Eleven Jatiya Party candidates boycotted the 12th national election midway through voting, alleging widespread irregularities including stuffing of ballots and seizing of polling centres in their areas, said Mahmud Alam, joint office secretary of the party

The election "without opposition" in Bangladesh has seen a low voter turnout but guarantees a fifth term for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, reported several international media today

Ballot box stuffed with ballot papers were set on fire at a polling centre in Tangail's Gopalpur upazila just half an hour before the voting in the election ended

Observers from Russia, Palestine, and Gambia have found the election process in Bangladesh very impressive, open and transparent

Claiming that their party's call for boycotting the "unilateral" national election was successful, BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan today congratulated the voters for not going to the polling stations

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said around 40 percent votes were cast in the 12th parliamentary election

Supporters of an independent candidate from Dhaka-14 alleged that signatures of polling agents were taken on the result sheet before voting ended at a polling centre in Kalyanpur Girls School

A healthy voter turnout will work in favour of the election and its credibility, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said today

The voting of 12th parliamentary elections has ended at 4:00pm today

The Election Commission cancelled the candidacy of ruling Awami League candidate and current lawmaker from Chattogram-16 (Banshkhali) Mostafizur Rahman Chowdhury

There weren't many voters around 10:00am at Gulshan Model School in Dhaka-17 constituency, but suddenly about 20 individuals got together and formed a queue in front of the polling centre when several TV cameras appeared to cover the polls situation

Eight candidates in different constituencies across the country have boycotted the 12th national election so far, alleging vote rigging and irregularities

Supporters of the AL candidate distributed lunch boxes and water bottles with stickers of the "boat" symbol and Sheikh Hasina's name to the polls officials at Noyatola Darussalam Etimkhana Complex in the Dhaka-12 constituency, where four polling centres are located

Ninety-year-old Lozzatun Nesa of Baniyadi in Rupnagar, Narayanganj, defied physical challenges and age barriers to exercise her voting right

Four persons including a child were injured after unidentified miscreants exploded two crude bombs near a voting centre in Dhaka's Hazaribagh this morning

Nurjahan Begum, a 58-year-old voter, has been waiting behind 30 women in a long queue for more than one hour until 1:00pm to cast her vote at Baniadi Government Primary School polling centre in Narayanganj-1 constituency

Two people suffered bullet wounds as two groups clashed near a polling centre in Chattogram’s Khulshi area this morning

The percentage of votes cast in the 12th parliamentary election till 12:10pm was 18.5 percent.

At least 15 arson attacks were reported in the 12 hours preceding the start of the national election this morning, according to Fire Service statistics

An assistant presiding officer of a polling centre under Gazipur-2 constituency died of cardiac arrest this morning