Britain鈥檚 prime minister-elect Keir Starmer pledged on Friday to start a period of 鈥榥ational renewal鈥� in the UK after his opposition Labour Party defeated the ruling Conservatives in the general election....
France鈥檚 prime minister on Wednesday urged voters to form a united front to block the far right in legislative elections, warning the anti-immigration party of Marine Le Pen was the only faction capable of winning an absolute majority...
Former chief of the Bangladesh Army, general Aziz Ahmed, allegedly influenced the Election Commission to change the address on a fake National Identity Card issued for his brother Tofail Ahmed, also known as Joseph, under the name Tanvir Ahmed Tanzil....
Eurozone stock markets rallied Wednesday and the euro rose on hopes France could avoid a far-right majority in looming polls, while London also gained ground on the eve of its general election...
WITH less than a month before presidential elections are called, president Ranil Wickremesinghe has highlighted the success of his presidency as rescuing Sri Lanka from its international bankruptcy status that prevents it from doing business with the rest of the world. The signing of the agreement on international debt restructuring for...
WITH the advent of a leader like Donald Trump, we have been watching for the last few decades that the United States is slowly becoming a fascist state. There is a quotation circulating since the last century and it goes like this: 鈥榃hen Fascism Comes to America, It Will Be Wrapped in the Flag.鈥� Although it is more important than who said it, another...
The far-right victory in the first round of France鈥檚 general election is a sign for politicians to better respond to disaffected voters, UK Labour leader...
The first round of Iran鈥檚 presidential election revealed shrinking support for both reformists and conservatives even though some voters are pushing for change by...
The sole reformist in Iran鈥檚 presidential election, Masoud Pezeshkian, will face the ultraconservative Saeed Jalili in a runoff, authorities said on Saturday, following a...
A fired-up Joe Biden came out swinging Friday as he tried to make up for a disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, insisting he was the right man to win November鈥檚 US presidential election...
France鈥檚 political forces were on Friday to make a final bid for votes in crunch legislative elections that could see the far right take control of the government in a...
Iranians cast their ballots on Friday in a presidential election marked by a lone reformist鈥檚 bid to break through against a divided conservative field.
Polls in Iran opened on Friday for a presidential election following the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month....
RISHI SUNAK鈥橲 decision to leave D-Day celebrations early to attend an ITV interview will likely be remembered as the worst blunder of this year鈥檚 UK general election campaign. But the British media鈥檚 coverage of the Normandy ceremony missed the main story: that while heads of state gathered to celebrate the end of fascism in Europe...
The presiding officer and two assistant presiding officers were detained on Wednesday over allegation of accepting money from a mayoral candidate, HM Zainal Abedin, former president of Gaurnadi Upazila Awami League, in the Gaurnadi municipality by-election...
Iranians vote on Friday to elect a new president from six candidates, including a lone reformist who hopes he can challenge the dominance of conservatives in the Islamic republic...
NATO鈥檚 32 nations on Wednesday appointed outgoing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte as the alliance鈥檚 next head, handing him the job at a crucial moment with Russia on the march in Ukraine and US elections looming...
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for 鈥榟igh participation鈥� in Friday鈥檚 presidential election to replace Ebrahim Raisi, who died last month in a helicopter crash...
RECENTLY, news broke from confidential sources in diplomatic channels stating that the US ambassador to Bangladesh, Peter Haas, is resigning from the State Department as a show of protest over US policy in Bangladesh during the 2024 general elections...
THE underplayed defeat for his government by 32 seats in the parliamentary elections, with a whopping loss of 63 BJP MPs from the previous tally, may have reined in prime minister Modi鈥檚 self-obsessed march on Indian democracy for now. His new and untested experiment with a coalition government has just begun, with the opening of the 18th Lok Sabha on June 24...
A senior British minister compared the latest scandal involving Tory candidates accused of betting on the election date to Partygate, a series of...
Tax, immigration, the state-run National Health Service: the UK鈥檚 leading parties are battling over key policy areas in the general election campaign.....
HALF of the world鈥檚 population will have the opportunity to vote by the end of this year as 64 countries and the European Union are scheduled to open their ballot boxes. No previous year has been so flush with elections. Among these countries is India, where a remarkable 969 million voting papers had to be printed ahead of the elections...
French right-wing parties were mired by infighting on Thursday as campaigning intensified for snap elections called by president Emmanuel Macron, but his...
THE High Court has asked the Election Commission and a number of government authorities that include the Local Government Division and the Office of the Registrar General, Birth and Death Registration, to establish the number of the Rohingyas that have been registered as voters and the...
The High Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission and the government authorities to investigate and submit reports on how many Rohingyas were enrolled as...
THERE is no doubt that the 2024 general elections in India, concluded over a week ago, will be long remembered for bringing back Indian politics to normal, thanks to the tested electorates of the largest democracy in the world. Undoubtedly, this election delivered a shocking blow to Modi鈥檚 dominance and will likely curb his autocratic tendencies...
Chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Monday said that elections in the country are not being participatory due to a crisis in politics...
BANGLADESH鈥橲 democratic backslide is manifest not only in the erosion of the electoral culture and the holding of managed elections but also in the complete dominance of businessmen in parliament and local government bodies...
