A man found illegally in possession of a shotgun and a loaded handgun was arrested by sheriff鈥檚 deputies assigned to protect a Donald Trump rally in Coachella, California, the Riverside County sheriff鈥檚 office announced Sunday.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Sunday urged the interim government to announce the specific timeframe for the...
Tarafder Ruhul Amin, who earlier announced to contest for the president post of the October 26 Bangladesh Football Federation elections, surprised everyone by collecting paper for the...
Donald Trump painted an apocalyptic picture of a country 鈥榦ccupied鈥� by hordes of criminal foreigners in a campaign speech Friday as he escalated his efforts to make November's US election about a migrant crime wave that isn't happening.
Less than a month out from the knife-edge US presidential election, no group of voters is attracting more attention from the campaigns than the tiny sliver of the electorate that is still undecided.
Acting chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party Tarique Rahman on Thursday underscored the need for holding fair elections for continuation of democracy...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday held talks with French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris, as part of a European tour aimed at securing more Western support before the presidential election in the United States...
Former vice-president of the Bangladesh Football Federation, Tabith Awal, on Thursday collected his nomination form through representative to run for the presidential post in the...
Election reform commission chief Badiul Alam Majumdar on Wednesday said that it would take the opinion of all the stakeholders, including political parties, in the process of making their proposals for reforming the country鈥檚 electoral system...
Neither Tabith Awal nor Tarafder Ruhul Amin collected their nomination papers for the Bangladesh Football Federation鈥檚 presidential post, as the nomination paper distribution process for the...
The election commission of the Bangladesh Football Federation on Monday announced the schedule for the October 26 elections, in which 133 voters would elect a...
Voting began in Tunisia鈥檚 presidential election on Sunday with no real opposition to incumbent Kais Saied, who is widely tipped to win as his most prominent critics are behind bars.
Major political parties, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Bangladesh Jam aat-e-Islami and Ganatantra Mancha among them, on Saturday suggested that the interim government should give specific roadmaps for...
President Joe Biden said Friday he was not confident the US election in November would be peaceful, citing incendiary comments by Republican contender Donald Trump, who...
The Bangladesh Football Federation formed a three-member election commission on Thursday, led by former bureaucrat Mesbah Uddin, who would serve in the same capacity for the...
Political observers and analysts in Bangladesh and abroad said that dysfunction in Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government would considerably boost the chances of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚...
More than 15 million smart national identity cards remain undistributed throughout the country, according to statistics provided by the Election Commission Secretariat.
A recent survey by the South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance at North South University has indicated that 53 per cent of voters in believe the interim government鈥檚 tenure should be two years or less while 47 per cent think it should be three years or more...
The National Board of Revenue has initiated a plan to digitalise its tax audit selection process, replacing the long-standing manual method, to eliminate human interference and restore taxpayer confidence...
Tens of thousands of workers at major ports on the US East and Gulf Coasts went on strike Tuesday in action that could drag on the world鈥檚 largest聽economy聽just ahead of the November presidential election...
PUBLIC support for the government after the presidential election is on the rise. The first actions of the government have been appreciated by the general public. These include the exposure of former presidential advisers and their vehicles, the investigation ordered into the visa and passport controversies not to mention the peaceful conduct of the...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed former secretary of the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat and home ministry Md Jahangir Alam on five-day remand in connection with a case filed over the killing of a teenager Abdul Motalib during student-led mass uprising on August 4.
A Chattogram court on Tuesday declared Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 Shahadat Hossain as the city mayor in a case challenging the results of the Chattogram City Corporation election held in 2021...
Tens of thousands of US dockworkers plan to strike next week if there is no breakthrough on contract talks, just a month before November鈥檚 closely contested presidential election...
THE cornerstone of an inclusive democracy lies in a free and fair electoral system. Electoral reform, therefore, is one of the interim government鈥檚 highest priorities. While restructuring the Election Commission is crucial, shifting public perception about the significance of voting is equally important. The interim government can swiftly restructure the...
Bangladesh army chief vowed to back the country鈥檚 interim government 鈥榗ome what may鈥� to help it complete key reforms after the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, so that...
THE extraordinary events that took place during 2022 have reached their denouement at the recently concluded presidential election. The Aragalaya protests that lasted for over three months in the middle of 2022 that were spearheaded by youth and became a mighty protest movement by tens of thousands of people from all walks of life and all parts of...
The election commission cancelled four National Identity cards, belonging to Haris Ahmed and Tofail Ahmed, also known as Joseph, two brothers of former army chief general Aziz Ahmed.
The US Federal Reserve鈥檚 decision to cut interest rates by half a percentage point gives consumers a much-needed psychological boost ahead of November鈥檚 presidential election...
Politicians, journalists and professionals on Wednesday at a discussion in Dhaka said that the main duty of the interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus was to hold a free, fair and credible general election in the country after carrying out some reforms within justified time...