In response to the Jatiyo Party's planned protest rally tomorrow, the Fasibad Birodhi Chhatra Sramik Janata -- a platform mostly comprising leaders and activists allied with Nurul Haque Nur -- has announced its own "mass resistance rallies" in front of JP offices across the country.

Announces Jatiyo Party rally in Kakrail tomorrow at 11:00am

Jatiya Party's former lawmaker Shameem Haider Patwary said that no one has the right to snatch away their rights as their party is a registered political party and has the freedom to hold assembly as per the country's constitution

Detective Branch arrested former housing and public works minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury from Dhaka's Nakhalpara area last night

The interim government should prioritise student union elections at public universities over any other polls, including national election, said Information Adviser Nahid Islam.

The Jatiya Party headquarters at the capital’s Kakrail was set on fire and vandalised last night by a group of people marching under the  banner of “Anti-fascist students, workers, and masses”.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said their party wants the election to be held quickly as only an elected government can make visible changes to the country.

Law Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul will look into administrative and financial issues at the Speaker's office of Jatiya Sangsad, said the chief adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam today

Tensions escalated in Habiganj's Madhabpur upazila as two Islamist groups -- Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and a coalition of Bangladesh Khilafat Majlis and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami -- planned simultaneous programmes.

Calls for public support

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday called upon the interim government to shift its focus to holding a participatory and credible national election from any other issue.

A press release demanding a healthy environment for student politics was signed by its publicity secretary Abdullah Al Mamun Saki, a philosophy student.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be taken to London first and then to another country for advanced treatment very soon, if her condition allows, her personal physician Prof AZM Zahid Hossain said yesterday.

Stating that the government should not make any hasty decisions regarding constitutional matters, BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday called upon all to maintain national unity at any cost to resist any plot by the evil quarters.

Law adviser says the party has killed and maimed thousands of people

Hundreds died in the student-led revolution that toppled Bangladesh's autocratic leader Sheikh Hasina, but those impacted in the violent aftermath fear the new authorities' promise of justice will exclude them.

BNP is considering rallies next month to push for a roadmap to election while keeping a close watch on the issue of the president’s probable removal.

Sarjis Alam, a coordinator of the Anti-Discrimina-tion Student Movement, said yesterday that he did not favour mass arrest of Dhaka University students solely because of their affiliation with recently banned Bangladesh Chhatra League.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday expressed concern that deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina is once again trying to incite violence and bloodshed in Bangladesh from India.

Three leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking rules to ban all political activities of the Awami League and 10 other parties, and debar them from all future elections.