, Dec. 30 -- The body of BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia will be kept at the Evercare Hospital mortuary overnight before being taken to her Gulshan residence on Wednesday morning.

"Madam's (Khaleda's) body has been kept at the Evercare Hospital mortuary for the night. On Wednesday morning, it will be taken to her residence Feroza," said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.

He said family members and close relatives will bid her final farewell at her residence, Feroza, where she had been living since April 20, 2011.

After being evicted from her cantonment residence by the Awami League government in November 2010, the BNP Chairperson initially stayed for a few days on a second-floor apartment in a five-sto...