Although the official window for election campaigning begins on January 22, aspirants for the upcoming 13th national election are already active on the ground, engaging in various forms of “mass contact” to woo voters.

The emancipation of the intellect -- a vision imagined by a group of Dhaka-based thinkers a century ago -- remains largely unfulfilled in present-day Bangladesh due to social elitism, intolerance, and a lack of moral integrity among the intellectual class.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has found evidence that former state minister and Jatiya Party’s former secretary general Mashiur Rahman Ranga accepted a bribe of Tk 1.7 crore in exchange for facilitating a candidacy in the 2018 national election.

Arabic month of Shaban will begin on January 21

Group of criminals attacked Rab team in Jungle Salimpur area

Issues included risks of misinformation and AI, fact-checking

Police yet to trace the abducted man

Candidate backed by the BNP-led alliance dismisses allegations, seeks details

Rally was organised for Kushtia-3 Jamaat candidate

Rumeen Farhana questions neutrality and credibility of the local administration

In televised address, chief adviser says referendum will determine democratic reforms

Party says decision taken out of respect for Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish ameer

British human rights lawyer was appointed a special prosecutorial adviser to the ICT chief prosecutor in Nov 2024

Party leaders discuss electoral situation and commission neutrality

He allegedly took the bribe from a former Kurigram MP

NCP spokesperson says attacks intensify whenever the party speaks against irregularities

BNP’s student wing stages human chain at Rajshahi University

Chief Adviser’s office cites police data amid assurances of improved law and order

Newly appointed envoy meets senior BNP leaders at the party’s Gulshan office

Victim of alleged enforced disappearance details torture at DGFI-run interrogation cell