A circus elephant tramples three people to death and damages several houses at three villages in Mollahat upazila of Bagerhat.

The High Court yesterday stayed for three months the Bangladesh Bar Council election, which was scheduled to be held on May 27.

Citing that ruling Awami League men resorted to “massive” vote-rigging during April 28 city corporation elections, TIB says the elections were not held in free, fair and impartial manner.

Presiding officers noticed no assaults on journalists on the Dhaka city corporation polls day, although such incidents at 30 centres were reported by different media outlets.

The recently held city corporation elections in Dhaka and Chittagong went well because nobody was killed on the occasion, opposition leader Raushan Ershad commented yesterday, while talking to journalists on recent issues at the Jatiya Sangsad Media Centre.

Two separate writ petitions were filed with the High Court yesterday seeking stay on election to Bangladesh Bar Council, the highest body for regulating the country's lawyers, scheduled to be held on May 27.

The election to Bangladesh Bar Council has been deferred for a week due to anomalies in its voter list.

Re-election for the post of general councillors will be again held today from 8:00am to 4:00pm at three polling stations in three wards

The election to Bangladesh Bar Council, the licencing and regulatory body for lawyers, will be held on May 20.

A 20-year-old university student standing for the Scottish National Party defeated a Labour Party grandee in Britain's national election to become the youngest member of the British parliament in 350 years.

Poll result sheets of the Election Commission say each of at least six polling stations witnessed over 90 percent of its votes being cast in the recently held Dhaka south and north city corporation elections, eliciting astonishment from experts.

BNP-backed mayoral contestant for Dhaka North City Corporation Tabith Awal says it has been proved once again that a free, fair and acceptable election is not possible under the present Election Commission.

Writ petition is filed with High Court seeking directives on Election Commission and government to form judicial inquiry commission for investigation into "irregularities" during city polls.

Dodging city corporation taxes will not be a crime since the mayors were not voted to office, said Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB)

The newly elected mayors and councillors of three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong are sworn-in.

At least four people are killed and as many injured as a truck rammed a three-wheeler human hauler in Rajoir upazila of Madaripur this morning.

A team of India’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) comes to Dhaka on a four-day visit as part of a joint effort by Bangladesh and India to curb trans-boundary militancy and terrorism, police said.

The BNP chairperson's adviser Hannan Shah yesterday said electoral code of conduct was flouted at 98 percent of the polling centres

As the chief election commissioner, Justice MA Aziz had once compared the Election Commission's task with that of a “postbox.”

Amid rising concern of religious extremism in Bangladesh, American experts have called for encouraging genuine dialogue between