In the wake of Awami League’s decision not to back any candidate and allow anyone to use the party’s electoral symbol in the upcoming upazila elections, many grassroots and central leaders are throwing their weight behind the candidates of their liking.

Many leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami are going to take part in the upcoming upazila polls as independents.

The Awami League yesterday instructed its leaders, ministers, and lawmakers not to interfere in the upazila parishad elections and indulge in any activity that could compromise the neutrality of the polls.

A total of 161 upazilas around the country will go to polls in the second phase, the EC announced following a meeting of the election commissioners

The Election Commission has made mandatory the submission of nominations online for the aspirants of upcoming upazila elections to prevent the violation of the electoral code of conduct.

The first phase of this year's upazila election will be held on May 8, the Election Commission said today

The Election Commission has increased the rate of security deposit for the upazila chairman and vice chairman aspirants by 10 and 15 times, respectively.

Ekramul Haque Titu has once again won the mayoral post in the Mymensingh city corporation election securing a total of 1.39 lakh votes

Chowdhury Fahria Afrin, wife of former mayor, has won a landside victory in the by-elections of Munshiganj municipality

A man was shot dead and another sustained bullet injuries during a clash between supporters of two candidates centring the Pirojpur Union Parishad by-election under Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj this evening, said police

Mohiuddin Ahmed elected mayor of Patuakhali municipality for the second term by defeating his rival candidate former mayor Dr Md Shafiqul Islam

Tahseen Bahar Shuchona has won the Cumilla mayoral by-polls, beating her nearest opponent Monirul Hoque Sakku by a margin of 21,993 votes

Voting ended on time for the mayoral by-election in Cumilla City Corporation today, despite some incidents of violence

Voter turnout increased in the later stages of voting in Mymensingh City Corporation election

Police in a drive today detained a man after a clash between the supporters of two candidates of Cumilla City Corporation elections that left two people bullet-hit at a polling centre in the city

.Twenty-five percent votes have been cast at four polling centres of Mymensingh City Corporation election in the first four hours today..This correspondent visited three centres in Nasirabad Government Girls’ High School and a center in City Collegiate School..In Nasirabad Gove

Many voters in the Mymensingh City Corporation polls were seen leaving centres without casting their votes as their fingerprints did not match in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)

The incident took place at Neura Munshi M Ali High School centre

In the first two hours after the start of Cumilla mayoral by-polls, three mayoral candidates brought allegations that the supporters of Tahsin Bahar Suchona -- daughter of Cumilla-6 lawmaker AKM Bahauddin Bahar -- have been driving out the agents from the polling centres

Vote counting in the two-day Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election was halted this morning following an altercation due to alleged interference from a group of outsiders on behalf of a candidate