As the hostage situation at the Holey Artisan Bakery comes to a bloody end, stories of those trapped inside are slowly coming forward. International news agencies have reported one Japanese citizen has been rescued, while seven other Japanese and seven Italians are still unaccounted for.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia alleges that the government is demeaning the country’s independence and sovereignty by awarding corridor to India in the name of transit.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader urges the VIPs not to travel on the wrong side of the highways during the Eid holidays.

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia says the law enforcers including Rab and police members, who were involved in the incidents of forced disappearances and killings, will be brought to justice.

PM Hasina lambasts her arch rival Khaleda Zia for what she says “shedding crocodile tears” for militant suspect Golam Faizullah Fahim who lost his life in an alleged crossfire a day after he was captured by locals during a murder attempt on a teacher in Madaripur. Khaleda's criticism proves that BNP-Jamaat has link to secret killings, the premier says.

The government is planning to impose a ceiling on purchase of personal cars against each family, road transport and bridges minister says in the parliament.

The Supreme Court fixes July 14 to hear an appeal filed by veteran journalist Shafik Rehman seeking bail in a sedition case.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia holds the leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League responsible for all the recent killings.

JP Chief HM Ershad urges Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to hold a national dialogue with the political parties to rescue the country from “severe crisis”.

The High Court extends for three months its bail order for Chittagong Chhatra League leader Nurul Azim Rony in an arms case.

BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia is released from Dhaka Central Jail on bail this evening.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia calls upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down from power paving the path for holding a free, fair and inclusive general election under a nonparty caretaker government.

The cabinet approves the draft of the inter-state credit agreement between Bangladesh and the Russian Federation for the construction of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia dubs the ruling Awami League a “militant political party” and adds that security of the country will return if AL’s supporters are brought to book.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia files a leave to appeal petition with the Supreme Court for scrapping the trial proceedings of Barapukuria coalmine corruption case against her.

BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman and his wife are injured when a battery-run three-wheeler hit their private car at Kaharol upazila in Dinajpur this afternoon.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia says extremists and militants are raising their heads in the country due to undemocratic and intolerable acts of the government.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urges the government to immediately hold a “national convention” to fight militancy.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that the government is pushing the country towards a fall by creating social and political anarchy.

A delegation of ruling Awami League leaders visit Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka after its head priest recently got a death threat.