BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today urged the interim government to initiate an investigation under the United Nations into incidents of enforced disappearances that have plagued Bangladesh over the past 15 years

The BNP has relieved its local leader Dalil Uddin Dhalu Mollah of Kalishuri Union general secretary’s post in Patuakhali’s Bauphal Upazila on various allegations, including violation of party discipline

BNP has been hounded over the last 18 years. The party chief, Khaleda Zia, was put in jail and not allowed treatment abroad while her son, Tarique Rahman, has been living in London since 2008 and faces a prison sentence back home.

Mirza Fakhrul says after meeting chief adviser

Gonoforum will set aside internal differences and provide full cooperation to the interim government to address the current situation in the country, said the party's Founder and President Dr Kamal Hossain at a press conference today

The Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday regained its right to do politics as the interim government revoked the executive order issued by the ousted Awami League government banning the Islamist party and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir.

The public and business community want a democratically elected government in the country, said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman today called for an end to the politics of hatred and division in Bangladesh, urging unity among the nation

The decision will come into effect immediately

BNP standing committee member Maj (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed today demanded that the interim government should dissolve the existing Election Commission (EC) headed by Kazi Habibul Awal within 24 hours

Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman today urged the High Court to summarily reject the writ petition that sought its order on the government to ban Awami League as a political party and cancel its registration

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday expressed frustration that Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus’ address to the nation lacked a roadmap for transition to democracy.

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman yesterday said Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus’s speech echoed the aspiration of the nation.

Leaders agreed to support interim govt, party sources say

Jamaat was banned by the Awami League government on August 1

The BNP wants to give the interim government reasonable but specific time to hold an acceptable election by reforming all the institutions, the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday.

Awami League president Sheikh Hasina today urged countrymen to stand beside the flood-affected people

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said the BNP is willing to give the current interim government a reasonable time, but not an indefinite one, to reform institutions and hold an acceptable election

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday urged the interim government to place immediately a roadmap to the next general election.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday demanded the cancellation of what he described as “secret” and “unequal” agreements signed with India over the past 15 years under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government.