Voting was suspended at 22 polling centres throughout the country, Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed says.

After casting her ballot at Dhaka City College centre, Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she believes in democracy and will accept the people’s mandate.

Voting for the 11th parliamentary election ended peacefully in Dhaka; but was tainted with violence elsewhere across the country and cost the lives of at least a dozen people.

On December 7, 1970, after 23 years of existence, Pakistan witnessed its first general election. People from West and the then East Pakistan voted in 300 parliamentary constituencies to elect members of the National Assembly of Pakistan. The outcome of the election was a landslide win by the Awami League, which won 160 seats in the National Assembly.

After ten years, Bangladesh is back to a participatory election of sorts. Parties of all hue and colour are contesting the polls that is going to be held today. But the buck stops here.

Bangladeshi voters can very easily find the polling centres at which they are going to cast their vote on December 30. Follow these simple steps to find your polling centre.

Three sons of presidents are running for parliament from Kishoreganj and people are saying it's the district of the VIPs.

Anarul Islam, a rickshaw-van puller, parked his vehicle in front of Sumon's grocery shop in Ramchandrapur village of Rajshahi's Paba upazila in Rajshahi-3 constituency yesterday noon while two Awami League activists were describing their party's dominance in the area to this correspondent sitting inside the shop.

The arson attack on Hindu houses in Banshkahli's Muhuripara area nearly six years ago still haunts the villagers.

Chattogram division consists of 11 districts – Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Rangamati, Khagrachhari, Bandarban, Noakhali, Laxmipur, Feni, Cumilla, Brahmanbaria and Chandpur

Khulna division consists of eight districts – Khulna, Bagerhat, Satkhira,

Digital service business has shrunk unexpectedly ahead of the 11th general election on December 30, in a puzzling development for

A leader of Natore town unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) buys all the copies of Prothom Alo, the Bangla daily reports.

Authorities have imposed a general bar on all types of motor vehicles on election day, with special emphasis on motorcycles.

The BNP's official website -- www.bnpbangladesh.com -- was blocked last week as it contained “distasteful” content, said the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) yesterday evening in an e-mail to the Election Commission.

Dr TIM Fazle Rabbi, a BNP-led 20-party alliance candidate for Gaibandha-3 constituency, passes away due to old age complications at a Dhaka hospital. He was 84.

The BNP, if voted to power, will bring sweeping reforms to strengthen democracy, make parliament effective, establish the rule of law and ensure independence of the judiciary, according to its manifesto for the December 30 polls.

Ruling Awami League, in its election manifesto, promises to launch the second satellite and third submarine cable connection in its next tenure to flourish the digitisation process.

BNP is offering plenty of benefits to the Freedom Fighters, promising them to be upheld as ‘honorary citizens’ of the state in its manifesto.

Every citizen under one-year-old and above 65-year-old, will get free medical care if Awami League is voted to power, the party says in its manifesto.