The High Court fixes tomorrow for hearing the petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking bail in three different cases.

Venezuela's leftist leader Nicolas Maduro wins a new six-year term, but his main rivals disavow the election alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce propping up a dictatorship.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says the advancement of democracy will continue in the country and the next general election will be held as per constitution whether the BNP joins it or not.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia files three separate petitions with the High Court seeking bail in three separate cases. The HC may hold hearings on the petitions tomorrow.

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain alleges that the government has completely failed to control the market at the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 70, has been ranked the fourth senior head of state based on age in Asia while Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad is the world’s oldest.

There is now no alternative to coming down to the streets to bring Khaleda Zia out of jail, BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed says.

BNP alleges that the government is trying to promptly dispose of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's appeal against her conviction in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by the High Court to keep her away from the national election.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia today said the government is trying to keep her in jail for a long period so that it can arrange a lopsided election like that of January 5, 2014.

BNP demands the reconstitution of the Election Commission as it said the current Commission is not capable of conducting a credible national election.

A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League in Chittagong filed a sedition case against a teacher of Chittagong University today for allegedly making derogatory observations about Liberation War and Bangabandhu, in an article.

A Dhaka court withdraws the production warrant issued against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Niko corruption case.

The US expects that Bangladesh fulfill its commitment to hold free, fair, credible and participatory elections that reflect the will of the Bangladeshi people.

The United States expresses disappointment over reported irregularities and intimidation in Tuesday's Khulna City Corporation elections but congratulated all the parties on making the elections inclusive.

Khulna City Corporation elections is held amid stray incidents and irregularities, the Election Working Group (EWG) says.

Khulna mayor-elect Talukder Abdul Khaleque has denied the allegations of irregularities in the city corporation polls.

Supreme Court has refused to accept a prayer seeking a short order in advance on its judgement that upheld bail for Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

Rejecting Khulna City Corporation elections’ results, BNP’s defeated mayoral candidate Nazrul Islam Monju demands re-election at 105 centres bringing allegation of irregularities.

The Supreme Court has upheld bail for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case, in which she is currently serving a five-year jail term. However, this does not mean she will be released from jail as she is being kept behind bars in three other cases.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader criticises BNP for misleading people and asked the party to take lesson from the Khulna City Corporation elections.