Two pro-BNP activists have been killed in a “gunfight” with police after the law enforcers came under a firebomb attack in Agailjhara upazila of Barisal

With the common people, particularly the SSC examinees, already pushed into a tight corner by repeated hartals, the BNP-led alliance yesterday called yet another 72-hour countrywide shutdown from 6:00am tomorrow.

“Some journeys are more emotional. This is very special.”

Ruling Awami League tells the visiting European Union parliamentary delegation that the party will not sit in a dialogue with BNP until the ongoing violence stops

The Awami League and the BNP have decided to reply to the UN secretary general's letters calling for dialogue.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently sent letters to PM Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chief Khaleda Zia, saying that UN Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco is acting on current political impasse of Bangladesh on behalf of the secretary general

“What exam? People of the entire country are now in a tough test. The big challenge is to pass this test …”

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan skipped yesterday's cabinet meeting to lead a march to lay siege to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office but stopped short of it.

“We have come here to wake her [Khaleda Zia] up.”

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan urges the government to undertake steps to close BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office in diplomatic zone

A BNP leader was killed in a “shootout” with police in Magura yesterday, while an Islami Chhatra Shibir man died from the bullet wounds he had suffered during a joint force raid in Dinajpur.

Six days into a group of civil society members proposed for holding a national dialogue to end the political standoff, the BNP says it would welcome such initiative

Observing a seven-hour hunger strike yesterday, the business community once again urged political leaders to immediately resolve the ongoing crisis through discussions for smooth operation of businesses.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday reiterates her government's firm stance to take stern action against violence and killings of innocent people by BNP-Jamaat alliance in the name of an anti-government movement

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia should be charged with sedition for her ‘anti-state movement’, says Finance Minister AMA Muhith

Bikolpodhara Bangladesh President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury urges Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for initiating steps to hold a dialogue and BNP chief Khaleda Zia for responding positively to resolve the ongoing political crisis

Food supplies to officials of Gulshan office of BNP chief Khaleda Zia continued to be curbed for the fourth day at a stretch

A group of eminent citizens yesterday called for immediate end to the ongoing acts of terror to pave the way for dialogue between the two major political parties of the country.

BNP-led 20-party alliance threatens to go for “law flouting programme and non-cooperation movement” against the government’s “repressive acts”

Police around the Gulshan office of BNP chief Khaleda Zia continues the curb on food supplies for her office staff for the third day on a stretch