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Voting Across the country

Voting Across the country
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

AL pick loses candidacy at fag end of voting

The Election Commission yesterday cancelled the candidacy of Awami League nominee Mostafizur Rahman Chowdhury for Chattogram-16 (Banshkhali) during the last hours of voting.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Of silent streets, empty booths and suspicious activities

OF SILENT STREETS, EMPTY BOOTHS AND SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Independents see off over a dozen heavyweights

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina’s strategy to make the election look competitive worked well, so much so that over a dozen heavyweights came tumbling down yesterday.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

World Media Reaction: ‘Predictable’ polls ‘guarantee’ AL victory

The election “without opposition” in Bangladesh has seen a low voter turnout but guarantees a fifth term for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, reported several international media today. 
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Three hurt as AL, independent clash

Three persons were injured as supporters of Awami League and independent candidates for Chattogram-14 clashed over taking control of a polling centre in the district’s Chandanaish upazila yesterday.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Faridpur-3: AK Azad braves all odds, comes out victorious

AK Azad, an Awami League leader who ran as an independent, had to fight against all odds to win yesterday’s parliamentary polls from Faridpur-3.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Polls largely ‘free and fair’

A section of the foreign observers yesterday said the polls were by and large held in a free and fair manner, but lamented the boycott of the major opposition BNP and the incidents of electoral violence.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

EC app misleads voters to wrong centres

Nurul Islam, a voter in Gazipur-2 constituency, came to Kalmeshwor Government Primary School to cast his vote around 10:45am yesterday, but he found out that it was not his designated centre.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

It’s tough to make sense of election like this

This election was very difficult for the people to comprehend, said election observer Sharmeen Murshid.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

No victory processions

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina directed party leaders and activists not to bring out any victory processions after the declaration of election results.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

‘We are Awami League’

AL men thronging outside polling centres and at every step from a polling centre’s gate to the entrance of polling booths -- was the scenario across different polling centres in Dhaka-7 and 10 constituencies yesterday.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Turnout galloped as day wore on

In some constituencies, the voter turnout in the afternoon was supposedly four and a half times that of the morning but it could not go passed 40 percent.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

BCL men cast votes taking over DU centre

Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) allegedly cast multiple votes for the “boat” symbol forcibly entering the Curzon Hall polling centre at Dhaka University yesterday.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

People shunned stage-managed election: BNP

BNP Standing Committee Member Abdul Moyeen Khan yesterday claimed the party’s call for boycotting the 12th parliamentary election was “successful”.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Blank result sheet signed even before counting began!

Supporters of an independent candidate from Dhaka-14 yesterday alleged that signatures of polling agents were taken on the result sheet before voting ended at a polling centre in Kalyanpur Girls School.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

JP slumps to its worst showing

The Jatiya Party suffered a debacle in yesterday’s national polls as it won only 11 seats, sources at the party chairman’s office said.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Mostly peaceful but not festive

Dhaka, usually a cacophony of honking horns, blaring rickshaw bells, and the incessant hum of human activity, wore an almost deserted look yesterday during the national polls.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Polling officials find other ways to keep busy

It was 3:12pm and the voting was well underway at Model High School and College in Jatrabari’s Dania area.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM

‘Never seen polls with so few voters’

Ghorai Chandra Das, an Ansar member stationed at Fulbaria Govt Primary School centre, has been providing security during national elections for the last 40 years.
7 January 2024, 18:00 PM