BNP leader and former mayoral candidate of Dhaka South City Corporation, Ishraque Hossain, was arrested by police from Dhaka's Motijheel area this morning.

Opposition BNP and Jatiya Party MPs in parliament yesterday came down heavily on Article 70 of the constitution saying that lawmakers cannot speak freely because of this provision.

The “Chattogram Port Authority Bill 2022” was passed at Jatiya Sangsad yesterday.

The commerce ministry and its minister Tipu Munshi came under fire in parliament today as opposition Jatiya Party and BNP MPs said the ministry failed to bring the price hike of daily commodities under control.

Lashing out at a syndicate of BNP leaders-associates for the shrinking fertiliser supply and dwindling crop production, Prime Minister's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy came down heavily on the 2001-2006 BNP-Jamaat regime for shooting farmers who were protesting demanding fertilisers.

Keeping provisions of tougher punishments for polluting the environment, the Mongla Port Authority Bill-2021 was passed in parliament yesterday.

Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Haque Chunnu yesterday told parliament that Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader had completely failed in road transport management.

While the scorching heat of Kartik caused unbearable sufferings of people during the Ramadan in 2005, incessant power outage worsened by the corruption of BNP leader Tarique Rahman in the power sector sent people to their breaking point, said Prime Minister's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Sunday.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the party’s next national council might be held in December.

The BNP yesterday alleged that the government failed to arrest the price hike of daily essentials and provide relief to the people.

BNP alleged that the government has failed to control price hike of daily essentials.

BNP today slammed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for joining a gala concert that was organised by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) spending crores of taka, while they claimed that common people are struggling to cope with skyrocketing prices of daily essentials.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday said BNP instigated left-leaning political parties to enforce hartal, which protested price hike of essentials.

The Jatiya Party and BNP MPs yesterday engaged in a debate over the rising prices of essentials and deterioration of law and order with their counterparts in the ruling party during the 17th session at parliament.

Opposition Jatiya Party, BNP MPs and ruling Awami League MPs today locked in debate in the Jatiya Sangsad over price hike of essentials and deterioration of law and order situation in the country.

Terming the dismissal of Anti-Corruption Commission deputy assistant director Sharif Uddin as unconstitutional, Rashed Khan Menon demanded a parliamentary inquiry over the recent dismissal of the ACC official.

At least nine activists of Bam Gonotantrik Jote, an alliance of left-leaning parties, were injured when supporters of Awami League allegedly attacked their processions in Mirpur and Mohammadpur areas in the capital today.

Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) announced nationwide programme tomorrow in protest of the “attacks and arrests of its activists by law enforcers” during today’s hartal.

The Election Commission (EC) will start updating the voter list from May 20 and this would be the last registration of prospective voters before the 12th parliamentary election.

Noting that BNP leaders often allege that there is no democracy in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said it is very unfortunate for the nation that it would have to learn democracy from a party that had been founded inside the cantonment by an illegal power grabber Ziaur Rahman.