Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday directed polling officers and law enforcers to take action against those involved in irregularities during the voting today.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad hopes the municipal elections will be held in a festive mode.

With the rise of violence ahead of tomorrow's municipality election, civil society organisation SHUJAN yesterday expressed doubts about whether the vote would be free, fair and transparent.

A fire broke out at St Mark Church in Fulchera village of Srimangal upazila under Moulvibazar district early yesterday, five days after in-

The Jatiya Party has provided the EC with a list of 1,500 vulnerable polling stations and demanded that adequate security measures be taken for the centres.

As the municipality election is only around a week away, all mayoral candidates in Rangunia and Sitakunda municipalities of Chittagong are busy campaigning with their election pledges from early morning to midnight.

A man stabbed his wife and mother-in-law over family dispute at Basil village in Bhaluka upazila of the district on Sunday night.

The High Court yesterday stayed the process of Gafargaon Pourasava election, which is scheduled for December 30,

The Election Commission seeks a 24-hour restriction on movement of all sorts of motorised vehicles from early hours of December 30 in municipal areas that go to polls on that day.

Golam Mohiuddin Khan and Syed Mesbahuddin have been elected president and secretary general of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union

Ruling Awami League assessed that AL-nominated mayor aspirants were ahead in around 200 municipalities out of the 234 going to polls on December 30.

Police want restrictions on journalists' access to polling stations in the December 30 municipal polls, but the Election Commission has

Stating that the Hindu community remains vulnerable to attacks before and after any election, leaders of Bangladesh

The Election Commission has enlisted some 64,000 election officials, including presiding officers, assistant presiding officers and polling

BNP is taking part in the December 30 municipality election, fearing that the government might brand the party a militant organisation before foreigners if it boycotts the polls, the party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday.

Ruling Awami League (AL) men allegedly continue violating the electoral code of conduct centring the municipality polls while apparently turning a deaf ear to the Election Commission's (EC) repeated directives.

At least 30 shops are gutted in a fire that broke out at a market in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur this noon.

The High Court yesterday fixed January 3, 2016, for passing an order on a writ petition seeking stay on holding the

Election to the executive committee of Bangladesh Agro Processors' Association (BAPA) will be held at its office in the capital's

Pro-Awami League Blue Panel today swept the Dhaka University Teachers' Association (Duta) election.