The BNP yesterday announced a fresh two-day nationwide blockade of rail, road and waterways from November 5 demanding general election under a non-party caretaker government.

Awami League Organising Secretary Advocate Afzal Hossain is set to be elected in Patuakhali-1 by-polls unopposed as no other candidate filed nomination papers.

The hearing on the bail petition by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will be held on November 20, in a case filed over the attack on the chief justice’s residence in Kakrail on October 28.

Opposition Leader Raushan Ershad yesterday in parliament said the state power must be changed through elections and that election should be free, fair, impartial and participatory.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the country’s journalists to expose the real face of the BNP before the international community.

Leaders and activists of Awami League and its affiliated organisations remained on the streets yesterday as well on the final day of the three-day blockade programme called by BNP.

The BNP today alleged that the Election Commission is going to stage a mockery at the behest of the government in the name of dialogue with the registered political parties for the next national election

The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called for a 48-hour blockade from Sunday across the country

Unidentified miscreants torched a bus in Dhaka's Mirpur area this evening, on the third day of the countrywide blockade declared by BNP and Jamaat

Opposition Leader Raushan Ershad today in parliament said the state power must be changed through elections and that the election should be free, fair, impartial, and participatory

Jatiya Party Secretary General Mujibul Haque Chunnu today called upon Awami League and BNP to hold dialogues to resolve the ongoing political crisis ahead of the 12th general polls

A staffer of the Election Commission today left an invitation letter addressed to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on a chair at the gate of the party’s central office at Nayapaltan which remained sealed following the October 28 rally

UN is useless, says the AL general secretary

Bill passed in JS scrapping earlier proposal

Opposition Jatiya Party MPs today in parliament raised their voices for protecting the rights of garment workers and increasing their monthly wages

BNP today announced a two-day country-wide blockade starting from November 5

Election Commission published the final voters' list for the upcoming 12th parliamentary polls this afternoon with 11,96,91,633 voters

At least five vehicles were torched and several were vandalised till this afternoon amid the third day of the countrywide blockade declared by BNP and Jamaat

Police have tightened security measures around BNP's Nayapaltan office amid the party's hartal and blockade programmes.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today sought bail before a Dhaka court in connection with a case filed over the attack on the residence of the chief justice in Kakrail on October 28