The Election Commission yesterday finalised Tk 8,711 crore project for purchasing two lakh electronic voting machines and their management.

In a video clip that went viral on social media, a Jubo League leader in Chattogram’s Rangunia upazila was heard threatening BNP activists.

The government for the fifth time today (September 19, 2022) extended the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's jail sentence for another six months keeping the two previous conditions.

The government is going to again extend the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence for six more months, as the law ministry has given its opinion to this effect.

The BNP yesterday said the government wants to create a state of chaos in the country through violence, murders,  and by foiling the processions and rallies of opposition parties.

Ruling Awami League activists allegedly attacked at least five houses and shops of Chhatra Dal and Jubo Dal leaders in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj on Saturday night.

Two election commissioners yesterday said there could be a “misunderstanding” about the EC’s representation of some political parties’ stances regarding the use of electronic voting machines in the next national elections.

Awami League’s subcommittee on science and technology is set to organize an international conference on the fourth industrial revolution – to encourage science driven papers to complement the party’s pledge for a smart Bangladesh and take national progress to a newer height.

Television, newspapers and online media are working in an environment of fear and anxiety and no one can speak freely at present, Jatiya Party Chairman and Deputy Leader of Opposition GM Quader said today (September 18, 2022).

BNP has been holding a rally in front of the party's central office at Nayapaltan in the capital to protest the attacks on BNP's ongoing programmes in different parts of the country.

The Election Commission (EC) has decided to remove Deputy Commissioner (DC) Md Mominur Rahman, returning officer of Chattogram Zila Parishad elections, from his duty of election.

The government will extend the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's jail sentence for six more months.

Japanese Ambassador to Dhaka Ito Naoki today met with BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and organising secretary Shyama Obaid today.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that the current government has divided the state organs through politicisation.

BNP Vice Chairman Barkatullah Bulu came under attack this afternoon (September 17, 2022) at Manoharganj upazila in Cumilla by miscreants while he was returning to Dhaka from Noakhali.

After Jatiya Party presidium member Mashiur Rahman Ranga’s expulsion, JP chairman’s adviser Ziaul Huq Mridha has been removed from all party posts.

BNP executive committee member and former DNCC mayoral candidate Tabith Awal was seriously injured in an attack on a BNP programme in the capital's Banani today (September 17, 2022).

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain today (September 17, 2022) suggested the formation of a structure for an independent and neutral election to overcome the country's political crisis.

Writers of both fiction and non-fiction have come under increasing pressure and censorship across South Asia. To discuss these issues, the fifth ULAB Lit Salon brings together a diverse group of experts drawn from policy and its practice, publishing, and media.

The Election Commission’s roadmap for the next parliamentary polls is very much “conventional” and it does not detail how the challenges of holding a free, fair and inclusive election will be addressed, say experts.