While the BNP has been pressing for national elections for months, it has avoided conflicts with student leaders and the interim government.

Leaders of the 12-party alliance, who previously organised joint movements with the BNP against the former Awami League government, have expressed support for the BNP’s position on holding the next parliamentary elections by 2025.

Return of caretaker system could ensure free and fair elections

The electoral process finally begins amid huge expectations

Elections are of paramount importance to a country’s quality of democratic governance.

South Asia Institute Director Michael Kugelman offers his insights

The EC has repeatedly said one thing and did something other than that, if not the opposite.

They must be able to enjoy the benefits of a functioning democracy

Our people, but for whose hard work, sacrifice, and love for the country we would not have come where we have, deserve better.

So who determines what is ‘required’ to ensure that welfare?

Opposition parties must be allowed to hold peaceful political activities.

Every month, a union parishad chairman gets only Tk 1,575 as honorarium from the government. He gets another Tk 2,000 from his UP. During his five-year-tenure, he would receive around Tk 2.14 lakh. He does not get any other pay and perks.

The staggered union parishad elections, the deadliest in the country's electoral history, ended yesterday with four more lives lost in polls violence.

The Election Commission has decided to file a case against ruling Awami League lawmaker Mustafizur Rahman Chowdhury for allegedly assaulting an upazila election officer in Chittagong yesterday.

The Election Commission has received scores of complaints over anomalies in the fifth phase of the union parishad polls held on May 28.

It was the deadliest phase of the ongoing polls to union parishads. At least 12 people, including two school-goers and two candidates, were killed in violence during yesterday's fifth-phase voting that was also marked by various irregularities.

Some 717 unions of 45 districts will go to polls today in the fifth phase against the backdrop of deadly violence during electioneering

As an independent chairman candidate in the ongoing Union Parishad polls, she does not want any extra favour; rather her

Two more people, who were critically injured in violence over the fourth phase of the union parishad polls held on Saturday, died yesterday.

The ongoing Union Parishad polls have become the bloodiest election in Bangladesh history.