Barishal Metropolitan Police has imposed a ban on carrying and displaying all kinds of weapons in the city from tomorrow (Saturday)

Awami League leaders and activists have become the main contesters of each other for most of the councillor posts in the Khulna City Corporation election.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) today raised concern over the Representation of the People Order (Amendment) Bill, 2023, saying the bill will further curb the Election Commission’s power once it is passed in the Jatiya Sangsad.

EC officials today said a group of people are trying to make the Rajshahi City Corporation election questionable through extortion calls to candidates using the fake profile of an election commissioner

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has rejected the candidature of Raiz Ahmed alias Manna, a councillor candidate of Ward 2 in the Barishal City Corporation (BCC) election

By-polls to Chattogram-10 constituency will be held on July 30. The Election Commission announced the schedule yesterday.

As BNP, a party with a substantial voter base, is not participating in the upcoming Barishal City Corporation election, a pertinent question arises surrounding which candidate will get the support of the BNP loyalists.

By-polls to Chattogram-10 constituency will be held on July 30

The literacy rate and compliance with income taxes among the candidates of the Barishal city polls have increased, which is a positive sign, according to Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan).

With BNP’s significant vote bank up for grabs, politicians and experts are now wondering which candidates will emerge victorious in the upcoming Khulna City Corporation polls slated for June 12.

Around 2,000 closed-circuit TV cameras (CCTV) will be installed in and outside polling stations in Khulna so that the Election Commission in Dhaka can monitor the voting situation there, said sources at the local EC office.

Talukder Abdul Khaleque, the ruling party’s candidate for the mayoral position in the upcoming Khulna city polls on June 12, has presented electoral pledges similar to those in his 2018 manifesto for the Khulna city polls.

The ongoing conflict between Abul Khair Abdullah, the Awami League mayoral candidate, and his nephew, incumbent mayor Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah, has reached new heights ahead of the upcoming Barishal City Corporation election on June 12.

With only four days left, the Election Commission has started to install around 2,000 CCTV cameras in all the 289 centres aiming to monitor the Khulna City Corporation polls from the EC office in Dhaka.

The United States says it is looking forward to "deepening" its relationship with Bangladesh in a number of areas addressing energy, climate issues and economy

The Election Commission has imposed a ban on the movement of motorcycles for 72 hours and other vehicles for 24 hours in the Khulna metropolitan area during the city corporation election slated for June 12

Voters have been showing more interest towards councillor candidates rather than mayoral ones in the upcoming Khulna City polls, scheduled for June 12.

Violating the electoral code of conduct, most of the mayoral and councillor candidates in Sylhet City Corporation elections have been seen putting up laminated posters and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) banners around the city roads.

Ashraful Hossain Alam, known as Hero Alam, will contest the by-election to the Dhaka-17 constituency, which fell vacant following the death of actor Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque

BNP has served show cause notices on 41 candidates for participating in the Sylhet City Corporation elections in defiance of the party decision to boycott the city polls.