Faridpur is all set to welcome Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she will visit the district today to attend a campaign rally ahead of the January 7 national election

Police arrested a BNP leader, also an UP chairman, from Gangachara upazila of Rangpur yesterday

An Awami League faction of Rajshahi city has extended support to the Worker’s Party leader Fazle Hossain Badsha in Rajshahi-2 constituency.

On Saturday afternoon, five to six youths were distributing leaflets in support of BNP’s call to boycott the elections in Barishal city.

BNP and its allies extended their ongoing mass outreach and leaflet distribution programme for three more days, starting today, to garner public support for the party’s call to boycott the January 7 election.

The BNP is now unlikely to go for programmes like hartals and blockades, fearing those may not yield the desired results and any violence could lead to fingers being pointed at the party.

Candidates of Jatiyo Party, the main opposition party in parliament, are vying for 265 seats on paper, but most of them are not campaigning.

Even though Jatiyo Party was spared several seats by Awami League as part of the ruling party’s seat-sharing policy, some of its candidates are not having smooth sailing as per expectation.

Time will tell whether Jatiyo Party will stay in the January 7 polls until the very end or not, said party chairman GM Quader.

Condemning the Labour Court's verdict against Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, BNP today said the entire nation was ashamed of this judgment dictated by Gono Bhobon

BNP announced a three-day mass contact and leaflet distribution programme on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to drum up support for its campaign to boycott the January 7 national election

Thousands of supporters and activists poured into the Kalabagan ground in Dhaka to attend Awami League's campaign rally this afternoon, causing gridlocks on the roads in adjoining areas

The ruling Awami League will hold a campaign rally today at the Kalabagan field in Dhanmondi ahead of the January 7 national polls

BNP Joint Secretary General Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and 109 others were sentenced to jail yesterday in eight cases filed between 2010 and 2018 over political violence in the capital.

The BNP has written to the UN urging it to take effective steps to foster the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh.

Three left-wing student leaders and two guardians were allegedly assaulted today by a councillor of Dhaka South City Corporation and his men while they were demonstrating for the cancellation of the new education curriculum

A Dhaka court today set January 9 for hearing the bail petitions in nine cases filed against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir over political violence in the capital centring BNP's rally on October 28

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman will be brought back from London and put on trial if her party wins the next national polls.

The BNP and its allies will hand out leaflets today and tomorrow as part of their oust-the-government movement, said Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the party’s senior joint secretary general, at a virtual press briefing yesterday.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the BNP is planning to kill an important leader or a candidate before the polls.