BRTC leaves 32 inter dist routes to pvt operators
State run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation has been facing obstructions from private bus operators in opening and continuing its bus service on inter-district routes, said officials. In last five years, BRTC was compelled to wind up its bus service from at least 32 inter-district routes to facilitate monopoly business of private bus companies, said the officials.
People hired as Ansars clash with police over poll day pay
At least seven people who were hired to serve as Ansar members during the elections were injured when police fired blanks and charged batons on members who were demonstrating at the capital’s Darussalam area Wednesday evening in demand for dues from electoral duties.
AL rivals clash for controlling vote rigging.
The activists of rival candidates from ruling Awami League clashed each others at several polling stations in three city corporation elections in the capital and Chittagong in a bid to rig votes and occupy centres.
Polling officers helped ballot stuffing at Curzon Hall centre.
The polling station at Curzon Hall of Dhaka University on Tuesday presented vivid show ballot stuffing by the polling agents of ruling Awami League’s candidates with help from the election officers.
DHAKA, CHITTAGONG CITY POLLS Violence, rigging, boycott mar polls.
City polls in Dhaka South, Dhaka North and Chittagong were held on Tuesday amidst widespread stuffing and intimidation by ruling Awami League men, boycott by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed candidates .....
Many factors to influence port city polls.
Personal image of two main rival candidates Awami League-backed AJM Nasir and BNP-backed M Manjur Alam, advantage and disadvantage of Manjur’s incumbency and intra-party conflict may be the key factors in the election today’s election to Chittagong City Corporation.
DHAKA, CHITTAGONG CITY POLLS Polls today as tension runs high.
Dhaka South City, Dhaka North City and Chittagong are set to go to mayoral polls today in the backdrop of opposition BNP candidates expressing doubts whether the polling would be free and fair.
DHAKA, CHITTAGONG CITY POLLS, Cities await high-voltage polls Campaigns end, all set for vote tomorrow.
Electioneering for the polls to the three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong ended midnight past Sunday amid heightening tension as several mayoral and councillor candidates came under attacks again on Sunday.
Voters won’t respond to Khaleda’s call: Hasina.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday said that those who have humanity would not vote BNP and respond to any calls of its chairperson Khaleda Zia for what they did in 91 days in the name of movement.
