Around two weeks before the national polls, the Awami League-led alliance candidates are dominating the electioneering scene in cities, district towns and even villages while the picture is quite the opposite for the contestants of the BNP-led alliance.

The continued attacks on and police harassment of Jatiya Oikyafront leaders and activists are raising fears about what may happen on the polling day, Dr Kamal Hossain said yesterday.

Jatiya Oikyafront leaders want to meet President Abdul Hamid and seek his intervention to improve the current political situation in the run-up to the December 30 polls.

Amid continued violence over the polls, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday claimed that a level playing field was ensured for all candidates.

At least four BNP candidates, including Mahbub Uddin Khokon, and over 100 others were injured in electoral violence in 10 districts since Friday night.

With the election 14 days away, campaigning should be in full swing but the situation in Khulna is different.

Abu Taher died of cancer eight years ago.

The Barishal city is yet to see fully-fledged electioneering by the major political parties although the polls are just two weeks away.

October, 1971. The war waged by the Pakistani occupation army on Bangalees had just entered its eighth month.

Amid continued pre-polls violence, Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed yesterday said only a few such incidents took place in the country.

Bangladesh ended their last ODI in 2018 in perfect fashion, winning the third game and the series against West Indies by a comprehensive eight-wicket margin and making Mashrafe Bin Mortaza's Bangladesh-record 70th match as captain an auspicious one yesterday.

At least two BNP candidates were hurt and another was assaulted during clashes and attacks allegedly by Awami League men in different districts yesterday, as election violence continues to flare.

At the fag end of the Liberation War in 1971, Pakistani forces committed one of the most shameful acts in history sensing their imminent defeat.

Jatiya Oikyafront leader Dr Kamal Hossain’s motorcade is allegedly attacked at the Martyred Intellectuals Mausoleum in Mirpur area of Dhaka.

Bangladesh lost one of its greatest filmmakers Amjad Hossain yesterday.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday expressed no confidence in the High Court bench of Justice JBM Hassan assigned by the chief justice to dispose of the three writ petitions regarding cancellation of her nomination papers.

Gazipur-5 BNP candidate Fazlul Haque Milon and at least 53 activists of the party and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami have been arrested in separate cases since Wednesday night.

Rohingyas living both in Rakhine and Cox's Bazar are in great risk of trafficking and exploitation as they seek a safe and better life after the brutal military crackdown last year, say law enforcers and aid agencies.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday directed the law enforcement agencies to prepare a security plan and a strategy for the coming election keeping in mind the violence centring the 2014 national election.

The BNP yesterday urged the Election Commission to take effective steps to ensure a free and fair electioneering atmosphere for the BNP and Jatiya Oikyafront candidates.