Former Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union leaders on Wednesday expressed grave concerns about the university鈥檚 decision to deploy the army during the DUCSU elections scheduled for September 9...
THE University of Dhaka authorities鈥� decision to deploy the army as a 鈥榮triking force鈥� during the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections, scheduled for September 9, is both humiliating and alarming. The announcement came at an exchange of views between the returning officers and the candidates for the positions of vice-president, general secretary and...
National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam on Tuesday said that if the July Charter gets a legal basis, the party is ready for elections in February...
The Appellate Division on Thursday began hearing a review petition challenging its 2011 verdict that annulled the constitutional provision for a non-party caretaker government, a system once credited with ensuring neutral national elections in Bangladesh...
On the second day of nomination form distribution for the long-awaited Rajshahi University Central Students鈥� Union, hall union and senate representative elections, only 10 candidates collected forms on Monday, compared with five on the opening day...
Cyber-bullying and smear campaigns targeting candidates, particularly females, have emerged as a disturbing trend in the run-up to the Jahangirnagar University Central Students鈥� Union elections, raising concerns about inclusivity and the safety of female participants in campus politics...
The interim government carried out a major reshuffle in police with 36 senior police officers reshuffled on Monday, including new appointments of police superintendents in seven districts, ahead of the national elections...
Anti-Corruption Commission chair Mohammad Abdul Momen on Monday urged the voters to reject candidates who would use undisclosed money in the upcoming national election.
The first day of the Election Commission鈥檚 hearing on the draft delimitation of constituencies for the 13th National Parliamentary Elections was marred by chaos on Sunday as two groups of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from...
A number of aspirants in the upcoming elections to the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union and hall unions on Sunday demanded strict action against cyber bullying and violation of the electoral code of conduct.
A total of 34 aspirants, primarily announced ineligible to vie in the forthcoming elections to the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union, appealed for a review of their nomination papers...
The Bangladesh Election Commission is set to publish the draft list of polling centres for the forthcoming 13th parliamentary elections on September 10...
At least 10 panels and independent candidates are going to contest in the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections as the timeline for submitting nomination papers ended on Wednesday...
The Rajshahi University authorities on Wednesday announced a revised schedule for the central students鈥� union elections, a day after abruptly suspending the pre-set schedule for distributing nomination papers, drawing stern criticism from the students...
The European Union has announced an assistance package of more than four million euros to help Bangladesh Election Commission organise the Jatiya Sangsad elections in accordance with international standards...
A total of 565 nomination forms were sold till Monday against 28 posts in the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections scheduled to be held on September 9...
The Election Commission is set to begin hearings on objections and recommendations regarding the draft boundaries of parliamentary constituencies on August 24 as part of the preparations for the 13th Jatiya Sangsad elections...
US president Donald Trump聽said Monday he would lead a 鈥榤ovement鈥� against mail-in balloting as he sought to eliminate a voting method used by nearly a third of the country ahead of next year鈥檚 midterm elections...
Myanmar鈥檚 junta said Monday that long-promised elections will start on December 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the country out of its control, and international monitors slating the poll as a charade...
Myanmar鈥檚 ruling military junta said Monday that the country鈥檚 election would start on December 28, beginning a phased poll being boycotted by opposition groups and criticised by international monitors...
The number of students collecting nomination papers for the elections to the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union reached 125 as 64 collected nomination papers on the sixth day of the distribution of the papers on Sunday...
Speakers at a youth-focused workshop on Saturday highlighted the importance of elections and the role of students鈥� unions for resuming the democratic journey of the country...
Leaders of major political parties on Friday gave mixed reactions to interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus鈥檚 recent interview...
A 10-member committee has been formed to scrutinise the applications of the intending local observer organisations of the next national parliamentary elections, a press release of the EC said...
THIS is welcome that the chief adviser to the interim government has announced the date of the 13th national elections. The chief adviser, in his address to the nation marking the first anniversary of July Mass Uprising Day on August 5, unambiguously said that he would write to the chief election commissioner to make all preparations for holding the next national...
Election Commission has submitted a seven-point set of recommendations to Bangladesh interim government aimed at empowering presiding officers, strengthening their role and enhancing security measures at polling centres ahead of the upcoming 13th national elections.
The authorities on Monday announced that the elections to the Rajshahi University Central Students鈥� Union would be held on September 15...
The interim government council of advisers in a meeting on Thursday scrapped the provision of using party symbols in local elections, deciding that from now on these elections would be held with individual symbols.
Election commission has sought information of the returning officers, presiding officers, assistant presiding officers and polling officers, who served in the 10th, 11th and 12th parliamentary elections...
A group of Rajshahi University students on Monday staged a sit-in, demanding the announcement of a full schedule for the Rajshahi University Central Students鈥� Union elections soon...