The Election Commission yesterday rejected the demand of the Awami League and the Jatiya Party for changing a provision of the electoral code that bars MPs from electioneering, drawing sharp reactions from the party leaders.

Dhaka North City Mayor Annisul Huq vows to take action against attackers who went berserk during an eviction drive at Tejgaon.

The ruling Awami League, the Workers Party of Bangladesh and the BNP will formally meet the chief election commissioner to press home their respective demands on the upcoming municipality polls, leaders of the parties said.

The BNP yesterday announced that it would contest the December 30 municipality polls on certain conditions, including deferral of the polls by 15 days.

The Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) is set to hold its two-yearly elections today to elect a 56-member executive committee

The Election Commission yesterday directed all the 236 returning officers (ROs) of upcoming municipality polls to

A Dhaka court yesterday indicted four suspected Islamic State (IS) operatives for conspiring to topple the government through subversive activities and establish a Khilafat state in Bangladesh.

Elections to 234 municipalities will be held on December 30, marking the start of the country's first local government polls on partisan lines.

The High Court orders Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities to provide Nazma Begum, an acid victim of Chandpur, with treatment in the burn unit of the hospital at its own cost until she gets fully cured.

Elections to around 240 municipalities across the country are likely to be held on December 30, said Election Commission officials.

The Election Commission yesterday sent two separate drafts of electoral rules and code of conduct for the upcoming municipality polls to the law ministry for scrutiny.

Parliament last night passed three bills allowing partisan elections to the mayoral post at city corporation level and to the chairman post at upazila parishad and union parishad levels.

Forest officials arrested 12 fishermen for fishing in the sanctuary in West Sundarbans under Satkhira range on Tuesday night.

Syeda Saira Mohsin, widow of former social welfare minister Syed Mohsin Ali, last night got the ruling Awami League's (AL) ticket to

A mobile court sentences two students to one month’s jail for their involvement in fraudulent activities during 'Gha' unit admission test of the Dhaka University.

At least 50 people, including eight policemen, were injured in a clash on Wednesday evening between two groups of people in Sadar

Police arrested the main accused in ASI Sujaul Islam murder case in Ishwardi upazila at midnight on Wednesday.

Two alleged robbers were injured in a 'gunfight' with police in Churkhai area under Sadar upazila early yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday extended its order that had stayed the Tangail-4 by-election until the High Court disposes of the rule over the candidacy of Krishak Shramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddiqui.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested ten robbers at Tangail Sadar upazila on Saturday night.