2024. Nationwide voting opened Sunday morning in Bangladesh's general elections to elect hundreds of representatives to parliament. According to the Election Commission, a total of 1,970 candidates are contesting for 299 out of the 300 directly-elected parliamentary constituencies. The election to one...
Staff members transfer ballot boxes to a polling center in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 6, 2024. Bangladesh is all set for Sunday's general elections in which about 120 million voters are expected to cast their ballots at over 42,000 polling stations across the country. (Xinhua) Election materials...
elections:last held on 7 January 2024 (next to be held in 2029) election results:percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party as of December 2023 - AL 306, JP 27, BNP 0, other 14, independent 3; approximate composition - men 277, women 73, percent of women 20.9% ...
Officials sort ballot papers after counting them during the 12th general election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan 7, 2024. [Photo/Agencies] DHAKA -- Bangladesh's ruling Awami League (AL) party of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has gained more than 70 percent of parliamentary seats in the country's g...
7 general election boycotted by the main opposition party. Below is a summary of key facts in Yunus' tangles with the law in Bangladesh, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina often criticising the 83-year-old, who won the peace prize in 2006 for his work in making microloans...
By JULHAS ALAM Updated 9:29 AM GMT+8, September 18, 2024 Share DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of activists and leaders of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party rallied Tuesday in the nation’s capital to demand a democratic transition through an election as an interim government ha...
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Supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) shout slogans during a rally demanding a democratic transition through an election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept.17, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar) DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of activists and leaders of the opposition Bangla...
The government has officially declared January 7th 2024 as a general holiday across the country. This significant decision, aimed at facilitating the electoral process, was conveyed through a notification signed by Atiar Rahman, Deputy Secretary of Election Management-2, issued on Sunday December 24th...
Dec 5, 2024Brahma Chellaney An unstable Bangladesh mired in radical Islamism and political violence has long been India’s geopolitical nightmare. One hopes that the US soon recognizes that this is not conducive to its interests, either, and puts pressure on Bangladesh’s interim government to pr...