The ruling Awami League will announce its election manifesto on Monday (December 18).

Around 150 BNP candidates came under attacks by the ruling party activists and law enforcement agency members across the country so far, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed claims.

Moudud Ahmed, a BNP candidate for Niakhali- 5 constituency, says the congenial atmosphere for the 11th parliamentary election is total absent across the country.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleges that the government wants to fend off voters from polling stations through intimidation.

US President Donald Trump on Friday moves to end speculation that he was having a hard time finding a new chief of staff, naming his budget chief Mick Mulvaney to the top post on a temporary basis.

Jatiya Party has pledged to “bring back democratic atmosphere” and establish good governance in the country if voted to power in the December 30 national election.

Mentioning that BNP has given nominations to war criminals, their relatives and corrupt elements in different constituencies, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the people of the country not to cast their votes in favour of them in the forthcoming national election.

Jatiya Oikyafront will launch its road march from Tongi tomorrow, to garner public support ahead of the election on December 30.

Gazipur-4 constituency’s candidate from the Jatiya Oikyafront tent, Shah Riazul Hannan says his motorcade came under attack in Kapasia.

In today’s episode of ‘The Election Talks 2018’, The Daily Star brings to fore researcher and writer Syed Abul Maksud to talk about the upcoming election.

Prime Minister Theresa May's attempt to win assurances from the European Union on her Brexit deal is cast at home as a humiliating failure that did nothing to ease the parliamentary deadlock over Britain's departure from the bloc.

Jatiya Oikyafront’s key leader Dr Kamal Hossain condemns the attack launched on him.

United States Congressman Jim Banks says the US stands with Bangladeshi people seeking free, fair and safe democratic elections but cautions that Islamist groups like Jamaat-e-Islami pose a great threat to the country’s democracy and progress.

Human Rights Watch urges the international community to press the government of Bangladesh to create conditions conducive to a free and fair national election slated for December 30.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pay rich tributes to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at Mirpur mausoleum in Dhaka on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day.

Gazipur-5 BNP candidate Fazlul Haque Milon and at least 53 activists of the party and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami have been arrested in separate cases since Wednesday night.

Candidates from Awami League allies competing against AL nominees in different constituencies is part of a strategy, AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

A Chhatra League leader attacks the BNP candidate for Narayanganj-3 constituency Azharul Islam Mannan at a law and order meeting on electoral code of conduct at Sonargaon upazila parishad.

The Election Commission will deploy army from December 24 as a striking force across the country during the 11th parliamentary election.

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