Election Commission (EC) will announce schedule for Gazipur and Khulna city corporations elections on March 31.

The ultimate tragedy will strike if people become withdrawn. It will no longer matter who wins or loses any of the many elections.

Overwhelmed by the vociferous postmortem of the city corporation polls, two footfalls on the cityscape have gone unnoticed, unappreciated, as though coming and going on stealth.

The EC's tilt was no less pronounced on the eve of and on the day of the elections. Press reports, photographs and narratives of many involved in the election administration process have amply established its culpability in undermining fair election.

BNP's decision to boycott the election halfway into the voting has surprised most observers.

THE handsome, charismatic and successful young men join hands and smile for the perfect photo.

Though not happy with the irregularities and vote rigging during the just held city corporation elections, commoners in Dhaka city want to see their city clean, free of traffic-jam and developed.

IT is difficult to accept the comments of the CEC that the three city corporation elections were held in a fair and peaceful manner and that there were no threats or anomalies.

IT is disquieting to see that the media was conspicuously barred from properly covering the city polls.

STUFFING of ballot boxes whether in national or local elections is nothing new in Bangladesh.

WHAT started off as a peaceful, tension-free day of voting, turned out to be a disappointment for the city dwellers of Dhaka and Chittagong.

IN these very columns we had carried an article with a similar heading following the farcical January 5, 2013 elections. Regrettably, we have to say the same about yesterday's mayoral election that did not live upto our expectations.

Experts and observers share their views on the electoral proceedings of the City Corporation Elections and their implications for the political climate of the country with The Daily Star.

Supporters of Awami League-backed mayoral and councilor candidates stuffed ballot boxes indiscriminately driving out poling agents of BNP-backed candidates from a polling booth at Kamalapur Sher-e Bangla Railway High School Centre-1 today.

Ruling Party Awami League supporters allegedly stormed into Uttar Kafrul Government Primary School and vandalised ballot boxes in Cantonment area under Dhaka North City Corporation this morning.

WITH potholed roads, contaminated water, choked drains, and garbage littered all over the city, the picture of Dhaka is grim.

The Mayoral Elections are knocking on the door and amidst the cacophony of campaigns ruining our afternoon naps, there is one

ONE'S first reac-tion to the announcement of the three mayoral elections was to ascribe all sorts of motives on the part of the government, and motives there may still be on its part.

FOR understandable reasons the ensuing mayoral election in the national capital and the commercial capital of the country has

THERE is a close link between economic growth, human development and good management of natural resources, mainly water bodies