The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won 197 seats in the 300-seat Jatiya Sangsad, giving it a majority, according to Jamuna, Somoy television channels. This is the first time in 6 years that ...

From the shadows of a ban, the Shafiqur Rahman-led Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has emerged at the centre stage. As Bangladesh votes today, the Jamaat, with an image makeover, is giving the Tarique ...

Students in Bangladesh started protesting in early July 2024 and demanded reform in the job quota system that reserved more than half of government jobs.

Defining class for the purpose of legislation is a non-starter, writes Michael Chapman. Plus a letter from Patrick Yarker Further to your editorial on class becoming a legally protected characteristic ...

With two days left for Bangladesh for the 13th national parliamentary election, surveys have predicted the outcome of the key elections, the first since the collapse of the Sheikh Hasina regime.

The Election Commission of India on Monday accused the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leadership of making “deliberate and systematic attempts…to derail, ...

Campaigning for Bangladesh’s 13th Jatiya Sangsad election and the accompanying referendum ends at 7:30 this morning, ushering in the mandatory 48-hour silence period ahead of voting on Thursday.

Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, director general of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), visited BGB election base camps in Chattogram-6 and Chattogram-2 to monitor the overall law and order ...

In Bangladesh, as campaigning for the 13th Jatiya Sangsad election and referendum enters its final day, Dhaka has seen large rallies by senior political leaders, adding to congestion and heightening ...