The mayoral and councilor aspirants launch campaign for the Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations poll.

ON August 21, 2004, 23 Awami League leaders and workers were brutally killed in a premeditated grenade attack in a rally on Bangabandhu Avenue addressed by the then Leader of the Opposition and Awami League, Sheikh Hasina.

A day after BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned to her Gulshan residence, the government Monday evening redeploys police personnel in front of it to ensure her security.

The High Court stayed for a month, a three-day remand of BNP joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed under police custody in a vandalism case.

Two mayor aspirants of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) polls have been served with separate show cause notices for violating electoral code of conducts.

Supreme Court upholds a High Court order that granted bail to Humayun, son of former Awami League lawmaker Khan Tipu Sultan, in a murder case of his wife Shamarukh Mahajabin

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said local government elections should be held in partisan manner and the related laws should be amended to do so.

Pro-BNP academic Prof Emajuddin Ahmed has warned the Election Commission of dire consequences if it fails to hold the upcoming Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation polls in a free and fair manner.

Seven people are sentenced to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing an Awami League man in 2006

20-party calls 48-hour hartal from Monday demanding return of missing Salahuddin Ahmed. Dhaka, Ctg to remain out of purview.

Ten mayor aspirants submit their nomination papers to contest the Dhaka north and south city corporation polls today, the last day for submitting nomination papers

AJM Nasir Uddin and M Manjur Alam Manju, the Awami League- and BNP-backed mayor aspirants, submit their nomination papers to contest the forthcoming Chittagong City Corporation polls slated for April 28.

A mayor aspirant in Dhaka alleges that PM Sheikh Hasina acted against level-playing field in the upcoming city corporation polls by introducing ruling Awami League-backed mayor aspirants

Shortly after announcing fresh agitation programmes for tomorrow, the BNP-led opposition alliance realizes that it had forgot to include blockade. So, it revised the programme and sent out fresh news release

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks grassroots leaders of Awami League’s Dhaka city unit to work together for the party-backed candidates in the upcoming Dhaka city corporation elections

Haji Mohammad Salim, a mayoral candidate who was reportedly advised by the Awami League high command not to contest the Dhaka South City Corporation elections, goes to India for ‘treatment and offering special prayers at a religious place’

Mayor aspirants BNP leaders Abdul Awal Mintoo and Abdus Salam and former Awami League lawmaker Golam Maula Rony collect nomination forms for contesting the upcoming Dhaka city corporation elections

Haji Mohammad Salim is likely to step aside from mayoral race in the upcoming Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections upon advice from the Awami League high command.

10 British MPs move so that the UK government put pressure on Bangladesh to stop disappearances and extra-judicial killings.

Four mayoral aspirants collect nomination forms today for contesting the upcoming elections to the Dhaka city corporations.