Two separate writ petitions were filed with the High Court yesterday seeking stay on election to Bangladesh Bar Council, the highest body for regulating the country's lawyers, scheduled to be held on May 27.

The election to Bangladesh Bar Council has been deferred for a week due to anomalies in its voter list.

Re-election for the post of general councillors will be again held today from 8:00am to 4:00pm at three polling stations in three wards

The election to Bangladesh Bar Council, the licencing and regulatory body for lawyers, will be held on May 20.

A 20-year-old university student standing for the Scottish National Party defeated a Labour Party grandee in Britain's national election to become the youngest member of the British parliament in 350 years.

Poll result sheets of the Election Commission say each of at least six polling stations witnessed over 90 percent of its votes being cast in the recently held Dhaka south and north city corporation elections, eliciting astonishment from experts.

BNP-backed mayoral contestant for Dhaka North City Corporation Tabith Awal says it has been proved once again that a free, fair and acceptable election is not possible under the present Election Commission.

Writ petition is filed with High Court seeking directives on Election Commission and government to form judicial inquiry commission for investigation into "irregularities" during city polls.

Dodging city corporation taxes will not be a crime since the mayors were not voted to office, said Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB)

The newly elected mayors and councillors of three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong are sworn-in.

At least four people are killed and as many injured as a truck rammed a three-wheeler human hauler in Rajoir upazila of Madaripur this morning.

A team of India’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) comes to Dhaka on a four-day visit as part of a joint effort by Bangladesh and India to curb trans-boundary militancy and terrorism, police said.

As the chief election commissioner, Justice MA Aziz had once compared the Election Commission's task with that of a “postbox.”

Amid rising concern of religious extremism in Bangladesh, American experts have called for encouraging genuine dialogue between

The BNP chairperson's adviser Hannan Shah yesterday said electoral code of conduct was flouted at 98 percent of the polling centres

The Election Commission published the city polls results in official gazette yesterday, shelving all complaints about ballot stuffing and ousting of polling agents of rival candidates by Awami League men during Tuesday's voting. The gazette cleared the way for the three newly elected mayors and most councillors in the three city corporations to take oath and enter office.

Chittagong City Corporation yesterday morning started removing all the posters and banners which were hung for Tuesday's elections in

There is a sea difference between the election that was and the election that could have been.

Political mudslinging has long been a key feature in Bangladesh politics, but the city polls have given people hopes that the culture of

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the city corporation polls were held in a fair and peaceful manner and the people of