The BNP-led 20-party alliance will hold a meeting with the Election Commission tomorrow over the parliamentary election slated for December 30.
The BNP has found itself in an awkward situation again. After weeks of talks and tough negotiations, the party just managed to bring together Dr Kamal Hossain's Gonoforum and three other parties and launch a new alliance, called Jatiya Oikyafront, on Saturday.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with the top leaders of 20-party alliance to decide whether it will participate in the Union Parishad elections.
Islami Oikya Jote quits the BNP-led 20-party alliance for what it says organisational interest adding that the move "was inevitable" to strengthen the party itself.
A Dhaka court sets June 28 to decide on indictment and arrest of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 37 others in two cases filed over Jatrabari arson.
Sans any unusual activity anywhere in the country, it was difficult to realise that a hartal sponsored by the BNP-led 20-party alliance is underway.
HSC and equivalent examinations begin peacefully throughout the country with over 10.5 lakhs examines are expected to appear in the exams.
BNP-led 20-party alliance calls 24-hour hartal from 6am Thursday demanding return of missing Salahuddin Ahmed. Dhaka and Ctg cities will remain out of its purview.
The BNP-led 20-party alliance alleges that the Election Commission is favouring the ruling party-backed candidates in the upcoming three city corporation elections
Shortly after announcing fresh agitation programmes for tomorrow, the BNP-led opposition alliance realizes that it had forgot to include blockade. So, it revised the programme and sent out fresh news release
BNP-led 20-party alliance calls fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from tomorrow protesting alleged arrest of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, a party press statement says
Court turns down separate bail petitions filed by three BNP leaders including party’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in five arson related cases
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations scheduled for tomorrow will be held on February 20
BNP-led 20-party alliance calls a fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning protesting “conspiracy to starve its chief Khaleda Zia to death”
BNP-led 20-party alliance threatens to go for “law flouting programme and non-cooperation movement” against the government’s “repressive acts”
Passenger suffers splinter injuries as miscreants hurled crude bomb at a bus in Mohammadpur area of Dhaka