BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened a meeting of her advisory council tonight.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pay rich tributes to the martyred members of Bangladesh Armed Forces on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day 2017.

Indonesia's parliament speaker, Setya Novanto, is taken into custody by the anti-corruption agency after being arrested over his alleged role in causing state losses of $170 million linked to a national electronic identity card scheme.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has agreed to stand down and his resignation letter has been drafted, CNN says, citing a source familiar with his negotiations with the generals who seized power in Harare.

Two lawmakers express strong resentment over alleged nepotism of Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan in recruiting employees for Chittagong Sea Port.

The attack on Hindu community at Harkali Thakurpara village of Rangpur will not sway the Rangpur City Corporation Election, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda says

A communal force carried out the brutal attack at Harkali Thakurpara village of Rangpur to harm relation with neighboring India, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said today.

Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan says the incumbent government will not intervene in the Election Commission although it will discharge duty during holding the next general election.

Former Deputy Speaker of the parliament Md Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui passes away at a private hospital in Dhaka at the age of 71.

The High Court rejects a bail petition filed by Tangail’s Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case.

When Bangladesh is seeking genuine efforts from Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis with growing international pressure on it on the issue, Myanmar’s Union Minister for Information Dr Pe Myint has laid emphasis on maintaining good relations as neighbours.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says Unesco’s recognition to the historic 7th March speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is a matter of joy.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia holds a meeting with her party vice-chairmen at her Gulshan office in Dhaka.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J Trump downplayed his business ties with Russia. And since taking office as president, he is even more emphatic.

Names of businessman and BNP Vice Chairman Abdul Awal Mintoo, his wife and three sons surface in Paradise Papers as shareholders of NFM Energy Ltd, a gas drilling exploration company.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon the countrymen to remain alert so that the defeated forces in the Liberation War of 1971 cannot get the scope to distort the history.

Zimbabwe is set for more political turmoil with protests planned as veterans of the independence war, activists and ruling party leaders called publicly for President Robert Mugabe to be forced from office.

Saad al-Hariri, who resigned from his post as Lebanon's prime minister two weeks ago from Saudi Arabia, says he has been in Saudi for discussions "on the future of the situation in Lebanon and its relations with the surrounding Arab region".

In response to opposition demands regarding non-party supportive government, Law Minister Anisul Huq asserts that the polls will be held under Sheikh Hasina’s administration.

BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed calls upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to restore the provision for caretaker government.