Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the Awami League leaders and activists to go ahead with honesty and sincerity for materialising the dreams of Bangabandhu.

With the aim to return to "positive politics", the BNP holds its long-awaited sixth triennial national council today, more than six years

The BNP holds its national council today with the theme of freeing democracy from captivity, but democratic practice in its own home has remained absent since its birth in 1978.

The BNP is likely to amend its declaration and charter to clear its stance on religious extremism, amid criticisms at home and abroad for its alleged leniency towards militancy and radicalism.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened a meeting of the party’s top policy-making body – the standing committee – tomorrow ahead of its national council on March 19.

Third phase of Union Parishad elections to 681 UPs will be held across the country on April 23, Election Commission announces.

BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas’ bail in a graft case has been stayed for a week by the Supreme Court, thereby halting his release from prison.

Despite appeals by Hasanul Haq Inu, the dissidents of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) stick to their decision to go on with their own faction, saying they are the "real JSD".

A Dhaka court yesterday cleared BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 25 other leaders and activists of the BNP-led 20-party alliance of arson charges in a case filed over a bomb attack on a bus in the city.

BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir criticises PM Sheikh Hasina’s comments on Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman.

The BNP was supposed to hold its national council more than three years ago to elect the party chief and other office bearers according to its charter. But it did not do so. Its failure allowed those who were either elected or picked by the chairperson in 2009 to continue holding their posts for three more years, which is equivalent to a fresh term.

Ahmed Kamal, younger brother of late president and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman, yesterday said he was likely to launch a new political party within a year or two.

Former Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof Emajuddin Ahmed blames politicians for the 1/11 political changeover.

The BNP yesterday expressed concern that the government might be plotting to foil its March 19 council.

BNP Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed has collected the nomination for Khaleda Zia, the incumbent chief of the party, for the position of chairperson ahead of BNP’s sixth council.

BNP wants to wage anti-government movement after the party’s national council in mid-March, BNP Vice-Chairman Maj (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed says.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has condemned the attack on Debiganj temple and murder of its priest and demanded immediate arrest of the attackers.

Blasting The Daily Star for running the DGFI-supplied false news against her during the last caretaker regime, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the Star editor himself could not demonstrate his “courage” by stepping down from his post after admitting his faults.

BNP has finalised single chairman candidates in 718 union parishads as of last night with the deadline for filing nomination for the upcoming UP polls expiring today.

BNP Standing Committee member MK Anwar has been released from jail following a High Court order.