TRANSPARENCY International Bangladesh has earlier made public its findings form the analysis it carried out on the affidavits that the candidates submitted to the Election Commission running in both the national and local government elections...
NO ENFORCEMENT of the laws that bar individuals, families or bodies from holding more than 100 bighas, or roughly 33 acres, of land, including 60 bighas, or 19.83 acres, of agricultural land, keeps allowing many to acquire and own land beyond the limit...
The Lok Sabha elections in India will come to a close today as the final phase of voting takes place in 57 constituencies across eight states and Union territories...
India posted growth of 8.2 per cent in the year to March on Friday, in a last-minute boost to prime minister Narendra Modi鈥檚 economic credentials the day before national elections conclude...
Massive irregularities, rigging, violence, and boycotts marked the third phase of the ongoing upazila parishad elections held on Wednesday amid low voter turnout...
The High Court on Tuesday asked the jail authorities to respond in 30 days to a lawyer鈥檚 letter seeking post-mortem reports of 13 leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, who died in jail custody before January 7 parliamentary elections and in the aftermath of it...
FIFTY-SEVEN races are still to be decided on Saturday, but prime minister Narendra Modi says he has already won a thumping majority. Let us see the mind more than the logic at work here...
Allegations of repeated attacks and gunfire occurred at the residence of Japan-Bangladesh Group鈥檚 chairman Selim Pradhan at Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj, in support of defeated candidates in the Rupganj upazila parishad elections...
A case has been filed against four people, including the presiding officer, for negligence in Rajnagar upazila parishad elections of Moulvibazar...
At least five people sustained injuries after post-poll attacks allegedly by the supporters of a rival group in Satkhira鈥檚 Ashashuni upazila on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning...
At least one person was killed and several injured in clashes during the polling of the second phase of the ongoing upazila parishad elections held on Tuesday amid...
The voter turnout in the second phase of upazila elections on Tuesday was estimated to be above 30 per cent, chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said...
Voting in the second phase of Upazila Parishad election began on Tuesday at 8:00am and it will continue until 4:00pm...
Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on the EU to take on multinationals unfairly restricting the sale of goods in the single market, leading to higher prices for struggling consumers...
A chairman candidate in the Puthia upazila paishad elections in Rajshahi on Thursday accused state minister for rural development and cooperatives Abdul Wadud Dara of intimidating and threatening voters...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday expelled 52 more of its grassroots leaders for contesting the ongoing upazila parishad elections ignoring the party decision of boycotting the polls under the Awami League government...
ELECTIONS provide a unique situation where people become equal regardless of their class or ethnic and religious identity. This offers space to rival politicians to address their unmet needs. The government has commenced several development initiatives..
THE Islamophobic rhetoric being employed by Narendra Modi for this election campaign has become shrill. Pakistan has nearly always been an electoral issue in India...
Leaders of the ruling Awami League and its associated bodies won the chairman post in most of the upazilas in the first phase of upazila parishad elections held on Wednesday amid low turnout and boycott by the most opposition parties...
The first phase of upazila parishad elections was held on Wednesday amid clashes in some places, low voter turnout, and boycott by most opposition parties, including the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party...
The Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party is in for another round and many Indian commentators are saying that it is because he is turning 鈥業ndia鈥� into a nation and giving people a sense of pride and security that they did not have before...
Voting in the first phase of the 6th Upazila Parishad Election in 139 upazilas across Bangladesh ended on Wednesday afternoon...
Voting for the first phase of the 6th Upazila Parishad Election was underway across 139 upazilas nationwide on Wednesday, with polls open from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm without any interruptions...
REVANTH Reddy, the waggish Congress chief minister of Telangana, was fielding questions from a BJP-hugging TV anchor about prime minister Narendra Modi鈥檚 prospects in the ongoing elections. 鈥楧o I see myself accepting that Mr Modi is coming back with..
AN INCREASE in the moveable assets of candidates re-running for the position of the chair in the upazila council elections in the first phase that take place today, as Transparency International Bangladesh findings show, and an issue that...
The BNP has expelled its four more grassroots leaders for participating in the first phase of upcoming upazila elections by violating the party鈥檚 decision...
The government will deploy maximum force to hold the upcoming upazila elections peacefully, officials said on Monday...
THERE are several exercises in extremes playing out in India right now. Nearly a billion people are voting in elections that will last into early June, braving record-high temperatures to cast ballots. Against this backdrop, Asia鈥檚 richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is throwing what will likely be the world鈥檚 most expensive wedding for his youngest son...
A local resident on Thursday filed a writ petition with the High Court, challenging the legality of the failure of government authorities, to take action against Natore-3 constituency lawmaker and state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak for interference in Singra upazila elections...
In the second phase of voting for the Lok Sabha elections in India, 89 seats across 13 states and Union Territories will go to polls today...