12th JS Polls

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Politics

A host of candidates say goodbye to their security deposits

Deposit is forfeited if candidates fail to secure one eighth of the total votes cast 

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Politics

Bangladesh citizens exercised electoral rights peacefully: Indian polls observers

President of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Oli Ahmed. Photo: Collected
Politics

It's a vote robbery in name of election: LDP president

File photo of Jatiyo Party Chairman GM Quader. Photo: Collected
Politics

Controlled election by govt won’t be acceptable: GM Quader

Logo of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Photo: OHCHR
Bangladesh

Take steps to renew commitment to democracy, human rights: UN rights chief to Bangladesh govt

Ballot box at Darus Salam Government Primary School polling station under Dhaka-14 constituency at around 12:45am on election day. Photo: Mehedi Hasan Marof/TBS
Politics

95 candidates, including 5 party chiefs, lose security deposit in Ctg

The incidents took place in different areas of Mongla upazila on Sunday night and Monday morning. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

12 AL supporters injured in attacks allegedly by workers of defeated independent candidate

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. File Photo: Collected.
Politics

Modi speaks with Hasina, says India will continue to support Bangladesh's aspirations, growth

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Politics

Voting in Naogaon-2 to be held on 12 February

Dhaka-19 MP elect Mohammad Saiful Islam. Photo: Collected
Politics

Independent triumph: Saiful Islam ousts heavyweights in Dhaka-19

Law Minister Anisul Huq is talking to reporters in the Motorstand area of Brahmanbaria's Akhaura upazila on Monday (8 January). Photo: Azizul Sanchay
Politics

We have to wait to decide if independents become opposition: Law minister

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader. File Photo: TBS
Politics

PM will decide who becomes opposition party in parliament: Quader

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Politics

Highest 87.24% voter turnout in PM Hasina's Gopalganj-3, lowest 13.04% in Dhaka-15