Sixty-four percent of the polling centres across the country are vulnerable to violence, with the highest number of such centres in Dhaka division, and police have finalised an elaborate security plan giving importance to those.

The strategy of fielding candidates by the members of the major opposition alliances led by the BNP saved them from having no candidate in three seats -- Bogura-7, Jamalpur-4 and Rangpur-5.

Saiful Alam Nirob could not even appear at the returning officer's office to file his nomination paper fearing police harassment.

Jatiya Oikyafront urges the Election Commission to issue directives to the Home Ministry to release all leaders and activists of different parties arrested in “political” cases.

BNP raises a question over the validity of Awami League former general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam’s candidature claiming that he had no signature in his nomination paper.

Aspiring candidates have begun to file in appeal at the Election Commission challenging the rejection to run for general elections on December 30.

The BNP has nominated Salauddin Ahmed to run for Dhaka-4 constituency and chose his son, Tanvir Ahmed, as a backup candidate.

Some lawmakers of the ruling Awami League and its allies had a huge increase in their moveable property over the last decade, their affidavits show.

The nomination papers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and many of her party's leaders were rejected by returning officers during scrutiny yesterday, dealing a fresh blow to the party.

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The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that halted the Bangladesh Bank and Sonali Bank's decisions to allow M/S Patuakhali Jute Mills, owned by ruling Awami League Chief Whip ASM Feroz, to reschedule its loans of Tk 26.80 crore for the ninth time.

Awami League has picked a number of new faces for contesting the 11th parliamentary election from the ruling party tickets.

BNP-led 20-party alliance coordinator Col (retd) Oli Ahmed says that the Election Commission (EC) has failed to prove it as a neutral body till the date.

Jatiya Oikyafront, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, will finalise its candidates for all 300 constituencies before Wednesday based on consensus of all of its alliance partners.

A Supreme Court lawyer files a writ petition with the High Court (HC) challenging the legality of the schedule for holding the 11th parliamentary election without dissolving the parliament.

Election commissioners ask the executive magistrates to act without any bias while discharging their duties during the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Awami League leader Jahangir Kabir Nanak does not get his party's ticket to contest the upcoming 11th parliamentary election from Dhaka-13.

Awami League distributes party nomination letters among its candidates for 230 constituencies for contesting the 11th parliamentary election to be held December 30. Take a look who will run polls from which constituency.

The ruling Awami League is yet to finalise its seat-sharing with electoral allies despite having a series of meetings with several of them yesterday. The ruling party could not reach a consensus with its ally Jatiya Party, a major component of the grand alliance that won a landslide in the 2008 polls, insiders said.

The Election Commission yesterday finally clarified its position on the use of electronic voting machines in the December 30 national election, saying EVMs would be used in all polling centres of six constituencies.