High Court questions legality of municipal electoral code that restricted parliament members to run election campaign for their party candidates in local polls.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has come down heavily on BNP chief Khaleda Zia for terming voters, election officials and others who were present at polling stations during the January-5 national election 'dogs'.
One of the injured in yesterday’s Awami League-Jatiya Party clash at Santahar municipality in Bogra has died today while being shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday alleged that the government snatched people's votes in Wednesday's municipal polls by using the administration, law enforcers and presiding officers.
"Less than an hour after the voting began, some seven to eight ruling party men stormed the booth I was assigned to. Identifying themselves as Chhatra League and Jubo League activists, they tried to take the ballots away from me."
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity will observe road and waterway blockade in Rangamati on Sunday protesting “vote rigging” and “biased acts of administration” during yesterday’s municipality elections.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) demands the Election Commission (EC) to step down for what it termed “failure to uphold its constitutional responsibilities” during the just concluded municipality elections.
The Election Commission and the ruling Awami League claimed yesterday's municipal polls were free and fair except for some stray incidents. The AL, however, accused the police of causing some of the incidents.
Television reporters catches some footage of vote rigging in Narsingdi and Patuakhali districts during the municipality elections of 2015.
A delegation of BNP will visit Election Commission to file a complaint on the alleged kidnapping of the party’s two mayoral candidates.
A Saudi woman wins a seat on Mecca's municipal council in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia's first-ever elections open to female voters and candidates, the country's election commission announced Sunday.
The election office validates GK Gaus, an accused in the murder of ex-finance minister SAMS Kibria, for the Habiganj municipality mayoral race.
Ruling Awami League announces the list of its nominated candidates for the upcoming municipality elections scheduled to be held on December 30.
The schedules for polls to the 234 municipalities are upon us, as if tip-toeing on a slippery wicket to a sudden grand curtain raiser about to happen.
An election commissioner says it will be suitable for the Election Commission (EC) if municipal polls are held in the third week of December.
President Abdul Hamid issues an ordinance amending the local government law making municipal polls partisan.