The Awami League has instructed its leaders and activists to resist any attempts by BNP men to take to the streets tomorrow to create fresh controversies over the January 5, 2014, parliamentary election.

Yesterday’s attempt by a group of people to occupy BNP headquarters has raised many eyebrows.The move comes at a time when the party is preparing to demonstrate on January 5, the date when the last general election was held. ‘Asol BNP’, literally meaning ‘Real BNP’, which made the attempt, is a group that came into existence a year ago after the BNP-led alliance started a protest in January last year.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says whether BNP will be given the permission or not to stage rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka will be decided after the assessment of the security arrangement.

The ruling Awami League yesterday said it would hold programmes in the capital on January 5 to observe the second anniversary of the 10th parliamentary election, hours after the BNP announced it would hold a protest rally in Dhaka the same day.

The activists of BNP youth and student wings lock into a clash with a group of people, who claimed themselves as “Asal BNP” [Original BNP], when they went to grab the party’s Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad says people as well as the media do not treat the party as an opposition in the parliament due to its image crisis.

After BNP announced to hold a rally in Dhaka on Tuesday to protest the January 5 elections, ruling Awami League says they will also “hold programmes” on the same day. Thereby, again, the rival parties have called for holding programmes on the election anniversary with contrasting views – that ended up in violence and death of over a 100 people last year.

BNP has sought to host a demonstration programme in Dhaka on January 5 – the date that heralds the second anniversary of last general elections. Last year, BNP’s attempt on a similar demonstration titled “black day for democracy” ended in months of agitation that left over a 100 people dead.

Human rights situation in Bangladesh worsened on civic and political fronts last year despite improvement in some socio-economic

AL Joint Secretary General Mahbubul Alam Hanif urges all the candidates to accept the polls results whatever it might be.

The country’s maiden partisan local body polls end amid reports of violence, clashes, irregularities, boycott of at least 19 candidates, and death of one person. Election Commission scraps polls in one Chittagong municipality and suspends five policemen over 'negligence of duty'.

BNP alleges that it could not telecast an advertisement as part of its electoral campaign due to government intervention.

Expressing grave concern over the pre-polls violence, BNP urges the Election Commission (EC) to take necessary steps for holding the elections in a transparent manner.

BNP raises serious allegations against the Election Commission saying the constitutional body has bowed down to the "evil will" of Awami League.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has alleged that the ruling party has exiled democracy and is running the country with a politics of vengeance. She calls upon all to unite for the sake of country's progress and prosperity.

If there is a generic confusion at the top in terms of decision-making to fight fundamentalism of all hues and stripes this will have a cascading effect on to the bottom.

EC will not defer municipality polls slated for Dec 30. MPs to remain out of electioneering campaigns, officials say

Bangladesh's experience with ribald extremism and terrorism is more recent and, so far, has been less painful in terms of mass attacks or casualties. But there has been a slow, but steady gnawing at the very soul of this country.

Whether you question the trial, the proceedings, or the witnesses is for you to judge, but it is also upon us to share with you tales of our nights of watching shells killing our neighbours, of our homes turning into ashes.

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