A Dhaka court places BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's special assistant Samsur Rahman alias Shimul Biswas on a five-day fresh remand in a case filed over attacking police in a prison van in the capital’s High Court area.

The BNP senior leaders will sit with the leaders of its professional body this afternoon.

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BNP is to launch a mass signature campaign on February 17 demanding the release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is jailed for five years in a corruption case.

BNP will hold a meeting with pro-opposition professionals tomorrow to discuss the country’s latest political development following the arrest of the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says the imprisonment of Begum Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case has made no reaction among the people that is why the party is now complaining over the issues to foreigners.

A petition is filed seeking BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is already in jail, be shown arrested in a lawsuit filed for demeaning Bangladesh’s national flag.

Israeli police recommends indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, opening the way for what could be the biggest challenge yet to the right-wing leader’s political survival.

Upon request from police, BNP leaders, activists and supporters end their hunger strike one and a half hours after they began it in Dhaka demanding release of their chief Khaleda Zia

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says graft case convict BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman is more than enough to intensify crisis in the party.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir blames the government for violating human rights by keeping the party chief Khaleda Zia in an abandoned prison in a “fake and politically motivated case”.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says that Khaleda Zia landed in jail following the verdict in Zia Orphanage Trust Graft case and “she has not been shown arrested” in any other case.

South Africa's ruling party decided to sack Jacob Zuma as the country's president, a senior official says, after a marathon meeting over the fate of a leader whose scandal-plagued years in power darkened and divided Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid 'Rainbow Nation'.

BNP is holding a sit-in programme across the country demanding the release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was sentenced to five years in jail in a corruption case on Thursday.

The road, transport and bridges minister claims that BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman, who is now in England, was involved in Wednesday’s attack on Bangladesh High Commission office in London.

BNP’s women wing Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal President Afroza Abbas and its Secretary General Sultana Ahmed secure eight-week anticipatory bail from the High Court (HC) in three violence cases.

BNP Vice-chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu is arrested from MatsyaBhaban area in Dhaka, police say.

No election will take place in the country keeping Khaleda Zia in the jail, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says jail is not a place for leading a luxurious life or for spending leisure time.

A reactionary quarter including BNP has been creating confusion and instability in the country centering the conviction of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh says.