BNP-led 20-party alliance threatens that it would enforce a tougher programmes including countrywide hartal from Sunday if the government does not realise its demand for holding a fresh inclusive national election

Ban Ki-moon express concerned over the rising tensions and continuing violence in Bangladesh and calls for a peaceful resolution to the crisis.

Alleging that the BNP-Jamaat clique is carrying out genocide in the name of hartal and blockade, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said such a situation is not at all acceptable to anyone.

Miscreants set fire to a land office in Chhagalnaiya upazila of Feni

City dwellers in Dhaka came out to the streets and are performing their daily activities even though BNP-led 20-party alliance is observing the fifth day of its 120-hour hartal

Three alleged robbers are killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the Sundarbans under Sharankhola range of Bagerhat

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the country has incurred a loss of over Tk 1.20 lakh crore in the hartals and nonstop blockade since January 6.

Election Commission introduces an online application system for the registration, correction and replacement of voters’ polling areas

Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna has been placed on a 10-day remand in a case filed against him allegedly for trying to instigate revolt by the armed forces

A leader of an outlawed party is killed in a “gunfight” with police in Magura Sadar upazila in the early hours of today.

A Dhaka court issues arrest warrant against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two graft cases

BNP expresses its astonishment after police denies picking up Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna.

Mahmudur Rahman Manna’s family files a general diary with Banani Police Station after detectives denied his detention.

BNP-led 20-party alliance extend its countrywide ongoing hartal till 6:00am Friday protesting what it said the killings of opposition leaders and activists in the name of crossfire and for the filing of false cases against the alliance leaders

Unidentified miscreants gun down a union parishad chairman in Jessore Sadar upazila

A tribunal in Dhaka sentences former Jatiya Party lawmaker Abdul Jabbar to jail until death on four charges of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971

Bangladesh Supreme Court asks both state and defence counsels to submit in two weeks the concise statements on an appeal filed by convicted war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami against his death penalty

Bangladesh Supreme Court dismisses two appeals filed by convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam and the government against his verdict and seeking a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami respectively

Plainclothes men introducing themselves as detectives allegedly pick up Nagorik Oikya convener Manna from a house in Dhaka

Unidentified miscreants hurl two crude bombs at the houses of ruling Awami League lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta at Zigatola in Dhaka