BNP says it will not allow holding of any election in the country without the participation of the party.

Chittagong University authorities suspend today’s final year examination of journalism department following a protest waged by BCL men protesting suspension of one their fellow activists. Next examinations will be held according to the routine and a new schedule for today’s examination will be announced later, says Md Jakaria, the chairman of fourth year examination committee of CU.

BNP forms its committees for Dhaka city’s south and north units with Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel and Abdul Quayum as presidents respectively.

BNP calls upon the government to raise the issue of 58 common rivers including Teesta with India to United Nations for getting fair share of water.

Two Razakars from Kishoreganj are sentenced to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. The condemned war criminals are -- Syed Mohammad Hussain alias Hossain, 64, and Muhammad Moslem Pradhan, 66. Moslem is in jail while Hussain is on the run.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad and three others are acquitted of charges in radar purchase scam case. In 1992, the then anti-graft body filed the case against them over a loss of Tk 64.04 crore to the state exchequer by purchasing radars from the USA.

BNP has demanded that the government declare flash flood affected haor areas as disaster prone.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader criticises BNP for not observing Mujibnagar Day, the oath-taking day of the country's first government in 1971.

Terming the ruling Awami League an evil force, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir calls upon his party men to turn their grief into strength to unseat AL from power.

Joya Sengupta, newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Sunamganj-2 constituency, takes oath at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury says that ruling Awami League will have to face trial for disappearance of about 500 of the party’s leaders and activists.

The tenth parliament goes into its fifteenth session on May 2. The House is set to sit at 5:00pm.

Governor of Leningrad in Russia Oblast Alexander Drozdenko expresses his interest in recruiting skilled manpower specially doctors from Bangladesh.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha alleges that a vested quarter is out there creating a distance between the government and the judiciary.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia says the country is now passing through a tough time due to absence of democracy and cultural aggression of “colonial forces”.

Awami League will refrain from bringing out its procession on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh tomorrow in Dhaka.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia terms Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent four-day visit to India as “unsuccessful”.

The High Court clears the way for a lower court concerned to resume the trial proceedings in a corruption case against former BNP home minister Altaf Hossain Choudhury.

The High Court will deliver on May 9 its verdict on three separate appeals filed in a 25-year-old graft case against Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad.

The High Court asks Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, to surrender before a lower court concerned in eight weeks in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.