Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has called upon media to play objective role in all spheres and sought media support in taking the country ahead.

The 30th national council of Bangladesh Chhatra League, which has remained pending for the last two years, will be held on December 8.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has called upon media to play objective role in all spheres and sought media support in taking the country ahead.

Bangladesh will miss out on an opportunity to hold a free and fair election if it cannot ensure the opposition’s participation, Turkish Ambassador Mustafa Osman Turan said yesterday.

BNP yesterday claimed that the people are now eager like a “rumbling volcano” to oust the current government.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP will not be allowed anymore to “play with fire” as the country’s people would surely resist them.

At least 30 BNP men were injured in an attack allegedly by police during a BNP meeting in Habiganj's Lakhai upazila this evening.

A Dhaka court today said the injunction order barring Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader from taking any political decision regarding its party was in force.

The BNP has no plan to oust the government from the December 10 rally in Dhaka, although some of its leaders at different times had threatened to unseat it.

The classes of two government schools in Natore’s Gurudaspur were suspended yesterday on account of the Awami League’s triennial council held in the upazila.

The ruling Awami League will hold its advisory council meeting on November 19.

The motorcade of Tahsina Rusdir Luna, wife of missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali, was reportedly attacked during a campaign ahead of the party’s rally in Sylhet slated for November 19.

BNP’s executive committee members Khandakar Abu Ashfaq and Nipun Roy Chowdhury were made president and general secretary of the Dhaka district unit of BNP.

At least 10 people were injured in a clash today between two Awami League factions at Jhenaidah's Shailkupa upazila.

BNP leaders today urged Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khandaker Golam Faruk to take initiatives to ensure that ruling Awami League leaders and activists do not create any chaos centring BNP's divisional rally in Dhaka on December 10.

The ruling Awami League will hold its advisory council meeting on November 19.

A BNP delegation went to the office of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khandaker Golam Faruk today to seek permission for holding the party’s divisional public rally on December 10.

BNP leaders and activists have been campaigning hard to ensure over “four lakh people” join the party’s upcoming rally in Sylhet city.

In response to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s remark that Awami League is jealous of BNP’s popularity, AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said, “Let’s take part in the elections and see who is more popular.”

Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Lilly Nicholls yesterday held a closed-door meeting with BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and discussed various issues relating to Bangladesh’s upcoming national election and human rights situation.