The Election Commission has suspended election in Pirojpur's Mathbaria upazila and Noakhali's Kabirhat upazila over polls related violence between the ruling party men and its rebel candidates.

The UN Human Rights Office yesterday expressed concern over the allegations of violence in Bangladesh centring the election and called for immediate investigation into the incidents.

Special medical teams have been formed at all government-run hospitals to tackle any emergency case on the election day on December 30, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services says.

BNP candidate for Kishoreganj-6 Shariful Alam and around 30 of his followers reportedly sustain bullet injuries during electioneering in Kuliarchar area of the constituency.

Leaders of minority communities urge the government and law enforcement agencies to ensure security of the minority people during the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Rebel candidates were responsible for the deadly violence during the recently held Union Parishad (UP) elections, law minister tells the parliament.

Social instability and rigid stances of union parishad polls candidates were responsible for the election violence, claimed Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday.

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

Both the government and the Election Commission are responsible for the irregularities and violence occurred during all the phases of union parishad elections, BNP alleges.

A case has been filed against Chittagong-16 constituency ruling Awami League lawmaker Mustafizur Rahman Chowdhury and his two

At least one person was killed and over a dozen were injured in violence over union parishad polls in several districts in last two days.

Four more people were killed in the last two days, raising the death toll to around 80 in violence over union parishad polls.

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

As violence continued with each phase of the Union Parishad polls gone by, the Election Commission has asked the home ministry to

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

Many incidents of violence and irregularities marked the voting in the fourth phase of the union parishad polls yesterday as

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) alleges that the electoral scenario in the country had worsened further.

Police detain five activists of Awami League in connection with the killing of another activist in a pre-poll violence in Kushtia Sadar upazila.

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed says the overall achievement of the Election Commission to hold a free and fair Union Parishad polls has been marred as irregularities took place in some unions during the second phase polls.

Citing an oblique reference to the first phase of Union Parishad elections, the ruling Awami League claims that the second phase of UP polls is held in a free, fair and peaceful manner.