China slams a decision by the US government to put telecom equipment giant Huawei on a blacklist and says it will take steps to protect its companies, in a further test of ties as the economic heavyweights clash over trade.

Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina showed him motherly affection.

BNP comes down heavily on the government for its move to shift Khaleda Zia at Keraniganj Central Jail in Dhaka and says the ruling quarter is playing a dirty game over life of the party’s chairperson.

The High Court clears the way for the lower court concerned to resume the trial proceedings of a corruption case against BNP leader Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anne.

Awami League Acting General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif describes the scuffle of Bangladesh Chhatra League men at Madhur Canteen on Dhaka University campus as a trifling matter.

A Jubo League man is stabbed to death by miscreants in Char Haripur area of Mymensingh city, police say.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be taken to Keraniganj Jail after her treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), says Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan.

The Supreme Court clears the way to continue corruption trial against BNP’s standing committee member Moudud Ahmed.

BNP is going to participate in the by-election to Bogura-6 parliamentary seat, which fell vacant afte party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir decided not to take oath of office.

Some activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of ruling Awami League, allegedly foil a press conference organised by leaders of the student organisation who were deprived of posts in its newly announced full-fledged central committee.

From now on, the trial proceedings of 17 cases against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be held at a special court set up in Keraniganj Central Jail in Dhaka. The law ministry has issued a gazette notification in this regard.

The Supreme Court today directed the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka to return Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna’s passport for three months so that he can go abroad for treatment and visiting his children.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, who was undergoing treatment in Singapore, will return to the country on Wednesday.

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved a new deployment of Patriot missiles to the Middle East, a US official tells Reuters, in the latest US response to what Washington sees as a growing threat from Iran.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned home from London concluding her 10-day official visit to the United Kingdom (UK).

US President Donald Trump says he is in no hurry to sign a trade deal with China as Washington imposes a new set of tariffs on Chinese goods and negotiators enter a second day of last-ditch talks to try to salvage an agreement.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urges his party colleagues not to get confused with the government‘s ‘propaganda’ against their party.

For the first time in India’s parliamentary elections, the country’s Election Commission is to undertake exercise of matching EVM results with Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machine slips during vote-count of the ongoing polls on May 23.

Hinting at BNP’s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman who is hiding in London, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here says the killers and money-launderers must be punished.

The fifth and final phase of the upazila parishad election will be held to 16 upazilas on June 18. The Election Commission today published a gazette declaring schedule of the election.