A clash occurred between BNP activists and police in front of the city’s Jatiya Press Club yesterday around noon during BNP’s protest against the decision to revoke the gallantry award given to late president Ziaur Rahman.

Left-leaning Workers Party of Bangladesh, a major part of the ruling alliance, yesterday expressed disappointment at the country’s current election system, including the use of EVM, and over AL’s “softer stance” towards religious political parties, at the party’s central committee meeting held virtually yesterday.

A mobile court has jailed a local Jubo League leader and two of his associates for different terms for threatening mayoral candidates in tomorrow’s Jibannagar municipality polls in Chuadanga.

A Chuadanga Awami League leader has taught his fellow party leaders and activists a “trick” of winning the Alamdanga Municipality mayoral polls.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to ban the broadcast of Al Jazeera, a Qatar based news cannel, in Bangladesh.

Editors Guild Bangladesh, an organisation of editors, yesterday said Qatar-based channel Al Jazeera has aired the report “All the Prime Minister’s Men” to serve “special political purposes”, without following ethics and regulations of journalism.

Nearly 26 months after joining the party, Reza Kibria resigned from Gonoforum and its post of general secretary.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Bangladesh was preparing to sue Al Jazeera channel over airing the report “All the Prime Minister’s Men” with inaccurate information.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday unveiled a memorial plaque in Kolkata for West Bengal journalists Dipak Bandopadhyay and Surajit Ghoshal who sacrificed their lives during Bangladesh’s Liberation War.

Bangladesh Police Service Association yesterday slammed and trashed the news report, titled “All the Prime Minister’s Men”, broadcast by Qatar-based international TV channel AL Jazeera on February 2.

The United Nations is aware of the reporting done by Al Jazeera investigations concerning allegations of corruption against senior officials in Bangladesh and the press release issued by the Ministry of Defence in Bangladesh,

Myanmar has raised objection over The Gambia’s eligibility in filing a genocide case with the International Court of Justice -- a move that could delay justice for the Rohingya minority.

Strong opposition party in the country is a must to make democracy work for people, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.

Two opposition lawmakers came down heavily on the government yesterday in parliament for its failure to curb corruption.

Ekramul Karim Chowdhury, Awami League lawmaker from Noakhali-4, has alleged that party General Secretary Obaidul Quader belongs to a razakar’s family.

China’s role in Rohingya repatriation is turning out to be a decisive factor in resolving the crisis as the country embarked on the role of a mediator between Bangladesh and Myanmar and is likely to continue it until a solution is found, analysts have said.

Rohingyas will feel safe if they see the international community’s presence in areas of Myanmar’s Rakhine state where they are to be repatriated, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said yesterday.

The Awami League-led government used the Covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to censor free speech and crack down on critics, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2021 Wednesday.

Abdul Quader Mirza, mayor of Noakhali’s Basurhat municipality, yesterday voiced resentment over alleged remarks about him by his elder brother Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader’s younger brother Abdul Quader Mirza yesterday said officials of the administration, law enforcement agencies, and election commission would face dire consequences if the municipal election in Noakhali gets marred by irregularities.