The elections failed badly due to EVMs (electronic voting machines), the paddy sheaf symbol was not even included in many of the machines, Ishraque Hossain alleges.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh has attained an ability to advance further by competing any nation of the world and asserted that none can pull the country backward any more.

The BNP to hold a rally in Dhaka city and stage demonstrations across the country on Saturday marking two years of the party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s imprisonment.

BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid today in parliament termed the election commissioners worthless and demanded their resignation for their “failure in arranging fair elections”.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the apathy of voters during the recently held Dhaka city elections is not good for democracy.

A section of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists of Jahangirnagar University is demonstrating on campus, demanding a new BCL committee.

Iowa Democrats met at caucus sites around the state to kick off what could be a bruising months-long national presidential nominating fight, but the results are delayed and still unreported more than three hours after the process began.

After observing a day-long hartal, BNP announces fresh demonstrations in Dhaka city on Tuesday demanding cancellation of the results of elections to Dhaka south and north city corporations.

Police submit charge sheet against 14 accused including a panel mayor of Bogura Municipality in a case filed over the murder of Mahbub Alam Shahin, a local BNP leader, in 2019.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud says longer public holidays, BNP’s publicity against electronic voting machines (EVMs) and their participation in city polls “as a form of movement” are the main reasons behind the poor voter turnout in the elections to two Dhaka city corporations.

The government has given utmost importance to vocational education as the world needs skilled manpower, says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has thanked the foreign diplomatic missions in Dhaka for not including their local staffers in the election observation teams.

The dawn to dusk hartal enforced by BNP in Dhaka city, protesting “widespread irregularities” in the city corporation elections, is progressing peacefully with little impact on public life.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder has said the voter turnout was less than 25 percent till last reported in the elections to the Dhaka north and south city corporations held today.

BNP has called a daylong hartal -- from dawn till dusk -- tomorrow in Dhaka city, rejecting the results of Dhaka North and South City Corporation elections.

A group of Awami League men clashes with BNP activists in front of the latter’s Nayapaltan party office in the capital, hours after voting in Dhaka North and South City Corporations ends.

BNP submits a written complaint to the Election Commission over irregularities centring the ongoing Dhaka North and South city corporation elections.

Moazzem Hossain Alal, chief election agent of BNP’s Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) candidate Tabith Awal, claims that his vehicle has come under a bomb attack in Dhaka’s Ibrahimpur area this morning, but he narrowly escaped it.

Journalists have not been allowed to enter booths in several polling stations under Dhaka North City Corporation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sharply criticises the diplomatic missions in Dhaka that included Bangladeshi nationals as “foreign election observers”, saying that this was “outrageous”.