is worried about finding suitable candidates for the upcoming municipality polls as over 500 of its prospective contenders

BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury has been denied justice, the party said yesterday, a day after the Supreme Court dismissed his petition seeking reconsideration of its verdict.

A housewife was beaten to death over a family feud at Davidcopara under Gaibandha municipality on Wednesday night.

Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury has criticised the policy recommendations of various international organisations to use biofuels and questioned the feasibility and sustainability of using them to attain food security.

Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif yesterday hoped that the decision over banning Jamaat-e-Islami would be finalised by March next year.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is returning home tomorrow after her over two months' stay in London, the party has said.

Alleged pro-hartal supporters set fire to a bus and vandalised one more in the capital's Jatrabari area last night, hours before a countrywide hartal was called by the Jamaat-e-Islami.

BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy was released from jail on bail yesterday.

There is no existence of the Islamic State in Bangladesh, and the terrorist group has no reason to be here, prime minister's special envoy HM Ershad said yesterday.

The railway authorities have started demolishing illegal structures on railway land in Chapainawabganj.

The High Court yesterday deferred until November 22 the date for delivering its verdict on bail petitions filed by BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three arson and vandalism cases.

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu yesterday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia had made BNP a party of terrorists and as their leader she had chosen the way of her own destruction.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have seized 85 deer musk worth about Tk 1.7crore from Chachra border in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat district.

Shahriar Rumi, a central executive committee member of BNP and vice president of its Faridpur district unit, resigned from all posts of the party yesterday on "ideological grounds".

Protesting the terrorist attacks in Paris and “standing by the world community against terrorism”, BNP yesterday said it would work against extremist forces if it comes to power.

A bodyguard of Gazipur's superintendent of police (SP) fired two shots overhead near a police checkpost at Uttara's Kamarpara around 7:00pm after seeing around 15 Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists following his car.