Dhaka city corporation elections

DU students go on hunger strike over Dhaka city polls’ date

Around fifty students of Dhaka University go on a hunger strike unto death demanding deferral of the two city corporation elections that coincides with Saraswati Puja, a major religious festival of the Hindus.

DHAKA CITY POLLS / CPB demands reduction of deposit money for aspirants

Communist Party of Bangladesh calls upon the Election Commission to reduce deposit money for mayor and councillor candidates in Dhaka city corporation elections scheduled on January 30.

DHAKA CITY POLLS / Ripon, Tabith, Ishrak collect BNP nomination forms

BNP leaders Asaduzzaman Ripon, Tabith Awal and Ishrak Hossain collect nomination papers of the party to contest mayoral posts in the Dhaka north and south city corporation elections scheduled for January 30.

Fulfill your pledges, people tell new mayors (video)

Though not happy with the irregularities and vote rigging during the just held city corporation elections, commoners in Dhaka city want to see their city clean, free of traffic-jam and developed.

EXCLUSIVE: Vote rigging at Kamalapur (video)

Supporters of Awami League-backed mayoral and councilor candidates stuffed ballot boxes indiscriminately driving out poling agents of BNP-backed candidates from a polling booth at Kamalapur Sher-e Bangla Railway High School Centre-1 today.

Zonayed Saki also boycotts polls

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral aspirant Zonayed Saki boycotts the city polls expressing disappointment over the voting process.

STRATEGICALLY SPEAKING / Don't mar the mayoral elections

ONE'S first reac-tion to the announcement of the three mayoral elections was to ascribe all sorts of motives on the part of the government, and motives there may still be on its part.

IF I WERE THE MAYOR

The Mayoral Elections are knocking on the door and amidst the cacophony of campaigns ruining our afternoon naps, there is one

BITTER TRUTH / Can elected mayors save the city's water bodies?

THERE is a close link between economic growth, human development and good management of natural resources, mainly water bodies

January 16, 2020
January 16, 2020

DU students go on hunger strike over Dhaka city polls’ date

Around fifty students of Dhaka University go on a hunger strike unto death demanding deferral of the two city corporation elections that coincides with Saraswati Puja, a major religious festival of the Hindus.

December 26, 2019
December 26, 2019

CPB demands reduction of deposit money for aspirants

Communist Party of Bangladesh calls upon the Election Commission to reduce deposit money for mayor and councillor candidates in Dhaka city corporation elections scheduled on January 30.

December 26, 2019
December 26, 2019

Ripon, Tabith, Ishrak collect BNP nomination forms

BNP leaders Asaduzzaman Ripon, Tabith Awal and Ishrak Hossain collect nomination papers of the party to contest mayoral posts in the Dhaka north and south city corporation elections scheduled for January 30.

April 30, 2015
April 30, 2015

Fulfill your pledges, people tell new mayors (video)

Though not happy with the irregularities and vote rigging during the just held city corporation elections, commoners in Dhaka city want to see their city clean, free of traffic-jam and developed.

April 28, 2015
April 28, 2015

EXCLUSIVE: Vote rigging at Kamalapur (video)

Supporters of Awami League-backed mayoral and councilor candidates stuffed ballot boxes indiscriminately driving out poling agents of BNP-backed candidates from a polling booth at Kamalapur Sher-e Bangla Railway High School Centre-1 today.

April 28, 2015
April 28, 2015

Zonayed Saki also boycotts polls

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral aspirant Zonayed Saki boycotts the city polls expressing disappointment over the voting process.

April 23, 2015
April 23, 2015

IF I WERE THE MAYOR

The Mayoral Elections are knocking on the door and amidst the cacophony of campaigns ruining our afternoon naps, there is one

April 23, 2015
April 23, 2015

Don't mar the mayoral elections

ONE'S first reac-tion to the announcement of the three mayoral elections was to ascribe all sorts of motives on the part of the government, and motives there may still be on its part.

April 18, 2015
April 18, 2015

Mayoral Election hype and fact

FOR understandable reasons the ensuing mayoral election in the national capital and the commercial capital of the country has

April 18, 2015
April 18, 2015

Can elected mayors save the city's water bodies?

THERE is a close link between economic growth, human development and good management of natural resources, mainly water bodies