The election is around the corner. This year, social media is going to be one of the most effective platforms for election campaigns. Keeping this in mind, The Daily Star had sent a set of questions regarding fake news, rumours, duplicate pages, and dubious groups to Shivnath Thukral, the public policy head of Facebook for India and South Asia.

Bloodied but not yet beaten, Prime Minister Theresa May comes to Brussels for the second time in three days on Thursday, battling to save her Brexit deal and her career.

Najib Tun Razak has been arrested by graft investigators over the “tampering” of the 1MDB final audit report.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader urges the party members across the country to celebrate the victory day with due respect and in a festive mood.

The BNP is banking on new faces in this general election. Yesterday, the party unveiled its final candidates for 202 seats, with at least 90 of them first-time candidates.

Appearing in public for the first time since November 20, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday claimed that he was not being allowed to go abroad for treatment though he was ill.

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the government to file a leave to appeal petition in two weeks against a High Court order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in an arson case.

Jatiya Oikyafront has postponed its rally scheduled to be held on December 10 in Dhaka on political ground.

BNP candidate Mirza Abbas gets a chance to have his nomination freshly scrutinised as the Supreme Court rejects a government petition against his candidature.

The High Court yesterday granted bail to barrister Mainul Hosein for six months in two cases filed against him for making “defamatory” remarks about journalist Masuda Bhatti.

BNP and Jatiya Oikyafront are playing a blame game to make the upcoming general election controversial, Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal General Secretary Dilip Barua said this today.

The High Court rejects a writ petition filed by Bangladesh Jatiya Party Chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partho seeking its directives upon the Election Commission for using EVM at his constituency in the December 30 election.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says the government does not want to hold a lopsided election as their Prime Minister is against scoring a goal in an empty field.

A Supreme Court lawyer files a writ petition with the High Court challenging the legality of Election Commission’s decision to use electronic voting machine at six constituencies in the next parliamentary election.

In more than 400 WhatsApp messages sent to a fellow Saudi exile in the year before he was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Khashoggi describes bin Salman -- often referred to as MBS -- as a "beast," a "pac-man" who would devour all in his path, even his supporters.

BNP-led 20-party alliance coordinator Col (retd) Oli Ahmed casts doubt on the sustainability of the alliance under the “government’s repression”.

BNP alleges that its Chairperson Khaleda Zia's nomination paper has been cancelled as part of government blueprint to hold a lopsided election.

The nomination paper submitted by Reza Kibria under Gonoforum for Habiganj-1 is rejected on loan default charges.

The Election Commission cancels 786 nominations during its scrutiny process before clearing candidates to contest for the general elections.

Leaders of Bangladesh Hindu Buddha Christian Oikya Parishad urge all political parties and their alliances to ensure proportionate representation and participation of minorities in the parliament according to their demographic ratio.