Eighty-five BNP leaders and activists -- including central leader Azizul Bari Helal and district unit BNP member secretary Monirul Hasan Bappi -- were sued yesterday over torching a bus during the BNP-Jamaat led countrywide blockade.

Worried over recent political violence and impasse ahead of the next election, foreign diplomats in Dhaka are approaching the government, ruling Awami League and opposition parties, and urging them to find solutions.

After a one-day pause, BNP-Jamaat is going to enforce a fresh 48-hour nationwide blockade of roads, railways, and waterways starting 6:00am today amid the ongoing arrest spree of BNP leaders and activists.

A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader was beaten up by a group of Chhatra League leaders on the Dhaka University campus this evening

Party calls daylong hartal in Cox’s Bazar for tomorrow

Rights body Manabadhikar Shongskriti Foundation (MSF) has expressed deep concern over the death of a man in Narayanganj following a police raid at his home in Sonargaon upazila

A Feni Jubo League leader landed in jail yesterday in a case over setting fire to a truck on Thursday during a three-day blockade enforced by the BNP-Jamaat

The BNP yesterday called a fresh 48-hour nationwide blockade of road, rail, and waterways from 6:00am tomorrow demanding resignation of the government and general election under a non-party neutral administration.

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will officially start the party’s campaigning for the upcoming national election through a rally in Sylhet, said party General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday set November 12 for holding the hearing on an appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami, challenging a High Court verdict that scrapped its registration with the Election Commission.

Two buses were set on fire by miscreants in Dhaka and Narayanganj tonight amid the ongoing blockade being enforced by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has expressed its solidarity with the ongoing movement of opposition parties by declaring its own 48-hour blockade from Wednesday across the country

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today arrested 26 people for allegedly being involved with incidents of attacks, subversive activities, and violence on the second day of nationwide blockade called by BNP and Jameet-e-Islami

A union parishad (UP) chairman was hacked to death by miscreants in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur last night

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said the BNP is carrying out arson attacks and subversive activities to come to power

Eyewitnesses said the bus was set on fire under the Metro Rail station by a group of unidentified men around 5:30pm

Police seized two bottles of petrol and a motorcycle from their possession

No inter-district buses, except a handful belonging to Ena Enterprise, left Mohakhali Bus Terminal even after the Home Minister's request to operate buses amid the opposition blockade

A poultry feed-laden truck was set on fire in Rajshahi's Mohonpur upazila this afternoon, on the second day of the ongoing countrywide blockade called by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami

A Dhaka court today placed BNP's Vice Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu on a three-day remand in a case filed over vandalising the chief justice's residence during BNP-police clash on October 28.