More than a third registered political parties, including opposition BNP, boycotted the Election Commission’s talks yesterday. And some of those who joined the dialogue observed that the current situation is not conducive to holding a free and fair election.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the hand that sets vehicles on fire should be burnt in the same flame.

As many as 65,000 Ansar and VDP members will be deployed across the country to ensure smooth movement of rail, road, and river transport during the two-day blockade called by BNP and Jamaat from tomorrow

Plainclothes men allegedly picked up BNP organising secretary Syed Emran Saleh Prince from Badda area of the capital this evening

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud today said arsonists and those who sponsor arson terrorism will not be spared

The BNP today alleged that the government has created an appalling situation in the country to try and eliminate their political opponents through the use of force

BNP leaders went into hiding in a "cave" after threatening to topple the government, said Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader.

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal today urged all political parties including BNP to participate in the upcoming national election

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her call to the countrymen to vote for her party's electoral symbol "boat" to sustain the country's development and people's wellbeing

Says law minister

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today urged BNP to participate in the upcoming national elections and stop arson attacks and destruction of properties

BNP has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Chattogram for tomorrow in protest against the arrest of the party's standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the BNP-led “communal forces” will have to be resisted and defeated to protect Bangladesh’s democracy, the spirit of Liberation War, and independence.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday said the fall of the current regime is imminent as none of its strategies will work to suppress the opposition’s ongoing one-point movement.

Islami Andolon Bangladesh yesterday issued a seven-day ultimatum to the government to resign and transfer power to a national government formed comprising all political parties.

Despite the arrests of its top leaders, the BNP is determined to continue its movement until the demand for election under a non-partisan interim government is met, say several party leaders.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said BNP's top leaders cannot avoid responsibility for creating anarchy on October 28

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged her party members to build resistance against the arsonists in an organised manner

Condemning the arrest of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, sixty-seven eminent citizens of the country today said the arrest is an impediment to holding peaceful, fair, and participatory elections

A Dhaka court today placed BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and its media cell convener Zahir Uddin Swapan on a six-day remand each in connection with a case filed over the death of a constable in a clash during the party’s grand rally on October 28