The ruling Awami League has decided to drop its lawmakers from the selection boards tasked with picking candidates for the forthcoming union parishad (UP) polls.

The 10th Jatiya Sangsad goes into its ninth session at 4:30pm today.

BNP will hold a discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh today afternoon, marking party founder Ziaur Rahman's 80th birth anniversary, said a party press release yesterday.

Bearing a bullet in the head and strangulation marks on the neck, the body of a former president of Jatiya Chhatra Samaj, a pro-Jatiya Party student organisation, was recovered by police from an Eastern Housing plot in Dhaka's Rupnagar yesterday.

Jatiya Party (JP) has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Rangpur city on Thursday, protesting an attack on SM Yasir, member secretary of the city unit of JP.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday declared his younger brother GM Quader as the party's co-chairman.

Some people under the banner of "Asol BNP" (literally real BNP) yesterday made an abortive attempt to enter the Naya Paltan central office of the BNP, the second such incident this month.

The government wants to hold on to power, using law enforcers, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said, accusing it of turning the country into a "security state”.

The Department of Narcotics Control's (DNC) additional director general yesterday claimed that influential leaders of every political party

Two newly elected BNP-backed councillors were arrested by Bogra police while they were coming out from the Shaheed Titu Milanayatan

A Gonojagoron Mancha faction led by Imran H Sarker yesterday announced laying siege to the Pakistan high commission in Dhaka on

Former BNP leader Nazmul Huda-led Bangladesh National Alliance, a platform of 31 political parties, would join ruling Awami League-led 14-party grand alliance, meaning a new combine of 45 political parties is in the offing, according to Health Minister Mohammad Nasim.

Unidentified miscreants hacked a Jatiya Party leader in Rangpur city's Munshipara yesterday.

Leaders and activists of Gonojagoron Mancha will lay siege to the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka on January 20, protesting Pakistan’s denial of 1971 genocide.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday again skipped trial proceedings in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case due to her physical illness.

BNP standing committee member Dr RA Ghani died at a city hospital early today. He was 89.

A research organisation funded by the US state and education departments yesterday said recruitment of teachers

Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdullah Aziz Al Saud and his brother Prince Badar bin Abdullah met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night.

Awami League-nominated mayor candidates won in four of the seven municipalities that went to re-elections yesterday.

BNP standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah yesterday held Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad responsible for the 1/11 political changeover in 2007.