Survey says BNP leads with 41.7%, but data is from a fraction of total sample.
Scenarios point towards a December-January election
If the interim government fails to be neutral, it cannot hold the election, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday. Then a neutral government would be needed, he said.
We must first acknowledge that the Bangladesh Constitution has failed to maintain a robust democratic system.
What needs to be done in today’s Bangladesh, as the country is trying to move forward?
Are three months enough to hold a free and fair election? Because that is not the only concern at hand.
Seven political parties, including the BNP and Jamaat, yesterday said Prof Muhammad Yunus-led interim government can take the time necessary for creating an atmosphere conducive to holding a free and fair election.
Razwan-uz- zaman Rajib of Channel 24 was elected as the new president and Samon Hossain of Dainik Manab Zamin was re-elected as general secretary of the Bangladesh Sports Press Association (BSPA) for the next two years.
The BNP will not participate in the upcoming upazila polls as per its previous decision, but it has two different thoughts on the elections.
Three candidates to succeed the disgraced Michel Platini as president of UEFA make the shortlist on Friday for the vote to take place in Athens.
Parbatya Chhatragram Janasanghati Samity (PCJSS-Santu Larma) has been observing a 36-hour road and waterway blockade in Rangamati demanding reelection at a polling centre at Bhushanchhara union of Barkal upazila of the district.
The combined panel has decided to boycott today's election of Bangladesh Chess Federation, alleging irregularities and nepotism in the voters' list.
At least six people have been bullet-hit in a pre-election violence in Munshiganj’s Sadar upazila ahead of union parishad election this Saturday.
Voting in the election to nine municipalities in seven districts have begun, with over three lakh people expected to exercise their franchise.
The top leaders of BNP turn down the government’s allegation that the party is conspiring with Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to topple the government.
A civil society platform has questioned the role of the Election Commission over its role in the union parishad elections in view of the poll-time irregularities and violence.
BNP claims the public boycotted the “farcical” union parishad elections and demanded a re-election in all those unions.
Another 639 unions in 47 districts go to the polls today, a week after violence in the first phase of the elections left around two dozen people dead.
The people of several villages of three unions of Mathbaria upazila and Bhandaria upazilas under the district are passing days amid fear
