The Judiciary Reform Commission has proposed the establishment of a separate secretariat for the judiciary, permanent attorney service, an independent investigation agency, the creation of permanent benches of the High Court Division in all divisional cities, and expanding district courts to upazilas across the country...
Nine shops were burnt to ashes in a fire that broke out in Sayed Ahmed Tek area of Khankhanabad union under Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram early Sunday...
The government has temporarily empowered its officials to perform the duties of mayors of the city corporations and municipalities and chairmen of upazila parishads and...
Three people, including Kayra Upazila Parishad chairman and Upazila Awami League president GM Mohsin Reza, were killed following a mob attack on Monday evening in Khulna....
A Chattogram court on Wednesday ordered the deputy inspector general of police, superintendent of police, and local police stations of the district to execute arrest warrants against the Chandanaish upazila parishad chairman Jasim Uddin...
A Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik analysis showed that newly elected chairmen in most upazila parishads were relatives and loyal to lawmakers of their respective constituencies...
Raipura upazila parishad chairman Laila Kaniz Lucky, also the first wife of former National Board of Revenue member Matiur Rahman, attended a meeting in the upazila after 14 days of disappearance amid allegations against her and her husband for accumulating a huge quantity of illegal wealth...
BANGLADESH鈥橲 democratic backslide is manifest not only in the erosion of the electoral culture and the holding of managed elections but also in the complete dominance of businessmen in parliament and local government bodies...
Chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Sunday expressed his satisfaction over the upazila parishad elections saying that the elections were held...
The Election Commission on Saturday postponed upazila parishad elections in Rangamati鈥檚 Baghaichhari upazila, scheduled for June 9, in fear of deterioration in the...
Baghmara upazila land office organised a discussion on the occasion of Land Service Week 2024 with the theme 鈥楽mart Land Service, Smart Citizen鈥� at the land office in...
One more person, a supporter of defeated Kamarkhanda upazila vice-chairman candidate Selim Reza was allegedly beaten to death by supporters of another defeated candidate, Hafizur Rahman, in the early hours of Thursday...
A Bangladesh Chhatra League activist was shot to death by opponents during the joyous procession of the winning candidate in Brahmanbaria sadar upazila election...
The month-long upazila parishad elections ended on Wednesday with the fourth and final phase, when voting was held in 60 upazilas of 26 districts...
Voting in 60 upazilas for the fourth phase of the sixth Upazila Parishad Election began on Wednesday morning...
Ministers and lawmakers of the ruling Awami League ensured their authority in upazila parishad defying party instructions as they helped their friends and...
A total of 175 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh personnel have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order during the 4th phase of the 6th Upazila Parishad Election.....
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...
Rajshahi-1 constituency (Godagari and Tanore) lawmaker Omar Faruk Chowdhury accused the Godagari upazila parishad chairman and the upazila nirbahi officer of organising a gathering at the upazila parishad with the alleged intention of killing him...
Massive irregularities, rigging, violence, and boycotts marked the third phase of the ongoing upazila parishad elections held on Wednesday amid low voter turnout...
Chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Wednesday said approximately 35 per cent votes were cast in the third phase of Upazila Parishad polls...
Voting in 87 upazilas for the third phase of the sixth Upazila Parishad Election began on Wednesday morning...
The country鈥檚 87 upazilas will go for elections today amid fears of violence, intimidation, and low voter turnout in the third phase of the...
THE mismatch between the amounts of wealth that upazila election candidates have stated in income tax returns and election affidavits, as Transparency International Bangladesh came up with at press conference on May 27, warrants investigation, and consequent action, on a couple of fronts by authorities...
A total of 300 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order during the 3rd phase of the 6th Upazila Parishad Election....
Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International Bangladesh found a mismatch between the affidavits and income tax returns of many wealthy candidates for the third phase of the upazila parishad election slated for May 29...
The Election Commission on Monday postponed the elections to 19 out of 109 upazila parishads in the third phase of the elections slated for May 29 in the context of the devastation caused by cyclone Remal...
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 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...