The ruling Awami League-led alliance yesterday vowed to resist BNP if the party tries to foil the national polls, slated for early January.

As BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and a host of other opposition political parties enforce a nationwide three-day rail, road, and waterways blockade from today, the ruling Awami League, police and pro-government transport leaders have devised their own plans to counter it.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said the BNP-Jamaat is resorting to violence to obstruct the democratic process and promote unconstitutional forces.

BNP yesterday sent a seven-page letter to the embassies and high commissions in Dhaka disentangling itself from the violence that took place surrounding its grand rally on Saturday.

At least seven foreign missions in Bangladesh have issued a statement calling on all stakeholders to exercise restraint, refrain from violence, and work together to create the conditions for free, fair, participatory and peaceful elections.

In connection with the recent violence during rallies and hartal, more than 7,417 people have been sued, and 426 have been arrested in at least 52 cases across 10 districts in the last two days.

Parliament yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution strongly condemning Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people and calling upon the Muslim world to come forward effectively to protect them

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Education Minister Dipu Moni today said the government introduced the new national curriculum to bring positive changes in education standards and nurture a skilled workforce for sustainable development

Sixty-nine BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists along with hundreds of unnamed persons have been sued in five cases filed with four police stations in Sylhet city

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Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said that if BNP had wanted elections, they would not have resorted to “acts of terrorism”

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At least seven foreign missions in Bangladesh have issued a statement calling on all stakeholders to exercise restraint, refrain from violence and work together to create the conditions for free, fair, participatory and peaceful elections.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen will brief the foreign diplomats and heads of the UN and other international agencies on the current political situation this afternoon

Police force is showing "extreme level of patience" under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to tackle the present law and order situation, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal at parliament yesterday

Dhaka wore a deserted look amid thin traffic yesterday as the dawn-to-dusk hartal called by BNP and Jamaat took place with sporadic incidents of vandalism and arson in different parts of the city.

The government appears to have taken a tough stance against the BNP after Saturday’s clashes that turned the heart of the capital into a battlefield.

After enforcing its first nationwide hartal in eight years, BNP yesterday called a three-day rail, road, and waterways blockade across the country from Tuesday to Thursday.