PM to join polls rallies through video-conference
Prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina will join election campaign in three districts through a videoconference on Thursday.
Opposition candidates attacked, campaigners prosecuted
Opposition candidates for the December 30 general election have alleged that without taking any action against continued attacks on them and their electioneering by ruling Awami League activists, the police continue prosecuting their campaigners, including elected representatives, for those incidents.
গণতন্ত্র নিয়ে সমস্যা পশ্চিমা দেশেও আছে
গণতন্ত্র এবং নির্বাচন নিয়ে সমস্যা পশ্চিমা দেশেও আছে। আমেরিকায়ও আমরা নির্বাচন নিয়ে সমস্যা দেখছি। তারা নিজেদের বিষয় নিয়ে ব্যস্ত।
More populism, growing rifts and further instability ahead in 2019
2019 will be the year of growing rifts. Populists will claim they have the answers; traditionalists will say nothing is wrong they can't fix. But be sure of one thing: Our old, comfortable order is going to change -- and not in an incremental way that we can more or less handle.
Gayehswar attacked at Keraniganj
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member and the party’s candidate for Dhaka 3 Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and 30 others were injured in an attack by unidentified criminals during his campaign in Keraniganj on Tuesday evening.
BNP upset over growing polls violence
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday voiced frustration over the growing incidents of electoral violence across the country, even after the army deployment.
JOF leaves meeting with CEC after heated debate
A delegation of Jatiya Oikya Front led by its top leader Kamal Hossain on Tuesday walked out of a meeting with the chief election commissioner following a heated argument over the role of police.
Trump rants while 'all alone' in White House on Christmas Eve
It's Christmas in America: The President is home alone in the White House, ranting at his foes inside and outside; an administration lurching deeper into crisis; stock markets are in free fall and the government is paralyzed by a partial shutdown.
Judge orders North Korea to pay Warmbier family $500 million for wrongful death
A federal judge in Washington awarded the parents of Otto Warmbier more than half a billion dollars in a wrongful death suit against the North Korean government, which detained and allegedly tortured the college student over 17 months before returning him to the US last year, where he died days later.
2 killed as polls violence accelerates
Two people were killed in Khagrachari as electoral violence and attacks on opposition candidates accelerated on Monday, five days before the December 30 general election despite deployment of military troops across the country.
