A ward-level Awami League leader is shot by local Jubo League men in Bangshal area of Dhaka following a dispute over campaigning in the recently held Dhaka South City Corporation election.

Though not happy with the irregularities and vote rigging during the just held city corporation elections, commoners in Dhaka city want to see their city clean, free of traffic-jam and developed.

The Election Working Group (EWG), a non-partisan network of 28 leading civil society organisations in Bangladesh, says the city corporation elections are not credible due to malpractices and irregularities.

US expresses disappointment over 'widespread, first-hand, and credible reports of vote-rigging, intimidation and violence that have occurred at polling stations today, and the BNP’s decision to boycott the city corporation polls'.

ONE'S first reac-tion to the announcement of the three mayoral elections was to ascribe all sorts of motives on the part of the government, and motives there may still be on its part.

Sayeed Khokon, Awami League-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation polls, announces his election manifesto, promising a modern, developed and world class Dhaka city.

Mirza Abbas, convener of Dhaka city unit of BNP, collects nomination paper for contesting the Dhaka South City Corporation mayoral race on April 28

Haji Mohammad Salim, a mayoral candidate who was reportedly advised by the Awami League high command not to contest the Dhaka South City Corporation elections, goes to India for ‘treatment and offering special prayers at a religious place’