Election Commission today show-caused Aftab Hossain Khan, a councillor candidate of Sylhet city polls, and ordered him to file a written response and appear before the EC in Dhaka on 14 June

Awami League candidate Abul Khair Abdullah was leading by 39,485 votes in Barishal City Corporation mayoral polls

The party also boycotts upcoming polls in Sylhet, Rajshahi

Police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) charged batons on the supporters of Islami Andolan Bangladesh's mayoral candidate Mufti Syed Faizul Karim to disperse them from Beltala Bazar in the city this afternoon

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal estimated that voter turnout was about 50 percent in the Barishal City Corporation election that ended at 4:00pm..He said turnout in the Khulna City Corporation polls was between 42 and 45 percent..While briefing reporters at the EC Offic

Incumbent Barishal City Corporation (BCC) Mayor Serniabad Sadiq Abdullah, also the secretary of Awami League city unit, did not cast his vote in today's city corporation polls

Protesting the attack on the Islami Andolon Bangladesh mayoral candidate during Barishal City Corporation elections, more than 500 leaders and activists of the party have gathered in front of Barishal University

The attack on Mufti Syed Faizul Karim, the mayoral candidate of Islami Andolan Bangladesh in the Barishal City Corporation polls, was a "sudden and stray" incident, Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) Ahsan Habib Khan said

Jatiya Party mayoral candidate Shafiqul Islam Madhu today expressed his frustration over voting through electronic voting machines (EVMs) and said he had told the Election Commission not to use them in the Khulna City Corporation polls

Jatiya Party (Ershad)-backed mayoral candidate Md Shafiqul Islam Madhu has alleged that his agents are being barred from entering polling centres by supporters of Awami League (AL) candidate during the ongoing Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election

Islami Andolon Bangladesh mayoral candidate Mufti Syed Faizul Karim and several supporters were injured in an attack allegedly by ruling party men during the Barishal City Corporation polls

A 65-year-old woman from Nabinagar under Khulna City Corporation overcame her physical difficulties to cast her vote in today's city polls

EC's steps have assured and inspired voters to come to the polling centres, he said while briefing reporters at his EC office

The ruling Awami League (AL) candidate Abul Khair Abdullah once again refused to comment on who his brother Abul Hasanat Abdullah and nephew Serniabad Sadiq Abdullah’s would vote for in today's Barishal City Corporation polls.

Voting in City Corporation elections of Barishal and Khulna cities began this morning using EVMs

Over 85 motorcycles have been seized from various locations for violating a police ban imposed on the movement of the vehicles ahead of tomorrow’s Barishal City Corporation elections

Barishal City Corporation election’s Awami League mayoral candidate Abul Khair Abdullah today said he would accept the poll results regardless of the outcome

Awami League mayoral candidate Abul Khair Abdullah today declined to comment on whether his brother Abul Hasanat Abdullah and his nephew Sadiq Abdullah would vote for him or not

The city of Barishal is now covered in a sea of posters of the mayoral and councillor candidates ahead of tomorrow's city corporation elections

Iqbal Hossain Tapos, Jatiya Party mayoral candidate of Barishal City Corporation elections, has accused the ruling Awami League government of making "extensive preparations for stealing votes" in the city polls slated for tomorrow