The BNP's support may not be sustained if the interim government has any plans beyond democratic means to achieve its objectives and the consequences will not be good, the party's Standing Committee ...

"The elections will be contested among pro-Bangladesh groups only,” said Mahfuz Alam, a top leader of the Anti-Discrimination Movement, which spearheaded the mass uprising that toppled Hasina’s regime ...

BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has criticized those promoting the concept of “Ziaism,” labeling ...

Early morning of May 30, 1981, clouds from the Bay of Bengal lashed Chittagong. Through the heavy pitter-patter of rain on the roof of the Circuit House of Chittagong, President Ziaur Rahman heard ...

Khaleda Zia, the head of the largest opposition party in Bangladesh, was sentenced on February 8, 2018, by Dhaka's Special Judge Court-5 to five years of imprisonment for alleged embezzlement of ...

The Supreme Court (SC) of Bangladesh unanimously acquitted the former prime minister and leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Khaleda Zia, of graft charges related to the Zia ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman, along with four others, were acquitted by the Supreme Court in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case, terming it ...

Bangladesh Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a corruption case, overturning the High Court’s earlier 10-year prison sentence.

The Supreme Court yesterday acquitted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her son, BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, and four others of corruption charges in the Zia Orphanage Trust case. With the ...

Bangladesh Supreme Court on Wednesday (January 15) acquitted Khaleda Zia, archrival of former PM Sheikh Hasina and a former PM herself. Zia is a leader of Bangladesh National Party (BNP).

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in a 2008 corruption case today, clearing the way for the ailing leader to fight parliamentary elections in the troubled ...

The case, dating from 2008, accused Khaleda and others of stealing 21 million taka ($173,000) in foreign donations for an orphanage trust set up when she was last prime minister, from 2001 to 2006.