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More than half the polling centres have been identified as “risk-prone” for the general elections in Bangladesh, as officials said 90% of them will be under CCTV surveillance, with many policemen deployed in the capital, Dhaka, wearing body cameras. Also Read | Bangladesh election and referendum may prolong instability, caution candidates and experts Officials said…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman gestures to his supporters during the final day of an election campaign rally ahead of the national election, at Jatrabari in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hours before the conclusion of campaign for the 13th national election, leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)…
Andaleev Rahman Partho of Bangladesh Jatiyo Party, a coalition partner of BNP. Photo: Special Arrangement Days ahead of the general election and popular referendum of February 12, candidates and experts questioned the wisdom of holding the referendum that aims to curtail power of the Prime Minister’s post. They said there is very little understanding among the…
A new party on Saturday (January 24, 2026) joined the Jamaat-e-Islami-led electoral alliance ahead of the February 12 parliament election. With the inclusion of the Bangladesh Labour Party, the alliance once again comprises 11 partners, a week after an Islamic party announced its exit. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is the country’s largest Islamic political party. On Saturday…
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Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has urged the Election Commission to work with “complete impartiality”, weeks ahead of February 12 general elections. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the remarks on Sunday evening (January 18, 2026) after…
Bangladesh’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hasan Mahmud speaks during the press conference at Press club of India, in New Delhi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: ANI Excluding the Awami League, which led Bangladesh’s independence movement in 1971, from the upcoming election will not lead to stability in the country, said Hasan Mahmud, former…
Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus-led interim government on Saturday (December 13, 2025) ordered a nationwide security clampdown as fresh unrest gripped the country following the shooting of a right-wing cultural group’s youth leader. Inquilab Mancha leader Sharif Osmann Hadi, also a candidate in the scheduled February 12 general elections, was shot on Friday (December 12,…
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Bangladeshi Supreme Court. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Thursday (November 20, 2025) ordered restoration of election time non-partisan caretaker government but said the judgment would not apply to the planned general elections to be held in February next year. A full seven-member of the Supreme Court’s apex Appellate Division led by Chief…
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. File. | Photo Credit: AP Fifteen months after leaving capital Dhaka in the midst of an uprising, Bangladesh’s deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that ‘mistakes’ were “certainly made” by security forces while responding to the ‘disordered situation’ during last year’s student-people uprising. In a written interview to…
Md Touhid Hossain, adviser for Foreign Affairs of the interim government of Bangladesh. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Bangladesh’s interim government on Wednesday (October 8, 2025) described Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s comments on the general election as “completely unwarranted”, saying it is entirely an internal affair of the country. “I see that statement as not…
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