The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for three months a High Court order that granted bail of BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case.

Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Abdullah HM Al-Mutairi met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office last night, party sources said.

The High Court on Thursday scraped a lower court verdict which in 2008 sentenced former BNP minister Nazmul Huda to 12 years'

Demanding removal of the value added tax (VAT) on private universities, opposition leaders yesterday contradicted the finance

The Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped a High Court verdict that acquitted former BNP lawmaker M Rashiduzzaman Millat in a case

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday regretted his comment on the agitating teachers of public universities.

Criminals felled at least 500 guava and 40 mango trees at an orchard at Chaugasi village in Sadar upazila of the district early yesterday.

Blaming Khaleda Zia and Jamaat for Bangladesh's losing the GSP facilities in the US market, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that the BNP chief and the Islamist party were spreading propaganda abroad through lobbyists.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before a Dhaka court today in both Zia charitable trust and Zia orphanage trust graft cases.

BNP yesterday alleged that the government has been trying to hide news of the ongoing flood situation in the country as it has failed to stand beside the victims.

The drive against old ad unfit vehicles failed to achieve any success due to non-cooperation from some unscrupulous transport owners, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told the parliament yesterday.

The concern raised by the civil society organisations about the shrinking space for public engagement should anyhow be taken very seriously, said a United Nations (UN) rights expert.

Disappointed at the poor turnout for Sunday's protest against power and gas tariff hike, top BNP leaders now wonder whether the party can wage a tough movement to force a mid-term election.

BNP high-ups should reorganise its standing committee, the highest body, to strengthen the party, suggested Prof Emajuddin Ahmed,

The Supreme Court yesterday scrapped the High Court verdicts that had acquitted former BNP minister Nazmul Huda and former Islami Oikya Jote lawmaker Mufti Shahidul Islam in two corruption cases.

The High Court yesterday rejected a petition filed by BNP leader Mosaddak Ali Falu seeking its directive on the government not to prevent him from going to Thailand for treatment.

BNP yesterday alleged that law enforcers picked up five party men of Chapainawabganj in August and they were not taken to court as of yesterday.

Police yesterday foiled BNP-led 20-party alliance's demonstrations to protest the recent price hike of gas and electricity in at least four districts.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday fixed September 15 and 16 to hold hearing on charge framing in two cases related to crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.

Hummam Quader Chowdhury, son of convicted war criminal and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, was granted bail yesterday, a day after he was sent to jail in connection with an attempted murder case filed seven years ago.