Senior BNP leader and standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain is admitted to a hospital in Dhaka with chest pain.

BNP hints that it will participate in the upcoming municipality elections which is to be held by the end of this year. “The final decision in this regard will be taken after the BNP chairperson (Khaleda Zia) returns home from London,” says Moudud Ahmed, a standing committee member of the party.

A day after issuing arrest warrant against BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, a Dhaka court sends the BNP leader to jail after he surrendered before it in an arson case.

Crude bombs hurled at the houses of BNP standing committee member Tariqul Islam and five other Jessore BNP leaders in the district town early today.