Bangladesh

The long awaited voting in the 12th Jatiya Sangsad elections begins at 8:00am today (Sunday) and continue till 4:00pm without any break at 261,912 polling booths in 42,024 voting centres across the country. A large number of male and female voters throng the voting centres to cast their ballots braving cold and windy weather. They were found waiting in long ...

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal has called upon the voters to exercise their voting rights freely braving all fears and concerns. “I urge all voters to cast your valuable votes to your favorite candidate freely and fearlessly tomorrow (Sunday),” the CEC said in a televised address to the nation on Saturday (January 6) evening. “Cast your vote with enthusiasm ...

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Saturday expressed the hope that the 12th parliamentary election will be credible nationally and internationally. “Credibility is a relative matter. But, we from our part would try making the election a widely credible one. We are optimistic that the election would be credible at home and abroad,” he said while addressing a pre-election ...

The Election Commission (EC) has completed all preparations to hold the 12th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) elections in a free, fair and peaceful manner in all but one constituency simultaneously across the countryn Sunday (January 7). EC officials said 11,96,89,289 voters, including 6,76,09,741 male, 5,89,18,699 female and 849 transgender, will vote to elect 299 members of parliament out of 300 as ...

BNP leader Mohammad Nabi Ullah and four others have been arrested by the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police in connection with Benapole Express train fire incident. Nabi was picked up by plain clothes police from a house in Uttara Sector-11 at about 12:30am, according to Nabi’s family members. Confirming the arrested news, DMP Additional Commissioner Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid said Mohammad ...

Bangladesh Railway authorities have formed seven-member probe committee over Benapole Express train fire incident. The fire incident happened on Friday (January 5) night, a day before the opposition BNP’s 48-hour hartal and one-day before the 12th national election. Md Soumik Shawan, Dhaka Divisional Signal and Telecommunication Engineer of Bangladesh Railway, has been made the chief of the probe body. At ...

A two-day hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), began on Saturday as part of their ongoing movement to boycott the upcoming election slated for Sunday (January 7). The hartal began at 6am and will end at 6am on Monday (January 7). The 48-hour hartal has been called to facilitate the boycott of election and the non-cooperation movement for the ...

At least four people were killed after miscreants set fire on Benapole Express train in the capital’s Gopibag area on Friday night. Khandaker Al Moin, director of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) legal and media wing, confirmed the matter while speaking to reporters on the spot. The incident occurred just before the countrywide hartal, from Saturday morning to Monday morning, called ...

The ruling Awami League (AL) met with the Commonwealth and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)’s election observation team on Friday, just two days before the 12th parliamentary election. The first meeting Commonwealth team started around 8:30am at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in the capital and continued till 11am. AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, led ...

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun on Friday said that the law enforcement agencies have the information about the saboteurs’ plans in creating panic among citizens on election day. The IGP said the saboteurs had planned some activities centering the upcoming 12th national elections and on election day, as part of the plan, they would create panic among ...