The political landscape in Bogra was momentarily unsettled on Monday afternoon as the national flag was spotted fluttering above the district headquarters of the Bangladesh Awami League. The symbolic act, occurring in the heart of the city’s Shatmatha district, has triggered an investigation by local law enforcement into the breach of the premises, which have […]

A faction of political activists has sparked fresh tension in Chittagong by forcibly reclaiming the Chittagong North District Awami League headquarters. On Monday afternoon, members of the party’s student wing, the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), descended upon the Dosti Building near the New Market intersection to remove rival signage and reinstate their party’s official banner. […]

In a significant post-election development following the 13th National Parliamentary Elections, a high-level delegation representing an eleven-party alliance arrived at the Election Commission (EC) headquarters today to lodge formal complaints regarding widespread irregularities. The coalition is demanding an immediate and transparent re-count of votes across 30 specific constituencies, citing evidence of systematic fraud and procedural […]

In a tectonic shift within the political landscape of South Chittagong, the nearly 50-year dominance of Colonel (Retd) Oli Ahmed has come to an abrupt and ignominious end. The Chittagong-14 (Chandanaish) constituency, long regarded as the personal fortress of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) chief, witnessed the defeat of his son and hand-picked successor, Omar […]

On Sunday afternoon, Dhanmondi 32, the residence of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, became the scene of a minor commotion that led to the detention of two individuals, including a faculty member of Dhaka University (DU). Professor A K M Jamal Uddin of the university’s Department of Sociology had gone to the historic residence […]

In Rajshahi-5 (Puthia-Durgapur constituency), political tensions escalated on Saturday when a supporter of a BNP ‘rebel’ candidate was brutally attacked. The victim, Ahsan Habib, was assaulted in Biraldah village, Puthia, and subsequently admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in a critical condition. According to Ahsan Habib, he had been campaigning for Esfa Khairul Haque (popularly […]