A man has been detained in connection with an attack on Mostafizur Rahman Sumon, a crime reporter at online news portal Agami News, on the day of the Dhaka City Corporation elections on Saturday.

The lack of representation of opposition parties at voting centres has made the election questionable, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder opine while talking to journalists on the recently concluded Dhaka city polls.

Rights group Article 19 expresses grave concerns over attacks on journalists during Saturday’s Dhaka city polls.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud says longer public holidays, BNP’s publicity against electronic voting machines (EVMs) and their participation in city polls “as a form of movement” are the main reasons behind the poor voter turnout in the elections to two Dhaka city corporations.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has thanked the foreign diplomatic missions in Dhaka for not including their local staffers in the election observation teams.

The dawn to dusk hartal enforced by BNP in Dhaka city, protesting “widespread irregularities” in the city corporation elections, is progressing peacefully with little impact on public life.

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif says the ruling party would resist tomorrow’s hartal called by the BNP over rejecting the city corporation polls results.

Fondly known as ‘Julian Bhai’ to his Bangladeshi friends, Francis joined a project of Oxfam in Bihar in 1968. He started working at the camp in India for the Liberation War refugees from Bangladesh. The role he played there earned him the ‘Friends of Liberation War’ honour from Bangladesh in 2012. After voting for the first time in the country, he shared his experience with us. Below is what he saw, in his own words.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda says the elections to the Dhaka north and south city corporations was held in a free, fair and credible manner.

Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) says the Election Commission and the government have failed to hold participatory elections to Dhaka north and south city corporations.

Mohammad Abu Taher, 73, had to wait for 15 minutes just for the electronic voting machine (EVM) to recognise his fingerprint, a photographer of this newspaper saw first-hand at the polling centre in Banani Bidyaniketan School and College.

BNP submits a written complaint to the Election Commission over irregularities centring the ongoing Dhaka North and South city corporation elections.

But isn’t it the responsibility of the Election Commission to create a congenial atmosphere for holding a free and fair election?

At least thirty-three complaints on election-time irregularities have been lodged with the Election Commission (EC) till this afternoon.

Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak says there is no need for polling agents during an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM)-only election.

Voting began at 8:00am and ended at 4:00pm. We have Golam Mortaza with us providing a second quick analysis of what happened so far.

Inside the centre, eager polling agents were waiting to help people find the room to vote. They did not seem to want anything except reminding people to vote for “boat”

Mostafizur Rahman Sumon, a crime reporter of online news portal Agami News, has been attacked while taking photos of a gathering of Awami League activists at Zafrabad in Mohammadpur.

Gano Front mayor candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation Abdus Samad Sujan boycott the elections after bringing allegations of vote rigging and grabbing of polling centers by ruling party men.

Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation Ahmad Sajedul Haque Rubel claimed that there were incidents of crude bomb blasts in parts of the city, to induce fear among the voters so that they do not show up at the polling stations.