Only a handful of 45 grassroots leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party responded to the party鈥檚 call to withdraw their candidature from the first phase of upazila parishad elections slated for May 8 in 150 upazilas...
Lutful Habib, brother-in-law of state minister for information and communication technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak who was accused of abducting and torturing his lone rival chairman candidate in the forthcoming Singra...
A total of 2,055 aspiring candidates submitted nomination papers for three positions鈥攃hairman, vice chairman general seat and vice chairman seat reserved for women鈥攊n the second phase of the upazila parishad elections...
The central steering committee of Ganatantra Mancha, a combine of six political parties, on Thursday condemned the decision of the Awami League government increasing security deposits of the candidates...
The Jamaat-e-Islami has withdrawn from the decision to participate in the upazila parishad elections and sent instructions accordingly to all its grassroots committees...
Johannesburg based rights monitoring body CIVICUS Monitor said that criminalisation of activists and crackdown on protests continued following one-sided elections in Bangladesh...
Church walls crumble in India's Kandhamal district, where brutal attacks on Christians 16 years ago means many survivors still worry about their minority's place in a Hindu-majority nation.
