Hasina Ahmed, wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, yesterday again sought intervention of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to locate her

The BNP-backed candidates wanted to stay in the city elections until the end, but Awami League men by intimidating polling agents

A fire breaks out at a bicycle manufacturing factory in Sreepur upazila in Gazipur.

A herd of 16 elephant tramples a woman on a hill of Satkania upazila in Chittagong.

The High Court yesterday adjourned for six more days the hearing on two seven-year-old writ petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda

Swedish Ambassador to Bangladesh Johan Frisell has regretted that BNP boycotted Tuesday's city corporation elections in Dhaka and Chittagong and urged all political actors to act within the framework of the political institutions of the country.

The results of Tuesday's battle of ballots in the three city corporations give some food for thoughts. Three BNP-backed mayoral aspirants jointly polled 9.24 lakh votes, around 35 percent of the total vote cast, even though they boycotted the polls midway.

All three mayor aspirants blessed by main opposition in parliament Jatiya Party could not even bag one-eighth of the votes cast in

Three ruling Awami League-backed mayors-elect yesterday once again expressed vows for the betterment of their respective city corporations and discharging their duties keeping people's interest in their mind.

An early boycott by the BNP knocked the air out of the city elections in Dhaka and Chittagong yesterday, pushing numerous voting irregularities into the background and making the results virtually irrelevant.

The announcement of polls boycott midway through voting, noticeable absence of polling agents and sloppiness since the time of picking candidates have raised questions whether the BNP was serious about the mayoral polls in Dhaka city.

Afroza Abbas, wife of BNP-backed mayoral candidate Mirza Abbas for Dhaka South City Corporation, was unable to cast her vote as she

The ruling Awami League has nominated Maj Gen (retd) ATM Abdul Wahab as a candidate for Magura-1 by-election scheduled to be held on May 30.

British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Gibson expresses his disappointment with the boycott by BNP endorsed candidates from the city corporation elections partway through voting.

BNP’s pull out from the mayoral race was preplanned, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said.

With the withdrawal of all three BNP backed mayoral candidates from the Dhaka city north, south and Chittagong city corporation elections by noon, the national politics is back to square one.

All the three BNP-endorsed mayoral candidates for DNCC, DSCC and CCC boycott election alleging massive vote rigging by whom they identified as pro-ruling Awami League men.

Tabith Awal, BNP-based mayoral candidate for DNCC, submits written complaint to the presiding officer of Tejgaon College saying that his polling agents were barred from entering the polling centre.

An activist of Awami League was killed by criminals over previous enmity at Krishanagar village in Sadar upazila yesterday. The deceased

The Daily Star asks the residents of Dhaka: What would you do if you become mayor? Let’s see what they have to say...