<span style="color: #222222;">Bangladesh's ruling Awami League agreed for unconditional talks with the newly-formed opposition National Unity Front (NUF) over the upcoming general elections. The front includes the BNP of jailed prime minister Khaleda Zia.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said that the NUF proposal came without any "precondition" and the party responded to the call as "the door of dialogue is open for all".</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, Election Commission EC has formally scrapped the registration of Jamaat-e-Islami, a crucial ally of jailed former prime minister Khaleda Zia's Opposition BNP, five years after the Supreme Court disqualified the fundamentalist party from polls.</span><br />