Over 2,100 leaders and activists of BNP are so far arrested by law enforcers during the ongoing anti-militancy crackdown, the party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed claims.

The BNP yesterday expressed its fear that the government might suppress the opposition on the pretext of launching a crackdown on extremists across the country.

The BNP yesterday came down heavily on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her comment that the government has information on BNP-Jamaat's links with the recent secret killings.

BNP alleges that the government itself is trying to destabilise the country by using the repeated incidents of secret killings only to stay in power.

Proposed budget is not for the development of the people, BNP says in its budget reaction.

Expressing concern over the current situation in Bangladesh, the European Union has pressed for political dialogue in a debate over the country’s issue at its parliament.

Less than half of the people surveyed by the Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) said they were optimistic about their individual future, prompting calls for an improvement in political governance and establishment of the rule of law.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the students and guardians for best use of the opportunities and facilities made available by the government for promotion of education and find job after the education.

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Alison Blake meets BNP chief Khaleda Zia at the party’s Gulshan office.

Arrest warrants have been floated for 23 leaders of BNP, including several of its seniors, as a Dhaka court takes into cognisance of an explosives case.

A group of people under banner ‘Asol BNP’ (literally meaning real BNP) has attempted to occupy BNP’s central office, the third try in five months.

A BNP delegation meets with US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat at her residence in the capital and discusses the country’s current political situation.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says a “constitutional crisis” might arise due to a "parliament-judiciary row" over the 16th constitutional amendment concerning impeachment of Supreme Court judges.

BNP tries to go to power through using Israeli intelligence agency during their rule, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam alleges.

BNP terms the yesterday’s High Court verdict that scrapped the 16th constitutional amendment as “historical”.

Reacting to BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s claim that he had US$300 million in a bank account and that this was mentioned in a case in the United States, prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has termed her “a liar and a thief”.

BNP says it is ready to cooperate the government with its experience in combating militancy in the country.

BNP has got permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police to hold workers’ rally in Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan on the occasion of May Day.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been flown to Bangkok for treatment.

Journalist Shafik Rehman, who was remanded twice over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, has been sent to prison after completion of his remand sentence.