The Election Commission is unlikely to defer the municipality polls as demanded by the BNP-led 20-party alliance, the EC secretary says.

The government filed three appeals with the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court order that had granted bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three vandalism and arson cases.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened a meeting with the chiefs of the 20-party alliance tonight to discuss the upcoming municipality polls scheduled for Dec 30.

BNP decides in principle to participate in the December 30 municipality elections.

An emergency meeting of Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) and Awami League Parliamentary Board (ALPB) will be held tomorrow.

The Supreme Court may have five more dates left to hear the appeal of Motiur Rahman Nizami challenging his death penalty for war crimes.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will resume office from this evening after more than two months of staying abroad for medical reasons.

Pakistan’s top rights activist Asma Jahangir criticises the Pakistan government for demonstrating ‘disproportionately high passion’ against the execution of two top war criminals in Bangladesh. “The government (Pakistan) was only confirming the fact that two men were political agents and working for the cause of Pakistan,” she says.

Rapid Action Battalion claims to have detained BNP's Rangpur city unit President Mozaffar Hossain from Lalmonirhat.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia accuses the government of creating “democratic vacuum” in the country and said the opposition is being deprived of all constitutional and political rights.

A Dhaka court issues arrest warrants against 23 leaders and activists of BNP-led 20-party alliance including Barkatullah Bulu, Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas and Maruf Kamal Khan in an arson case.

A Khulna court sends metropolitan unit BNP President Nazrul Islam Manju to jail, turning down his bail petition in a sabotage case.

Top war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury have been buried after execution at the gallows of Dhaka jail.

SQ Chowdhury and Mojaheed, who tried their best – carrying out genocide and assassinating intellectuals and professionals – to stop birth of Bangladesh 44 years ago, meet their end inside Dhaka jail.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia arrives in Dhaka after spending over two months in London because of medical treatments.

Death row Mojaheed and SQ Chowdhury sought clemency from the president days after the Supreme Court rejected their petitions to review their decision upholding death penalty awarded to them by a special tribunal.

Jamaat-e-Islami will stage a countrywide “peaceful” protest tomorrow demanding the release of its secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, a death row war criminal.

BNP urges the government to intensify the party chief Khaleda Zia’s security measures for her return home tomorrow afternoon.

Five lawyers of death row war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed seeks permission from the jail authorities to meet him in jail tomorrow.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) alleges that its senior leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was denied justice in the Supreme Court that rejected his plea to review his death penalty in war crimes trial.