High Court defers again the bail hearing of senior BNP leader Mirza Abbas until May 24 in two criminal cases.

Ex-BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, who was serving life-term for carnage at Pilkhana headquarters of paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles force, dies of heart attack.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses her hope that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will suggest BNP to return to the democratic politics shunning the path of terrorist and militant activities.

Visiting US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman calls upon all political parties in Bangladesh to engage in dialogue so that the next election can be held in a free, fair and inclusive manner.

Top US official Wendy Sherman stresses need for transparent probe into “allegations” of irregularities surrounding the recently concluded city polls.

Miscreants partially damage the decoration of the tomb of BNP founder and late president Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.

The fourth US-Bangladesh Partnership Dialogue begins in Dhaka with the meeting of its working group.

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman and US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow to attend a dialogue with high government officials.

Vote casting at the dodgy city polls to Chittagong and two halves of Dhaka cities was 44 percent, an official at the Election Commission says.

These are some of the stunning videos from different TV channels and citizens who caught the vote rigging in the city elections.

"It could have been an election in which people could merrily walk to the polling centres and pick their mayors. It could have been a return to true democracy. We could have run pictures of winners and losers embracing each other,the winners saying they want support of the losers and the losers promising their best for a better city."

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the just concluded elections to Chittagong and Dhaka cities were conducted in a free and fair fashion.

In view of the freshly concluded dodgy mayor elections in Bangladesh, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for probe into those allegations.

The Election Commission unofficially declares Sayeed Khokon mayor of the Dhaka South City Corporation.

Ruling Awami League-backed mayoral candidate AJM Nasir Uddin wins the Chittagong City Corporation elections marred by rigging, violence and intimidation and eventually boycotted by the BNP-endorsed candidate.

BNP-endorsed mayoral candidate Tabith Awal urges the Election Commission to hold fresh election to the Dhaka North City Corporation alleging widespread vote rigging and irregularities during Tuesday’s voting.

Ruling party men not only intimidated the BNP activists before and during the city corporation elections, but also used various intimidation tactics on the press wherever they found the journalists covering irregularities at the polling centres.

US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat says every citizen who came out today to cast their vote should be able to do that.

AJM Nasir Uddin and M Manjur Alam, mayoral candidates for Chittagong City Corporation backed by Awami League and BNP respectively, cast their votes.

Two polling agents are beaten by unruly youths and police as they protested against vote rigging allegedly by Awami League candidates.