After being unreachable for most of the party ranks over the last couple of days, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad showed up before them yesterday.

The telecom regulator yesterday unblocked Skype, a communication application, backtracking from its position a day after it was blocked.

Two BNP grassroots leaders have bought party's nomination forms to run for lawmaker from Goplaganj-3, the constituency from where Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will contest.

More than a dozen nomination seekers were interviewed yesterday by the BNP nomination board for Feni-1 from where party Chairperson Khaleda Zia was seeking to contest the upcoming national election.

Deputy commissioners, who have been made returning officers for the upcoming polls, were called in for a meeting at the PMO soon after they were briefed at the Election Commission on November 13, the BNP has alleged.

The presence of observers in the upcoming election will be thinner compared with that in 2008, as both domestic and international organisations are unwilling to deploy strong workforce mainly due to fund crunch.

BNP has slammed the government for arresting its Standing Committee Member Rafiqul Islam Mia.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir terms the December 30 as the last chance for the people and calls upon the countrymen to cash the opportunity overcoming all adverse situation.

The Election Commission will not take any random allegations against its officials and police into cognisance but will act if the allegations are specific, the commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed says.

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman has joined the interview process for nomination seekers through Skype, amid BNP’s allegation that there was no internet connection in and around the party chairperson’s Gulshan office since last night.

BNP writes a total of five letters to the Election Commission (EC) bringing allegation of not ensuring a level-playing field ahead of the 11th parliamentary election scheduled for December 30.

Local administration officials had to pull down campaign materials in several places across the country yesterday as many parliamentary aspirants didn't remove their posters and banners within the Sunday deadline.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has been unreachable for most of the party ranks over the last couple of days. He is staying in a house at Gulshan instead of his residence, President Park, in Baridhara.

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman did not violate electoral code of conduct by interviewing nomination seekers from the party through videoconference, the EC secretary said yesterday.

Mobile internet service is blocked at BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office and its adjacent areas, sources at the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) say.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader claims that the process of taking interview of nomination seekers by “fugitive convict and corrupt” BNP leader Tarique Rahman is “illegal.”

Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a civil rights body, urges the Election Commission to exercise its full authority to make sure that the forthcoming 11th parliamentary elections are held in a credible and participatory manner.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has blocked the telecommunications application Skype.com.

A delegation led by the Indian high commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla sat in a meeting with Bikalpadhara Bangladesh (BDB) President Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury at the latter’s Baridhara residence.

Grassroots leaders of the BNP's Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions yesterday pledged to stay in the electoral race regardless of the situation and support the candidates to be nominated by the party.