Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday hinted that BNP-Jamaat men had links with the recent secret killings and the government had substantial evidence in this regard. These two parties have changed their tactics and started attacking some “soft targets,” following public wrath for their arson attacks early last year, she added.

FIFA name a Senegalese UN diplomat as its first ever female secretary general on Friday, a historic move announced at a congress that sought to relegate world football's corruption crisis to the past.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is freed on bail from prison hours after a Dhaka court sent him to prison in two arson cases.

Amid pressure from opponents in the party, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad convenes a joint meeting on January 31 to discuss appointment of GM Quader as JP co-chair and removal of Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu from the secretary general post.

With the BNP's central council likely in March, speculations run rife within the party as to who is going to be its secretary general.

FIFA has fired secretary general Jerome Valcke, who is under investigation for misconduct, world football's governing body said Wednesday.

UN secretary general calls upon the authorities in all relevant institutions to ensure that elections to Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations will be transparent, inclusive and credible.