[WATCH] Vote rigging in Narsingdi, Patuakhali

Television reporters catches some footage of vote rigging in Narsingdi and Patuakhali districts during the municipality elections of 2015.
30 December 2015, 12:13 PM

Hanif urges candidates to accept polls results

AL Joint Secretary General Mahbubul Alam Hanif urges all the candidates to accept the polls results whatever it might be.
30 December 2015, 10:19 AM

Violence, irregularities mark municipal polls

The country’s maiden partisan local body polls end amid reports of violence, clashes, irregularities, boycott of at least 19 candidates, and death of one person. Election Commission scraps polls in one Chittagong municipality and suspends five policemen over 'negligence of duty'.
30 December 2015, 07:16 AM

HT Imam accuses BNP of ‘creating terror’

Prime minister’s political adviser HT Imam accuses BNP of creating “terror” at different polling centres to make the municipality elections controversial.
30 December 2015, 07:09 AM

Irregularities, violence disappoint BNP

BNP Chief Khaleda Zia’s Adviser Khandker Mahbub Hossain says the party has been disappointed by irregularities and violence over today’s municipality polls.
30 December 2015, 05:51 AM

Man killed in Satkania polls clash

A man is killed when supporters of two councillor candidates traded gunshots in Satkania upazila of Chittagong, police say.
30 December 2015, 05:42 AM

Voting halted at 25 centres of 10 municipalities

Clashes, ballot occupation and allegations of forced balloting mark the start of country’s maiden municipality polls under political banners.
30 December 2015, 03:20 AM

Hanif asks AL men to assist EC, admin for fair polls

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif asks his party men to assist the Election Commission (EC) and local administrations to hold a free, fair and neutral municipality election.
29 December 2015, 14:28 PM

AL making ‘blueprint’ to win polls: BNP

BNP alleges that the ruling Awami League has made a “blueprint” to take its favour the results of tomorrow’s elections to 234 municipalities.
29 December 2015, 13:56 PM

Municipal polls: BNP fears violence

Expressing grave concern over pre-polls violence, BNP urges the Election Commission (EC) to take necessary steps for holding the municipality elections in a transparent manner.
29 December 2015, 11:35 AM

SC too clears way for AL rebel candidate

The Supreme Court uphold a High Court order that asked the returning officer concerned to allow Awami League’s rebel candidate Ahsan Habib Pranjol to contest for the mayoral post in Kachua municipality election in Chandpur.
28 December 2015, 12:00 PM

Khaleda terms municipal polls farcical

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia terms the upcoming municipality polls “farcical” and said her party will stay in the race until the last minute.
28 December 2015, 11:54 AM

Govt intervention stopped campaign advert: BNP

BNP alleges that it could not telecast an advertisement as part of its electoral campaign due to government intervention.
28 December 2015, 08:43 AM

Niko graft charge framing hearing deferred

A Dhaka court sets February 17 for charge framing hearing of Niko graft case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 10 others.
28 December 2015, 05:04 AM

Khaleda’s Facebook post seeks vote for BNP candidates

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a Facebook post calls upon voters to cast their votes in favour of the party’s mayoral candidates in the December 30 municipality elections.
27 December 2015, 13:46 PM

BNP meets CEC, conveys fear of polls violence

Expressing grave concern over the pre-polls violence, BNP urges the Election Commission (EC) to take necessary steps for holding the elections in a transparent manner.
27 December 2015, 10:20 AM

Khaleda confident on BNP’s win in municipal polls

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia claims she is confident of her party’s landslide win in the upcoming municipality elections on December 30.
27 December 2015, 09:33 AM

War martyrs comment: Court orders probe into sedition charges against Khaleda

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is sued for sedition for her recent comment questioning the number of martyrs in the country's Liberation War of 1971.
27 December 2015, 06:03 AM

Khaleda ‘to skip’ Niko graft hearing tomorrow

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is unlikely to appear before a Dhaka court tomorrow which is set to hear the charge framing of Niko corruption case.
27 December 2015, 05:49 AM

Rizvi terms Hanif’s comment ‘joke of the year’

BNP leader Rizvi Ahmed terms ruling Awami League leader Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif’s statement on Election Commission’s treatment of BNP as the “joke of the year’.
26 December 2015, 11:39 AM